Helium inventory that runs itself.
For retail chains, their leadership and their helium vendor. A 3-minute weekly count turns tank pressure into the one number every store understands: balloons left to sell.
No scanners · No driver apps · Works with any helium vendor
63%
Inventory health
“Is that good? Do I order?”
2,303
Balloons left to sell
Everyone understands it instantly.
Stores don't sell cubic feet. They sell balloons. FLOAT turns tank pressure into helium volume into sellable balloons at each store's latex and foil mix.
How it works
A weekly 3-minute count runs the whole program.
- 1
Count
A 3-minute, PIN-signed survey each week. Tanks, pressure, empties. No math.
- 2
See
Balloons left to sell, at the store, district and HQ. Alerts fire themselves.
- 3
Receive
Your vendor sees every store Monday morning and brings exactly the tanks needed.
- 4
Return
Empties are flagged for pickup and tracked until they are back with the vendor.
In the store
Three minutes a week. No math.
A PIN-signed survey with dropdown answers: tanks in reserve, tanks in use and their PSI, empties ready for pickup. FLOAT does the cubic feet.
- Built for seasonal staff and manager turnover: 1–3 taps per answer
- Empties are a required answer. Zero is an answer, blank is not
- Manual tanks or manifold banks, both covered
For helium vendors
Your stores never place a helium order again.
The dispatcher gets a live board of every store: its level, its urgency, and how many tanks to bring, computed to the store's par targets. Drivers change nothing.
- Monday-morning clarity: who needs tanks now, who can wait
- Pickups planned too: empties waiting at each store, with an aging clock
- One-click route sheet. Drivers stay on paper
For leadership
Shrink you can finally see.
Leaks, overfills and giveaways quietly consume gas. FLOAT measures it store by store against your budget, and flags the counts worth checking before anyone calls it a leak.
- Chain shrink against the budget you set, in dollars
- Stores at budget risk, with tanks missing, called out
- Unexplained gains flagged too, so bad counts don’t hide
The app does the chasing
Leak checks, tank swaps and reorder tasks generate themselves from the numbers. Deliveries are confirmed with a photo and a PIN.
Every tank accounted for
Empties are a required answer every week, with an aging clock that turns amber at 7 days and red at 14. Delivered vs. returned vs. on site, per store.
District, region and HQ, live
Every store bucketed from Empty to Above Target. Exceptions surface themselves, and district leads push tasks to any set of stores in two taps.
Traditional gas tracking
- Barcode or RFID tags on every cylinder
- Scanners and apps in every driver’s hands
- Months of integration into the gas company’s ERP
- Built for the distributor, not the store
FLOAT
- ✓ A browser, in the store back office and at the vendor’s dispatch desk
- ✓ Drivers stay on paper route sheets FLOAT prints
- ✓ Store-signed weekly counts replace field scanning
- ✓ You own the data: sales, gas, tanks and shrink
Getting started
Weeks 1–2
Set up
Import stores, set par targets and balloon mix, issue store PINs and the vendor login.
Weeks 3–8
Pilot a district
10–20 stores run the weekly count. We tune thresholds with your team.
Week 9+
Read the results
Run-outs, emergency orders, idle empties and shrink, against your baseline.
Then
Scale
A chain-wide rollout is a store list and PIN cards.
See FLOAT with your own stores.
We’ll walk through FLOAT on a short call and talk about what a pilot district, and your helium vendor’s side, would look like.
Book a 20-minute intro call →