● Row 3 has been empty for 40 minutes

Know before the shelf is empty.

A small camera watches your cooler and texts you the moment a row runs out — so you find out before a customer does, and before the sale is gone.

Fits any glass-door cooler · Set up in about five minutes · No wiring

The problem

An empty row is a sale that quietly didn't happen.

Nobody is standing at the cooler. A row sells out mid-afternoon and stays out until somebody happens to walk past, notices, and remembers to do something about it. Every hour in between is a customer who reached for a door, didn't find it, and bought nothing — or bought it somewhere else.

You can't watch every door

A busy store has six cooler doors and one person on shift. Checking them all, all day, isn't a plan.

Nobody reports an empty shelf

Customers don't tell you. They just leave. The first you hear of it is a slow week you can't explain.

Restocking is guesswork

Without knowing what actually ran out and when, you're restocking on a hunch instead of on demand.

How it works

Mount it once. Then stop thinking about it.

1

Put a camera in the cooler

A small sealed camera mounts inside, facing the shelves. It runs on cooler power and joins your store WiFi from your phone — no wiring, no drilling, no computer.

2

It photographs the shelves

Every five minutes it takes one wide picture of the whole cooler and sends it up. Nothing is analysed on the device, and nothing is stored longer than four hours.

3

You get a text

When a row runs out you get a notification naming the cooler and the shelf — not "something's wrong", but which row to refill.

What you get

Built for a shop floor, not a lab.

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Row-level alerts

Alerts name the cooler and the shelf, so whoever gets it can walk straight there.

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See the actual shelf

Every alert comes with the photo it was based on. Decide for yourself before you walk over.

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No alert storms

Each shelf alerts at most once an hour. A cooler nobody restocks won't keep buzzing all night.

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Knows when it's blind

If a camera drops off WiFi or loses power, it says so. Silence is never mistaken for good news.

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Many coolers, many stores

Run one cooler or fifty. Everything sorts worst-first, so the thing needing attention is on top.

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History that's useful

See which rows empty most and when, so you order and restock against what actually sells.

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Cameras hold no keys

Each camera gets a token good only for sending pictures of its own cooler. Remove it and it's revoked instantly.

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Four-hour memory

Photos are deleted automatically after four hours. We keep what a shelf did, not pictures of your store.

How the detection works

It learns your cooler, not coolers in general.

Shelf rails, price tags, glare on the glass — a cooler is a busy picture whether it's full or empty. A generic detector trips over all of it.

One photo of "full"

You fill the cooler and tap calibrate once. That picture becomes the reference for every shelf in it.

Compared against itself

Every later frame is measured against that reference. The rails and the glare are in both pictures, so they cancel — what's left is stock.

Measured by width

Each slot is read in vertical strips, so it knows the difference between a full row, a nearly-gone row, and a bare one.

Different products, different lighting, different cooler — none of it needs retraining, because the only thing it compares your shelf to is your shelf.

The hardware

One small camera per cooler door.

What's in the box

A wide-angle 1080p camera in a sealed enclosure with a desiccant pack, a mounting bracket, and a power lead. The 130° lens takes in a whole cooler from inside the door, so one camera covers one door top to bottom.

Built for cold and damp

Cold is easy; condensation is what kills electronics in a cooler. The unit is sealed, the window is anti-fog treated, and there's desiccant inside to keep the air dry. Runs on cooler power — the cabinet is already plugged in.

Pricing

Priced per cooler door.

One empty row caught per month more than covers it.

Single cooler

Try it on the door that empties fastest.

$19 / cooler / month
  • One camera, one cooler door
  • Push and email alerts
  • Photos kept four hours
  • 30 days of shelf history
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Multiple locations, one view.

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  • Everything in Store
  • Multi-site dashboard
  • Restocking reports by location
  • API access
  • Onboarding and installation help
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Hardware sold separately at cost. No long contract — stop any time and send the cameras back.

Questions

The things people ask first.

Do I need to drill anything or run cable?

No. The camera mounts inside the cooler with a bracket and runs off cooler power. Setup is done from your phone — you join the camera's own WiFi network once, hand it your store network, and that's it.

Will it work with my cooler?

If it has shelves and a door, yes. One camera covers one door. It doesn't care what brand the cooler is or what's on the shelves — cans, bottles, cartons, jars all work, because it compares your shelf to a picture of your own shelf when full.

What happens if the WiFi drops?

The camera keeps taking pictures and holds them until the connection is back, then sends them. If it stays offline, the app shows the cooler as offline rather than pretending everything's fine.

Does it record video of my store?

No. It takes one still photo every five minutes, pointed at the inside of a cooler. Photos are deleted automatically after four hours. It isn't a security camera and won't work as one.

How accurate is it?

Once calibrated, an empty row is unmistakable — a bare shelf looks nothing like the same shelf full. Telling "nearly out" from "fine" is harder, and we'd rather tell you a row is running low a little early than let it sell out silently.

What does it cost to run?

The subscription covers everything — the cloud, the alerts, the storage. The camera uses a trickle of power and a few megabytes of WiFi a day.

Can more than one person get the alerts?

Yes. Anyone you add to the account gets them on their own phone, so it isn't down to one manager to notice.

Start with the cooler that empties fastest.

Tell us how many doors you have and we'll get you set up.

hello@coolerscout.com