The list said Instant noodles tom yum 10 pack
Found: tom yum instant noodles, pack of 5
Send the list.
Get a Villa cart.
A shopping list goes in as Excel, CSV, a PDF with text, or typed lines. A Villa cart comes out, matched to the branch's stock. A line it is not sure about is held for the shopper to answer. It is never guessed.
The live site makes carts in Villa's test system. No real order is placed.
Each bar in the picture is one line of a real 179-line order form, run on the live site on 12 Nov.
29straight into the cart148held for one answer each2not added
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DRAWN FROM THE 12 NOV TEST
The whole idea in 22 seconds
What happened to a real 179-line order, how much faster it got this morning, and what the tool does when it is not sure.
ANIMATION Drawn from the measured numbers on this page. It is not a screen recording. No sound.
Watch it on the live site
Light first, one tap to dark, then a typed 8-line list becomes a test cart: 6 lines ready, 2 held, 7 in the cart after one answer. The second recording sends a made-up 29-line order form as a file.
RECORDED Desktop, live site, 13 Nov 09:45 Japan time. The matching wait runs at 3× speed, marked on screen. No sound.Desktop, on the live site in light mode, 13 Nov 09:35 Japan time. A made-up 29-line order form. No sound.
RECORDED Phone, live site
Unclear lines are held, not guessed
This is what makes it safe on a real order. Try it: answer a line and it moves into the cart.
INTERACTIVE EXAMPLE Lines from the recording. Nothing is sent to the live site.
The list said น้ำตาลทราย 1 kg
Found: refined sugar, 1 kg
The list said Greek yogurt plain 4 cup
Found: plain Greek yogurt, pack of 4
The list said Red apples 1 kg
Found: an apple-flavoured soda
It found an apple soda for “Red apples”, and it stopped. A tool that guesses would have put soda in the cart. This one shows the shopper why it is unsure and waits for one tap.
What it reads today
Excel order formsMany tabs, crew and guest quantities added up
CSV, PDF with text, typed listsPhotos and scans come later
Thai and English linesIn the same list
Stock and price at the branchChecked for the shopper's own branch
Up to 500 lines a listTested live at 179
Every line accounted forIn the cart, held, or listed as not added
Tested on a real 179-line order
A crew customer's 21-tab order form, run on the live site on 12 Nov. Every square is one line. The customer's file and text are not shown.
179 of 179lines read and checked, with no stops
15 of 15lines checked by hand were right
84 sto read the whole file
~11 minto match all 179 to stock and price
Too many lines are held today: 148 of 179. Each is one tap to answer, and the next step is to hold fewer. The target is under 30%. That is a target, not a promise.
How fast it is, measured
This morning's update made the same order 2.5× faster. Only numbers we measured are shown. Nobody has timed the same order typed by hand, so there is no by-hand figure here.
The same form, from Send to a finished cart
LIVEBefore: the version live until this morning
254.8 s
Now: live since 08:57 today
103.3 s
2.5×
faster from Send to cart. The product-matching step alone went from 245.9 s to 93.6 s. Same result both times: 29 lines read, 21 matched at once, 8 held.
Method: one timed run on each version of the live site on the morning of 13 Nov. The same made-up 29-line order form, the same branch, a scripted browser that clicks Send and stops the clock when the test cart total appears. Each run uses paid product searches, so it was run once per version, not five times.
Other measured times
The start page loads in a browser, with the new lookmedian of 5 cold loads, 13 Nov. Before the new look: 0.84 s. The new look adds 4 KB and no measurable wait.0.87 s
A 179-line order form is read in fulllive test, 12 Nov84 s
All 179 lines matched to stock and pricelive test, 12 Nov, before today's speed-up10.7 min
Also new this week
Refused12 Nov, morning: “up to 120 lines”
→179 of 17912 Nov, same day: read in full
120lines a list, old limit
→500lines a list, limit now
The new look is live
The check step, this morning and now, in light and in dark. It went onto the live site at 09:28 today.
RECORDED The check step this morning, from the earlier recording (its caption bar is part of that recording)LIVE Screenshot of the live site, 13 Nov 09:35 Japan time, the same made-up orderLIVE Screenshot of the live site in dark mode, 13 Nov 09:45 Japan time, a typed made-up listLIVE Screenshot of the live site in German, 13 Nov 11:06 Japan time. Machine-translated, not yet reviewed
A step railUpload, lines read, matched, lines to check, cart. The shopper sees where they are.
Held lines are numbered“Line to check 1 of 8”, with the question as the headline and the answer as the main button.
A cart ringHow many lines are in the cart, at a glance. It moves as lines are answered.
Dark mode and glass panelsDeep navy, soft light, Villa red on the one main button.
Six languagesEnglish, ไทย, Deutsch, Français, 日本語 and 한국어, from the globe in the header. Live since 10:59 today. The wording is machine-translated and not yet reviewed.
What happens next
- Faster matching is liveThe demo form now takes 103 s from Send to cart. It took 255 s.Done today
- The new look is live and recordedStep rail, cart ring, numbered held lines, dark mode. On the live site since 09:28 today.Done today
- Fewer questions on long formsTarget: under 30% of lines held. A target, not a promise.Next
- Photos and scanned PDFsNot switched on yet. After our security review.After that
- Sized for Villa's daily volumeOnce we know how many lists arrive a day.After that
What we need from Villa
- The result that switches it on for real orders, and who decides.
- A named contact who checks and confirms results.
- Who uploads a product photo when one is missing.
- 3 to 5 more real order files, anonymised, of each kind you receive.
- Expected lists per day, so capacity fits.
Test carts only. No real order is placed.