Retail inventory management software built on a stock ledger

A stock ledger that never forgets

Most stock arguments start with a number someone typed over. In PointLit nobody can. Every movement of stock is written as one line in a ledger, and the database itself refuses to change or delete a line once it is written. A sale takes stock out, a goods receipt brings it in, a transfer moves it between branches, a count adjusts it. Stock on hand is the result of those lines, not a figure anyone edits.

A mistake is corrected the way an accountant corrects one: with a new line that reverses it. That feels slower the first time and pays for itself the first time a figure is questioned, because the answer is always a line with a date, a document and a name.

The stock card: every movement of one item

The Stock movements report, filtered to one item, is that item's stock card (in Egypt often called كارت الصنف or حركة الصنف). Each line shows When, the Event, the Direction, the Quantity, the Branch, the Other branch for a transfer, the Document it came from, the Unit cost and By whom. Events include Sale, Customer return, Goods received, Returned to supplier, Transfer in, Transfer out, Count adjustment and Adjustment, so a shelf that keeps coming up short can be traced to the exact day it went wrong. Read the stock card and item movement guide.

Sizes and colours without a spreadsheet

A clothing or shoe shop sells one model in many sizes and colours. In PointLit you create the product once: name it, pick what it varies by, and fill the grid. Each size and colour becomes its own variant with its own stock, and colours carry swatches so the cashier picks the right one at a glance. The Size curve report then shows which sizes actually sell, so the next order follows the customers rather than habit.

Stock for every branch

Stock is held per branch, and every movement names the branch it happened in. At the till, Where else is this? shows the same item at your other branches while the till is online, so a customer asking for a size you have run out of can be sent to the right shop. In the back office, reports show stock on hand at the end of any day, stock valuation, stock ageing and low stock, and reorder points per branch tell the reports when an item needs refilling.

How it works in PointLit

1. In Products, choose New product, name it, pick what it varies by (for example size and colour) and fill the grid.
2. Book deliveries in Goods receipts. Each line is written to the ledger at the branch you received into.
3. Sell at the till. Every sale writes its own lines to the same ledger.
4. Write off breakage or record found stock in Stock adjustments. A Reason is required.
5. Open Reports, then Stock movements, and filter to one item to read its stock card.