Built from 15 years of real shop work.
Ordovee didn't start as a software company.
It started as a working system built in FileMaker more than 15 years ago, to solve the problems inside our own parts operation: machines coming in, parts coming off, shelves filling up, listings going live, compatibility to track, and inventory constantly moving.
The goal wasn't to create a product. It was to keep control of the work in front of us — without relying on memory, spreadsheets, marketplace dashboards, or scattered notes.
Over time, that working system kept evolving, because the work kept exposing the same thing: basic inventory software wasn't built for structured teardown, parts recovery, resale, and compatibility-driven workflows.
A machine comes in. It gets tested. It's disassembled into hundreds of parts — each one to be identified, cleaned, tested, stored, cross-referenced, listed, sold, adjusted, returned, or reused.
That's not just inventory. That's a workflow.
We eventually realized the category we'd been building toward didn't really exist. So we named it: Structured Disassembly Management (SDM).
"We run a parts recovery business. Ordovee is the system we wanted, built to keep our own work moving."
— ODV founder & operatorWhile naming the category was fun, building the system to run it was the real work.
We took everything we learned from years of evolving that FileMaker system and rebuilt it from the ground up into what is now ODV.
The ledger, the connection between parts and source assemblies, the scanner-first workflow, and the daily operating logic were all shaped by real use in our own warehouse. When something needs to be improved, we refine it, run it ourselves, and prove it in the work.
Today, our own parts business runs on ODV — and it's available to other parts-intensive businesses facing the same challenges. Every release is something we ship to ourselves first.
It tracks the relationships around your parts, not just the parts.
Ordovee tracks more than products. It tracks the operational relationships around them — where they came from, where they are, what they fit, where they're listed, what happened to them, and how they move through the business.
That's why it works the way it does — shaped by years of real use, not by assumptions about how shops should operate. It connects units, parts, locations, compatibility, listings, orders, and activity history into one workflow, built to reduce confusion, protect accuracy, and make the business easier to run every day.
"Technology can't create process. It can only strengthen the patterns that already exist."
That belief shapes the whole product. The system is built around transparency: inventory changes are logged, sync activity is traceable, and marketplace data is kept separate from your operational system of record — so you can always see what happened, when it happened, and why the system shows what it shows.
The mission is simple: turn messy, memory-driven workflows into clear, repeatable systems.
Principles that shape every release.
One system of record
Your inventory, history, and compatibility data live in Ordovee. Marketplace updates extend from that foundation.
Every change is recorded
Every modification carries an actor, timestamp, and reason. Current counts show you where things stand; the ledger shows you how they got there.
Designed around the floor
The handheld interface is the heart of the system. If it works on the shop floor, it works everywhere else.
Ship to ourselves first
Every feature runs in our own parts recovery business before it ships. If it doesn't hold up on a Monday morning, we keep working on it.
Same system on every plan
You're paying for scale, not features. Whether you're on our smallest plan or our largest, you run the exact same product.
Open formats throughout
Standard hardware (a Zebra, a phone), standard labels (PDF, print from the browser), standard exports (CSV anytime), standard integrations.
Email reaches the people who built the product.
When you email support@ordovee.com, it lands with the team that writes the code and runs the warehouse. You get an answer from someone who knows the system end to end.
Hands-on setup, training, or workflow design is available as a separate Expert Assistance engagement when you want a guided rollout.