Just about every DTC food and beverage brand experiences the same evolution: Experimental madness to operational scaling to market expansion. Yet, almost all the growing pains happen in the first stage, before $1MM in revenue. Watch our video below to see how this journey unfolds and how Luminous makes it easier to escape stage one.
The easy solution for complex DTC food and beverage operations
Made for the DTC food and beverage journey
The three stages of DTC food and beverage growth
- Passion product business
- First online sale
- Peak complexity early on, before $1mm revenue
- Regulatory compliance starts
- Sources specialized packaging
- Cold chain logistics complications begin
- Adds subscription model, e.g. Shopify Recharge
- Forecasting and inventory are difficult
- Using multiple Google Sheets and ShipStation, but can’t handle complexity
- Brain exploding
- Past $1mm in revenue
- Must perfect operations to get past the experimental madness stage
- May use an overpriced ERP that costs multiple thousands a month
- May use a cheap point solution that doesn’t solve their needs
- May use Luminous, the only option that handles all this complexity at an affordable price
- Owns a large chunk of the market
- Focuses on sales and marketing
- Hires a full-time team
- Has comfortably solved the complexity they faced early on
Beat the complexity. Grow your business.
A DTC food and beverage business has a low margin for error. Google Sheets doesn’t cut it for things like lifecycle tracking from farm to butcher to warehouse, or how much product to replenish to fulfill monthly subscriptions. Luminous gets you past the complexity so you can focus on increasing sales.
Become a well-oiled forecasting machine
Most DTC food and beverage brands sell with a subscription model. This can make forecasting and inventory management much more challenging. By integrating your logistics and inventory data across all platforms, Luminous puts forecasting and stock replenishment on auto-pilot.
Watch over your inventory with eagle eyes
To meet demand and maintain compliance for perishable goods, you need to stay on top of inventory across many locations. Luminous gives you full visibility with real-time inventory levels from all storage and production areas, including FBA warehouses and cold storage.
DTC brands that love Luminous
The affordable option that works
See what DTC brands say
Edgar Z
Andes ProductionThe setup process is very hands on from the wonderful team at Luminous, they walk through every step to ensure you understand it and more than anything they customize the system to our needs.
Brad S
Sweets KendamasLuminous has any feature you could hope for!
Allison D
GobeGreat product for inventory management.
Devin B
Revamped FulfillmentFantastic Product. They have every feature that I'm looking for.
Jared
MF9I like how much Luminous has to offer. From managing inventory to channels, it feels like it can do almost anything. I primarily manage inventory, and it is effortless and straightforward.
Kyle W
Andes ProductionFantastic. Once you get an understanding of how it all works its great for keeping inventory accurate especially when keeping track of inventory is huge here.
Edgar Z
Andes ProductionGame changer! Overall: Our warehouse and inventory management got a major facelift. Customer service is the best, they are there every step of the way.
Ben Peterson
KnafsI’m confident this will transform how we do business
Karina G.
Blaze Vapor"I am the product developer for Blaze Vapor. We started the company a year ago and since we hired the services of Luminous we are much more organized and much more efficient with more time to take care of the sales department."
Brendon
MF9If there are any issues, support is on it right away. They always value user feedback and are always accessible for all of your needs.