# EazyPlano — shelves planned in a second

> EazyPlano is our planogram product for retailers, chains, distributors and brands. It turns sales, product and fixture data into a ready shelf plan in under a second, runs right inside Claude through its own connector, plans whole chains store by store and checks the finished shelf from a photo. We install it and connect it to your data.

- Client: EazyPlano
- Year: 2026
- Expertise: [Custom SaaS](https://wnotglobal.com/expertise/saas), [Web Apps & PWAs](https://wnotglobal.com/expertise/web-apps), [AI & Automation](https://wnotglobal.com/expertise/ai), [ERP, EDI & Integrations](https://wnotglobal.com/expertise/integrations)
- Product: Planogram and shelf-planning system, ready to install
- For: Retailers, chains, distributors and consumer brands
- Works in: The web app, Claude via its connector, and on a phone
- In use at: GMI Trading, US specialty-food distributor
- Stack: Next.js, React, three.js, Node.js, PostgreSQL, Prisma, Redis, MCP
- Our role: Product, design, engine, app, AI, Claude connector, installs
- Web page: https://wnotglobal.com/cases/ezplano
- Studio: WhyNotGlobal (https://wnotglobal.com/)

## Challenge

**Shelf planning is still arithmetic done by hand.**

Choosing products, counting facings and fitting every shelf to the inch is work a space planner does by hand, and the result ships as a static deck that is not redone from each store’s own sales. At GMI Trading, which plans the shelves of the stores it supplies, every fixture had its own PowerPoint deck — and nothing checked that the shelf in the store matched the plan.

## Solution

**A planner that does the arithmetic — in an app or in a chat.**

EazyPlano plans the whole shelf from sales, then lets the team fine-tune it in the editor or simply by asking Claude. Stores get the plan on a phone, and a photo of the finished shelf is checked against it. We install EazyPlano for each client and connect it to their own data; GMI now runs its shelves on it.

- **< 1 s to plan a whole wall** — Once the sales are loaded, the engine plans a whole wall in 3–20 ms. The same data always gives the same planogram.
- **39 tools for Claude** — Everything the editor does, Claude can do in a chat through the EazyPlano connector.
- **80 stores planned in one go** — One planogram per store for a whole chain, each from that store’s own sales.
- **96–98% of shelf length used** — On real fixtures, with products blocked by category and brand and zoned by shelf height.

*Image: EazyPlano editor: an 8 ft wall in photo view with warning frames, SKUs, facings, shelf used and the AI tab*

The EazyPlano editor: real pack pictures, warnings on the shelf and the AI at hand.

## Plan a shelf by asking Claude

EazyPlano comes with its own connector for Claude. Add it once in claude.ai — sign in and choose what Claude may do — and it works in Claude on the web, on the desktop and on a phone. Then just ask: “plan an 8 ft dry wall for these stores from their own sales.” Claude finds the fixture and the stores, plans the wall and answers with a picture of the shelf, the totals, the warnings and links to the editor, the preview and the downloads.

*Image: A chat with Claude: asked to plan an 8 ft wall from a chain’s sales, it answers with the shelf picture, totals, warnings and links*

## Fix it in plain words

Thirty-nine tools let Claude do everything the editor does: add or remove facings, move and swap products, lock what must stay, ask the planogram AI, apply a category manager’s review, give a new product the sales of the one it replaces, fill in a missing size. Every change comes back as a new picture of the shelf and the new totals, and every step is a version that “undo the last one” takes back.

*Image: A chat with Claude: “fix the warnings” — facings added, a discontinued product replaced, warnings 18 to 4*

## Check the shelf from a photo

A rep drops a photo of the finished shelf into the chat or the app. EazyPlano reads it against the plan, shelf by shelf: what is in place, missing, extra or on the wrong shelf — with a compliance score, the missing products highlighted where they belong and a to-do of what to fix first. In our test it named exactly the three products that had been taken off the shelf.

