5 Departments, 5 Tools, 1 Problem — How RetailWings Unified STEL Retail’s Operations

STEL Retail Limited

Electronics · Phones · Appliances · Accessories

The Challenge: Five Departments, Five Systems, One Headache

STEL Retail Limited is a fast-growing electronics and phone retail business, stocking major brands like Samsung, Apple, Tecno, Infinix, itel, Oraimo, JBL, LG, Hisense, and Royal across multiple product categories — smartphones, home appliances, accessories, and consumer electronics. With a busy shopfloor, a growing customer base, and a team that needed managing, STEL was running into a problem that many Nigerian retailers know all too well: too many systems doing too little.

Sales data lived in one place. Inventory counts sat in another. HR and payroll were handled on spreadsheets. Customer communication was scattered across personal WhatsApp accounts and random SMS blasts. And when Admin Manager Adewalure Motunrayo needed a clear picture of how the business was actually performing, she had to stitch together numbers from multiple sources — a process that was slow, error-prone, and exhausting.

“We were using a different tool for almost everything,” Motunrayo explains. “Our old ERP handled basic sales and stock, but it couldn’t do HR or payroll. It couldn’t send messages to customers. There was no rewards system. Every time we needed something new, it was another app, another login, another headache. Nothing was connected.”

The Migration: Zero Downtime, Zero Data Loss

When the STEL team decided to move to RetailWings, the biggest concern was the migration itself. They had years of product catalogues, customer records, supplier data, and transaction history locked inside their old ERP. A messy migration could mean lost data, confused staff, and days of downtime — something an electronics store with daily foot traffic simply couldn’t afford.

The RetailWings onboarding team handled everything. Product catalogues with thousands of SKUs across multiple brands were mapped and transferred. Customer records and purchase histories came across intact. Supplier information, pricing tiers, and tax configurations were set up and verified. The entire migration was completed in days, and STEL didn’t miss a single sale.

“I was honestly nervous about the migration. We’d heard horror stories from other businesses that lost data switching systems. But the RetailWings team handled it so smoothly — we came in on Monday and everything was already there. Our product list, our customers, our history. It was like our old system just got better overnight.”

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Adewalure Motunrayo

Admin Manager, STEL Retail Limited

One Dashboard to Run Everything

The most immediate impact was visibility. For the first time, Motunrayo and the STEL management team could see every part of the business from a single dashboard — sales, inventory, purchasing, HR, payroll, customer data, and communications. No more switching between apps. No more reconciling spreadsheets. No more guessing.

“Before RetailWings, I’d spend the first two hours of every day just gathering data from different places,” Motunrayo says. “Now I open one dashboard and everything is right there. I can see what we sold yesterday, which products are running low, who’s on shift, whether payroll has been processed — all in one place. It changed how I work completely.”

HRM and Payroll: No More Spreadsheet Nightmares

Before RetailWings, STEL managed payroll on spreadsheets. Tax calculations were done manually. Leave tracking was informal. It worked — barely — but as the team grew, the cracks became impossible to ignore. Errors crept in. Payslips were late. Staff had no visibility into their own records.

With RetailWings’ HRM module, all of that is now automated. Employee profiles, attendance records, leave management, tax deductions, and monthly payroll processing happen inside the same system the team already uses for sales and inventory. Motunrayo runs payroll in minutes instead of hours, and every staff member has visibility into their own records.

“Payroll used to be my most stressful day of the month. Now it takes me 15 minutes. RetailWings calculates taxes, deductions, everything — and the staff can see their own payslips. It took a full day’s work and turned it into a few clicks.”

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Adewalure Motunrayo

Admin Manager, STEL Retail Limited

Omnichannel Messaging: One Platform, Every Customer

STEL’s customer communication used to be scattered. Promotions went out via personal WhatsApp. SMS blasts were managed through a separate app. Email was barely used. There was no way to track which messages reached which customers, or what drove them back to the store.

RetailWings’ omnichannel messaging unified all three channels — SMS, WhatsApp, and Email — into one system. Now when STEL runs a promotion on a new phone or a holiday sale on appliances, they send it once and it reaches customers across all channels. New customer outreach, order confirmations, and follow-up messages all flow from the same platform, with full tracking.

“We used to lose track of who we’d messaged and when,” Motunrayo says. “Now every communication is logged. We can see who opened what, who came back, and which promotions actually work. It’s not just messaging — it’s marketing intelligence.”

Customer Rewards: Turning Buyers into Regulars

Electronics retail is competitive. In a market where customers can walk to another store five doors down, loyalty matters. Before RetailWings, STEL had no formal rewards programme. Repeat customers got the same treatment as first-time buyers. There was no way to recognise or incentivise loyalty.

RetailWings’ built-in rewards system changed that. Now every purchase at STEL earns points. Customers can track their balance, redeem rewards on future purchases, and receive personalised offers based on their buying history. It’s driving measurable repeat business.

“The rewards system was something we’d wanted for years but never had the tech to do properly. RetailWings made it automatic. Customers come back and ask about their points. It’s created a loyalty loop that we never had before — and our repeat purchase rate has gone up noticeably.”

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Adewalure Motunrayo

Admin Manager, STEL Retail Limited

Before vs. After RetailWings

Why It Matters for Your Business

STEL Retail’s story is one that thousands of retailers across Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, and South Africa will recognise. The scattered tools, the manual payroll, the disconnected messaging, the lack of a rewards system — these are the invisible costs that quietly drain time, money, and growth from otherwise strong businesses.

RetailWings was built to eliminate exactly these problems. With 21+ integrated modules covering POS, inventory, accounting, CRM, HR & payroll, omnichannel messaging, and customer rewards — the platform gives African SMEs enterprise-grade tools at pricing that makes sense.

If your business is still stitching together multiple tools to get through each day, Motunrayo has one message: “Stop patching and start connecting. RetailWings puts everything your business needs in one place — and once you see it, you’ll wonder how you ever worked any other way.”