It's 11pm. The count won't reconcile, you're not sure that last sale rang up right, and it's all held together in your head. We built Champ because we believe the work that keeps you up at night should take minutes, not evenings — so you can lead from the front.
Not the fun part of owning a business — the part nobody warned you about.
The count doesn't match and you can't leave until it does. Again. It's a spreadsheet, a notebook, and a bad feeling.
Something sold for $9 that should've been $19 — and you found out weeks later, if at all. You can't watch everything.
Receiving one case means jumping between apps and a spreadsheet, re-typing the same thing, hoping nothing slips.
Sales are happening, but you honestly couldn't say which items make you money and which just make you busy.
Take a day off? The business can't run without you, because the system *is* you. That's not freedom — that's a job that owns you.
The "real" software costs more than the shop makes some months, and takes days to set up before it helps at all.
Champ isn't another app on the pile. It's the one place your business is true — and it's built so a product moves in a single unbroken line from the loading dock to sold.
Scan or key a case, split it into sellable pieces, mint the SKU, drop it in a bin — one pass, true cost and all.
That becomes a clean product card, goes live to your storefront with a tap, and draws itself down as it sells.
The moment a number's off or a record's unfinished, it lights up — so you fix a $9 problem before it's a $900 one.
Alex at Summit Hobby just got a shipment in. Click through a real Champ process to experience the results. (For illustrative purposes only.)
One clean card per product: identity, price, stock, location. View, edit, act.
Case → sellable pieces → SKU → bin, in one pass, with true landed cost.
Ledger, P&L, live margins, and variance flags on anything that drifts.
Sales vs. goal, top movers, any report — on demand or scheduled.
Auto-built from every sale. Contacts, lifetime value, history — no data entry.
Vehicles and gear — insurance, lease payoffs, next service — tracked.
Bin-level placement. On-hand is always the sum of where things physically are.
Your data is isolated at the database — one admin, no leaks, no second system.
Almost 20 years in retail management — big-box floors to mid-sized territories — and then I set out to build my own business. Once the excitement wore off, I hit a wall I didn't see coming: no visibility. Did that sale go through? What's my on-hand right now? Where did I put that case? Then you find a whole shipment that never made it online, and you realize you're one lost sticky note — one coffee spill on the notepad — away from chaos.
I don't believe it has to be that way. Running your own shop is hard enough, so control what you can control. That's the idea behind Champ. A Champion does the work and shoulders the load, and keeps moving — because the windshield is bigger than the rearview. There are only 24 hours in a day. Champ hands a few of them back, so your time goes to growing the business, filling orders, and settling in for family movie night.
— Ron, Founder
Running your business shouldn't overrun your life — and it shouldn't cost that much either.
The essentials to run stock.
Run the whole business.
Multiple brands or locations.