A stockroom is not a warehouse, and should not read like one

One room, some shelving, and a person who needs to know whether there are four boxes of something left before promising it to a customer.

Shop stock lives in two unreliable places: a notebook and somebody's memory. It works until the person who remembers is off, or until the shelf says one thing and the notebook says another and nobody knows which one to believe.

The usual alternative — a subscription inventory service — asks for an account, an internet connection and a monthly fee to solve a problem that never leaves the building.

Stockroom inventory for a shop, without the warehouse jargon
  1. 01

    Boxes mode from the first screen

    The setup wizard asks whether you work with boxes or pallets. Choose boxes and the app never mentions a pallet or an SSCC code again.

  2. 02

    Reorder levels that speak up

    Give a product its minimum and the dashboard counts what has fallen below it. The products list filters to just those.

  3. 03

    Counts that leave a trace

    Correcting a count is an adjustment with a reason, not a rubbed-out number, so a wrong figure can be explained later.

  4. 04

    Nothing to sign up for

    It installs without administrator rights, works with no internet and keeps your data in a file you can copy.

Where it stops One person at a time, on one computer: it is not a networked, multi-user system, and it does not track sales — it tracks what is in the room.

Buy it once. Use it for as long as it is useful.

The price rises every five licences sold and never comes back down. Whatever you pay today is what this copy cost, for good.