For retail teams looking for connected execution · compared with Toolio

Toolio builds the plan. merchmix runs it.

Toolio is built to build plans. merchmix is built to run them. Where Toolio stops at the planning layer, merchmix connects your MFP (WSSI), OTB and range plans directly to store-level allocation, SKU replenishment, the planogram and the daily trade actions yukti takes. Plan in one loop, execute in one click, and run the whole business from one live signal.

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2026-H1-Core-All - Range Plan Live

Workspace matrix: 2026-H1- Footwear Pty Ltd

Groups4

SKUs86

Quantity3,274

Landed Cost$612,480

Suppliers6

Filtration Layer

	Style Specification Details	Supplier	Readiness Scope	Total Buy Units	Total Landed Cost	Actions
	SNK-WHT-01 · WhiteCore Comfort Low-Top Leather Sneaker M9/W10	SUPP-1042	6/6 readyOtb	620	$18,600	···›
	LFR-TAN-01 · TanCore Comfort Suede Penny Loafer M9/W10	SUPP-1042	6/6 readyOtb	480	$21,600	···›
	BT-BRN-01 · BrownCore Comfort Leather Chelsea Boot M9/W10	SUPP-1042	6/6 readyOtb	390	$23,400	···›
	SNK-BLK-01 · BlackCore Comfort Low-Top Leather Sneaker M9/W10	SUPP-1042	6/6 readyOtb	540	$19,800	···›
	BT-BLK-02 · BlackCore Comfort Leather Chelsea Boot M9/W10	SUPP-1042	6/6 readyOtb	410	$24,600	···›
Showing 5 of 13 plan options · 5 styles selected				2,440	$108,000

10+ systems, 50+ spreadsheets: What a mid-market retailer runs on before merchmix.
Live in seconds: Sales, stock and trade, near real time.
Free 6-week POC: On your own data, no contract.

Other tools plan. merchmix executes the response.

Planning is not executionYou signed off the range and the budget. But if your system cannot write that plan back as POs, allocations, or markdown executions, your team is still trapped doing manual spreadsheet updates to make it happen.
The disconnect in the daily tradeA planning workspace shows you where actuals miss the budget. It cannot auto-calculate chases, planogram changes, or replenishment orders. The lag between knowing you need to trade and executing it is where margin leaks.
Isolated tools create operations gapsWhen planning lives in its own dedicated tool, store layouts, warehouse capacity, and POS realities are ignored. merchmix brings planning, operations, and store execution into one workspace.

merchmix and Toolio

Toolio plans the buy. merchmix executes it.

Both merchmix and Toolio are built for retail merchandise planning. The difference is that Toolio is a planning application designed to replace spreadsheets with database-backed plans, while merchmix is a platform that connects that planning layer (WSSI, OTB, range) to execution. Where a planning tool shows you the read, merchmix turns that read into store-level allocations, SKU replenishment, planogram updates and daily trade actions, in one place.

merchmix

Connected execution · Planning and operations

WSSI, OTB and range planning
Option planning and range building
Store-level allocation and replenishment (core plus)
Visual merchandising, store layouts and the planogram
Daily trade recommendations and the decision log, from yukti
Approved write-back to ERP, POS and ecommerce systems
Weather, competitor movement and external market signals
Decision tracking with full audit trails and approvals
Modular: start with one product, add as you grow

See the platform

Toolio

Planning-led · Budget, OTB and reports

WSSI, OTB and range planning
Option planning and range building
Descriptive inventory visibility
No visual VM or layout mapping
Planning workspace and report lists
Approved write-back support
No external market signals
Planning workflows and approvals
Single all-in planning block

core

From first signal to shop floor.

core is the commercial engine. Budgets, planning, range building and daily trade in one place, reading years of your sales history beside live signals from every connected system. Plug it into the stack you already run, with write-back to your ERP, OMS or Shopify.

Direction
Before a single budget is set, merchmix reads your history and your signals and shows where growth can come from, and what is holding it back.
core · DirectionSnapshot 2 July 2026
Outcome influence map
WatchOpen detail →
yukti · AW25 outerwear is holding 22.4 weeks of cover at 8% margin, so the markdown clears it before the autumn intake lands.
Revenue at risk
$32.8M
Across all four drivers
Top action
markdown
2,376 SKUs

Budget

Growth direction becomes commercial targets: sales, GP, stock investment, OTB, down to category level. One budget, one version.

