Planogram Compliance: shelves that match the plan

What it does

Svid describes every frame your cameras produce. This check compares the described state of a shelf to what you've said should be on it, and flags the mismatches: empty facings, products sitting in the wrong bay, a promotional display that's been picked apart by mid-morning. It's an alerting check, judging a window of recent frames rather than one still, which is how it tells a persistent gap from a shelf that's simply being shopped. Worth being clear about scope up front: it gives you visibility of the shelf. It doesn't write your merchandising strategy, count your stockroom or predict what will sell.

What a flag looks like

A plain-English description with a link to the moment: ‘the promotional end near the entrance is half empty, crisps mixed into the drinks bay’. It arrives by email or by JSON webhook, and it works either as it-happens flags or rolled into a daily exception summary, whichever suits the rhythm of the shop. Most managers want the summary; the ones with a brand audit due on Thursday want both.

The walk-round it replaces

• The morning shelf check before doors open, done from the office with a coffee instead of a clipboard.
• Verifying a promotion actually went up in every aisle it was supposed to, in every store that claims it did.
• Catching the gap that appeared at 2pm on the day it appears, rather than at tomorrow's audit.
• Evidence for a brand or head office that the placement they paid for was in place, with timestamps.

Where it runs

It's enabled per camera, so you switch it on for the aisles that have plans and leave the stockroom camera out of it. It runs on existing RTSP feeds, on uploads, or on a phone camera aimed at one fixture you particularly care about. A fully on-prem appliance mode exists if footage can't leave the building. Privacy is the quiet part here: this check looks at shelves, not people, and Svid uses no facial recognition anywhere in any case.

Its retail siblings all watch people. Theft Watch flags behaviour as it happens, while Footfall & Dwell Time and Shrinkage Heatmap read whole videos and write reports. This is the one check watching the shelf itself, which is the quietly convenient part: the loss-prevention cameras you already have tend to point at your best-selling fixtures.

What it costs

The Store shows Planogram Compliance with a live monthly price computed from your own usage before you buy: your cameras, hours a day and watch level, displayed as ‘+$X/mo at your usage’. It joins a subscription priced from your own usage with a $9 a month floor, and the whole derivation sits on screen at signup. The pricing section has the arithmetic.

Do I need to give it my planogram files?

No. You tell it what should be on the shelf, in plain English or working from whatever plan you already have, and it checks the camera's view against that. There's no integration with planogram software to set up, because there isn't one.

Can it tell an empty shelf from a busy one being shopped?

It judges a window of recent frames and flags persistent gaps rather than a hand mid-reach. A human glances at the linked clip before acting, which takes a moment and settles it.

Will it work with my existing aisle cameras?

Yes, provided the camera can actually see the shelf. It runs on RTSP feeds, uploads or a propped phone, with no new hardware to buy.