Shop software: where to start on your phone

You close the shop in the evening. Cash in the till is one number, the notebook says another, the credit you carry in your head is a third. The three never match, and you cannot tell where the gap is.

The main job of shop software is to fold several notebooks and a calculator into one record. When the till, stock and credit sit in one place instead of apart, the numbers reconcile on their own at night.

So the first question when choosing is not how many features there are. The first question is which notebook wears you out the most today. Start there.

A shop used to need a separate cash register, a paper notebook and a calculator. A phone with the right software does these three jobs on one screen, and separate hardware is not needed on day one.

BirLiy is built for neighborhood shops, minimarkets, pharmacies and service points, not as heavy corporate software. The catalog holds common products, and you can import your own list from Excel, so you do not type everything by hand.

When queues grow, you add a scanner or printer. But to start, the phone already in your hand is enough.

Do not try to change everything at once. Pick the one notebook that loses the most money or takes the most time, and start the phone with that. The list below helps you find which pain is yours.

For a corner shop the most visible pain is this: you give a regular customer credit, all in a paper notebook. The page tears or gets wet, and you have nothing left to prove who owes what.

In BirLiy customer credit lives in the app instead of the notebook: who owes how much and when they promised to pay, all in one list. Next to the debt sit cash, card and QR in the same record.

The debt notebook kept the count for years. BirLiy moves that count into the phone, that is all. We do not mock the notebook, the phone simply does not get lost.

You left for a supplier, and the shop keeps running. From your phone you see today's revenue, what is running low and who is on shift, so you do not have to stand at the till the whole time.

Cashiers log in by PIN and there is an action log. You can see who sold, wrote off or returned what and when. This is not a theft accusation, it is simply seeing what each cashier rang up.

If the internet drops, the till keeps working and sales are saved on the phone. When the connection returns, everything syncs on its own.

To start, you do not buy new hardware. You move one chosen notebook into the app, try it, then add the second job. Unlike heavy software, it begins with one phone, one cashier and a hundred products.

The price is known upfront. In early access, the stated rate for the first cohort is 49 000 som per month for the first 6 months, then 149 000 som. Full functionality, no hidden charges.

We are now opening early access for the first shops in Tashkent. The team helps with setup and the catalog.