The item record
- Code, category, brand and unit of measure on every item
- Barcodes, so the counter scans instead of searching
- One record whether it sells over the counter or on a job card
One stock figure for the whole company, not one per branch and a spreadsheet to reconcile them. Every receipt, issue, transfer and adjustment writes to a stock ledger at weighted-average cost, and posts the matching entry to your accounts as it happens.
Items, warehouses, the buying cycle and the cost behind every line - all against one item record, all posting to the same ledger as the rest of the business.
The shop floor, the back store and the other branch are locations of one item, not three separate lists. You see the company total and the split at the same time, so a customer can be told yes or no without a phone call.
Cost is a weighted average the system keeps, recalculated as each receipt lands - not a figure someone re-derives at year-end from the last invoice they can find. Margin on the sale is the real margin.
Because usually the stock module and the accounts are two systems. Here a goods receipt moves the quantity and books the value in the same step, so the inventory control account is the stock report.
Most businesses can count. What they cannot do is keep the count true for the rest of the month, across more than one place, while people are selling from it.
A van leaves with twelve pieces and nobody writes it down until someone notices they are missing. A transfer takes them out of one location and into the other in the same step, so neither branch is guessing.
A receipt without a bill is stock you hold and money you owe. Receipts clear against the order, bills book the input tax as they post, and a return takes stock, cost and input tax back out together.
Dead stock does not announce itself; it just sits there being counted every quarter. A slow-moving report puts it in front of you while there is still something to be done about it.
Bring your item list and your counted opening stock across as a CSV. Send them over and we’ll do it with you - the usual pattern is to count on a quiet evening, import the next morning and start selling from the new figure.
Receipts, issues and adjustments write their own journals, and the inventory control account is the stock report.
The counter sells from the same figure this page describes - not a copy of it taken this morning.
A workshop job card draws its parts from stock, at the same cost the ledger sees.
Valuation, movement and slow-moving stock, from the ledger rather than an export.
If your question isn’t here, ask - we’d rather tell you it doesn’t do something than have you find out during a stock count.
<p>Yes. Sales, job cards, receipts, transfers and adjustments all write to the same stock ledger as they happen, so what the counter sees and what the accountant sees are the same number. There is no overnight sync and no export step.</p>
<p>As a weighted average, recalculated each time you receive. If you hold 40 at AED 280 and receive 24 at AED 302.50, the cost of every piece becomes AED 288.44 - and that is the figure the margin on the next sale is measured against, not the price on the last invoice anyone could find.</p>
<p>Yes. Shop floor, back store and another branch are locations of one item, so you get the company total and the split at once. Row and shelf inside a warehouse are on Professional and above, along with transfers between locations.</p>
<p>No. Stock is tracked by item and quantity, and there is no batch, lot, serial or expiry report. If your business turns on expiry - pharmacy, food, chemicals - tell us before you buy rather than after, and we will be straight with you about whether this fits.</p>
<p>The return reverses the receipt: the stock leaves, the cost comes back out of the inventory account and the input VAT reverses with it, in one step. The alternative - a manual journal in April - is what usually breaks the reconciliation.</p>
<p>Yes, as a CSV: your item codes and units, then opening quantity and cost per warehouse. The opening entry posts to the ledger so stock and accounts start in step. Most businesses count on a quiet evening and import the next morning.</p>
<p>Basic covers one warehouse, the item master, the stock ledger, purchase orders, goods receipts, vendor bills, returns and slow-moving stock. Professional adds more warehouses, row and shelf locations, transfers, bundles and kits, and purchase requests. The comparison on the pricing page lists every line.</p>
Start free today - no card, no lock-in. Or send us your item list and last count, and we’ll bring your opening stock across with you.
Someone will be in touch, usually the same working day.
Twenty minutes on your own numbers. No slides.