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Software for multi-channel brands
You own the brand. You sell DTC on Shopify, you sell on Amazon, and you'd like everything to actually line up.
You're probably dealing with…
- A catalog update on Shopify that takes another forty-five minutes to repeat on Amazon, then another half hour on Walmart, and an hour on the wholesale price list — and you're not sure which version is now the "real" one.
- Listings that drift between channels. Amazon has the old hero image. Walmart has a slightly different bullet because someone fixed a typo in one place. The DTC site has the newest copy.
- A "channel-specific pricing rule" problem that lives in three different vendor portals.
- Return rates by channel that you suspect tell a story — but pulling the data means exporting CSVs from four places and joining them in Excel.
- A returns triage decision that's actually the same question on every unit: A-stock or B-stock, restock or write off? But the answer lives in a different inbox depending on which channel it came back from.
- Monthly PO writing where you're juggling factory lead time, current stock by channel, and the seasonal forecast — and you're doing the math in a spreadsheet because no tool you've tried handles it.
- A finance close that takes a full week because each channel reports its fees differently and you have to manually reconcile against the bank.
Here's what changes with Rilk
You write your catalog once. Updates push everywhere. Multi-channel sync treats inventory, pricing, and listing content as channel-aware extensions of one canonical product — so when you change the title, the hero image, or the price, it propagates to Amazon, Walmart, eBay, Shopify, Etsy, WooCommerce, BackMarket, and the 25 premium retailers we reach through Mirakl (Macy's, Best Buy, Nordstrom, Lowe's, Kohl's, and more) on whatever rules you set. Channel-specific overrides are first-class: keep the Amazon title SEO-tuned and the Shopify one human-friendly, without forking the catalog into 30+ copies.
When orders come in, they all land in the same place — DTC, Amazon, Walmart, retail. Shipping handles labels and fulfillment. The stock pool decrements once, regardless of where the sale happened.
Returns is where most brand operators have given up. Rilk's returns workflow treats every refund — Shopify customer-direct, Amazon FBM, Walmart, wholesale — as the same inspect-and-decide flow: A-stock back to inventory, B-stock to a regrading lane, or write-off with a reason code. The refund reconciles against the channel's settlement automatically. And when you want to know "what's my return rate on Amazon vs. Shopify for SKU X over the last 90 days," that's a saved report, not a Friday-afternoon spreadsheet build.
Purchase orders tie your factory production back to your sell-through. Track every PO from issued to received. Pull a stock-on-hand-by-channel view alongside open POs and lead times when you're writing the next order. And per-unit profit reporting ties out monthly: gross by channel, fees by channel, freight, returns, net. The finance close that took a week takes an afternoon.
Capabilities that matter most for you
- Multi-channel sync — One catalog. Channel-aware listings, pricing, and stock — pushed everywhere from one source of truth.
- Reporting — Per-channel, per-SKU profitability with marketplace settlement reconciliation. The number actually ties out.
- Returns — Unified returns triage across every channel. Refund reconciliation built in.
- Purchase orders — Track production POs, lead times, and landed cost as part of the same operation.
- Shipping — UPS, FedEx, USPS, DHL labels from the order screen. Fulfill DTC, marketplace, and wholesale from one shipping setup.
A day at multi-channel brand with Rilk
- 8:00 a.m. — Catalog update: new hero image and refreshed bullets on the hero SKU. One edit, pushed to Amazon, Walmart, and Shopify on the rules you've set.
- 9:00 a.m. — Channel pricing tweak — Amazon promo for the weekend, DTC stays at MSRP. Pricing rules handle it, no manual exports.
- 10:30 a.m. — Overnight orders are ready to fulfill. DTC, Amazon FBM, Walmart, and one wholesale order. Same pick wave, same label run.
- 12:30 p.m. — Weekly returns triage. Twenty units came back across all channels. Inspect, sort A-stock vs. B-stock, restock the good ones, route the rest to the regrading lane.
- 2:00 p.m. — Inventory check: hero SKU is 21 days from stockout at current velocity. Open the PO screen, see the current factory lead time, write the next order.
- 3:30 p.m. — Pull the per-channel margin report for the week. Amazon's holding margin. Walmart is softer — return rate ticked up on one variant. Note it for the product meeting Friday.
- 5:00 p.m. — Done. No CSV exports. No "I'll catch up on returns this weekend."
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"We were running four tools and a finance spreadsheet to do what Rilk does in one screen. The first month after we switched, our close was three days faster and our return rate per channel suddenly made sense for the first time."
— Operations lead, multi-channel consumer brand
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If you're comparing options, the vs. ChannelAdvisor page is the honest read for brands evaluating enterprise multi-channel tools. Adjacent playbooks: e-commerce seller and manufacturer / importer.
