Built for food retailers.
Perishable inventory, batch tracking, delivery slots, age-gated checkout, cold-chain handling. Vendor handles food commerce the way a food operator actually runs it.
Talk to a Vendor expert who has onboarded operations like yours.
Talk to food teamWhat food teams hit at scale.
[Placeholder] Food and beverage is the most logistics-dense corner of commerce. Inventory ages every minute. Cold chain breaks cost real money. Delivery slot management is the difference between profit and chaos. Most ecommerce platforms model food as "add an expiry date field" — but real food operators need batch tracking, FEFO picking, real-time slot availability, and integrations with WMS, route planning, and food-safety tooling.
- Stock counts that ignore expiry — same-day-perishable mixed with month-shelf
- Delivery slots managed in a separate tool and never reconciled
- Batch tracing that takes hours when a recall happens
- Age-gate compliance that depends on the storefront layer
- Cold-chain breaks that customers find before the operator does
What Vendor does for food teams.
Native primitives for food operations — not workarounds.
Batch & expiry tracking
Every batch tracked separately with batch ID, expiry, supplier lot. FEFO picking. Auto-rotation of soon-to-expire inventory.
Delivery slot manager
Time-window slot management with per-zone capacity caps. Storefront, admin, and route planning all read the same slot table.
Cold-chain handlers
Per-SKU temperature category. Picks group by chain. Vehicle / warehouse temperature requirements surfaced at order time.
Recall workflow
Trace any batch to every order that received it within 2 minutes. Auto-generated notifications, regulatory reports.
Age & ID checks
Age-gated checkout for alcohol and tobacco — backed by an ID-verification step at delivery, integrated with your courier.
Substitution rules
Per-product substitution preferences (allowed / not allowed / customer choice) honored across storefront and picking.
What food customers see.
Spoilage reduction
−31%
FEFO + auto-rotation
Recall trace time
< 2 min
Down from hours
Slot fill rate
94%
Capacity-aware booking
Avg. onboarding
11 weeks
From kickoff to live
Food retailers running on Vendor.
[Placeholder] Fresh Daily
Replaced three separate tools (slots, picking, batch) with Vendor. Spoilage down 31% in 4 months.
−31% spoilage
[Placeholder] Mediterra Wines
Built age-gated alcohol checkout on Vendor in 6 weeks. Compliance review unblocked launch.
6 weeks to launch
[Placeholder] Adriatic Grocer
Migrated 18 dark stores onto a single Vendor tenant with per-store capacity and routing.
18 stores, 1 tenant
Food team questions.
Do you integrate with our WMS / route planning?
[Placeholder] Native integrations with Manhattan, Körber, Logiwa, Routific, and Onfleet. For anything else, the typed SDK lets you ship a custom integration in a sprint.
Can you handle dark-store / micro-fulfillment operations?
[Placeholder] Yes. Each store has its own inventory, capacity, and slot table. Orders route by postal code rules, capacity, or per-SKU availability.
How does the recall workflow actually work?
[Placeholder] When a batch is flagged, we identify every order that received units from that batch. Notifications are generated, status updated, and a regulatory-format report is exported within minutes.
What about HACCP, food-safety audits, and traceability?
[Placeholder] Every batch transition is audit-logged. We export HACCP-compliant traceability reports on demand. The audit trail covers receipt, storage, picking, packing, and delivery.