A Cloud Based Software Solution for Books & Stationery Stores

Manage sales, track expenses, get a real-time view of your inventory and view financial reports when and where you need them.

Key features for Books and Stationery stores

Order and Sales Management
Purchase Management
Inventory Managment
CRM
ISBN Codes
Accounting & Finance
WholeSale & Retails Price
BI & Analytics
Tax Management
Delivery Management

Seamless integrations with your business essentials

All-in-one retail solution that makes your retail operations and stock handling simplified

A Cloud-based solution that will work anywhere, on any device

Single Solution for your Business

  • Cloud-based business management software, AltheaSuite, offers all the modules and functionalities that your business would need to grow fast.
  • Works on all modern web browsers
  • AltheaSuite will handle business at multiple locations, multiple states, multiple countries, and in multiple currencies.
  • AltheaSuite is capable of handling ALL of your business processes. Plus, we add development efforts in it to fit it perfectly for your business and in the way you do your business.

Inventory Managment

  • Manage inventory levels and you know the exact location of rack in which the books is placed.
  • Manage the book wise subject wise and writer wise inventory.
  • Top Selling Inventory Title, Category, ISBN, Author, Publisher.
  • Stock Valuation Report on Multiple Methods.
  • Robust searching capabilities.
  • Import and export data via Excel.
  • Get started with an easy excel upload.
  • Any Windows/Android/iOS based handheld device can be used for stock audits.

Warehouse

  • Track inventory at multiple locations, warehouses, trucks. 
  • Easy transfer of stock between your warehouses.
  • Assign locations to your products.
  • Get a consolidated Stock value for all warehouses.

Reorder Levels

  • Define your Re-order rules
  • AltheaSuite will suggest purchase orders to be generated based on items that are running low on inventory.
  • Reorder as per preferred vendors.
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Purchase Order

  • Quickly create a purchase order for the products running below reorder level.
  • Choose your desired vendor while creating a Purchase order
  • Once you raise a purchase order, you can email it to your vendor or print it out for future purposes.
  • Have a centralized view of all your purchase orders with their values and statuses.

Goods Receipt Notes

  • Multiple GRNs/Purchase Receipts can be made against one PO.
  • Ability to create GRN or a Purchase Receipt directly without creating a Purchase Order.
  • Option to keep certain purchase on hold until the discrepancy in it is resolved.
  • Receive stock using built in barcode scanner.

Supplier Management

  • An integrated vendor module enables the users to manage supplier and their accounts.
  • Vendor ledgers & supplier performance reporting are available.
  • Create a variety of custom fields to expand your data capturing capabilities.
  • Track the pending payments by the supplier which helps you to make payment to your supplier as per the payment terms.

Barcode Stickers

  • AltheaSuite provides visual interface to design barcodes by selecting prices, data fonts, sizes, logos, etc.

  • Print stickers of various sizes and custom designs.
  • Print stickers on zebra printer, brother printer, or any laser printer.

CRM

  • Custom Fields for customers, customer notes.
  • Manage customer loyalty.
  • Define schemes and promotions.
  • Customer groups, multiple price-lists.

Point of Sale

  • Althea offers robust POS terminal capabilities
  • Manage separate cash register sessions for employee shifts,
  • Add/remove money from the cash register by authorized users at any time, and end shifts with comprehensive closing reports.
  • Clock in & out logs for employees
  • Easy to use, granular user role management
  • End of the shift reports for cash registers
  • Althea is environment-friendly and can provide electronic invoices/receipts instead of printing if desired.

Custom Payment Modes

  • Create custom payment modes. Accept payments in multiple modes. Accept credit payments.
  • Record advance payments and deposits for your suppliers and customers in payment mode of your choice.
  • Use the advances to knock off against existing or future bills and invoices.
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Refunds & Cancellations

  • As refunds & cancellations occur, AltheaSuite will automatically update your inventory & accounting data across systems
  • Create credit memos against the original sale for accurate transaction level accounting.

Tax

  • Create custom tax rules.
  • Supports complex sales tax.
  • Get DOR reports for Tax filing.

Quick-Books Integration

  • Integrated with QuickBooks Online 
  • Integrated with QuickBooks Desktop.
  • Import customer, sales, and vendor records to Quickbooks.

Financial Accounting

  • Maintain accounting books and ledgers.
  • Record your day-to-day expense.
  • Generate Balance Sheet and Profit & Loss reports 

Shipping

  • Integrated with ShipStation to ship with FedEx, UPS, USPS.
  • Check rates and schedules from multiple carriers.
  • Print your shipping labels.

Employees

  • Employee clock in -clock out.
  • Create granular access rights.
  • Keep track of employee sales and commissions.

Reports

  • Generate title or author wise stock reports to check stock of each author.
  • Generate reports to checks sales by author, genre, or by any other attribute attached to a book.
  • Various reports related to item catalogs, sales, and inventory
  • Ability to create new reports on the fly with our report designer
  • Support for importing and exporting data via Microsoft Excel

Automated Solution for Business Growth

Scan and Enter ISBN Codes

Enter ISBN barcode and track each title by its code while selling or searching a book. AltheaSuite also provides visual interface to design your own barcodes by selecting prices, data fields, logos, etc.

Product Images

A great feature in AltheaSuite is the ability to add images of products or capture the best shots using mobile phones. Maintain Stock through Image catalogue.

Item Kit Management

You can combine print and audio versions of a book, or add two books by the same author to create an assembly. Assembly products can be sold as a single SKU

Dashboard

The dashboard Provide crucial insights into current business health. See total sales this week and compare total sales to last week, and last month.

Customization

Create custom fields as per your business requirements. Customize your sales invoice with your branding. Create users roles and restrict access to important documents.

Discounts and Schemes

Create different types of separate discount offers according to author, genre or publisher. AltheaSuite allows you to create different retail and wholesale prices for your customers..

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Custom ERP Solutions for your Retail

We Will Help You Every Step Of The Way

Instead of building a one-size-fits-all ERP and making you pay an exorbitant amount for solutions and integrations you don’t need, Althea’s developers work with you

Affordable solutions

Althea’s solutions are affordable and scaled to fit your business needs. You pay only for service that you need.

Fast setup

The time for development, even with the customized solutions, is much faster than rival ERP service providers.

Free Trial

You can test-drive this mega ERP business solution management machine before you commit to any long-term agreement.  

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