Hisabe
Retail & distribution · by Oadbox
Sales, stock and finance — in sync
Multi-branch ERP and point of sale for retail, hardware and stone yards, GST-compliant out of the box.
At a glance
- Under 90-day payback
- Live in a week
- Offline-capable POS
Built for
Small and mid-sized multi-branch retailers, trades and stone yards.
Live at
hisabe.inThe problem
Used by counter operators, van salesmen and godown keepers.
The counter has a queue and a customer changing their mind, while the godown has to agree three numbers every night: what left, what was billed, and what came back as cash or credit.
Hisabe is a cloud ERP for businesses running more than one location — sales, inventory, finance and POS in a single platform where the counter and the back office finally agree.
It is deliberately easy at the counter and serious behind it: staff scan and bill, owners get stock valuation, ageing and P&L without waiting for a consultant.
A day on Hisabe
One ordinary Saturday, shutter to shutter
Retail software gets bought on a demo of the dashboard, but it earns its keep at the counter in the rush, at the godown door on transfer day, and at the owner's desk after the shutter comes down. This is where Hisabe sits in a normal trading day.
What we counted first
Hisabe began the way every Oadbox product does — standing behind the counter through a Saturday rush, in the godown while a transfer was loaded, and at the owner's desk on a Sunday evening. Four numbers kept coming back:
4
Stock books, one per branch
Every branch kept its own register in its own hand. They were reconciled on Sunday evening, and the four never quite agreed.
11 min
To confirm stock at another branch
A phone call, somebody walking to the racks, a call back. The customer stood at the counter for most of it.
2 days
Before the owner saw sales
Day-book photographs went to the branch WhatsApp group when somebody remembered, and got added up at the end of the week.
6%
Stock missing at annual count
The gap between what the register said and what was on the racks, after a year of kaccha slips and transfers nobody wrote down.
Counted on our own early shop visits, before Hisabe existed. Every business differs — your numbers are the first thing we ask about.
- 8:45 am
The shutter goes up
The counter staff pushes the shutter up and reads the morning list before the first customer walks in. Eight-millimetre rod is down to six pieces at this branch — the other branch is holding forty-eight and the godown is full. Nobody has to ring anyone to find that out.
- 11:20 am
The billing counter
Saturday rush, four deep at the counter. The scanner does the work — a coil of copper wire, a bundle of modular switches, the customer's loyalty balance knocked off at the end — and what prints is a GST invoice with the buyer's GSTIN already on it. Nobody writes a kaccha slip to enter properly later.
- 1:10 pm
The godown door
A tempo backs up to the godown for the weekly transfer to the second branch. The loader works off the transfer on a screen, and as the last carton goes in, the stock leaves one branch and lands on the other. The e-way bill data sits with the document already, not typed up on filing day.
- 3:00 pm
The link drops
The broadband goes down mid-afternoon — a cable cut two streets away, nothing anyone in the shop can do about it. The counter keeps billing; fourteen bills go out while the line is dead, held on the machine. It comes back at ten past four, the queue syncs, and the day closes on the same numbers it would have anyway.
- 4:40 pm
The stone yard
In the yard, the supervisor runs a tape over three granite slabs and reads the figures out — eighteen point four square feet, twenty-two point one, nineteen point seven. They go in slab by slab and price by area, on the flow built for stone. The measurement book stays shut in the drawer.
- 7:30 pm
A discount asked for
A contractor who buys here every week asks for five per cent off a ₹96,000 order. The counter staff cannot give it away; the manager can, and does. When the owner asks on Monday why that invoice went out light, the record says who changed the rate and at what time.
- Month-end
The owner's desk
Month-end, shutter down, the owner at the desk with the last cup of tea. Receivable ageing, payable ageing, stock valuation across all three locations, the P&L — pulled up when wanted rather than waited for. The Sunday sittings with the day books and the counter's calculator stop happening.
What quietly disappears
Nothing dramatic changes. It is the same trading day — minus the artefacts everyone had stopped noticing.
The duplicate bill book under the counter
The kaccha slip written in the rush
The stock register kept branch by branch
The day-book photo on the branch WhatsApp group
The Sunday tally on the counter's calculator
Key workflows
What it actually runs.
Multi-branch inventory
Real-time stock across locations with barcode support, transfers and reorder levels.
GST-ready invoicing
Tax-compliant documents and e-way bill data generated as you bill, not at filing time.
POS that survives the internet
Offline-capable counter billing with loyalty programmes and gift cards, syncing when it reconnects.
Sales and purchase workflows
Quotations, orders, GRNs and returns with approval steps where you need them.
Financial reporting
P&L, receivable and payable ageing, and stock valuation available on demand.
Vertical modules
Purpose-built flows for retail stores, hardware and electrical trades, and granite and stone yards.
Controls and audit trails
Role-based access with a record of who changed what, and when.
Fast to adopt
One-week implementation with an average payback period under ninety days.
Why Oadbox
We know the industry
Hisabe was designed inside retail & distribution operations, not adapted from a horizontal tool.
How retail & distribution worksIt runs on our core
Tenancy, permissions, statutory compliance, offline mobile and audit trails are inherited, not rebuilt for each product.
Inside the platformWe still operate it
The team that built Hisabe runs it — monitoring, support, releases and the next version.
How we workMore from Oadbox
11 other products, same foundation.
Want to see Hisabe on your own data? That is the only demo worth having.
Thirty minutes with someone from the product team — how you work today, and an honest answer on whether this fits.