Wholesale price per unit
Each item and each of its packs has a retail and a wholesale price, dated, with history kept.
Wholesale and credit
Wholesale prices and credit customers, on the same till
Schools, institutions and other shops buy at wholesale rates, often on credit and in parts. This is what BooksPOS supports for them today.
Many book depots are also distributors: they supply schools, institutions and smaller shops at their own prices, on credit, and deliver in parts. BooksPOS handles that from the same till: a wholesale price for every unit, named price lists for groups of customers, quantity breaks, credit limits and a khata statement for each customer.
Negotiated prices are never mixed with walk-in promotions, and every bill line says where its price came from. BooksPOS is in development and not yet used in a shop.
Wholesale and credit
Selling to schools and shops
Price lists
A named, dated price list for a school or a group of shops: their own item prices, or a discount off a publisher or a category.
Quantity breaks
A lower price from a set quantity, per unit. One source sets each price and nothing stacks.
Credit limits and khata
A bill on account up to the customer's limit, and a statement of every bill and payment with a running balance.
Orders delivered later
Order (F7) holds copies for the customer; hand the goods over in one go or in parts, each at the agreed price.
Who owes what
Customer and supplier ageing in the owner reports: who owes you, and whom you owe, by how long.
Why BooksPOS
Credit that stays in check
Customer types
Retail, school, institution or wholesale, set per customer and brought in from your old list with opening balances.
Payments by any route
Money owed comes in as cash through the drawer, bank transfer, card or wallet, and shows on the customer's statement.
Branches
Stock can be sent between branches at its cost; the other branch counts it in and any shortage is written off there with a note.
Getting started
How a pilot shop starts
01
Ask for pilot access
Tell us what you sell, how many counters and branches you have, and how you keep records today.
02
Set up the store PC
We install BooksPOS on your main PC with you. There is no public installer yet.
03
Bring in your lists
Items, opening stock, customers and suppliers from CSV, every row checked before saving.
04
Start billing
Give your staff their own sign-ins and roles, and open the till.
Straight answers
The limits, plainly
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Not yet used in a shop
Tested with automated tests and synthetic demo data. Transfers between branches were tested with two store servers on one PC, not yet between two shops.
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Still to come
Credit budgets per branch.
Common Questions
Wholesale & Distribution — FAQs
Yes. Give the school a named, dated price list with its own item prices or a discount off a publisher or category, and the till uses it whenever that customer is on the bill.
Yes. A bill goes on account only up to the customer's credit limit; a customer with no limit pays at the counter.
Yes. Hand over part of an order from Pending deliveries; each hand-over is a normal bill at the price agreed on the order.
No. Walk-in promotions are kept apart from negotiated prices, and one source sets each price; nothing stacks.
Pilot access
Supply schools or other shops? Let us talk.
We are looking for depots that also sell wholesale to pilot BooksPOS with us.