POS and stock

How do I track stock in a small shop?

Updated June 2026

Short answer

The simplest reliable way is a POS that subtracts each item as you sell it, so your stock count stays live without a manual tally. It then flags what to reorder and what is sitting as dead stock, which a notebook cannot do.

More detail

Manual stock counts fall behind within a day in a busy shop, and the gap between the shelf and the book is where shrinkage hides.

When stock updates with every sale, you see fast movers before they run out and slow movers before they tie up your cash. That is the difference between guessing and managing.

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How do I know when to reorder stock?
Set a reorder point from real sales history. The reorder calculator and a POS that tracks sales tell you when each item is about to run out.

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