Inventory software for gift and souvenir shops

1. Open: check the restock list

   Magnets, postcards and t-shirts under their minimum are listed. Place your orders before the ships arrive.

2. Morning: a delivery from a maker

   Search each product and add the quantities received with Stock In.

3. Midday: a rush of visitors

   Scan or tap items, record the payment type and move on. Each sale takes one off the count.

4. Afternoon: restock the display

   Count what is on the shelf and enter the number. Differences are recorded.

5. Close: compare the drawer and the record

   Check the day's sales by payment type against the till and the card slips.

Gift shops carry many items that sell a few at a time: crafts, prints, jewellery, local sauces, rum cakes. A few lines drive most of the money, and the rest are there to give the shop its character. The risk is cash tied up in pieces that never move.

Use the slow movers report to spot items that have not sold, then move them to the front, bundle them or discount them. Inventory value, where costs are entered, shows how much money sits on the shelves. Slow-moving and dead stock covers what to do.

Name items by what a customer would ask for, with size in the name where it matters, such as "T-shirt adult M logo". Every size is its own product. Shopkeepa counts whole items and does not track expiry dates, so food gifts such as sauces or cakes need a date check by hand. Small items are easy to lose, so every removal is recorded with a reason: sale, damaged, theft or loss, correction or count.