Days, not quarters. Nothing for your engineers. Built for the operator who receives someone else's returns.
There are two ways challenged inventory gets handled today. By hand, or by an enterprise platform sold to the brand. Upstream is the third way, and it was built on a warehouse floor by people who inherited 3 million items and had to sell them.
3 ways to handle it.
Built because we had the pile.
Upstream began as the software a team wrote to get itself out of a problem. A warehouse full of goods nobody could identify, a bank that wanted them sold, and no tool on the market that would do it. The identification, the routing, the resale and the light warehouse system all came from that floor. The company was acquired in April 2025 and became Upstream, a Vendidit company, on the Vendidit platform for identifying, valuing and moving physical assets.
Plainly.
Not a system of record
Your WMS or ERP stays the system of record. Upstream writes to it.
Not a freight carrier
Products in motion are someone else's business. Upstream works where products are at rest.
Not a marketplace you have to run
You can sell from your own store. You do not have to.
Not an enterprise WMS
Fulfill is a light warehouse system built for recommerce, installed only where it is needed.
The market is real. So is the software.
Merchandise expected back to US retailers in 2025
Of annual retail sales returned
Of online sales returned
Returned in 2024, at 16.9 percent of sales
Source: National Retail Federation and Happy Returns, 2025 Retail Returns Landscape, October 15, 2025.
More than 100 million dollars of sales and warehouse movement have gone through the system since it was built. Customer results are shared in the walkthrough, with the customer's permission.
See it on a live account.
30 minutes, from the photograph to the listing.