Edit budget · 2027

Outerwear · top-down and bottom-up allocations, by store and week.

Hierarchy viewStore → Metric → Dept

StatusDraftEdit growth % vs LY

History · v4Submit for approval

yukti · Northgate is running 6.1% ahead on Outerwear with cover at 6.2 weeks, so W2 carries $46,200 without moving the intake.

Hierarchy
Total company (sales $)	$1,248,750	$1,312,500	$1,385,625	$1,451,250
Total company (GP $)	$799,200	$853,125	$886,800	$943,313
300 · Northgate (Outerwear)	–	–	–	–
Sales $ (metric)	$39,960	$42,000	$44,340	$46,440
GP $ (metric)	$25,574	$27,300	$28,378	$30,186

Control

The WSSI turns the budget into a weekly sales, stock and intake plan. Continuity protects your never-out lines before gaps become lost sales.

Merchandise financial planning

Womenswear · Outerwear · sales, stock, intake and markdown in one live weekly view.

Brand

All

Metric	Q1
TY WoW %	6.8	-8.4	-4.6	2.8	3.5	-1.9	4.2	2.6
FC WoW %	4.3	-3.1	-1.8	1.5	2.2	1.4	2.0	1.7
BGT WoW %	2.8	4.7	1.9	2.3	3.1	1.2	2.4	2.0
Gross sales TY	1,256,173	1,150,655	1,097,725	1,128,461	1,167,957	1,145,766	1,193,888	1,224,929
Full-price sales TY	1,174,686	1,070,110	1,019,605	1,048,821	1,085,997	1,063,356	1,110,708	1,140,909
Markdown sales TY	81,487	80,545	78,120	79,640	81,960	82,410	83,180	84,020
Gross sales FC	1,210,000	1,172,000	1,151,000	1,168,000	1,194,000	1,211,000	1,235,000	1,256,000
Discount % FC	24.0	24.5	24.8	24.6	24.2	24.0	23.8	23.6
Gross sales BGT	1,160,000	1,215,000	1,238,000	1,266,000	1,305,000	1,321,000	1,353,000	1,380,000

Moments

Trading moments and marketing spend planned against the same numbers as the range, so the calendar and the buy never disagree.

FY27

DraftChannel planReviewApprovalTracking

Womenswear · Outerwear — build the channel allocation, review, approve, then track against it.

Total spend

$6,392.37

Incremental rev

$38,993.46

ROAS

6.1x

Orders

268

WeekMonthQuarter

Channel	W1	W2	W3	W4	W5	W6
Trading & promo
Paid social	$262.16	$262.16	$262.16	$1,048.63	$1,048.63	$1,048.63
Paid search	$410.00	$410.00	$410.00	$410.00	$410.00	$410.00
Budget line	$3,329.29	$3,677.63	$4,388.34	$4,208.94	$3,781.38	$3,943.32
Variance	$2,657.13	$3,005.47	$3,716.18	$2,750.31	$2,322.75	$2,484.69

Trade and review
The daily beat. merchmix surfaces the ranked move, your team approves, one click executes it across your stack, and the decision log records every call. Product reviews feed what worked back into the next budget. The loop closes.
AllSeasonal wrapPerformance
Weekly trade dashboard
Sales
$793.6K
+6.1% vs LY
Gross profit
$367.7K
+7.0% vs LY
GP %
46.3%
+0.4 pts vs LY
Markdown
18%
-1.6 pts vs LW
Top best sellers
Hero SKUs ranked by sales.
Hero Leather Sandal
Sandals / SlidesSS26-1042
Sales$31.8KMargin61.4%WOC6.2
Bottom sellers
Lowest-productivity SKUs.
Cloud Walker Sandals
Sandals / SlidesAW25-0871
Sales$2.4KMargin8.0%WOC66.4
Report PDF
Executive summary
One clear narrative for the meeting.
Trade commentarywaiting

Every product stands alone.

Plan what to buy, put stock where demand is, and keep the shop floor selling. Buy one product, a few, or run the whole platform. Most retailers start with core, because that is where it hurts.

coremost start here

Plan the season in one place.

