Four thousand SKUs, and twelve rupees each
Stationery is the item-count problem in its purest form. No single line is worth much, so nobody wants to spend a minute on it — but there are thousands of them, they sell in dozens and reams and boxes, and the entire year’s cash flow is decided in two months around admissions.
- Fast item search
- Per-item tax category
- Credit limit & days
- Multi-warehouse
- Reorder levels
- GSTR-1 & 3B
What makes this trade different
The item master is the business
Find the right item out of thousands, fast, or the counter stops. A slow search on an item list is not a minor annoyance here — it is the bottleneck.
Season concentrates the risk
Buy heavy before school reopens and you carry the cost of everything you misjudged for a year. The buying decision is made months before the sale.
Two very different customers
A walk-in pays now; a school or an office buys on a purchase order and pays in forty-five days. One book has to serve both without one distorting the other.
Rates are not uniform
Notebooks, pens, files and printers do not all sit at the same GST rate. Deciding tax per invoice, per line, is how a return goes wrong.
Features that exist, doing the actual work
Everything below is in the build you can download today.
An item master built for volume
SKU, barcode and alias fields on every item, with lookups going through indexed SQLite queries on the local machine — the app targets sub-50ms on hot-path queries, so search does not degrade as the catalogue grows.
Tax category travels with the item
The GST rate and HSN live on the item master, not in the biller’s memory. A mixed invoice of notebooks and printers taxes each line correctly, and the HSN-wise summary falls out of the same data.
Corporate accounts on real terms
Credit limit and credit days per party, bill-by-bill allocation of every receipt, and ageing that tells you which school invoice is past forty-five days rather than what the school owes in total.
Stock split across shop and store
Multi-warehouse tracking with proper movements behind it, so the season stock sitting in the back store is a position you can read, not an estimate.
Reorder, minimum and maximum levels
Set them per item so the re-buy decision is anchored to a number you chose in a calm month, not to a gap you noticed on a busy one.
GST returns without re-entry
GSTR-1, GSTR-3B and e-invoice all read the vouchers you already raised at the counter.
Moving from older accounting software?
Where Acronix is genuinely different — and where the tool you have already does the job. No invented weaknesses.
- Data at restAES-256 encrypted file — unreadable if the disk is copiedUsually a plain local data folder
- Switching machinesSign in on the new device and your books sync downSurrender the licence, copy a backup, restore by hand
- Working offlineFully offline-first — no internet needed to runOffline too, but cloud backup is bolt-on
- Keyboard-first entryEvery action has a shortcut; hands never leave the keysKeyboard-driven — the one thing they got right
- The interfaceA modern, high-density UI built this decadeFunctional, but a 1990s screen
- GST suiteGSTR-1, 3B, e-invoice, e-way bill from the same vouchersPresent, often as paid add-ons
Questions
Stationery & Office Supplies — questions, answered
With a few thousand small SKUs, does item search stay fast?
Yes. Every item carries SKU, barcode and alias fields, and lookups run against indexed local SQLite queries with a sub-50ms target on the hot path — so finding one line out of thousands does not degrade as the catalogue grows.
Notebooks, pens and printers sit at different GST rates — is a mixed bill a problem?
No. The GST rate and HSN live on the item master, not in the biller's memory, so a mixed invoice taxes each line correctly and the HSN-wise summary falls out of the same data.
Can I handle a school or office that buys on a PO and pays in forty-five days?
Yes. Credit limit and credit days sit on the party's ledger master, every receipt allocates bill by bill, and ageing tells you which invoice is past forty-five days rather than what the account owes in total.
Can I plan season stock across shop and back store?
Multi-warehouse tracking with real movements behind it means the season stock in the back store is a position you can read, and reorder, minimum and maximum levels per item anchor the re-buy to a number you set in a calm month.
Is GST — GSTR-1, GSTR-3B, e-invoice — included?
Yes, in the single plan. All three read the vouchers you already raised at the counter, so there is no re-entry into a separate return tool.
Does it run offline and by keyboard?
Yes. The app is fully keyboard-driven and the book is a local encrypted database, so the counter keeps moving through a dropped connection.
Try it on your own books
14 days, every feature unlocked, no credit card. Your data stays encrypted on your own machine.