*Image: A chat with Claude: a shelf photo checked against the planogram, 84% match and what to fix first*

## From sales to a shelf in under a second

Products are ranked by unit sales, how many stores buy them, how steady and fast-growing they are, and margin; rare buys are left off. Facings hold what sells until the next delivery plus safety stock. Best sellers go to eye level, heavy packs low, light boxes high, blocked by category then brand. The sales basis can be one store, a chain, several chains mixed with equal weight, the whole business or none for a new store.

*Image: A 27.5 ft wall of six bays planned by EazyPlano, in photo view*

## Whole chains, whole stores

One request plans a planogram for every store of a chain — up to 80 at once, each from that store’s own sales. The store floor editor places gondolas, coolers, freezers, end caps, checkouts and islands on a plan of any size; each gondola carries its planogram, and the whole store opens in 3D to walk around and download as a picture for a presentation.

*Image: Store floor editor: gondolas carrying their planograms, a checkout, a door and the fixture palette*

*Image: Store floor plan in 3D: gondolas carrying their planograms*

*Image: The 8 ft wall in 3D with real pack pictures and a Download PNG button*

The store and every shelf in 3D with real pack pictures; bottles and jars are drawn round.

## An editor for people who plan

Photo, block and zone views. Drag a product to any shelf, add from the catalogue, add or remove facings, lock a product so re-planning keeps it, undo and redo. Every change is a version that can be compared and restored, and each planogram has its own team notes.

*Image: The same wall in block view: every product as a labelled block with its facings*

*Image: Red warning on a discontinued product, with a hover card saying to pick a replacement*

*Image: Yellow short-supply warning: 1.5 days on the shelf with delivery every 7 days, give it another facing*

Red for errors like a discontinued product, yellow for short supply with the days it lasts.

## Connects to your data

EazyPlano needs four things: products with sizes, sales by item, store and date, the list of stores and chains, and the fixtures. One adapter turns a client’s data into exactly that — from an ERP, inventory or POS system, a product-data provider matched by UPC, or sales exports — and nothing else in the product changes. At GMI it reads sales, stock and costs from the distributor’s own order system, sizes from a product-data provider and pack pictures from a GS1 product-information service. We install EazyPlano for each client and connect it to their systems.

*Image: Planograms list: fixture thumbnails, sales basis, size, SKUs and shelf used*

## Out to the store

PowerPoint, PDF and Excel exports in the layout stores already know, barcoded shelf-edge labels in shelf order, and an opening order with every unit rounded to cases. A share link opens on a phone with zoom, 3D and shelves to tick off while setting them — and no sales, costs or margins ever leave the server on it.

*Image: Share and export: share link, PowerPoint, PDF, Excel with opening order, shelf labels, ready blocks*

*Image: History: every version with Compare and Restore, changes lit up on the wall*

*Image: Left out: products not placed, grouped by reason, each with Add*

Versions you can compare and restore, and a “Left out” list with the reason for every product not placed.

## Built for how planners work

- **Rules per planogram** — Delivery and safety days, min and max facings, category caps, score weights, zone rules, “never place” words, stacking.
- **Ready blocks** — Save a set of products with their places — “our juice bay” — and drop it into any planogram, locked.
- **Locks** — A locked product keeps its shelf and facings through any re-planning.
- **Several chains at once** — Plan from several chains and stores mixed, with equal weight per chain or pooled.
- **New products** — A new product borrows the sales of the one it replaces until it has three months of its own.
- **Estimated sizes** — No measured size? Copy a similar pack; it stays marked “≈” everywhere and goes on a list to measure.
- **Space vs sales** — Each category’s share of the shelf next to its share of sales, and sales per foot.
- **Inches or centimetres** — One switch, everywhere — plus a 15-chapter built-in guide in English and Russian.

## Hard parts, solved

1. **Same data, same shelf** — Planning has to be trusted, so the engine is deterministic: the same data always gives the same planogram.
2. **A chat that can’t break the plan** — Claude suggests; the engine applies every change, checks it and keeps it as a version that can be restored.
3. **Products with no sizes** — A product without measured dimensions borrows a similar one’s size and is marked “estimated” everywhere.
4. **A link that tells no secrets** — The store gets zoom, 3D and checklists on a phone, but sales, costs and margins never leave the server.

### Live

- [EazyPlano](https://ezplano.com) — See it in 3D and book a demo