A gun store and a range aren't regular retail
Most e-commerce software is built for people selling candles, t-shirts and supplements. That's fine for them. A gun store or a range works differently. Some items need a transfer before they can leave the building. Some customers need to be verified before a sale. And a range sells things a normal shop never does: lane time, memberships and rentals.
So the useful question isn't "which platform is biggest?" It's "which tools were built for the business I actually run?"
The MadFish stack, in plain terms
We built these pieces to work together, because the people we serve run all of it at once. Here's what each one does.
- MadFish One designs and builds your storefront. It's a custom, fixed-price build, so you know what you're getting before work starts.
- BigCommerce is the e-commerce platform underneath it. It's your catalog and your store of record.
- Iron Register runs the counter and the range. It's the point of sale for the shop floor, and it's connected to your BigCommerce catalog.
- Flxpoint handles drop shipping, so you can list distributor inventory without stocking it yourself.
Why "connected" matters
When each piece was designed with the others in mind, a few good things follow.
Your website and your counter agree. Stock sold at the register shows up online, and the other way around. Nobody is retyping numbers at the end of the day.
Drop ship fits the way you sell. Distributor items can sit in your catalog next to the stock on your shelves. A customer sees one store, whether the item is in your back room or at a distributor.
The range isn't an afterthought. Lane time, memberships and rentals live in the same family of tools as your retail sales, so one customer is one customer.
You can grow one piece at a time. Not every shop needs everything on day one. A store may start with the storefront, add the register later, and turn on drop ship when it's ready.
Who this is for
If you run e-commerce, a gun store or a range, and you want to drop ship, there is no other solution that comes close to this. That's the whole reason we built it. We didn't want to ask you to work around software made for somebody else.
Where to start
You don't need to know exactly what you need. Tell us what you run today (a store, a range, or both), what's slowing you down, and whether drop shipping is on your list. We'll tell you which parts of the stack fit, and which don't.
Talk to us: use the form on our Talk to us page and a person will reply. No newsletters, no automated follow-ups.