# A wholesale system your customers and warehouse can share > Clixo builds wholesale systems a distributor can run every day — customer ordering, inventory, and pricing that live in one place instead of email, spreadsheets, and a counter notebook. - **Service:** Wholesale distribution systems - **Canonical URL:** https://clixo.sh/services/wholesale-distribution-systems - **Provider:** Clixo — Itasca, IL (hello@clixo.sh) - **Highlights:** - B2B ordering your customers will reuse - One inventory count, not three tallies - Customer-specific pricing and accounts - Counter, warehouse, and office on the same record Most wholesale software is either a horizontal ERP that treats distribution as a module, or a portal bolted onto a stack the warehouse does not use. Customers stop logging in. Staff keep a second count in a notebook. Pricing lives in someone's head. Clixo builds the system the operation actually runs: the order, the count, the price, and the account — in one place. ## The problem we take on A distributor's day is a set of handoffs. A customer reorders. Someone checks stock. Someone picks. Someone invoices. When those steps live in email, a legacy screen, and a spreadsheet, the business is only as accurate as the last person who typed the number twice. That is a software problem, but it is not a "buy NetSuite" problem. Packaged ERP is built for a generic company. Wholesale pain is specific: customer-specific pricing, partial fills, returns that have to reverse the count, a counter sale that must not oversell what the portal just promised. ## What we actually build We start from the workflow, not a product catalog. - **A B2B ordering portal** customers will reopen — their price, their history, a reorder that does not require a phone call. - **Inventory that updates when work happens**, not overnight, and not in a third spreadsheet. - **Accounts and pricing** the office can maintain without asking an engineer to edit a row. - **Connections to the counter and the warehouse** so a sale in one place is a sale everywhere. We have shipped this shape of system. A [wholesale distribution platform we built is in daily use](https://clixo.sh/work/digital-transformation-distributor) — not a demo, not a slide. We keep the client unnamed here; the capability is the point. ```mermaid flowchart LR C[Customer order] --> R[Shared record] P[Counter sale] --> R R --> I[Inventory] R --> W[Warehouse / pick] R --> A[Account and invoice] ``` ## Who this is for Independent and mid-size wholesalers and distributors — especially operators who already know their process and are tired of bending it around software that does not know the trade. It is a poor fit if you want a configured commercial ERP with a long partner rollout, or if the only ask is a marketing site with an "order now" button. Clixo works from Itasca, in the Chicagoland distribution corridor. Geography is context, not a keyword: the studio is here, the work is the system. ## How we work Same rhythm as the rest of the studio. We [scope](https://clixo.sh/#contact) the smallest slice that would change a real day — often reorder + stock, or the portal sitting on a clean price list — then prototype it against your actual SKUs and accounts. We build in weekly slices you can see. We launch when the floor will use it, not when a slide says "go-live." We stay for maintenance if you want the system kept. We will not promise a leakage number, a cycle-time percentage, or a rank against a named competitor. If a claim is not something we can defend, it does not go on the page. ## Related reading If the question is really "our whole back office is a pile of sheets," see [ERP systems](https://clixo.sh/services/erp-systems). If the gap is the register, see [POS systems](https://clixo.sh/services/pos-systems). Ready to talk through the operation? [Book a build call](https://clixo.sh/#contact) or write [hello@clixo.sh](mailto:hello@clixo.sh). ## Frequently asked ### Do you replace our ERP, or sit next to it? Usually we sit next to it. If a ledger, RMS, or accounting package is already the financial system of record, we integrate rather than rip it out. A full replacement only makes sense when the current stack is spreadsheets and a tool nobody trusts. ### What does a wholesale build actually include? The pieces operators touch daily: customer ordering, inventory, account pricing, and the handoff to the warehouse or the counter. We do not start with a twelve-module 'distribution suite' and configure you into it. ### Who is this for? Wholesale and distribution operators whose customers still order by phone, email, or a portal they avoid — and whose warehouse, counter, and office do not share a count. We work from Itasca with teams across Chicagoland and the Midwest; the work is the system, not the ZIP code. ### Can we see something you've shipped? Yes. We built a wholesale distribution platform a real distributor uses every day. The write-up is anonymized and does not invent percentage gains — it describes the system and the problem it solved. ## Related services - [ERP systems](https://clixo.sh/services/erp-systems): Clixo builds operational systems of record when the real ERP is a pile of spreadsheets — inventory, orders, and the ledger handoff — without a year-long packaged rollout. - [POS systems](https://clixo.sh/services/pos-systems): Clixo builds point-of-sale that shares inventory, prices, and accounts with the rest of the operation — so a counter sale is not a second set of books. - [Custom CRM development](https://clixo.sh/services/crm-development): Clixo builds CRMs around the pipeline a team actually runs — so records get kept, follow-up is not a memory test, and leadership is not reconciling the tool against a spreadsheet. --- Clixo · 1141 W Bryn Mawr Ave, Itasca, IL 60143, US · [hello@clixo.sh](mailto:hello@clixo.sh) [Start a build](https://clixo.sh/#contact) · [All services](https://clixo.sh/services) · [Agent guide (llms.txt)](https://clixo.sh/llms.txt)