A fabric retailer sells by the quarter yard on a platform that only counts whole units

The Challenge

A business whose products don't fit standard commerce software

Mood sells fabric in fractional quantities — half a yard, a yard and a quarter — across stores, showrooms and its website, with every channel drawing on one retail management system.

Modern commerce platforms count whole units. Moving to one meant fractional quantities, a new product data model, search and merchandising, and a reworked back-office integration all had to be solved together, not one at a time.

At the same time the marketplaces expect whole-unit listings, new showrooms needed point of sale and in-store pickup, and the ageing back-office server had to be upgraded before any of it went live — without the website going dark for a business that sells every day.

The Strategy

Prove the hard part first, then build around it

PeakBeyond's position was that fractional selling was the make-or-break question, so it had to be settled before anything else was committed. We designed a data model based on quarter-yard base units with quantity and price conversion, and proved it in a working proof of concept.

With that settled, we set the order of the rest: upgrade the back-office server and split the systems onto their own machines first, then replatform, then add showroom point of sale and the marketplaces. Mood brought in a specialist build partner and several vendors, and we acted as technical lead across all of them so the design stayed the client's rather than any one vendor's.

The cutover itself was planned to avoid a dark period: the switch was made at the network level so shoppers moved to the new store without an outage.

The Solution

A connected platform built around the way Mood sells

PeakBeyond worked with Mood Fabrics' internal team and specialized technology partners to deliver the transformation in a carefully planned sequence.

• Proved fractional selling — Designed and validated a model that allows fabric to be sold in quarter-yard increments while keeping pricing, inventory and fulfillment aligned.
• Replatformed commerce — Led the move to a new commerce platform while preserving the customer experience, product structure and search visibility.
• Modernized the back office — Upgraded the retail system and supporting infrastructure to create a more reliable foundation for commerce and operations.
• Connected showrooms and inventory — Introduced integrated point of sale and in-store pickup while maintaining a consistent view of inventory.
• Expanded into new channels — Extended the catalog to marketplaces and social channels while supporting the different ways products need to be sold across them.

The result was a connected commerce ecosystem built around Mood's business model rather than forcing the business to conform to the technology.

The Results

Live in a day, and selling in more places than before

The new store went live on December 29, 2025, with the switch made at the network level so the website never went dark. The back-office upgrade was completed at the same time, creating a more reliable foundation for the business.

Since launch, PeakBeyond has continued working with Mood to improve integration reliability, product and inventory performance, order recovery, search visibility and operational automation.

Mood can now sell the same fabric by the quarter yard online and in its showrooms, while selling in whole units across marketplaces — with one inventory foundation behind it all.

The thing everyone said couldn't be done on a standard platform is now the everyday way Mood sells.