One console for vendors, pricing and shipping at Svedberga Plantskola

Svedberga sells a deep, seasonal catalogue sourced from many different suppliers. Each vendor had its own product data, its own price list, its own stock reality and its own way of receiving orders — some by API, some by email, some by PDF.

That left the team carrying the operation by hand:

• Prices and stock drifted out of sync between vendors and the stores, so the shop sold items that were unavailable or priced below margin.
• Competitor pricing was checked manually, item by item, which meant it was mostly not checked at all.
• Orders were split and forwarded to the right supplier by a person reading a screen and writing an email.
• Shipping was booked in a separate carrier system, then labels were printed, then someone tried to remember which orders had already been handled.
• Nobody had a single view of what was sent, what failed, what was unfulfilled and what was ready to ship.

The brand was healthy. The back office was the ceiling.

We have worked with Svedberga for five to six years, first on brand maintenance, social media and strategic development, and then on the systems underneath the shop. The work is delivered continuously — hourly and monthly — rather than as a one-off project.

1. Vendor API layer

We mapped every supplier and connected them to Svedberga's stores through a managed integration layer. Products, prices, stock levels and product details stay in sync in both directions, per vendor, with each vendor's data segregated so one supplier's feed can never corrupt another's.

2. Competitor price monitoring app

A custom app tracks competitor prices on matching products, compares them to Svedberga's own price, and proposes a new price — a set percentage below the competitor, whether that means moving up or down. Nothing changes automatically: the admin reviews the proposals and approves, then the app pushes the updates across the catalogue in bulk.

3. The operations app

One internal application now runs the daily operation:

• Vendor management — add, edit and score suppliers, and map each vendor to the locations they serve.
• Product management — catalogue control across vendors, with mapping rules that decide who fulfils what.
• Order routing — every order is visible with full detail, and can be sent to the assigned vendor by API or as a formatted PDF with an optional note. The vendor can be switched at any point, for example when another supplier gives a better price, and the mapping follows.
• Delivery method per vendor — API or PDF sending is a switch per supplier, so partners are onboarded at whatever level of integration they can actually support.
• Printing with state — single or bulk order sheets print to PDF, and printed orders change colour so the team can see at a glance what has already been handled.
• Shipping via nShift — one click creates the shipment with the right carrier from the nShift network (DHL, DSV, DB Schenker and others), and labels can be printed or downloaded immediately. Carrier and shipping setup is configured inside the app, pulling the options straight from the logistics partner.
• Jump to Shopify — every order links directly through to its Shopify record, so nothing has to be searched for twice.
• Filters and multi-store — layered filters for fast sorting, and support for multiple stores connected via app, plugin or direct integration.
• Operations dashboard — order count, sent, failed, unfulfilled, ready to ship and printed shipments in one view.
• Role-based access — granular permissions per team member and per vendor, so a supplier sees only their own orders and nothing else.
• Light and dark themes, because the warehouse and the office do not work in the same light.

Svedberga now runs a multi-vendor catalogue and a multi-carrier shipping operation from one screen, with vendor data in sync and pricing decisions made deliberately instead of manually. The partnership continues today across brand maintenance, strategic development and ongoing platform work.