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Accounting and point of sale, in one system

Books that balance.
Business in the green.

Vertbooks runs your sales counter, tracks your stock, keeps your books and shows you how the business is doing — all in one place, in any web browser.

Accounting

Sales and accounts are one system.

Every sale, payment, purchase, expense and bank transfer is written into the accounts automatically. Change a document and the accounts change with it. Cancel it and the entry is removed.

The system will not accept an entry that does not balance, so your accounts always add up. You can shape your own chart of accounts, and enter opening balances from the day you switched.

How the accounts work

Money

Old figures never change when a rate changes.

Every document saves three things: the currency, the exchange rate on that day, and the value in your own currency. Change a rate tomorrow and only new documents use it. Old ones stay as they were.

So last year’s profit stays last year’s profit, even when the pound moves. What you paid for stock in March is still what you paid in March.

How money is stored
A demonstration: changing today's pound rate moves current quotes but never moves saved purchases.

£1 = $1.32

Drag it. Watch which column moves.

Today's quotes

Priced at today’s pound rate.

  • Product A — 40 units £1,760 → $2,323
  • Product B — 60 units £1,240 → $1,637
  • Product C — 25 units £890 → $1,175

March's purchases

Each one keeps the rate from the day it was made.

  • PUR-0014 £4,462 → $5,667
  • PUR-0019 £1,796 → $2,281
  • PUR-0026 £2,310 → $2,934

Stored at 1.27 on 14 March. That is what they will always say.

Point of sale

If the cash drawer is short, the system says so.

The cashier counts the float at the start of a shift and the cash at the end. The system never closes a shift by itself and never rounds a difference away.

If the drawer is $4.00 short, the report shows it, and keeps showing it. One short drawer is a bad day. The same person short every shift is a pattern.

How shifts work

Selling

A sale at the counter is a normal invoice.

There is no separate sales system for the register. Every sale at the counter is an ordinary invoice, with the register and the shift recorded on it.

That is why customer balances, returns, stock, the accounts and all 31 reports work exactly the same at the counter as they do in the office.

See the point of sale

Insight

The questions every owner asks.

Not a wall of charts — the numbers that change what you do this week.

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Which shop is doing best

Sales and profit for each branch, together or one at a time.

Sales against costs, month by month

Twelve months on one chart. Nothing to export.

Your busiest hours

Sales by hour of the day, so you can plan staff around real trade.

Which cashier is short, and how often

One bad day is a bad day. The total column shows a pattern.

Every stock movement, with a reason

One line per movement: what changed, what is left, and who did it.

What is about to run out

Each product against its own reorder level.

One product, its full history

Every sale, return, purchase and adjustment on one tab.

Which registers are open right now

Who is on them, for how long, and how much cash should be in the drawer.

Point of sale

Included on every plan, not just the expensive ones.

Scan items, split a payment between cash and card, give change, take returns and exchanges.

Open a shift with a counted float, move cash to the safe during the day, and close on a real count.

Everything the register does

Reports

31 reports. All of them export to PDF and Excel.

Plain names, so you can find what you sold last month without learning new words. Every report lives in one Reports Center: star the ones you use, and have any of them emailed to you on a schedule.

  • Export to PDF & Excel
  • Star your favourites
  • Email on a schedule

  • Sales
  • Sales returns
  • Best sellers
  • Sales by customer
  • Sales by item
  • Customer balance summary
  • AR aging summary
  • AR aging details
  • Customer due
  • Payments received

  • Purchases
  • Purchase returns
  • Expenses
  • Payment summary
  • Vendor balance summary
  • AP aging summary
  • Payments made
  • Vendors

  • Inventory
  • Stock summary
  • Stock by branch

  • Profit & loss
  • Cash flow statement
  • Balance sheet
  • Trial balance
  • General ledger
  • Income
  • Branch comparison

  • Sales by sales person
  • Cashier performance
  • POS takings

Pricing

Three plans and a one-time licence.

Priced per company, not per user. Point of sale, a 14-day free trial and no per-transaction fees on every plan.

Billing period

Starter

One shop, a small team.

£ 13 / month

£ 100 / year

Explore details
  • 2 users, 1 branch
  • POS, barcodes, receipts
  • Sales and purchase invoices
  • Customers and vendors
  • Basic stock, 5 reports
  • Email support, 24 h

Professional

Several branches, full accounts.

£ 55 / month

£ 480 / year

Explore details
  • All of Standard, 15 users
  • 3 branches
  • Stock transfers
  • Chart of accounts, journals
  • Consolidated reports
  • 4 h support, on-site training

One-time licence

Own it, on your own server.

£ 4,500 once

No monthly fee.

Explore details
  • All of Professional
  • Unlimited users
  • On your own server
  • Setup and training included
  • Priority support, 1 h
  • 12 months of updates

Questions

Straight answers.

Do I subscribe, or buy it once?

Either. The three plans are paid monthly or yearly and we host them for you. The one-time licence is paid once, installed on your own server, and never expires. If you stop paying for support after the first year, the software keeps working exactly as it is.

Is there a free trial?

Yes — 14 days on every plan. We set it up with your own products and customers, not sample data. Send us a recent day of sales and your product list, and the trial is ready within two working days.

What happens to old figures when an exchange rate changes?

Nothing. Every document saves the currency, the rate on that day, and the value in your own currency. Changing a rate only affects new documents. Old ones stay as they were.

Can stock go below zero?

No. All stock changes go through one place, which refuses to take stock below zero and records every movement. There is no back door.

What if a cashier’s drawer is short?

The difference is recorded on that shift and left there. The system never closes a shift by itself and never adjusts a count. The cashier report adds up each person’s differences over time.

Do I need a separate system for the point of sale?

No. A sale at the register is an ordinary invoice with the register and shift recorded on it. That is why customer balances, returns, stock, the accounts and all 31 reports work the same at the counter as in the office.

Start a trial

See it with your own numbers.

A forty-minute walkthrough with your own products and branches, then a 14-day free trial set up the same way. We will show you the difficult parts too.

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