Built for apparel operations.
Variant trees, size runs, season cycles, returns at scale. Vendor handles the parts of apparel commerce most platforms abstract away.
Talk to a Vendor expert who has onboarded operations like yours.
Talk to apparel teamWhat apparel teams hit at scale.
[Placeholder] Apparel is the highest-SKU, highest-return-rate corner of commerce. A single style can spawn 200+ variants. Returns regularly exceed 30%. Reordering, markdown timing, and size-curve discipline determine whether a season is profitable. Most platforms model apparel as "just another product" — leaving operators to patch the gaps in spreadsheets and middleware.
- Variant trees that explode beyond what off-the-shelf admins handle
- Returns processing that takes longer than fulfillment
- Season-end markdown timing that's mostly gut feel
- Inventory that's wrong on the storefront, right in the warehouse
- Reorder decisions blocked by lag in sell-through data
What Vendor does for apparel teams.
The features that show up in every apparel onboarding we run.
True variant trees
Style → color → size hierarchy with shared media, attributes, and per-variant inventory. Bulk operations across thousands of variants at once.
Size-curve templates
Define size-curve templates by category. The platform allocates inventory across stores using your curves, not flat percentages.
Returns-first checkout
Built-in returns portal with pre-paid labels, exchange flows, and a fraud-scoring step. Average return resolution under 5 minutes.
Markdown engine
Rule-based markdown scheduling — by sell-through, weeks-on-shelf, or full-price velocity. Approvals routed by category.
Realtime inventory
Storefront, admin, and POS all read the same inventory truth. Negative inventory blocked at write time.
Sell-through dashboards
Per-style, per-week sell-through with size-curve drift detection. Reorder recommendations triggered by configurable thresholds.
What apparel customers see.
Returns processing time
−68%
Median, post-migration
Sell-through visibility lag
< 4h
Down from 5+ days
SKU manage time
−42%
Per merchandiser
Avg. onboarding
9 weeks
From kickoff to live
Apparel teams running on Vendor.
[Placeholder] Northwind Apparel
Replatformed from Magento 2 in 11 weeks. Sell-through visibility went from 5 days to 4 hours.
+22% YoY full-price sell-through
[Placeholder] Coast Outdoor
Consolidated 4 admin tools into Vendor. Returns processing time cut by 68%.
−68% returns processing time
[Placeholder] Studio Knit
Migrated 12K variants and 2 years of order history. Zero downtime during cutover.
0 minutes downtime
Apparel team questions.
Can Vendor handle very large variant counts?
[Placeholder] Yes. We've onboarded apparel customers with 50K+ active variants. Bulk operations, media inheritance, and per-variant inventory all work at that scale.
Do you integrate with our PIM / 3PL?
[Placeholder] We have native integrations for the major apparel PIMs and 3PLs (Akeneo, Plytix, Skubana, ShipBob). For anything else, the typed SDK lets you ship an integration in a sprint.
What does a typical apparel onboarding look like?
[Placeholder] 8–12 weeks. Weeks 1–3: data model + variants. Weeks 4–6: storefront + checkout. Weeks 7–9: returns + warehouse integration. Weeks 10–12: dry runs + cutover.
How do you handle seasonal traffic spikes?
[Placeholder] The platform auto-scales horizontally. We pre-warm capacity ahead of customer-declared promo windows. We've handled customer Black Friday spikes of 40× baseline without manual intervention.