Do our resellers have to do anything differently?

No. They keep sending exactly what they send today, in the format they already use, on their own schedule. TaskifAI never contacts them, so collecting stays in your name and your retailer relationships stay yours.

Is TaskifAI software we have to run?

No. TaskifAI is a done-for-you service. You get a window into your own data to see performance, export it and ask questions, but the service runs whether you open it or not. There is nothing for your team to operate.

Who does the work, people or a machine?

Both. TaskifAI built the machinery for the volume, and a team owns the result. When a file is malformed, a SKU is ambiguous, or a retailer invents a new layout, a person resolves it.

What happens if a retailer never sends their sell-out file?

The month still closes on time and that reseller is named plainly in the report. TaskifAI never guesses a number and never leaves a silent gap.

What happens when a retailer changes their file format?

TaskifAI absorbs it. There are no mapping rules for the brand to rewrite and no broken import for anyone on your team to chase.

What happens to our historical sell-out data?

A full historical backfill is included in setup. All the data you already have is cleaned and matched onto the same standard as everything going forward.

How does the data reach our ERP?

Every closed month is delivered in your ERP's own import format, alongside your sell-in, so nobody retypes a number.

How much does TaskifAI cost?

The Sell-Out Close is EUR 750 per month base plus EUR 75 per reseller per month. Setup and full historical backfill are included. Brands with more than 30 resellers are priced individually.

Comparison

Building it in-house vs handing it over.

Four ways to solve reseller reporting. Only one of them takes the work off your team.

Every brand with more than a handful of retail partners lands on the same four options. They are rarely compared honestly, because the people selling three of them are not the ones maintaining the result.

Here is the comparison as we would give it to a brand deciding — including the cases where we are the wrong answer.

Take this off my plate

The four options

What each approach really costs

Approach	What it costs	Who maintains it	Where it breaks
Spreadsheets in-house	Nothing visible; days of senior time each month	Whoever inherited the workbook	The twelfth partner, or the day that person leaves
BI tool (Power BI, Looker)	Licences plus an implementation project	Your team, forever	The cleaning happens before the tool, so the work stays with you
Hire an analyst	€2,000–4,000 a month part-time, more full-time	The analyst, until they leave	Holidays, notice periods, and the knowledge leaving with them
Done-for-you close	€750/month base plus €75 per reseller	Us	Not a fit if your data is already clean and centralised

Costs are indicative for a brand with roughly five to fifteen reporting partners. The analyst range reflects European part-time market rates rather than a quote.

Be honest about it

When building it in-house is the right call

If your partners already report in one agreed format, on a schedule you control, into a system you own, you do not need us. Consolidation is genuinely a small technical job once the inputs are consistent.

The same is true if you have a data team with spare capacity and a mandate to own this. An internal system that is actually maintained will beat any outside service on responsiveness.

The trap is the middle case: an internal solution that nobody owns, that works until a template changes, and that quietly costs a senior person three days a month while appearing to cost nothing.

The real comparison

It is not tool versus tool. It is who does the work.

A BI tool and a done-for-you close are not competing products — they answer different halves of the problem. The tool assumes clean, comparable inputs. Getting to clean, comparable inputs is the entire job.

So the question to ask of any option is not "what can it display?" but "after this, who spends the days?" If the answer is still someone on your team, nothing structural has changed.

Common questions

Questions brands ask before they hand this over

Is it cheaper to build sell-out reporting in-house?

Only if you count licences and ignore labour. The recurring cost of an in-house approach is senior time spent every month on cleaning and matching, plus the fragility of a system with a single owner. That cost is real but rarely appears on a budget line.

We already have Power BI. Do we still need this?

Possibly not, if your inputs are already consistent. A BI tool visualises data it can trust; it does not decide which SKU a garbled line refers to. Most brands find the cleaning, not the charting, was the work.

When would you tell us not to buy this?

When your partners already report in one agreed format on a schedule you control, or when you have a data team with the capacity and mandate to own consolidation properly. In both cases an internal system will serve you better.

What happens if we want to bring it back in-house later?

The dataset is yours throughout and exportable at any time, so bringing it in-house means taking clean history with you rather than starting over.

Whichever option you pick, price it in days of senior time per month rather than in licences. That number is the one that decides it.

Keep reading

Building it in-house vs handing it over.

What each approach really costs

When building it in-house is the right call

It is not tool versus tool. It is who does the work.

Questions brands ask before they hand this over

Is it cheaper to build sell-out reporting in-house?

We already have Power BI. Do we still need this?

When would you tell us not to buy this?

What happens if we want to bring it back in-house later?

Related pages

What it costs to consolidate reseller reports

Outsource sell-out reporting

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