How Feet4Life replaced guesswork with real-time inventory control.
A Cape Town podiatry practice was losing money on wasted stock, missing reorders, and had no visibility into which products were driving revenue. Within one month on 1FinForce, that changed completely.
Running a medical practice on instinct and spreadsheets.
Feet4Life is a specialist podiatry practice based in Cape Town. Like many healthcare businesses, they carry a significant product inventory — orthotics, wound care supplies, footwear, and consumables — alongside the clinical side of the practice.
Before 1FinForce, their inventory was managed through a combination of spreadsheets and institutional memory. Staff would physically check shelves to see what needed ordering. Purchase orders were created manually and tracked in email threads. There was no centralised view of what was in stock, what had been ordered, or what was selling.
The result: stock would run out unexpectedly, suppliers were chased reactively rather than ordered proactively, and nobody could answer the basic question — which products are actually making us money?
No reorder visibility
Stock ran out before anyone realised it needed ordering. Every reorder was reactive, not planned.
Unknown stock waste
Products were expiring or sitting unused with no way to identify slow-moving inventory before it became a loss.
Manual purchase orders
Orders to suppliers were created in Word documents and tracked in email. No history, no accountability.
Zero sales insight
No visibility into which products were selling, which patients were buying what, or what revenue looked like by product.
One platform. Two teams. Full visibility.
Feet4Life onboarded onto 1FinForce with 7 users across their finance and inventory teams. All 60 products were loaded into the platform with stock quantities, supplier details, and reorder thresholds configured from day one.
Purchase orders are now generated directly in 1FinForce and sent to suppliers from the platform. When stock arrives, it is receipted against the purchase order and inventory updates automatically. When a product is sold, stock levels drop in real time.
The finance team now has a live view of what stock is on hand, what it cost, and what revenue each product is generating. The inventory team works from the same data. For the first time, both teams are looking at the same numbers.
We never had a clear picture of what we had in stock or what was actually selling. Now our inventory and finance teams are working off the same system and we can see exactly where our money is going. It has made a real difference to how we run the practice.
Within one month.
Waste dropping. Clarity increasing.
Illustrative view based on outcomes in the first 8 weeks on 1FinForce.
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