For Shopify and WooCommerce brands that manufacture in China
Factory to shelf takes 60 days. Your low-stock alert doesn’t know that.
LeadLamp sets a reorder point for every SKU from its sales pace and the whole lead time: production, first-leg freight and warehouse check-in. Every Monday your team gets one email, in English or Chinese: what to order now, what to order this week, how many cartons, and why. Stock already on the water counts, so nobody orders it twice.
The demo opens a sample store. No sign-up.
- From
- LeadLamp
- To
- ops@kumohome.com
- Subject
- [LeadLamp] Kumo Home: 2 to order now, 1 this week (2026-10-05)
LeadLamp · 2026-10-05
Good morning, Kumo Home.
This week: 2 SKUs need ordering now, 1 will hit the reorder point before next Monday, 38 are fine.
1 SKU is missing data — see the bottom of this email.
Order now (2)
Order this week (1)
Covered: 38 SKUs (see the full list)
Missing data (1)
PRINT-A3-MAP: missing lead time. Add it in LeadLamp or re-import.
Data: Shopify, updated 2026-10-05 07:52. Sales pace is the 28-day average.
Reorder point = ceil(daily sales × lead time + safety stock). Suggested order covers lead time + safety + 28 days of sales, minus on hand and on order, rounded up to the pack size.
The problem
When restocking takes two months, “5 left” is two months too late.
A restock from China is a chain: the factory schedules production, goods move to the port, the container sails, clears customs and gets checked in at your 3PL. Sixty days is normal. Peak season and Chinese New Year make it longer.
Shopify and WooCommerce warn you when stock drops below a number you picked once. That number knows nothing about the chain. By the time it fires, the next shipment is still two months away.
One SKU
Sells 2 a day. Production 25 days, freight and check-in 35 days. 28 units of safety stock.
Alert at 5 units
Fires on day 118. The container lands on day 178. Almost two months with nothing to sell, and the listing loses its ranking.
Reorder point at 148
Fires on day 46. The container lands on day 106 with the safety stock still on the shelf.
How it works
Set it up once, then read one email a week.
- 01
Connect the store
Connect Shopify or WooCommerce with a read-only key, or upload a CSV. LeadLamp reads stock levels (including what your 3PL syncs back) and the last 14 or 28 days of sales.
- 02
Enter each factory’s lead time
Order to sellable: production + inland + freight + check-in. Set it once per factory; SKUs inherit it. Give air-freighted SKUs their own shorter number.
- 03
Log what’s on the water
When you place an order, enter the quantity as “on order”. LeadLamp counts it toward stock until you clear it after check-in.
- 04
Read the Monday list
At the time you choose (say 09:00 Beijing time), the email lists what to order now, what to order this week, quantities rounded to whole cartons, and a one-line reason.
The whole formula
reorder point = ceil(daily sales × lead time + safety stock)
- Red: on hand plus on order is at or below the reorder point.
- Yellow: it will reach the reorder point within 7 days.
- Suggested order: enough to cover the reorder point plus 28 days of sales, minus on hand and on order, rounded up to the carton size.
- Both windows can be changed per store.
What’s included
Made for a supply chain that crosses an ocean.
Lead time is the whole chain
Production, inland, freight and check-in add up to one number per factory. SKUs inherit it unless you override one.
Stock on the water counts
Units in production or at sea are added to stock, so a container that’s already sailing doesn’t trigger a second order.
Whole cartons
Suggested quantities round up to the carton size your factory packs, 12, 24 or 48 a box.
Chinese email, English store
Each store picks its email language. Your storefront stays in English; the person who places factory orders reads the list in Chinese.
The whole team on one list
Send the Monday email to the owner, the buyer and the ops lead. Invite them to the app to edit lead times together.
Several stores, one account
Run up to five stores (several brands or markets) with their own time zones and send times. Each sends its own list.
Share the list with your factory contact
Every weekly report has a read-only link. Send it to a partner without giving them a login.
Chinese New Year
Factories close for weeks. Your list should know before you do.
Around Chinese New Year, factories shut for two to four weeks and restart slowly. LeadLamp doesn’t guess holidays — you add the shutdown to the affected factories’ lead times, and the list starts flagging SKUs weeks earlier.
Lead time 60 days → reorder point 134
Lead time 81 days → reorder point 176
Same SKU: 2 a day, 14 units of safety stock.
- 01
November
Add the shutdown days to each affected factory’s lead time, for example +21.
- 02
December–January
Reorder points rise, so the Monday list turns those SKUs yellow and red in time to order before the break.
- 03
After the holiday
Set the lead times back. Nothing else to undo.
Scope
What LeadLamp is not.
It’s a reorder alert, not an ERP. It doesn’t do any of this, and isn’t going to:
- Purchase orders or factory follow-up
- Freight booking or container tracking
- 3PL / overseas warehouse management
- Transfers between warehouses
- AI or seasonal forecasting
- Amazon / FBA connections
If you need those, keep your ERP and your forwarder. LeadLamp does one job: tell you when to order and how many cartons, early enough for a two-month chain.
Pricing
Start free. Pay when you connect a store.
Free covers a CSV-based store. Pro is $19 a month, Agency $49.
Compare plans- Free — 1 store, 20 SKUs, CSV import
- Pro $19/mo — 200 SKUs, Shopify or WooCommerce sync, Slack
- Agency $49/mo — 5 stores, 1,000 SKUs shared
Questions
Before you try it
Days from placing the order to the goods being sellable: production, inland transport, freight, customs and warehouse check-in. If you’re unsure, average your last three shipments and round up.
From the stock level in Shopify or WooCommerce, which most 3PLs keep in sync. If yours doesn’t, export the warehouse’s stock list and upload it as a CSV using our template’s column names.
Set the factory’s lead time for the usual sea route, and give air-freighted SKUs their own shorter lead time. A SKU’s own number always wins over the factory’s.
Enter the quantity on the SKU when you place the order, or include an on_order column in your CSV. Set it back to 0 once the goods are checked in. LeadLamp doesn’t track containers.
Yes. The email language is a per-store setting and has nothing to do with your storefront’s language.
Not directly. LeadLamp connects to Shopify and WooCommerce. You can still upload Amazon stock and sales as a CSV.
No. Connections are read-only. The one exception is WooCommerce threshold write-back, which needs a key with write access and stays off until you turn it on.
See a real Monday list before you import anything.
The demo opens the full app with a sample store that restocks from Chinese factories. Change a lead time and watch the list move.