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One system, from the vendor's quote to the customer's invoice

Dowel runs procurement, manufacturing, inventory, logistics, sales and reporting on one ledger, so every team works from the same numbers and every number has a source.

One order, end to end

From the quote to the paid invoice, every stage adds to the same record. Nothing is exported, nothing is typed twice.

  1. 01
    QuotePI-2231Harbor Cable Works
  2. 02
    Purchase orderPO-2031Approved Sep 30
  3. 03
    ProductionReady Oct 9Deposit paid
  4. 04
    TransferTRF-0120Sea · 40HQ
  5. 05
    ReceivedHOUCounted in Nov 4
  6. 06
    AssemblyASM-04121,200 kits built
  7. 07
    Sales orderSO-1042Northwind Retail
  8. 08
    InvoiceINV-3310Paid Dec 2
One ledgerEvery unit, location and value, and the document that moved it.
Procurement

Buy from anywhere, with every price checked

Plan a buying round once and Dowel turns it into a purchase order for each vendor. Proformas are read and matched line by line, deposits and balances are tracked per order, and nothing moves forward without the right approval.

yourcompany.dowelsystems.com
PO-2031 · Harbor Cable Works
PI-2231.pdf
Read from the proforma
USB-C cable 6ft, blackCBL-C6-BK
5,000¥3.40
Car charger 38WCHG-38W
2,400¥14.80
Retail box, cableBOX-CBL
5,000¥0.65
3 of 3 lines matched to your products · 1 price above the last agreed one

Orders split by vendor

One order for the round, one purchase order per vendor, each on its own terms.

Proformas checked

Every line matched to your product and compared with the last price you agreed.

Approvals

Rules by amount, vendor or price change, with a record of who approved what.

Payments in any currency

Deposits and balances per order, at the exchange rate you booked.

Vendor catalog

What each vendor supplies, at what price, minimum and lead time.

Vendor performance

On-time delivery and price history for every vendor, side by side.

Manufacturing and assembly

Turn parts into products, on a plan

Keep a recipe for everything you build. Plan the day from what is on the shelf, give the crew a floor sheet and record what came off the line. Parts leave stock, finished goods arrive, and the value follows.

yourcompany.dowelsystems.com
Today · Houston
KitBuilt of plannedCrewStatus
Car charger kit, 38W1,200 / 1,200DMLRBuilt
Travel kit, USB-C520 / 800AKBuilding
Wireless pad bundle0 / 600DMPlanned

Recipes

Bills of materials for every kit and finished product, with versions.

Buildable today

See what you can build from stock on hand before you plan it.

Build plans

Daily plans by location, with the crew and the quantities.

Floor sheets

Printable sheets for the line, so the floor and the system agree.

Results recorded

Built, short and scrapped, recorded against the plan.

At the factory or at home

Assemble at the vendor's dock before it ships, or in your own warehouse.

Inventory and logistics

Every unit, wherever it is

Stock by location, on hand and promised, from the vendor's dock to your shelf. Plan transfers by cartons, space and weight, compare every way to ship, and follow each one until it is counted in.

yourcompany.dowelsystems.com
TRF-0120 · CN to HOU
Cartons45
Space2.30 CBM
Weight466 kg
Air · DHL Express5-7 days door to door
Fastest$3,780
Air DDP · UPS7-10 days door to door
$3,080
Sea · LCL32-40 days door to door
Cheapest$940
CN Shenzhen to HOU Houston · departs Oct 7 · rates in force that day

Stock by location

On hand, promised and free to sell, at every warehouse and dock.

Transfers

Air, sea and container moves, packed by cartons, space and weight.

Every way to ship, compared

Your carriers' rates side by side, priced for the day it departs.

Receiving

Count in what arrived against what was sent.

Adjustments with reasons

Every correction recorded, with who made it and why.

True unit value

Each unit valued at what it truly cost to put on your shelf.

Sales and invoicing

Sell from live stock, invoice from the same record

Customers, price lists and sales orders on the same ledger as your inventory, so what you promise is what you have. Fulfil, invoice and collect without typing anything twice.

yourcompany.dowelsystems.com
SO-1042 · Northwind Retail
SO-1042Partly fulfilled
Northwind Retail · Net 30
ProductQtyPriceAmount
Car charger kit, 38W600$11.40$6,840.00
USB-C cable 6ft, black1,500$3.20$4,800.00
Wireless charging pad240$14.90$3,576.00
Total$15,216.00
Invoiced$9,120.00
Paid$4,560.00
Gross margin38.6%

Customers and price lists

Terms, contacts and prices per customer or tier.

Sales orders

Stock promised the moment an order is confirmed.

Fulfilment

Pick, pack and ship from the location that has it.

Invoices and payments

Invoices from the order, payments matched to them.

Wholesale ordering

A portal where your customers order from your live stock.

Returns

Returns and credits that put stock and money back where they belong.

Reporting and insights

Numbers you can trace to the source

Margin, stock value, cover and cash, live, for the whole business or a single product. Every figure opens to the orders, transfers and invoices behind it.

yourcompany.dowelsystems.com
Overview
Stock value$1.24M+3.1%
Gross margin38.6%+1.2 pts
Days of cover46-4
Gross margin by monthLast 12 months
NovDecJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOct

Dashboards

The numbers each team watches, live.

Margin

By product, customer, channel and month.

Stock value

By location, at true cost, on any date.

Cover

Days of stock left at today's pace of sales.

Cash

What you owe vendors and what customers owe you.

Accounting hand-off

Journals and exports your accountant can post.

Connected

Works with what you already use

Dowel is the record. The tools around it read from it and write to it, so nothing lives in two places.

Accounting

Send journals and invoices to your accounting software.

Your AI assistant

Use Dowel from Claude, ChatGPT and other assistants, within your permissions.

How it works

Email

Send purchase orders and invoices as PDFs, straight from Dowel.

Spreadsheets

Bring products, vendors and stock in from the sheets you keep today.

API

A documented API for everything you can do in the app.

Your brand

Your letterhead and logo on every order, invoice and packing list.

Run the whole operation on Dowel

We are onboarding a small number of companies. We move your products, recipes, vendors and opening stock in with you, and stay with you through the first month.