Food and Beverage / Different Drop
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business growth
A premium online wine/spirits retailer needing inventory
and cash-flow management to grow.
Customer overview
Different Drop is a premium Australian wine and spirits online retailer/wholesaler in Ultimo, NSW, founded in 2013 by ‘three mates’. It offers personalised service and hard-to-find products such as rare vintage and limited-edition wines, serving premium consumers, corporate offices and restaurants.
The challenge
Started on Xero but it was too limited for complex inventory and order management — no cost-of-goods-sold account and no way to manage stock in/out from both warehousing and accounting angles. As an inventory-heavy retailer, stock is its main asset and risk.
The solution
The owner researched industry leaders, found they used NetSuite, and was connected to JCurve ERP (NetSuite’s small business edition). The JCS team guided setup; the business now uses dashboards, saved searches and daily reporting for inventory, orders, customers and accounts payable, with built-in CRM for lead tracking.
The results
Benefits within 1–2 months: time and cost savings on admin/manual work. It manages cash flow and stock-turn rates to stay cash-flow positive. The customer base grew from hundreds to tens of thousands, selling ~2,000 products, expanding from two people in a garage to a five-person warehouse — 35 admin hours saved weekly and 150% year-on-year growth.
For a business like ours, cash flow is the thing that will sink you. Jcurve ERP has enabled us to stay on top of that, and really manage our stock turn rates to stay cash flow positive.
Different Drop
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