Honest comparison

Wared or a notebook and Excel?

A notebook and Excel are fine at the start. Once sales grow or someone works the till with you, manual bookkeeping costs money and time.

What you are buying

Wared POS One-time plan: USD 199, paid once.

1 branch and 1 warehouse · unlimited users, products and transactions · software only, no hardware.

Feature	Wared	Notebook	Excel
End-of-day sales	Live sales report, per shift	Adding up by hand, easy to get wrong	Formulas break, files multiply
Stock	Quantity drops with every sale, alert before an item runs out	You find out when a customer asks	Update quantities by hand
Expiry	Alert before items expire	Found too late	A column that gets forgotten
Staff	Permissions per employee and an activity log	Nobody knows who sold what	The file is open to everyone
Shifts	A report per shift and cashier on one screen	One notebook per shift	One sheet per shift, merged by hand
Customer invoice	Printed on the receipt printer	Handwritten slip	Not built for it
Supplier dues	Purchases and supplier instalments linked to stock	Scattered pages	A separate sheet
Cost	One payment in your currency, no monthly fees (e.g. AED 749, or USD 199 in Saudi Arabia and other countries)	Pen and paper	Excel

Common questions

Do I need special hardware?

No. Wared runs in the browser on a computer, tablet or phone, and works with receipt printers, barcode scanners and cash drawers.

What if the internet drops?

If the sales screen is open you keep selling, and invoices sync automatically when the connection is back.

My items are in Excel or a notebook. How do I start?

Import the Excel file inside Wared, or send the file or clear photos on WhatsApp and we set up your items for free.

Is there a monthly subscription?

No. One branch is a single payment, with no monthly fees.

Pay once in your currency, and we set up your shop for free on WhatsApp.

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