BAG Stock
Know what you have. Know what you need.
Most small businesses count stock once, find every number wrong, and quietly never do it again. The problem is almost always the method, so these tools are built for counting a shelf at a time while the shop trades.
What it does
Count a shelf, not a shop
Record what you find where you find it. No closing early, no spreadsheet, no all-or-nothing count that has to be finished in one go.
Never counted is not zero
A product nobody has given a quantity for reads as 'not counted' rather than 'out of stock', and selling it is not blocked.
Two tills cannot sell the last one
The deduction is conditional on there being enough on hand, so a race resolves to one sale rather than two and a balance of minus one.
Recipes deplete ingredients
Sell a flat white and the milk and beans come down, with wastage accounted for.
Getting stock right
- Record what you actually have, shelf by shelf.
- Sell — stock moves as each sale settles, once.
- Low-stock alerts at the level you set, per product.
- Record wastage and adjustments with a reason.
- Every movement is on an immutable ledger you can read back.
How it works
- Variants count separately
- Size and colour are their own products for stock, so the numbers are right.
- An immutable ledger
- Every movement is an entry with a reason and a name. Nothing is silently edited.
- Negative stock is your choice
- Allow it or refuse it, per business.
What it does not do
On the page for a reason. Read it before you decide.
Purchase orders
Receiving and adjusting are built; raising a purchase order to a supplier is not.
Who uses it
- Retail and convenience
- Restaurants and bars
Questions
- Do I have to count everything to start?
- No. Anything you have not counted simply reads as not counted, and selling it is not blocked. Count what matters, when it suits you.