Bookshop and stationery software for Oman: cartons, price lists and the school's order number

Nizro opens a bookshop with thirteen ready categories in Arabic and English: school books and revision series; curriculum, academic and language books; general and cultural books; children's books; religious books and Quran; pens and writing; paper and notebooks; office supplies; art and craft; school supplies and bags; calculators and small devices; educational games and gifts; and printing, stamps and services. Every category is set to the standard VAT treatment, which is 5% in Oman, so every line of the invoice carries its tax. During the free trial one tap installs ready demo data: books and stationery with their cartons and a price list, a school with its order numbers, last year's back-to-school sales so the season board suggests your order in cartons, and an old edition beside its new one; delete it all whenever you want.

Every category asks only for its own words. A school book carries author, publisher, language, year of publication, edition, subject, grade, semester, series, binding, pages and curriculum. A notebook carries paper size, paper weight and ruling, a pen its colour and tip size, a children's book or an educational game an age group, and a calculator its model reference. The barcode of a book is its ISBN-13. Nizro checks its check digit when you save it, keeps a printed ISBN as bare digits, and refuses a wrong number or an ISBN-10 in plain words. A new edition is a variant of its title, so last year's and this year's stay apart. The products list searches by name, author, publisher and ISBN, and the Excel import checks each row's ISBN and names the row it refuses.

A product keeps its units: the piece, a pack of 12, a carton of 24, each with its own barcode and its own price, and one unit as the default at the till and one when buying. Stock stays in pieces, so a carton of 24 is 24 pieces on the shelf. The till reads a carton's barcode, or you pick the unit and type the count. The invoice, the quote and the delivery note print the line as a carton count, the pieces inside it and the price of one carton. Purchase orders, receipts, supplier bills, goods sent back and write-offs take cartons too, and where the feature Stock as money and time is on, the stock page says “3 cartons and 7 pcs” beside the pieces of an item that has a default buying unit. The Excel import has a Units sheet.

A school, a shop and a company rarely pay the same price. A manager makes a price list, such as a Schools list: a product's price from a quantity, for the piece or for the carton, or a discount on a whole category, with the dates the list holds. He gives it to each customer who should have it, on the customer's card, and a customer holds one list at most. At the till, on the sale form and on a quote, each line takes its price from his list and says why: “Schools list, 10 and more”. A price you type stays as you typed it, and the discount ceiling of your role judges it from the list price. The Excel import has a Prices sheet.

A school buys on its own order number, its LPO. Type it once on the quote, at the till or on the sale form: it travels from the quote to the sale, prints under the customer on the invoice, the delivery note and the quote, and the sales list finds the sale by it. If you typed it wrong, correct it on the sale page; it never changes an amount. Schools and shops often pay after 60 to 90 days, many with post-dated cheques. Nizro offers your business the features of your trade that meet this, and the Business Owner switches each one on: a credit limit that holds a sale at the till for your one-tap release, and a register of post-dated cheques. Customer aging needs no switch: it says who owes you and for how long. Delivery is a job with an address and a driver, with a printed note that has a Received by line.

You buy with a purchase order, receive in cartons and record what arrived and what was rejected, then enter the supplier's bill, which cannot be entered twice. If a carton arrives damaged or a wrong edition comes, a manager sends the goods back from the receipt before the bill arrives, by the piece or by the carton. They leave the shelf at once, nothing goes on the supplier's account, and a debit note prints. After the bill, a return is a debit note against the bill itself.

Four seasons come back every year: back to school, the book fair, the exams and Ramadan. The Season card on the Insight page takes one of them and shows, for each title, what the same weeks of last year sold, what this year has sold so far, what is on the shelf and what is on its way. Then it suggests the order in whole units of the item's default buying unit: a carton, a pack, or pieces when the item has none. A title with a newer edition beside it gets no order, and the card lists the dead editions at their cost for whoever reads cost. Excel writes the whole list.

Your invoice is structured today: tax on every line, a sequential number that never repeats, and printing in Arabic or English. The system is built to connect to Fawtara, which Decision No. 189/2026 makes mandatory from 1 April 2027 for businesses with annual supplies above OMR 5 million and from 1 October 2027 for every other VAT registered business. Confirm your own date with the Tax Authority. Some things are not built yet, and we say so: delivering one school order in parts, school kits by grade, sale or return from publishers, and commissions for salesmen.