The XY Digital War Room

Key steps for brands to connect with, and get to know their data on XY.

XY Retail
3 min readAug 16, 2020

At XY, we keep our digital arsenal light and strategically stockpiled. Comprised of Spaces, Connect, and OmniPOS, brands on XY have a single environment to track item-level inventory sell-through rates, the ability to generate and share sales flash reports, and, close their books in three clicks for financial reporting purposes.

The XY DWR introduces a new level of visibility, control, and scalability to global brands, never seen before and that is cloud based.

Below, we have broken down a few key descriptive points and screenshots to help illustrate the strength of that arsenal XY.

XY Spaces functions as the brand’s corporate brain.

Operating as a data custodian, it compiles and cleans data from system integrations from XY Connect and digital and physical touch-points from XY OmniPOS. The mobile-friendly environment empowers merchandisers, stylists, and executives with on-demand insights.

Some examples of XY Spaces include:

  • Find top selling items by a mixture of attributes including, but not limited to, department, division, category, subcategory, style, fabric, color, size, height, & more.
  • Track cross-sell and up-sell opportunities through advanced customer purchase history analysis.
  • Establish data as a competitive advantage through multi-variant summary reports built in-house by your very own team.
XY Retail Planning & Merchandising Summary Reports
Screenshot of Summary report — Selling Report by Channel

XY Connect operates as a brand’s ecosystem.

Our API enables integration with global platforms to capture data across the value chain. Some of our integration partners include Shopify, Avalara, Elastic Search, Salesforce, Global Blue, Easypost, Square, Apple, Stripe, Epson, Lightspeed, IBM-AS400, Quickbooks, and Mailchimp.

Some examples of XY Connect include:

  • Organize your tech stack and normalize multi-system communication with upstream and downstream players to squeeze the calendar by up to 40% with immediate, cross-channel insights.
  • Integrate made to order and made to measure orders sourced from store and B2B channels.
  • Apply multi-regional rules and logic for order fulfillment, payment processing, replenishing stock and more.
XY Retail Planning & Merchandising Summary Reports
Screenshot of Summary report — Top Customers by Category

XY OmniPOS allows the brand to transact anywhere, anytime.

OmniPOS allows the brand to transact anywhere, anytime. Driven to provide zero-friction experiences, brands can deploy resources faster, empower their workforce, and establish additional touch-points with customers.

Some examples of XY OmniPOS include:

  • Develop a “Luxury 4.0” model to build customer intimacy and capture emerging customer preferences.
  • Establish store-specific web pages to empower stylists to sell excess inventory.
  • The North Face Opportunity: enable communication between store and web inventory.
  • Release hyper-localized campaigns with pop-up shops around the world.

Driven to provide zero-friction experiences, brands can deploy resources faster, empower their workforce, and establish additional touch points with customers.

XY Retail Merchandising Summary Reports
Screenshot of Summary report — Trailing 52-Week Sales Report by Subcategory

In conclusion, key stakeholders that have gained the most value from XY are planners and merchandisers, private client executives, and finance managers. Find out what tables our clients are using daily at XY.

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XY Retail

XY is a platform built to transform the retail industry’s use of data to solve existing and imminent challenges.