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Counter, yard and account
Run the counter, the yard and the contractor accounts from one stock figure.
Hardware and building-supply merchants use AWRA for counter sales that move stock as they ring, contractor accounts with credit limits that hold an over-limit invoice, yard and branch stock with tracked transfers, serial numbers on tools, and valued cycle counts.
Inventory software for hardware stores
The problem
Most hardware merchants run three businesses at once — a walk-in counter, a yard and a book of contractor accounts — on one stock sheet.
Yard and shop never agree
Cement moves from the yard to the counter and nobody records it.
Contractors on open credit
A builder three invoices behind collects another load on account.
High-value lines walking
Steel and roofing sheets go missing between counts that happen twice a year.
How AWRA solves it
What Hardware & Building Supplies teams get.
Sell at the counter and deduct branch stock the moment the sale rings, with returns and drawer variance on the record.
Invoice contractors on account, with any invoice that passes their credit limit held until someone overrides it with a reason.
Move stock between the yard, the shop and other branches as tracked transfers through dispatch, transit and receipt.
Track serial numbers on power tools and equipment where you need them.
Count the high-value lines — cement, steel, roofing — on a cycle, with the variance priced at cost and a reason required.
Catch an item the moment a sale takes it below its reorder point, and let a workflow raise the purchase request.
Counter sales
Barcode or search at the counter, with stock deducted as the sale rings.
Yard and shop stock
What sits in the yard, on the shop floor and at each branch.
Contractor accounts
Invoices on account, checked against each customer’s credit limit.
Typical workflow
The routines AWRA runs for Hardware & Building Supplies.
Contractor order on account
- 1 Raise the invoice for the contractor
- 2 Check it against the credit limit
- 3 Override with a reason or collect first
- 4 Fulfil from the yard and deduct stock
Yard to shop replenishment
- 1 Review low-stock lines on the shop floor
- 2 Raise a transfer from the yard
- 3 Dispatch and receive
- 4 Close any variance with a reason
High-value cycle count
- 1 Schedule the count without showing system quantities
- 2 Capture counted quantities per location
- 3 Price the variance at cost
- 4 Approve the adjustment
Modules used
What a hardware & building supplies workspace runs on.
Point of Sale Counter sales that deduct branch stock as they ring See the module invoice billing Contractor accounts with an enforced credit hold See the module Stock Transfers & Approvals Yard to shop and branch to branch movements See the module Cycle Counts Cycle counts on the high-value lines See the module
Example organisation
A hardware merchant with a yard and two shops
An illustrative profile, not a named customer
Where they are today
One yard, two shop counters, about 3,000 items, and contractor accounts tracked in an exercise book.
Where they would start
They would start with the item list, opening counts in the yard and one shop, and credit limits on every contractor account.
What changes after implementation
Before and after, in the routines you already run.
| Before | After |
|---|---|
| Yard stock moved on a word | Transfers from yard to shop with dispatch and receipt |
| Credit given on trust | An over-limit invoice held until someone overrides it with a reason |
| Counts twice a year | High-value lines counted on a cycle with the variance priced |
| Reorders when the bay is empty | A low-stock trigger when a sale crosses the reorder point |
How the rollout goes
1
Decide the selling unit for each line before import — a bag of cement, a length of timber, a metre of cable — because an item has one unit and quantities are whole numbers. Loose goods sold by weight are stocked in the smallest whole measure you sell.
2
Set credit limits on contractor accounts before go-live; a customer with no limit is never held.
3
Customer quotations, a delivery note for goods collected from the yard, and separate trade and walk-in prices are not in the product today — the invoice is the first customer document, and each item carries one selling price with a discount per line. Each is commissionable on a written specification.
What you can measure afterwards
Counter sales velocity
Credit holds raised
Receivables aging
Count variance value
Transfer cycle time
Pricing
What it costs for Hardware & Building Supplies
Inventory, counter sales, transfers and account invoicing start on Basic. POS counters with cash-drawer sessions, receivables aging and the workflow that raises a purchase request are on Pro.
Pro plan · Run on automation
KES 5,800 / month
or KES 63,800 billed yearly
Full procurement, sales, accounting and HR (employees, leave, attendance & payroll) plus workflow automation and reporting.
Before you pay anything
30-day free trial
Thirty days of the full platform, every module switched on and no card required. Choose a paid tier whenever you are ready.
See it on your process
Walk through a hardware & building supplies workspace with us.
Bring the spreadsheet or the paper form you want to retire. We will show you the first workflow in AWRA with your own items, people and locations.
Questions
What Hardware & Building Supplies buyers ask.
Can we sell cable by the metre and nails by the kilo?
Yes, if the metre or the kilo is the unit you stock the item in. Quantities are whole numbers and an item has one unit, so half a kilo needs the item stocked in smaller units.
Can we give contractors a quotation before they commit?
Not as a customer document today — the invoice is the first one AWRA produces for a customer. Customer quotations are commissionable work on a written specification.
Do we get trade and walk-in prices?
Each item carries one selling price, with a discount per invoice line. Separate trade and retail price lists are commissionable rather than a setting.
Customer story
Speak to someone who runs it.
We publish a named story only with that organisation’s consent. Ask us and we will put you in touch with a hardware & building supplies reference you can telephone, rather than a quote you cannot check.
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