Plane for Retail

Run retail with the cadence, traceability, and AI commerce requires

Plane brings storefront engineering, campaigns, catalog, and brand partners into

one workspace, with the audit trail and AI commerce teams require.

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The next generation of global retail programs now run on Plane

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Built for retail's full work mix

  • Releases, campaigns, SKU launches, brand onboardings, and trust cases each get their own workflow.

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Audit trail captured as work happens

  • Every state change, approval, and asset version logs with author and timestamp. Ready for partner review.

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Brand partners in one workspace

  • Plane Cloud with regional residency. Scoped guest access for partners and agencies, seat-free intake for vendors.

Run trading, catalog, brand, and storefront work, end to end

Commerce platform engineering

Ship search, checkout, recsys, and payments at retail velocity

  • Sprints, releases, and incidents follow the trading calendar. Code freezes and load tests stay tied to the campaigns they protect.

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Features used
  • Run engineering sprints alongside the trading calendar, with progress visible across search, checkout, recsys, and payments squads.

    Cycles

  • Group platform programs like search ranking v3, checkout failover, or recsys replatform under one record with Gantt-style scope and dependencies.

    Modules and Roadmaps

  • Sync pull requests, branches, and commits to the work item your engineers are shipping. Works with GitHub, GitLab, and Bitbucket.

    Git integrations

  • Bi-directional sync with deployment pipelines, incident tools, and the internal developer platform. Events fire on every state change.

    Webhooks & API

  • Velocity, story points, and sprint forecasts your engineering managers already expect from Jira.

    Estimates and burndown

Campaigns and trading

Move every drop from brief to launch, on cadence

  • Briefs, assets, pricing, and traffic plans clear brand, legal, and category sign-off before launch.

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  • Black Friday, Singles Day, Soldes, and weekly drops scheduled on cadence with templated subtasks per market.

    Recurring Work Items

  • Markets, event window, brand partner, category, target GMV, and approval owner enforced before a campaign leaves brief.

    Required properties

  • Brand, legal, and category sign-off routed to the right reviewer at each stage, with automatic escalation on slips.

    Approval gates

  • Read-only trading calendar shared with brand partners, agencies, and creative production. No Plane seats required.

    Published views

  • Find campaigns by market, brand, event window, status, or open approval using Plane Query Language. Save as a view for the trading floor.

    Plane Query Language

Catalog and SKU launches

Run every new SKU from supplier brief to live PDP

  • From brief to publish, every SKU clears translations, safety attributes, and pricing per market before any PDP goes live.

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  • Route a new SKU through brand, content, legal, and merchandising sign-off before it can publish to any channel.

    Approval workflows

  • Pre-validate GTIN, EU GPSR product safety attributes, translations, and per-market pricing before a SKU moves to QA.

    Transition conditions

  • Distinct types for SKU, drop, bundle, and promotion, each with its own properties, templates, and reviewers.

    Work Item Types

  • Sandboxed scripts that push approved SKUs into Akeneo, Salsify, Shopify Plus, commercetools, or SFCC and refresh the storefront.

    Plane Runner

  • Launch windows, marketplace effectivity, and translation milestones visualized across markets and channels.

    Timeline view

Brand and vendor onboarding

Run brand partner work from onboarding through their first event

  • From contact to first live event, a brand carries due diligence, contract, asset pack, payment terms, and channel setup on one record.

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Features used
  • Brands, agencies, and trust auditors submit through public forms or a dedicated inbox. No Plane seats required.

    Intake

  • Scoped external access by brand, agency, or campaign. Partners only see the records they need.

    Guest access

  • Brand records link to campaigns, SKUs, payment terms, and open trust and safety cases.

    Custom Relations

  • Brand playbooks, asset specs, and merchandising guidelines preserved with auditable revision history per edit.

    Versioned pages

  • Draft partner scorecards, summarize open onboarding work, and brief trading leads from the live record.

    Plane AI

AI and agents

AI built for the cadence of commerce

  • Plane AI drafts campaign briefs, qualifies brand partners, summarizes trading reviews, and writes post-event retros from the live work.

  • Generate checklists, qualify brands, and cluster trust cases

  • Bring your own model. Cloud or self-hosted.

  • Agents inherit your RBAC, audit, and approval gates

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Security & deployment for regulated work

Enterprise security built into every record, action, and approval

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Enterprise Cloud (Managed + Private)

  • Managed by Plane, or single-tenant private cloud for stricter posture.

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Self-hosted + Air-gapped

  • Run Plane in your VPC, data center, Kubernetes, or Docker. Offline updates, zero external calls.

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Identity and access

  • SAML, LDAP, SCIM, RBAC, and workspace permissions on every record.

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AI under your control

  • Customer-controlled providers, local models, or self-hosted AI workflows.

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Audit trail on every action

  • Every state change, edit, comment, and approval preserved with author and timestamp.

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Publish externally

  • Share boards and views with stakeholders outside Plane. Collect feedback without giving full project access.

Move off Jira Data Center

Migrate work, mappings, and history without a rebuild. Active campaigns, brand onboardings, and releases keep shipping.

  • Workflow translation, not rebuild

  • White-glove migration team

  • Issue types mapped to Work Item Types

  • Custom fields and history preserved

FAQs

Common questions from commerce, merchandising, brand, trust, and engineering teams in retail.

Yes. Plane's migration team maps your Jira issue types into Work Item Types, ports your workflows, and preserves comments, attachments, and history. No rebuild from scratch.

Yes. Work Item Types give each kind of work its own properties, templates, workflow, and required fields.

Yes. Each work type can follow its own workflow with its own reviewers, gates, and escalation rules.

Yes. Partners and agencies submit through Intake forms with no Plane account required. Read-only published views can be shared with them under role-based access.

Yes. Every state change, edit, comment, and approval is logged with author and timestamp. Exportable for assessor or partner review.

Yes. Plane Cloud offers regional residency in the EU, US, and APAC. For organizations with sovereignty or contractual posture requirements, self-hosted and air-gapped deployments are available.

Yes. Plane integrates with Akeneo, Salsify, Shopify Plus, commercetools, SFCC, Adyen, Stripe, Algolia, and Snowflake via API and webhooks. Plane is the work record, not a replacement for the PIM, OMS, or storefront.

Plane supports the workflows, approval gates, and audit trail your payments and trust teams need for PCI-aligned reviews. Plane is the work record. Card data does not live in Plane.

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