SoftBo Desktop

Everything that happens to stock, on one machine, and none of it needs the internet.

SoftBo Desktop is the hub: the machine in the shop that holds the count of record. It is also where deliveries are booked in, orders are picked and shipped, labels are printed and the books are reconciled. The count is the part people arrive for. It is not the largest part.

The hub: the machine that holds the count of record — and the deliveries, the orders and the labels.

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Count map · Tuesday3 phones

Olive oil 1L−6 · €41.80

Coffee beans 1kg−2 · €23.00

Rice 5kg+1 · €4.10

Salt 500g+1 · €0.60

Recount · Accept · Set aside

The hub

One machine in the shop holds the count of record. It shows the map filling in live, who is on which aisle, and the running variance in money.

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Count map · Tuesday3 phones

Olive oil 1L−6 · €41.80

Coffee beans 1kg−2 · €23.00

Rice 5kg+1 · €4.10

Salt 500g+1 · €0.60

Recount · Accept · Set aside

The phones

Any phone becomes a scanner. Each sees only its own zone, bays lock when opened, and the phones relay for each other when the Wi-Fi drops — iPhone to iPhone, or Android to Android.

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A4·03Aisle A

Counted here

212

Tinned tomatoes 400g+3

Passata 690gok

Chopped tomatoes−2

Bay locked by this phone

The review

Variances sorted by the money at stake, with who counted what. Recount, accept, or set aside — nothing is written until you approve it.

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Variances · by money at stake14 open

Olive oil 1L−6 · €41.80

Coffee beans 1kg−2 · €23.00

Rice 5kg+1 · €4.10

Salt 500g+1 · €0.60

Recount · Accept · Set aside

The labels

Design and print shelf labels from the same catalogue you count against, so the label and the record cannot drift apart.

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Olive oil, extra virgin 1L

A4·03 · 5901234123457 €8.90

The history

Every count, correction and write to your system of record, kept on the hub and exportable as a PDF for the accountant.

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History · last twelve countsexportable

Olive oil 1L−6 · €41.80

Coffee beans 1kg−2 · €23.00

Rice 5kg+1 · €4.10

Salt 500g+1 · €0.60

Recount · Accept · Set aside

The count is the smallest thing on this machine.

A stocktake is a week of the year. The rest of it is what the same machine does on the other fifty-one, and it is the honest answer to why a hub on a desk costs more than a hub on a tablet.

A stocktake is a week of the year. Here is the rest of it.

Receiving

Book a delivery in against what was ordered, line by line, and see what arrived short.

Orders

Sales orders in, and what each one is still waiting on.

Fulfilment

Pick lists that go to a phone, short picks that get their own chip, and what is ready to leave.

Shipping

Carriers, shipping labels and tracking numbers, from the order that made them.

Contacts

Customers and suppliers, with the conversation attached to the record rather than in somebody’s inbox.

Accounting

Each ledger laid out the way an accountant reads it, and what has not been posted yet.

Insights

What was written off, month by month, and how this month compares.

Import

A supplier’s spreadsheet, or a delivery note read with a camera, matched against your catalogue before anything is saved.

Search

One box across products, locations, orders, documents and contacts.

Stock

What is on hand, where it is, and what moved it.

Records

The documents themselves — filed, searchable, and attached to what they belong to.

Custom fields

The columns your business needs that we did not think of, on every screen that matters.

Not on this list, and deliberately: batches with expiry dates, serial numbers and fractional units. Those are on SoftBo Inventory and not here. The compare table on the products page says so in three rows rather than hiding it.

Three things come out of a count, and the spreadsheet is the one that gets used.

A spreadsheet

An Excel workbook with a summary sheet, who was assigned what, which phone counted it, and every discrepancy on its own row. This is the one a supervisor opens to ask a question of the numbers.

A workbook with a summary sheet, the assignments, the devices and every discrepancy.

A CSV

Plain, and it opens anywhere. If your system is not on the integrations page, this is how the count reaches it.

Plain, and it opens anywhere.

A PDF laid out to be signed off

The one to file. It ends in a signature block with blank lines rather than a typed name — the point of a signature is that a person put it there. It is not a digitally signed file, and we will not call it one.

The one to file. Blank lines for a pen — not a digitally signed file, and we will not call it one.

Your floor staff read it in their own language. Ten of them.

German, Spanish, French, Italian, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Ukrainian and English — and that means the application, not this website: about 1,750 strings each, every button, every error, every column heading.

German, Spanish, French, Italian, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Ukrainian and English — the application, not this website.

There is a version with the part that talks to us taken out.

The Offline edition is SoftBo Desktop with no sign-in, no licence check, no account and no connectors. €299 once, and nothing in it can expire. You give up the push to Odoo, Shopify and ERPNext — which is the point of it, not a limitation we forgot to remove.

€299 once. No sign-in, no connectors, nothing that expires.

What it costs, beside the subscription

What it runs on.

Operating systems

macOS 12 or later · Windows [VERSION] or later

SoftBo Companion

iOS 15.5 or later · Android 7.0 or later

Minimum hardware

[RAM] of memory · 250 MB of free disk, plus the count file

Phones tested at once

[N]

Largest catalogue tested

[N] products

Offline duration tested

[N] days

[SPEC TABLE] These are the facts a buyer checks before downloading, and guessing them is worse than leaving them out. Each value needs a real measurement and a row in CLAIMS.md before it ships.

See it on your own stock.

Free for a month, no card. It runs on the machine you already have.

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