Budgets, WSSI, OTB, ranges and sizes, connected. Replaces the planning spreadsheets.

See core

core plus

core, plus allocation and the planogram.

Allocation and replenishment by SKU, store and week, and the shop floor made to match the plan.

See core plus

forge

Every product, from first sketch to costed, approved and ready to sell.

Specs, samples, suppliers and critical path, linked to buying and planning.

See forge

beacon

One portal for your suppliers.

Orders, shipments, invoices, on time.

See beacon

atlas

Every number you trade on, live, on one screen.

Dashboards, reporting packs and the Monday meeting, without the deck.

See atlas

horizon

The retail ERP that already knows what a season is.

Products, inventory, purchasing, sales and finance, connected to the plan.

See horizon

orbit

Receive, store, pick, ship.

Warehouse management that talks to the plan.

See orbit

vertex

Every order, every channel, one view from click to doorstep.

Routing, splits, backorders and fulfilment exceptions across every location.

See vertex

yukti

The agent that does the work.

Rebalances, replenishes, raises the PO, creates the style. You approve, or let it run.

See yukti

Every product stands alone. Start with the one that hurts most.

Toolio's plan can stay where it is.

merchmix connects to the systems you already use and gives the team one live view of sales, stock, orders, suppliers and store performance. If you prefer to keep your plan in Toolio, merchmix reads that plan and connects it to store allocation, the planogram and daily trade actions.

Start with the workflow that hurts most. Add more as the business grows.

See the integrations

Questions, answered.

What is the best alternative to Toolio for retail planning?

A platform that connects planning to execution. Toolio is built for the merchandise planning layer. merchmix connects your MFP (WSSI), OTB, range planning, store allocation, SKU replenishment and the planogram to live sales and store execution. See how the main platforms compare.

How is merchmix different from Toolio?

Toolio is a planning application designed for spreadsheets-to-cloud workflows. merchmix is an execution platform that covers the same planning layer (WSSI, OTB, range) but carries the decisions through to store-level allocation, replenishment and the planogram.

Who is Toolio best for, and who is merchmix best for?

Toolio suits brands that want a dedicated planning tool, with MFP, assortment and item plans in a familiar grid, and execution left in other systems. merchmix suits retailers that want the plan and the execution in one place: allocation, replenishment, store transfers and the planogram run from the same plan, with yukti proposing the next move.

What does merchmix cost, and how long does it take?

1/10 the cost of enterprise suites, live in 12 to 15 weeks. Your ERP stays the system of record, or you can run the retail record in horizon. Start with a free six-week proof of concept on your own data, no contract.

Can merchmix replace Toolio?

Yes. merchmix provides the same merchandise financial planning, open-to-buy and range planning tools as Toolio, and adds the execution and action layers, so you do not need separate systems for allocation or store communications.

Does merchmix integrate with Toolio?

Yes. merchmix is modular and connects to other planning systems. If you prefer to keep your plan in Toolio, merchmix reads that plan and connects it to store allocation, the planogram and daily trade actions.

What is the advantage of connected execution in retail planning?

Connected execution removes the handoff gap. Instead of exporting a plan to spreadsheets or other systems to execute orders and store allocations, decisions in merchmix convert directly to POs, store shipments and planogram updates in the system.

What does it mean to run the whole of retail?

One platform that runs the full retail loop: planning (budgets, WSSI, OTB), buying (range building, forge), allocation (core plus and replenishment) and trade execution (the planogram and the actions yukti takes).

Can I run allocation and replenishment in merchmix?

Yes. core plus runs allocation and replenishment down to SKU, store and week, keeping inventory in line with the central merchandise plan. yukti raises the refill inside the rules you set.

What is the decision log in merchmix?

A central record that tracks every operational decision (chasing stock, markdown approvals, planogram adjustments) with approval workflows, audit trails and execution status.

Is it hard to move from Toolio to merchmix?

No. merchmix connects to the same ERP, ecommerce and POS systems you already use. Your existing planning files and historical data import directly to establish your baseline plans.

Planning to execution in six weeks.

A 1-hour demo with sales and product, then a free 6-week POC on your own data, no contract. Live in 12 to 15 weeks, end to end.