Founder & CEO, Innobrains Technologies
Arshad Ali is the founder and CEO of Innobrains Technologies, the company that is building BooksPOS: point-of-sale, stock and khata software for book depots and stationers in Pakistan.
BooksPOS and HysabOne side by side for a book depot or stationery shop in Pakistan: HysabOne as its own website describes it, BooksPOS as it works today, where each one fits better, and six tests to run with your own items. Written by the makers of BooksPOS, and said so plainly.
BooksPOS and CloudPOS side by side for a book depot or stationery shop in Pakistan: CloudPOS as its own stationery page describes it, BooksPOS as it works today, where each one fits better, and six tests to run with your own items. Written by the makers of BooksPOS, and said so plainly.
BooksPOS and OneClick side by side for a book depot or stationery shop in Pakistan: OneClick as Eyecon Consultant's own pages describe it, BooksPOS as it works today, where each one fits better, and six tests to run with your own items. Written by the makers of BooksPOS, and said so plainly.
Uniforms sell in the same weeks as the books, but every piece comes in several sizes. How to set each piece up once, bill the right size at the till, see which sizes are running out, and add the uniform to a school's set in BooksPOS.
Five POS products that say they are for bookshops or stationery shops in Pakistan, each described from its maker's own website, with the questions a book depot should put to every one of them. Written by the makers of one of the five, and said so plainly.
An owner cannot stand behind every counter. What the BooksPOS Owner app for Android shows a book depot or stationery shop owner, screen by screen, how fresh its figures are, and how it keeps your data safe.
A practical plan for moving a book depot or stationery shop from a register or an Excel sheet onto POS software: when to switch, cleaning the item list, one closing date, the import, the checks before the first bill, the first day and the first week.
Twelve questions to put to any POS or inventory software before a book depot or stationery shop buys it, why each one matters in a Pakistani school season, and how BooksPOS answers them today.
When a school changes the edition of a reader, the old and new copies are different stock at different prices. How BooksPOS keeps each edition as its own item, from import to the till to publisher returns.
A box of books going back to a publisher is money you are owed until their credit note arrives. How BooksPOS records a publisher return as a claim, settles it with the credit note, and handles a shortfall.
Pencils come in boxes of 12, markers in boxes of 10, paper in reams of 500, and customers buy all of them loose too. How to set pack sizes per item so stock stays exact whichever way you sell.
What FBR POS integration means for a book depot or stationery shop: who FBR asks to integrate, what changes on the receipt, what happens when the internet drops, the Re 1 fee and returns, and how BooksPOS handles it, switched off until you need it.
Keep each school's class list, put the whole set on the bill with one key, leave out what the parent already has, and order what is out of stock for them. A walk-through of school course sets in BooksPOS.
The last character of every ISBN is worked out from the others. Here is how the ISBN-10 and ISBN-13 check digits are calculated, how the two forms convert, and why BooksPOS refuses a wrong ISBN instead of guessing.
The weeks before schools open decide a book depot's year. A practical checklist for the month before, the rush itself and the weeks after, and where BooksPOS helps at each step.
Record money a parent pays ahead as an advance (not a sale), use it later with the "From advance" tender, and refund what is left, with the drawer and khata staying right.
Bring in products with opening stock, customers with what they owe and suppliers with what you owe them, from an Excel workbook or a CSV file, with every row checked before anything is saved.
Let a second computer bill against the same stock: switch on the store PC's shop-network listener, create a one-time code, and connect the new till. Plus how to remove one.