Hardware shop software for billing & stock
Bill and manage a hardware or sanitary shop — thousands of SKUs, multiple units (pieces, boxes, kg, feet), price lists and GST — on a fast offline app.
Live product UI — sample data.
Built for many SKUs
Quick search across thousands of items, with barcode billing and multi-unit (piece/box/kg/foot) support.
Trade pricing
Customer- and quantity-wise price lists, credit limits and outstanding for regular contractors.
Stock & GST
Live stock with reorder, purchase management and GST on a real ledger.
What this actually means in practice
A hardware shop measures before it sells. Cement moves by the bag, wire by the metre, hinges by the piece and nails by the kilo, and the same pipe may be bought in a bundle and sold by the length. Contractors buy through the month and settle when their own client pays, so a counter that looks like retail is really a credit business. Breakage, short deliveries and returns from site are ordinary events rather than exceptions.
Multi-unit items carry the conversion once — box to piece, bundle to metre, bag to kilo — so purchase, stock and sale can each use their own unit with no arithmetic at the counter. Contractor accounts get party- and quantity-wise price lists, a credit limit that warns at billing time, and an ageing ledger worth reading before more goods go out. Breakage is written off as a stock adjustment, so the rack and the books stay together.
| Item | Bought as | Stocked as | Sold as |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wire and cable | Coil | Metre | Metre, or the whole coil |
| Nails | Sack | Kilogram | Kilogram or packet |
| Screws | Carton of boxes | Box | Box or loose piece |
| Door hinges | Box | Piece | Piece or pair |
| PVC pipe | Bundle | Length | Length or cut metre |
What’s included
- Fast search across thousands of SKUs
- Multiple units (piece / box / kg / ft)
- Customer & quantity price lists
- Credit limits & outstanding
- Barcode billing
- Purchase & stock management
- GST — offline
What it does not do
- · There is no weighing-scale integration — weights are keyed at the counter rather than read from the platform.
- · Unit conversions are the factors you set on each item; the app will not infer a bundle size or a coil length for you.
- · No payroll module, and the Desktop edition runs on Windows only.
Frequently asked
Does it handle multiple units per item?
Yes — bill and stock the same item in pieces, boxes, kg or feet, with conversion handled for you.
Can I set different rates for regular customers?
Yes — customer- and quantity-wise price lists apply the right rate automatically.
Is it offline?
Yes — billing, stock and GST run offline on your PC.
Can I buy in boxes and sell in pieces?
Yes. Set the conversion once on the item — pieces per box, metres per coil, kilos per bag — and purchase, stock and sale may each use their own unit. The counter bills in whatever the customer asks for while stock stays in your base unit, so the shelf figure and the purchase register do not drift apart.
How should breakage or shortage be handled?
Write it off as a stock adjustment against the item, which reduces stock and posts the loss to your books rather than leaving a silent gap between the rack and the ledger. Doing it as it happens keeps the physical count honest and means the month's margin reflects genuine breakage instead of an unexplained shortfall at stocktaking.
What exactly is included in Hardware · trade?
fast search across thousands of SKUs, multiple units (piece / box / kg / ft), customer & quantity price lists, credit limits & outstanding, barcode billing and purchase & stock management, 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 hardware · trade handled differently here?
It rests on built for many SKUs, trade pricing 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 Hardware · trade post to the real books?
Yes, and that is the whole reason it lives in this product rather than beside it. What built for many SKUs 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 hardware · trade numbers to reconcile against the first.
How does Hardware · trade affect my GST?
It feeds it directly rather than sitting alongside it. CGST/SGST and IGST are split from HSN or SAC and place of supply as each document is raised, so whatever hardware · trade produces is already correct when GSTR-1, 3B and 2B reconciliation are drawn off the same books. The return matches the accounts because it was never a separate exercise.
Does Hardware · trade cost extra?
No. Hardware · trade is part of the accounting core rather than a paid add-on, so trade pricing 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.