Plantain
Planogram creation for independent retail and grocery teams — without the enterprise price tag. Design, edit, and share clean shelf layouts without fighting clumsy spreadsheets or paying thousands in yearly seat licenses.
Planogram creation for independent retail and grocery teams — without the enterprise price tag. Design, edit, and share clean shelf layouts without fighting clumsy spreadsheets or paying thousands in yearly seat licenses.
Plantain is currently in active development. Get on the early access list to test early builds and shape the product roadmap.
Receive test builds, direct email updates with release milestones, and direct influence over the fixture types and export formats being built.
Join the Alpha ListStandalone Windows executable demonstrating canvas rendering, shelf dimension scaling, and basic product positioning.
Request Sandbox BuildUse specialized fixtures like wire baskets, slanted produce displays, peg hooks, or walk-in cooler shelves? Let us know what you need supported first.
Suggest a FixtureExisting planogram software costs anywhere from $2,500 to $10,000+ per user license annually. They are designed for massive supermarket chains with dedicated merchandising IT departments. Independent retailers are left trying to build shelf diagrams in PowerPoint, Excel, or on paper. Plantain brings fast, accurate shelf layouts to independent stores at an honest price.
A focused, responsive 2D canvas built to create clean shelf schematics in minutes.
Define exact shelf widths, heights, depths, and notch spacing. Plantain's canvas renders accurate dimensional boundaries so your plans fit the physical shelf.
Specify height, width, and depth for your products. Plantain calculates how many facings will realistically fit across the shelf without overflow.
Export ready-to-print planogram schematics and shelf strips. Hand them directly to stockers or merchandising teams during seasonal resets.
Support for standard gondola shelving, endcap displays, pegboards with hooks, gravity-feed beverage racks, and produce tables.
Your planograms are stored as lightweight local project files. No proprietary cloud databases, no monthly subscriptions required just to view your files.
Built with native Windows UI frameworks for zero lag, smooth zooming, hardware-accelerated rendering, and instant responsiveness.
Track what's built, what's in progress, and what's coming next for Plantain.
High-DPI 2D rendering canvas with configurable scale (inches / centimeters), shelf dimension inputs, and basic bounding box snap.
Product library manager with image thumbnail previews, exact dimensions, and automatic facing calculations with shelf collision alerts.
One-click export of visual shelf maps, fixture cut sheets, and printable shelf strips with barcode and facing counts for reset teams.
Bulk import item descriptions, UPCs, and dimensions directly from your store inventory CSV exports.
Visualizing store layouts with intuitive drag-and-drop tools.
Lightweight footprint with no expensive GPU requirements.
| Operating System | Windows 10 / Windows 11 (64-bit) |
|---|---|
| Processor | 64-bit Intel or AMD processor (1.8 GHz or faster) |
| Memory (RAM) | 4 GB RAM minimum |
| Display | 1920 x 1080 (1080p) recommended for layout workspace |
| Storage | ~100 MB free space |
| Internet | Completely offline; internet only needed for initial download and update checks |
Help us build the simple, affordable planogram tool that independent retail has been waiting for.