Introducing Range Plan: PLM for Shopify Brands

Why we built Range Plan

Talk to any fashion or lifestyle brand doing more than a few hundred thousand a year in revenue and you'll find the same thing: a sprawling ecosystem of spreadsheets that somehow holds the entire product development process together. One Google Sheet for the range plan. Another for costings. A shared drive full of supplier quotes and spec sheets. A WhatsApp group for chasing samples. Maybe a Trello board that someone set up once and nobody updates.

It works — until it doesn't. And the point at which it stops working is remarkably consistent. It's the moment you have more than about 80 SKUs in development simultaneously, or more than three suppliers, or more than two people who need to know the status of a product at any given time. That's when the spreadsheet starts lying to you. Someone updated the cost price in their local copy but forgot to paste it back. The delivery date moved three weeks ago but nobody updated row 47. You're about to sign off production on a product whose margin you think is 62% but is actually 54% because freight costs went up and the formula broke.

Enterprise brands solve this with PLM software — product lifecycle management. Centric, Bamboo Rose, Lectra. These are powerful, comprehensive systems. They're also designed for organisations with dedicated product development teams, IT departments to manage the implementation, and budgets that start at £50,000 per year and climb from there. If you're a Shopify brand doing £2m–£20m, these tools aren't built for you. They're built for brands doing £200m.

So you're stuck in the spreadsheet. And the spreadsheet is slowly, quietly costing you money — in duplicated work, in missed deadlines, in margin erosion that nobody catches until end-of-season review.

That's why we built Range Plan. It's PLM built specifically for Shopify brands — integrated directly into Nuso, connected to your live store data, and designed for teams of one to twenty. Not a stripped-down enterprise tool. A purpose-built one.

What Range Plan does

Range Plan gives you a single, structured view of every product you're developing — from initial concept through to live on your Shopify store. It's organised around the way fashion and lifestyle brands actually think about their ranges: by collection, by season, by delivery window.

Collections and monthly view

Every product in Range Plan belongs to a collection. Collections map to however you organise your buying calendar — Spring/Summer 26, Core Continuity, Collaboration Drop, or whatever structure makes sense for your brand. Within each collection, you see products laid out by their target delivery month, giving you a clear visual of what's landing when and how your buy budget is distributed across the season.

Product cards

Each product in Range Plan has a detailed card that holds everything you need: product name, category, supplier, cost price, RRP, target margin, colourways, size run, order quantities, and any custom fields you want to add. No more tabbing between a range sheet and a costings sheet — it's all in one place, always up to date, visible to everyone on your team who needs it.

Status tracking

Every product carries a status — from Concept through to Live — that updates as you move it through your workflow. You can see at a glance how many products are in sampling, how many are awaiting approval, how many are in production. No more scanning a spreadsheet column and counting cells. The overview is always current.

Spend metrics

Range Plan calculates your committed spend, projected retail value, and blended margin in real time as you build out a collection. You can see immediately if a collection is running heavy on cost, light on margin, or over-indexed in one category. These aren't static numbers you typed into a cell — they're live calculations derived from the product data you've entered, updated the moment anything changes.

Workflow tracking

A range plan is only as useful as its ability to tell you where things actually stand. Spreadsheets are terrible at this because they're static — someone has to remember to update the status cell, and they often don't. Range Plan makes workflow tracking structural rather than aspirational.

27 stages, concept to shelf

We've mapped out the typical product development journey for a fashion or lifestyle brand and built it into Range Plan as a configurable workflow. The default template includes 27 stages across six phases: Concept, Design, Sampling, Costing, Production, and Delivery. You can customise these to match your actual process — add stages, remove ones that don't apply, rename them to your terminology.

Each product moves through these stages sequentially. When a product advances from one stage to the next, Range Plan logs who moved it, when, and any notes they attached. This creates an automatic audit trail — you can see the full history of a product's journey without anyone having to maintain a separate changelog.

File uploads

Spec sheets, tech packs, supplier quotes, fabric swatches, sample photos — all of this lives on the product card in Range Plan. No more hunting through email threads or shared drives to find the latest version of a tech pack. Every file is attached to the product it belongs to, timestamped, and version-tracked. When your supplier sends a revised quote, you upload it to the product card and the previous version stays in the history.

Changelog and audit trail

Every change to a product — cost price updated, status moved, file uploaded, delivery date changed — is logged automatically. This means you can always answer the question "who changed this and when?" which, if you've ever tried to unpick a spreadsheet discrepancy at 9pm before a sign-off meeting, you'll know is worth its weight in gold.

Bulk tools that save hours

One of the most common frustrations with moving from spreadsheets to structured software is losing the speed of a spreadsheet. You can't beat a spreadsheet for raw data entry velocity — tab, type, tab, type, enter, next row. We know that, and we've built Range Plan to match it.

Spreadsheet-style editor

Range Plan includes a spreadsheet-style bulk editor that lets you view and edit multiple products in a grid format. Select a collection, choose which fields you want to see as columns, and edit directly in the grid — just like you would in Google Sheets. Tab between cells, paste values, use keyboard shortcuts. The data saves to Range Plan's structured database, but the editing experience feels like the spreadsheet you're used to.

CSV import and export

You can import products from a CSV file — which means migrating from your existing spreadsheet takes minutes, not days. Map your columns to Range Plan's fields, review the preview, and import. Equally, you can export any collection or filtered view to CSV at any time, for reporting, for sharing with suppliers, or simply for peace of mind.

Inline product creation

Need to quickly add fifteen products to a new collection? The inline create tool lets you add products one after another without leaving the page — enter the essentials (name, category, supplier, cost, RRP), hit enter, and the product is created. Fill in the details later. It's designed for those early-stage range building sessions where you're sketching out the shape of a collection quickly, before going deep on individual product details.

What's coming next

Range Plan is live in Nuso today, and we're already working on the next wave of features. Here's what's on the roadmap:

• Supplier portal: A dedicated view that lets your suppliers log in, see only the products assigned to them, update costs, upload documents, and confirm delivery dates — without needing access to your full Nuso account. No more chasing updates over email.
• Critical path alerts: Automated notifications when a product is at risk of missing its target delivery date, based on the time remaining and the stages still to complete. Range Plan will flag problems before they become crises.
• Cost negotiation tracking: A structured way to track cost negotiations with suppliers — initial quote, counter-offer, agreed price — with full history. So when you're reviewing margins at end of season, you can see exactly how each product's cost evolved from first quote to final price.
• Margin scenario modelling: "What happens to this collection's blended margin if freight goes up 15%?" — run scenarios against your range plan without changing the actual data, so you can plan for contingencies before they happen.
• Calendar view: A visual timeline of your entire range calendar — collections, delivery windows, key milestones — so you can see the full picture of what's coming when, at a glance.

Range Plan is the feature we've heard Shopify brands ask for more than almost any other. The spreadsheet has served its purpose — it got you this far. But if your range is growing, your team is expanding, or you've ever lost sleep over a formula error in a costings sheet, it's time for something better.

We built Range Plan to be that something. It's live, it's included in your Nuso subscription, and it takes about ten minutes to set up your first collection.