Quartermast vs Magic.
A dropshipping + supplier-discovery radar for the founder.
Finds products, watches competitors. Your Shopify reconciliation is not its problem.
Scoreboard
Magic
0/ 5
5 gaps
Quartermast
5/ 5
Full coverage · overnight loop
Pillar · Inventory
Inventory.
Velocity, on-hand, lead time, refund rate — every SKU.
Quartermast · overnight
Watches every SKU; restocks from your supplier the moment cover drops below your floor.
Magic
Supplier-watch with stock alerts; no reorder loop.
What that leaves uncovered
The inventory tool shows a slice of the picture. Quartermast turns it into the next action on the operator queue before you wake up.
Pillar · Ad ROAS
Ad ROAS.
Per-set spend, CAC drift, creative fatigue, ROAS floor.
Quartermast · overnight
Cyclic pause-then-resume on ROAS-floor breaches; swaps creative; one decision queue, every ad account.
Magic
Surfaces CPA drift; does not pause spend.
What that leaves uncovered
The ad tool shows a slice of the picture. Quartermast turns it into the next action on the operator queue before you wake up.
Pillar · Support tickets
Support tickets.
Returns, escalations, drafted replies in your voice.
Quartermast · overnight
Drafts the reply straight from your policy; you ship it from the digest in one click.
Magic
No helpdesk.
What that leaves uncovered
Tickets stay in the inbox. Replies are drafted by hand from the return policy, every morning.
Pillar · Reviews
Reviews.
New ratings, replies, pattern drift on the products you sell.
Quartermast · overnight
Clusters 1-stars per SKU, cross-checks the last 30 shipments for defects, alerts with evidence before it spreads.
Magic
Tracks competitor reviews, not your own.
What that leaves uncovered
The signal surfaces in their UI; nobody clusters it, nobody alerts the merchant with shipment-level evidence.
Pillar · Morning digest
Morning digest.
One daily P&L: what sold, what bled, what got fixed overnight.
Quartermast · overnight
06:30 morning P&L with net, ad spend, refunds, low-stock count — every fix linked underneath.
Magic
No P&L rollup; no morning operator briefing.
What that leaves uncovered
No daily P&L. The morning summary is the merchant reading five dashboards and writing three emails.
§ Next — Try the operator
If Magic left the night shift on you, hand it over.
Connect your store, set the ROAS floor and the low-stock threshold, ship the 06:30 P&L on day one. The decisions Magicdoesn't make for you, the Quartermast operator makes.