Lightspeed helps Bluebird Mercantile save time & simplify operations.
Bluebird Mercantile creates a space for vendors to sell ceramics, clothing, accessories, home goods and more. Their unique model supports multiple partners, each offering one-of-a-kind items in a collective community space. With Lightspeed’s powerful reporting and inventory management tools, they keep track of vendors and their respective products while delivering an elevated customer experience.
Keeping careful track of purchase orders all in one place.
Using Lightspeed Payments, Bluebird Mercantile tracks thousands of products from multiple vendors. Lightspeed’s one centralized, automated system has become essential to their business success.
Lightspeed's inventory management keeps track of SKUs by the
- 1000+
How Lightspeed powers Bluebird Mercantile
- Inventory features that simplify stock management and product lookups
- Reporting capabilities shed light on product and brand performance
- Seamless payment system that keeps everything centralized and easy to track
Balancing multiple vendors at once.
When you’re working to bring communities together and showcase limited edition products, there are a lot of moving parts. This has proven to be an ambitious model for the Bluebird Mercantile team, as keeping track of each vendor’s individual products and variations can be complex. To succeed, they needed an effective way to collect and manage a large amount of products and data.
Choosing Lightspeed to leverage data insights and stay on top of stock.
When Bluebird Mercantile owner Amii Schenk and her team chose Lightspeed, they were immediately impressed by the inventory tools.
“I can see what color, what size and what specific things have sold so I can know whether to reorder or not reorder. It’s pretty easy,” she says.
She is also able to generate detailed sales reports in seconds and finds sales tracking simple and intuitive. These features help her make smarter, faster decisions and keep her business running efficiently.
“It’s so easy to generate reports for any one of my vendors,” she says. “I put every brand in the system so I can run a report by brand and see how they are doing.”
The inventory capabilities are amazing. We can brand items and look them up by brand or vendor, see what people entered and check when items were stocked. If a partner says, 'I gave you five jackets,' I can go to the inventory page and say, 'No, you gave me four on April 15th'—it's all right there.
Amii Schenk, Owner, Bluebird Mercantile
Transitioning to a streamlined payment experience.
Lightspeed Payments has been a huge asset for Bluebird Mercantile. The process is seamless, keeping things simple for vendors and improving the customer experience.
“I’m super happy with the way Lightspeed runs. It’s very user-friendly and easy to teach my employees. It’s super easy to run reports, which I do often since I have so many partners in my store,” Amii says.
I have nine partners, and let’s say they call and ask for a report—I’m happy to do it. I can run it between customers in two seconds and they think I’m a genius. It's awesome.
Amii Schenk, Owner, Bluebird Mercantile
Business type
Apparel
Home Goods
Products used
Lightspeed Retail
Lightspeed Payments
Location
California