Stationery shop software for quick billing
Bill a stationery or book shop fast — many small SKUs, MRP pricing, barcode and GST — on a light offline app that keeps the counter moving.
Live product UI — sample data.
Many small items, fast
Barcode or quick-search billing across a large catalogue of low-value SKUs.
MRP & schemes
MRP-inclusive pricing with simple discounts and school-season schemes.
Stock & GST
Live stock, reorder alerts and GST on a real ledger.
What this actually means in practice
Stationery is a low-value, high-count trade with an admissions calendar sitting on top of it. Pens, notebooks, files, geometry boxes and art material run to thousands of lines, many priced under a hundred rupees, sold in bills of three or four items. June and the weeks around a new session take out school lists wholesale, while offices and institutions order printing paper and files in bulk on credit against a purchase order.
Counter speed and margin discipline decide this business. Scan-to-add and keyboard search keep a large catalogue billable, and MRP-inclusive pricing means the printed price is what the customer pays with tax computed backwards. Because unit margins are small, discounting on a school list is worth watching — the margin per line stays visible. Office supply runs as an order against a party ledger with credit, and returns are handled by credit note.
| Period | What the shop is doing |
|---|---|
| Admission and new-session weeks | School lists billed fast; stock depth matters more than variety |
| Exam months | Drawing, geometry and writing material move together |
| Quiet months | Office supply and institutional orders carry the counter |
| Financial year end | Files, registers and printing paper for offices closing books |
| Through the year | Thousands of low-value lines, reordered on level rather than guess |
What’s included
- Fast barcode billing
- Large low-value catalogue
- MRP-inclusive pricing
- Live stock & reorder
- Thermal receipts
- GST returns
- Offline-first
What it does not do
- · There is no photocopy, printing or lamination job counter — if you run those services, they are billed as service lines rather than metered from the machine.
- · LekhaPro does not hold a school’s prescribed list as a ready-made bundle that bills in one action; the lines are added to the bill as they are picked.
- · No payroll, no automatic TallyPrime import, and the Desktop edition runs only on Windows.
Frequently asked
Can it handle a large catalogue of small items?
Yes — quick search and barcode billing keep even thousands of low-value SKUs fast at the counter.
Is it GST-ready?
Yes — every bill is GST-correct and posts to your books.
Does it need the internet?
No — it runs offline on your PC.
Can the counter keep up during admission season?
That is what scan-to-add and keyboard search are for — an item is added by code, name or barcode without leaving the billing screen, and thermal receipts print without a dialogue. The practical constraint in this trade is usually the queue, not the software, so keeping barcodes on fast-moving lines and short codes on the rest does more than any setting.
How do I supply an office against a purchase order and get paid later?
Enter the order, deliver on a challan and invoice it to the party ledger with its credit terms. Institutional buyers usually want their PO number on the invoice, which can be carried as a reference on the document. Outstanding and ageing then show which offices are slow, and payments knock off against specific invoices rather than sitting as a lump sum.
What exactly is included in Stationery · retail?
fast barcode billing, large low-value catalogue, MRP-inclusive pricing, live stock & reorder, thermal receipts 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 stationery · retail handled differently here?
It rests on many small items, fast, 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 Stationery · retail post to the real books?
Yes, and that is the whole reason it lives in this product rather than beside it. What many small items, fast 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 stationery · retail numbers to reconcile against the first.
Does Stationery · retail cost extra?
No. Stationery · 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 Stationery · retail before committing?
Yes — 14 days, no card. Test stationery · 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.