all use cases
// for operators behind a storefront

Your storefront is great.
Your back office is a spreadsheet.

The customer-facing side runs on Shopify or WooCommerce. Everything behind it — fulfillment, vendors, inventory, returns — runs on spreadsheets and someone's memory. dForge gives you a real operational backend that connects to your storefront.

customer-facing · unchanged

Your storefront

Customers stay exactly where they are.

ShopifyWooCommerceCustom site
API · webhooks
behind the checkout

Your operations backend

A real database your team runs the business on.

OrdersInventoryVendorsFulfilmentReturns
// sound familiar?

Sales scaled. Operations didn't.

Fulfillment, vendor management or inventory live in fragile Google Sheets.
Your ops manager loses hours a week to copy-paste between tools.
Orders come from the store, but everything after checkout is manual.
You've outgrown the store admin, but a custom build is $40k.
// how dForge fits

Keep the storefront. Replace the back office.

Move one fragile spreadsheet at a time onto a real database, wire it to the store, and turn manual data entry into a few clicks.

01

Replace one spreadsheet first

Map the sheet that breaks most, model it as a module, and move it onto a real database with roles and validation. Then the next one.

  • Start with the one that breaks most — low risk, fast win.
  • Real database, with roles and validation instead of free-text cells.
  • Then move the next sheet — no big migration project.
fragile spreadsheet
sku
qty
reorder
TS-BLK-M
12
yes
TS-BLK-L
#REF!
??
MUG-01
340
no
inventory moduleroles · validation
Productsku · stock · reorder point
Stock movementin / out · audited
02

Connect your storefront

Pull orders, inventory, and fulfillment in through dForge's API — and push updates back to your store and tools via webhooks — so the back office reflects the store instead of lagging behind it.

  • A new order in the store lands in your backend automatically.
  • A JSON-RPC API on every entity brings data in; webhooks push changes out.
  • No more copy-paste between the store and the sheet.
store → backend, in real time
New order placed#1042
webhook → api
Order recorded in backendauto
Inventory decremented−1
Fulfilment task createdqueued
03

Sell against the time cost

Inventory, purchasing, and pricing modules turn hours of manual data entry into a few clicks — for a fraction of a custom build.

  • Hours of weekly data entry become a few clicks.
  • Fewer manual errors as order volume grows.
  • A platform subscription, not a $40k custom build.
where the hours go
today
Hours
a week

Copy-paste between sheets and tools, by hand.

on dForge
A few
clicks

Automated, validated, in one place.

for a fraction of a custom build
// what changes behind the checkout

Spreadsheets vs. a real backend.

Sheets + store admin
dForge backend
Source of truth
A sheet and someone's memory
One database, one record
Data entry
Manual copy-paste
Synced from the store
Errors
Break silently
Validation built in
Access control
Whoever has the link
Role-based per person
Scaling with sales
Slower as you grow
Workflows, not headcount
Up-front cost
$40k custom build
A platform subscription