Inventory Management for Small Businesses: A Practical Guide
A practical inventory guide for shops and small businesses: stock counts, reorder points with an example, FIFO vs weighted average, barcodes, warehouses.
Restaurants and cafés
Accounting software for restaurants and cafés
Fast tap selling at rush hour, shifts with a balanced drawer, and purchases and expenses that show your real profit.
In Arabic and English Works on your phone
Suggested apps for your trade
- Point of saleFast barcode selling with cash and card
- InventoryItems, warehouses, transfers, counts and stock valuation
- PurchasingSuppliers, purchase orders, purchase invoices and returns
- SalesCustomers, quotations, sales orders, sales invoices and returns
- AccountingChart of accounts, journals, expenses, receipts and payments, statements and VAT
What gets in the way, every day
Rush hours
Orders pile up and the cashier needs a fast screen that never stalls.
Cash differences
The drawer doesn't match what it should, and you can't tell in which shift it happened.
Ingredient cost and waste
Daily buying from many suppliers, and no clear view of what you actually used.
Unclear profit
Rent, power and salaries eat the margin, and you see net profit too late.
From Ehsebly's real apps
How Ehsebly helps
- Point of sale
Selling by tap or barcode, paid in cash, by card or split, with the change worked out.
- Point of sale
Shifts opened with the starting cash counted and closed against what is expected with the Z report; a history of every shift.
- Point of sale
The till keeps selling offline.
- Inventory
The units you buy in (kilo, carton, box…), material issues, and counts posted in one adjustment.
- Purchasing
Supplier invoices and payments, with one payment voucher for several invoices.
- Accounting
Daily expenses such as rent and power with their VAT, and the profit and loss always ready.
- Payroll
The monthly payroll run with allowances, deductions and social insurance per your country's scheme.
Egypt
Invoices as Egypt requires
Tax invoices with VAT at 14% and your tax number, in your currency.
Not connected to Egypt's e-invoicing system today; you issue tax invoices to print and share.
- Currency
- pound · EGP
- Tax
- VAT 14%
Suggested plan
The Growth plan
It includes every app suggested for your trade.
Frequently asked questions
Does Ehsebly suit a small café?
Yes. Start with accounting, the till and stock, and add payroll when you need it. The till runs on a computer or a phone.
Does it manage tables or a kitchen screen?
Not today. Ehsebly records the sale at the till and keeps the drawer, stock and expenses straight, but has no table management or kitchen screen.
Can I keep selling if the internet drops?
Yes, the till keeps selling offline and sends its sales when back online.
Which plan suits restaurants and cafés?
The Growth plan includes every suggested app. Full prices are on the pricing page.
Ehsebly… and relax.
Every pound in its place. In the currency of Egypt with its tax, from today.
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