Workbench — a 21e8 product
Wholesale ordering,rebuilt.
A self-serve ordering portal on top of the store you already run. Your stockists log in, see their prices and your real stock, and reorder in a minute — straight into fulfilment. $4,000 to build. $300 a month to run.
Pemberton Valley Grocery
Tier 2 · multi-location
- –4+
Chocolate Espresso
Hornby Bar · 12 × 80g
In stock$21.50/cs - –3+
Chocolate Chip Peanut Butter
Hornby Bar · 12 × 80g
In stock$21.50/cs - –2+
Oatmeal Raisin
Hornby Bar · 12 × 80g
In stock$21.50/cs - –3+
OSnack Peanut Butter & Jam
OSnack · 12 × 45g
Low · ships ~5 days$13.20/cs - –0+
OSnack Chocolate Chip Banana
OSnack · 12 × 45g
In stock$13.20/cs - –0+
Pumpkin Fudge
Hornby Bar · 12 × 80g
Backordered$21.50/cs
Line minimum: 2 cases per SKU, enforced before checkout.
Lands in your store. Zero emails.
Wholesale prices are illustrative — Hornby hides real wholesale rates behind approval; retail and case prices were observed live.
The portal, rebuilt for Hornby Organic from its public pages · Spec · The site is the demo
What it is
Your store sells retail.Wholesale still runs on email.
Shopify or Lightspeed got you most of the way. The part they didn’t cover is the part your stockists live in: prices by account, cases not units, minimums, reorders. Workbench builds that part, on the store you already run — same catalogue, same fulfilment.
01
Their prices
Every account sees its own tier, live, per SKU. Nothing hidden behind an approval, nothing retyped from a PDF.
02
Real stock
Synced from your store, so “sold out” means sold out and a buyer never emails to check.
03
Cases, not units
Minimums per line and per order, enforced before checkout — the way you actually sell.
04
One-click reorder
Last order, saved mixes, standing templates. The November mix loads in one click.
05
The freight nudge
The cart shows the gap to free shipping, so the order grows a case on its own.
06
Straight into fulfilment
Orders land in your store as orders, not in an inbox. Your fulfilment doesn’t change.
Teardowns — spec work
Two teardowns,built before anyone asked.
Producers we’d like to work with, their wholesale flow looked at from the outside, and the portal rebuilt. Public pages only — no client data.
How it goes
Teardown first.Then we talk.
01
Send your store
Two minutes: your URL, what it runs on, how buyers order today. Nothing stored, no account.
02
Get the teardown
We look at your wholesale flow from the outside, public pages only. If we can rebuild it, you get what’s broken, the portal rebuilt on your store, and the price. Free.
03
We build it on your store
Scoped on your real numbers, built on the platform you already run, with the two people who did the teardown.
What it costs
One price,on the table.
The same two numbers on every teardown. Payback we work out on your real orders, on the call.
- $4,000
To build
The portal on your store: accounts, prices, cases, minimums, reorders, fulfilment. Scoped from the teardown.
- $300
A month to run
Hosting, upkeep, support, and the changes that come with how you sell. The two of us, on the other end.
The people
Two people,start to finish.
Design & the relationship
Vernon Stordy
On the Island, in person — your point of contact, start to finish.
Engineering & the build
Dan
Ships the software, and joins the call to scope the technical work.
Get a teardown
Tell us how your wholesale works.The teardown is free.
Your store, your platform, how buyers order today. If we can rebuild it, you get the teardown — what’s broken, the portal rebuilt on your store, and the price — before any pitch.
This site is the demo.