Years of running a store, built into software.
Retail Solutions ZA was founded in 2025, but what it builds didn’t start then. Our products were planned over years of managing stores and shaped inside a live retail business, one real problem at a time.
Based in South Africa, working with businesses anywhere.
Two backgrounds, one team
25+ years in business, retail and logistics.
One of our founders has spent a career running and managing retail and logistics operations. The empty shelves, short deliveries, unlogged fridges and bakery stock nobody could account for weren’t research for us. They were everyday headaches.
A technology background in software, AI and the cloud.
The other brings experience building software and working with AI and cloud systems. Together we turn those headaches into tools, test them where they matter, and keep what works.
Not built overnight
Each product was planned first, then built and run in a working store before we offered it to anyone else.
- 25+ years
Learning where stores lose money
A career in business, retail and logistics: running stores, managing teams, moving stock and dealing with the daily headaches our software now handles.
- 2025
Retail Solutions ZA is founded
That experience teams up with a technology background in software, AI and cloud systems, and the planning starts with the problems, not the features.
- January 2026
ShelfSense goes live in a working store
The first product watching real shelves, in a real store, every day.
- February 2026
InvoiceFlow and SupervisorHub join it
Deliveries checked against invoices, and the front end’s checks logged and on record.
- August 2026
Jasper runs the bakery
Production and ingredient stock counted where it’s made, alongside Onyx at the till.
- Today
Six products and a consulting practice
Everything we sell still runs in the store it was built in, and we build custom software and AI for other businesses too.
What we hold ourselves to
We aim to build the best tools we can, because a working store runs on them every day. Quality matters more to us than how many features we ship: software that takes repetitive work off people and gives the business back time and money.
Less shrinkage
Every delivery checked against its invoice, and price changes flagged before they are paid.
Less wastage
Bakery and deli stock counted at production, so waste shows up the day it happens.
Fuller shelves
Gaps found on camera and sent to the team with what to do about them.
Time back
Routine checks, reports and reorder lists done by the system, not by hand at the end of a shift.
Better decisions
Owners see what is happening in the business and can ask it questions in plain language.
Room to grow
Tools that scale from one independent store to a group, and software built for how you work.
Three ways we work with you
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The Ecosystem
For groups and larger stores
Four connected apps that watch the shelf, check every delivery, keep the front end compliant and plan replenishment, with one owner’s view across all of them.
- ShelfSenseSees every empty shelf
- MerchCommandPlans the replenishment work
- InvoiceFlowChecks invoices against deliveries
- SupervisorHubKeeps the front end compliant
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POS & Production
For independent stores
A point of sale that keeps trading offline, and stock control for the bakery and deli that counts what you make, not just what you sell.
See POS & Production -
Consulting
For any business
Custom software, AI agents and MCP servers built around how you work, plus retail operations advice from a team that runs its own software in a live store.
- Custom softwarePlatforms and automation, built to fit
- AI agents & MCP serversAgents that use your data and tools
- Retail consultingOperations and systems advice
Tell us about your store.
Book a 30-minute call, or send a WhatsApp and we’ll take it from there.
Or email info@retailai.co.za