Free for 45 days
Free inventory software for shops, restaurants and hotels — 45 days, the full product
Stock that comes off as you sell — by the piece, by the kilo, or through a recipe — with batches, expiry, wastage and purchase orders suggested from reorder levels.
Free for 45 days · no card · we do the setup
Nivasik’s stock control is free for 45 days: stock comes off as it sells — by the piece, by the kilo or through a recipe — with batches and expiry, wastage, and purchase orders suggested from reorder levels.
For a shop or restaurant it is part of the POS, ₹1,499 per outlet a month after the trial. A hotel’s inventory and consumables are in the Pro plan (₹4,999 per property a month). If you stop, nothing is deleted.
What it does
- Stock that comes off as it sells, including recipes — a thali’s rice and dal — and multi-stage production, where what one recipe makes goes into the next.
- By the piece or by the kilo, with stock counted in grams.
- Open the day by counting the shelf: what was made, what is left from yesterday, and what has gone off.
- Restock and purchase orders suggested from reorder levels, supplier bills, and returns with debit notes.
- Batches with their own cost and expiry, used first-expiry-first, and wastage recorded as wastage.
- Barcode and SKU scanning, and barcode labels to print.
- For hotels: inventory and consumables issued into rooms, and an asset register with a movement log that cannot be edited.
How it looks in four kinds of shop
A kirana store sells rice loose and dal by the packet. The loose rice is one stock line counted in grams: weigh out 750 g at the counter and 750 g comes off, and a 25 kg sack delivered goes on as a batch at the price paid for that sack. The packets come off one at a time as their barcodes are scanned.
A clothing or hardware shop sells by the piece. The barcode or SKU is scanned at the counter and the piece comes off stock as it sells; anything that arrives without a barcode gets a label printed for it.
A bakery opens the day by counting the shelf: what was baked this morning, what is left from yesterday, and what has gone off — which is recorded as wastage instead of quietly vanishing from the count. Bought-in stock with a date on it is used first-expiry-first.
A shop that makes what it sells can chain its recipes. A sweet shop gives khoya its own recipe — five litres of milk to the kilo — so “made 10 kg of peda” reaches back through the khoya to the milk, without anybody keeping a second set of books. Each delivery of milk is a batch with its own cost, so the peda’s cost follows what the milk really cost that week.
What it does not do
Said plainly, before you start
- Offline billing is for shop counters only.
- A weighing scale is read through label-scale barcodes, not over USB.
- There is no stock transfer between branches or to a central kitchen yet.
Free tools for stock and prices
No trial and no sign-up.
The genuinely free alternatives, and what they cost
There are ways to do this without paying anybody. Each is worth knowing, and each has a cost that is not on a price list.
A notebook and a calculator
Costs almost nothing and works in a power cut. What it costs is time: every total is added by hand, nobody away from the desk can see it, and an entry can be changed later with nothing to show it was.
A spreadsheet
Free, flexible, and good for a list one person keeps. It struggles when three people edit it on three phones, when a formula is typed over, or when you need to know what it said last Tuesday.
A free edition of a paid product
Some software has a free edition with limits on rooms, bills or users. Read what the limit is, and what happens to your records the day you pass it.
Counting the shelf by eye
Free and quick, and it tells you what is there. It cannot tell you what should be there, so a leak — wastage, a wrong bill, a missing box — only shows up as money that is not in the drawer.
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Questions people ask
Is there free inventory software for a small shop?
There are free ways to keep stock: a stock register, a spreadsheet, a weekly count. Nivasik’s stock control is part of its POS, free for 45 days and then ₹1,499 per outlet a month.
Can it handle items sold by weight?
Yes. An item can be sold by the kilo with a keypad for the weight, and its stock is counted in grams. Label-scale barcodes that carry the weight can be scanned; a scale is not read over USB.
Does it track expiry dates?
Yes. Each delivery is a batch with its own cost and expiry, stock is used first-expiry-first, and wastage is recorded as wastage rather than disappearing from the count.
Does it work for a restaurant’s ingredients?
Yes. A dish can carry a recipe, so selling it takes the ingredients off — and a recipe can use what another recipe made, such as a gravy made in the morning that goes into several dishes.
What happens to my stock records after the trial?
Nothing is deleted. The account becomes read-only until billing is active, with every stock line, batch and movement kept.
Try it on your own place, free for 45 days.
We set it up for you — your rooms, menu or stock list, your staff and your prices — and walk it end to end on your phone. No card, and we invoice only if you stay.