Run Retail Without Eight Vendor Logos on Your Wall.
Modern retail runs on Lightspeed (POS) + a separate inventory system + Square (gift cards) + Mailchimp (marketing) + Yotpo (loyalty) + Genetec (loss prevention) + a digital-signage vendor + a smart-building IoT platform. Aeion ships POS + inventory + multi-location + loyalty + digital signage + loss prevention via Sentinel + smart-building IoT + Bridge hardware integration on one tenant database. Same SKU across DTC + retail + wholesale. Same customer across channels. One bill.
The Native Retail Stack
Each module shares the same SKU + customer + order data. The same product is the same product across every surface.
Aeion Commerce — Unified DTC + Retail + Wholesale
Products, inventory, orders, B2B + B2C, multi-location, transfers, kits + bundles. Same catalog online + in-store + on iPad POS. Read Commerce →
POS via Aeion Bridge
Receipt printers, card readers, cash drawers, barcode scanners, scales, label printers. Same checkout flow online + in-store. Tip handling, split-checks, returns. Read Bridge →
Multi-Location Inventory
Real-time inventory across N stores + warehouses. Auto-transfer suggestions for stockouts. Cycle counting + shrinkage tracking. Inventory-AI agent forecasts reorder points.
Aeion Loyalty + Gift Cards
Tier-based loyalty, points + rewards, digital gift cards, referrals, BOPIS pickup loyalty bonuses. No Yotpo / Smile.io / Punchh. Read Loyalty →
Aeion Marketing — Multi-Channel Promos
Email + SMS + push promos tied to customer purchase history. Audience segmentation by visit recency, store location, category affinity. Read Marketing →
Aeion Signage — Digital Display CMS
In-store digital signage tied to inventory + promos. Auto-rotates displayed products based on stock + sales velocity. Per-location playlists. Demographic triggers (camera-based audience detection optional). Read Signage →
Aeion Sentinel — Loss Prevention
Camera-feed monitoring at retail locations. POS exception detection (no-sale events, manual price overrides, voided transactions). Cross-correlation with shift schedules + inventory variance. Read Sentinel →
Aeion Smart Spaces — Store IoT
Foot-traffic counters, HVAC optimization, lighting schedules, customer-flow heat maps, fitting-room occupancy. Read Smart Spaces →
AeionClaw — Retail AI Assistant
Inventory forecasting, dynamic pricing, smart upsell at POS, loss-prevention anomaly detection, store-manager weekly brief. Read Claw →
The Omnichannel Customer Record
Most retail tech fragments the customer across in-store + online + email. Aeion's same-database architecture unifies them.
The Loss-Prevention Story
Retail shrinkage averages 1.4% of revenue — about $112B/year industry-wide. Most retailers throw camera systems at it. Aeion + Sentinel adds the data layer.
Retail Wins
What changes when retail tech is one platform.
Same SKU across DTC, retail, and wholesale
One product record everywhere means no sync job reconciling four different inventory databases.
Same customer record online and in-store
The sales associate sees what the customer browsed online, so the conversation picks up where the website left off.
Inventory forecasting with real demand visibility
Reorder points are based on actual cross-channel demand, not a per-location guess — fewer stockouts.
Loss prevention via POS + camera + inventory cross-correlation
AI connects a void-rate spike to the shift schedule and the camera feed, catching more shrinkage than a camera system alone.
Digital signage tied to live inventory and sales velocity
Displays auto-rotate to feature what's actually in stock and selling, no manual playlist updates.
Multi-location reporting from one database
Corporate sees every store in real time instead of waiting on an end-of-day rollup.
Mobile POS via iPad + Bridge
Staff check out customers anywhere on the floor instead of funneling everyone to a fixed register.
One audit log across all retail tech
Compliance officers pull one export instead of stitching together evidence from five vendors — SOC 2 Type II ready, with the audit currently in flight.
Why retail tech consolidation is happening now.
Retail's "best of breed" stack (Lightspeed + custom inventory + Mailchimp + Yotpo + Genetec) hits a wall when retailers expand beyond 3-5 locations. Cross-store inventory transfers, multi-location customer loyalty, brand-consistent digital signage, omnichannel marketing all require integration that the vendor APIs don't make easy. Aeion's bet: a unified retail platform that's "good enough" at every category beats best-of-breed because cross-channel customer + inventory + loss-prevention data unification matters more than per-category feature depth at the mid-market retail scale.
One product and customer record instead of a per-category tool stack.
Aeion replaces the typical multi-location retail combination of a POS system, loyalty tool, email platform, separate inventory system, and camera platform with a single shared database, so the same SKU and the same customer record are consistent across DTC, retail, and wholesale. Sales associates see what a customer browsed online, reorder points reflect real cross-channel demand instead of a per-location guess, and loss prevention correlates POS, camera, and inventory signals in one place. Multi-location retailers typically retire several standalone subscriptions once inventory, loyalty, and reporting run through one system.
Unified DTC + retail + wholesale
Multi-location inventory + transfers
Same customer record across channels
POS hardware via Aeion Bridge
AI loss-prevention + shrinkage detection
Digital signage tied to inventory + sales
PCI-DSS Level 1 · SOC 2 Type II ready (audit motion in flight)
Smart-building IoT for foot-traffic + HVAC
Run retail on one platform.
POS + inventory + multi-location + loyalty + signage + loss prevention + smart-store IoT — all native on the same database as your online store, your CRM, and your AI assistant.