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What is Stash?

Stash is modern inventory management for small businesses — track stock across locations, automate reorders, and connect your POS so sales deduct stock automatically.

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What is Stash?

Stash is inventory management software built for small and multi-location businesses — coffee shops, retail stores, restaurants, franchises, beauty studios, and small chains. It replaces spreadsheets, clipboards, and clunky enterprise software with one fast, visual app that tracks every item across every location.

The idea is simple: you tell Stash what you stock and where, connect your POS, and Stash keeps your inventory accurate automatically. No more guessing what's running low or doing midnight stock counts.

What Stash does

  • Tracks stock across all your locations in real time, on web and mobile

  • Auto-deducts components from inventory when you sell, using Blueprints (recipes / bills of materials)

  • Tells you exactly when to reorder based on consumption, supplier lead times, and safety buffers

  • Manages purchase orders end-to-end — draft, send, receive (full or partial), track discrepancies

  • Handles stock transfers between your locations with full audit trails

  • Sends low-stock alerts so you don't run out of what sells

  • Connects to your POS (Square, SumUp, Odoo, more coming) so sales automatically update stock

  • Lets you ask questions in plain English via the Ask Stash AI assistant (BETA)

Who Stash is for

Stash is built for businesses that:

  • Sell physical things, including made-to-order items, bundles, and kits

  • Operate one or more locations (one shop or twenty)

  • Want their stock numbers to be accurate without hours of manual work each week

  • Are tired of spreadsheets but don't want enterprise complexity or cost

Typical users include independent cafés, restaurant groups, retail boutiques, hardware stores, beauty studios, and growing franchises.

Core concepts (the Stash glossary)

  • Item — anything you stock (a bag of coffee beans, a pair of jeans, a candle).

  • Shop (location) — a physical place where items are stored and sold. You can have unlimited shops on the right plan.

  • Supplier — a vendor you buy from. Each supplier has a lead time, delivery days, and minimum order value.

  • Purchase Order (PO) — an order you send to a supplier, then receive into inventory.

  • Stock Transfer — moving items between two of your shops.

  • Blueprint — the bill of materials for a finished product. Used so POS sales auto-deduct the right components from stock. Works for recipes, bundles, kits — anything made of parts.

  • Order Planner — a calendar showing exactly what to reorder and when.

  • Ask Stash — an AI assistant that answers questions about your inventory in plain English (BETA).

Plans

  • Core — for single-location businesses

  • Pro — for businesses with two locations

  • Scale — for businesses with three or more locations (custom, book a call)

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