Gift shop software for quick billing
Bill a gift and novelty store — many SKUs, MRP pricing, barcode, schemes and GST — fast at the counter and fully offline.
Live product UI — sample data.
Fast counter
Barcode and quick-search billing across a large, varied catalogue.
MRP & schemes
MRP pricing with festive schemes, discounts and loyalty.
Stock & GST
Live stock, reorder alerts and GST on a real ledger.
What this actually means in practice
A gift counter carries breadth rather than depth: soft toys, décor, cards, candles and imported novelties, often a handful of pieces per line and hundreds of lines. Much of it turns slowly, then moves in bursts around Diwali, Rakhi, weddings and year-end. Fragile stock chips or gets shop-soiled while being handled by browsers, and a piece bought as a gift is frequently brought back by the person who received it.
That shape decides the software. Scan-to-add and quick search keep a mixed catalogue billable at speed; MRP-inclusive pricing means the tag price is the bill price, with tax backed out behind it. Chipped pieces leave through a stock adjustment, so the loss reaches the P&L instead of quietly vanishing. Corporate and bulk gifting runs on party ledgers with ageing, and every counter bill posts to double-entry books that GSTR-1 is then built from.
| Stock characteristic | Why it matters at the counter |
|---|---|
| Hundreds of lines, few pieces each | Search and scan beat a printed rate list; nobody memorises the catalogue |
| Slow turns punctuated by festival peaks | Reorder against last season’s sales, not a monthly average |
| Fragile décor chips in handling | A stock adjustment writes the piece off and the P&L carries it |
| Mixed categories on one bill | Each line holds its own HSN and the rate notified for that category |
| Gifts returned by the recipient, not the buyer | Credit note against the original invoice; GST reverses with it |
| Corporate orders on credit before festivals | Party ledger with outstanding and ageing rather than a cash sale |
What’s included
- Fast barcode billing
- Large varied catalogue
- MRP-inclusive pricing
- Schemes & loyalty
- Live stock & reorder
- GST returns
- Offline-first
What it does not do
- · There is no gift registry or wedding-list feature — LekhaPro cannot hold a customer’s chosen list and mark items off as friends buy them.
- · No online storefront or marketplace sync: the counter, stock and books are covered, but web orders would have to be entered as sales.
- · Payroll is not included, there is no one-click TallyPrime import (masters and opening balances come in through templates), and the Desktop edition runs on Windows only.
Frequently asked
Is it fast for a varied catalogue?
Yes — barcode and quick-search billing keep a large, mixed catalogue fast at the counter.
Is it GST-ready?
Yes — every bill is GST-correct and posts to your books.
Is it offline?
Yes — the counter runs offline.
Someone is returning a gift they were given — can I take it back without the original buyer?
Yes. Pull up the original invoice, raise a credit note against it, and the GST reverses automatically while the piece goes back into stock. You can settle it as an exchange against a fresh bill or as a refund. The buyer’s ledger stays correct either way, and the return shows in your books rather than as an untracked swap.
How do I work out what to stock before the festival season?
Look at what the same weeks sold last year rather than at an average month. LekhaPro keeps item-wise sales history and an inventory-ageing view, so you can see which lines cleared during Diwali and which have been sitting since the season before. That second list is usually the markdown list, not the reorder list.
What exactly is included in Gift shop · retail?
fast barcode billing, large varied catalogue, MRP-inclusive pricing, schemes & loyalty, live stock & reorder and GST returns, and 1 more. Every item on that list is a working screen you can open in the trial rather than a capability described in the abstract.
How is gift shop · retail handled differently here?
It rests on fast counter, MRP & schemes and stock & GST. The distinction that matters is that these are structural rather than cosmetic — the behaviour is built into how records are posted, not layered on as a report you have to remember to run.
Does Gift shop · retail post to the real books?
Yes, and that is the whole reason it lives in this product rather than beside it. What fast counter records lands in the same posted double-entry ledger the Trial Balance, P&L and GST returns are built from — so there is no second set of gift shop · retail numbers to reconcile against the first.
Does Gift shop · retail cost extra?
No. Gift shop · retail is part of the accounting core rather than a paid add-on, so MRP & schemes is there on the entry tier exactly as it is on the highest one. What the tiers change is reach and depth — devices, multi-branch and multi-warehouse reporting, and whether the conversational AI copilots are switched on.
Can I try Gift shop · retail before committing?
Yes — 14 days, no card. Test gift shop · retail against your own masters and your own transactions rather than sample data: the questions worth answering here are about your business's edge cases, and a demo dataset is built not to have any.