What this package is
Control is for a shop where one product has more than one unit, and stock sits in more than one place.
The difference from Count is not simply more features. It is that the system starts to understand how your shop really buys and sells. Buy a box and sell singles, buy a roll and cut it by the metre, sell a kit built from several parts, and the balance still holds.
It fits hardware shops, parts sellers, wholesalers, and anyone running a shop floor and a store room separately.
See it working
Demo Builders Merchant8 products · 2 locationsType part of a name, or the barcode itself. In a shop with a thousand lines, the problem was never the number of lines. It is not finding one while a customer waits.
Cement8850001000017 · all locations 640 · cost 120 · sale price 145 · warn at 375640bags
PVC pipe 4"8850001000024 · all locations 180 · cost 85 · sale price 110 · warn at 225180lengthsLow
VAF wire 2x2.58850001000031 · all locations 3,600 · cost 22 · sale price 30 · warn at 1,5002,100metres
Hex bolt M88850001000048 · all locations 12,000 · cost 3 · sale price 6 · warn at 5,0004,500pcs
Roof tile8850001000055 · all locations 1,020 · cost 45 · sale price 62 · warn at 600420sheets
Tap8850001000062 · all locations 96 · cost 210 · sale price 290 · warn at 12096pcsLow
Thread tape8850001000079 · all locations 400 · cost 8 · sale price 15 · warn at 300400rolls
Connector8850001000086 · all locations 90 · cost 12 · sale price 22 · warn at 60090pcsLow
Receive or issue straight away. The balance moves the instant anything happens with nobody adding up by hand, and the system records who did it, when, and at which location.
Receive one roll and the balance goes up by 100 metres, not by 1, because everything is held in the smallest unit. You then sell it by the metre as normal. This is where a spreadsheet drifts with nothing to warn you. In Control
Sell one kit and every part inside it comes off stock
Everything you get
This list is the entire scope of the package. Nothing is hidden in a contract.
- Everything in Count
- Units convert themselves. Buy by the box or the roll, sell by the piece or the metre
- Bundles. Sell one kit and every part inside it comes off stock
- Purchase orders and a supplier list. Reorder straight from what is running low
- Several locations in one system, with transfers that balance on both sides
- Average cost and margin per item, so you can see the best seller is not the best earner
- Owner and staff see different things. Staff move stock but never see cost price
- Print your own barcode labels for anything that did not come with one
- An English contract covering scope, price and delivery dates before work starts
- Hosting and a domain, roughly $40-70 a year, paid directly to the provider in your own name. I set it up inside your account on day one so the system is genuinely yours.
- Barcode scanners and label printers. The system scans with a phone camera already. Real hardware is yours to buy, and I will recommend models and configure them at no charge.
- Connecting to Shopee, Lazada or TikTok. Each of them sets its own terms for outside access, so I check whether it is possible at no charge and quote it separately before anything starts.
- Product copy and photography. Send what you have and I lay it out. Shooting product photos is charged separately.
- Migrating your old data. Anything in Excel or Google Sheets I move across at no charge up to 500 lines, which covers most shops. Above that I look at the file and quote first, because bigger lists almost always need rows reconciled by hand. Pulling out of an older program through an API I check for free, then quote before starting.
- An app from the Play Store. Everything here works fully in a phone browser. A real installable app sits under the Android service.
Questions about this package
What happens to the remainder after a conversion?
Everything is held in the smallest unit. A 100 metre roll with 12 metres cut off reads as 88 metres left, not 0.88 of a roll, because a number with a decimal point in it is a number the counter staff will argue about.
We sell a kit but one part is short. Then what?
The system will not let stock go negative, and it says immediately which part is short and by how many. You decide whether to sell the parts separately or wait for delivery. The point is that it stops there, instead of going through and leaving you to find a negative balance later.
Can I hand the cost figures straight to my accountant?
This package works out cost on a moving average, which answers which items earn and which to drop, and that is enough to run the shop on. If your accountant needs FIFO with layered batches, that is a different size of job and it sits in Custom. I say so here rather than letting you find out at year end.
What if stock goes missing during a transfer?
Transfers have their own state: sent, but not yet received at the other end. Anything sitting in that state shows how many days it has been there. That is where stock disappears most often, and it is exactly what a spreadsheet cannot see.
Is phone scanning fast enough for a lot of stock?
Yes for receiving and counting. Modern phone cameras keep up fine. If you scan hundreds of items continuously every day, a real scanner is far more comfortable. I recommend models at no charge and configure them to work with the system. The hardware itself is yours to buy.