Operations software for Shopify merchants
Metlab is a set of apps for the operational side of a Shopify business. You add only the apps you need, and they share the same products, orders and customers. The first app is Metlab Warehouse, for picking, packing, purchasing and stock cost.
How Metlab works
Metlab opens in one window with a blue rail down the left-hand side. Each app you add gets an icon on the rail and its own set of pages.
The apps work from the same records. When Service is ready, for instance, it will already have your orders and tracking from Warehouse, so there will be nothing to import and no connection to set up.
To add an app, use the Add app button on the rail.
Metlab Warehouse
Warehouse handles what happens to an order after it comes in from Shopify: picking, packing and the courier label. It also covers buying stock and keeping track of what that stock cost. It's in development, and merchants who pick and pack their own orders can apply for early access.
Picking
Single, batch, wave or zone picking. Consolidation bins collect the parts of an order picked by different people.
Scanning
Works with handheld scanners and phone cameras. You decide what gets scanned and in what order.
Packing and labels
Courier labels for An Post, Royal Mail and DPD, printed when you pack or as soon as an order's last part is picked.
Purchase orders
Drafted from your sales, each supplier's lead time and seasonal demand, then sent in the supplier's own format.
Goods in and invoices
Deliveries are scanned in against the purchase order. Supplier invoices are read by AI and each cost goes on its line.
Stock cost
Average cost is sent to Shopify's cost per item field, and you can see your stock value on any date.
Metlab apps
Warehouse comes first, through early access. These are the apps planned after it.
Orders, picking, packing, purchasing and stock cost.
AI customer service that answers from your own help content.
Your own dashboards from Shopify, ads, analytics and email data.
Product images and copy for new products, and a social scheduler.
A returns portal with your own rules.
Products kept in step across your Shopify stores.
Points and rewards for repeat customers.
Competitors' prices on the products you sell.
Search checks and rankings for your store.
Get early access
Early access is for Metlab Warehouse. Tell us about your shop and how you send orders out, and we'll contact you by email.