Where did
that one go?
On most systems that question has no answer. The figure was twelve, now it is eleven, and nothing recorded who touched it or why. In this trade that is not a reporting gap. It is the whole issue.
What stops happening
- A stock figure that changed with nothing recording who changed it
- Cost prices visible to everybody standing behind the counter
- Counting a tray with the system figure already on the screen
- A discount given with no record of who authorised it
- Reconciling the counter and the website by hand at month end
Accountable
by default.
A ledger behind every movement
Nothing changes stock without recording who, when and why. "Where did that one go?" becomes a question with an answer.
Cost prices behind a capability
Viewing cost is its own permission. A cashier can sell all day without ever seeing what a piece cost you.
Blind stock takes
The system figure stays hidden until your count is committed, so a count of a tray is a count rather than a confirmation.
Discounts and overrides, separately
Two different capabilities, both recorded against the sale and the person who made it. Neither is implied by being allowed to use the till.
Weighted-average cost carried forward
Learned at receiving from what you actually paid, so margin on a piece is not reconstructed from invoices months later.
The customer is the WooCommerce customer
Search at the counter by name, email or phone — including the billing phone, which a plain WordPress user search misses — or create one mid-sale from a name and a number. Their order count is on screen, so you know whether the person in front of you has bought before. Not a copy of your website customer: the same record.
Stock valuation
What is sitting on the shelf, at what it cost you. In a trade where slow stock ties up real money rather than shelf space, that figure is the point of counting at all.
Refunds by receipt number
The lines come back, the piece returns to stock, and the ledger records the return as its own movement.
Free core: the till, scanning, receipts and Stock Central. Paid add-on: the ledger, blind stock takes, cost-price permissions, weighted-average costing and stock valuation. Customer records are part of the till.
For this trade.
Can I stop staff seeing cost prices?
What does the ledger actually record?
Can two people be required for a stock adjustment?
Does it handle piece-level tracking?
Every movement,
with a name on it.
The till and its customer records are free on WordPress.org. The ledger, blind counts, cost permissions and stock valuation come with the paid add-on.