The shelf and the system disagree
Back room, shop floor and godown all hold the same SKU, but the software knows one number. Every stocktake produces a mystery delta nobody can explain.
Supermarkets & Grocery Stores
Supermarket software built for a queue at the till
Thousands of SKUs, and a queue that never stops.
A supermarket lives on two numbers: how fast the till moves and whether the shelf matches the system. VAP keeps barcode billing quick at every terminal, holds stock separately for the shop floor, the back room and the warehouse, and turns purchase orders into goods receipts that post straight to cost. Your online grocery orders draw from the same shelf.
What gets in the way
Where supermarkets & grocery stores lose time and money
Billing slows down at peak
Saturday evening is when the software should be fastest and usually is not. A slow lookup at the till costs you the queue and the customer.
Buying is guesswork
Reorder decisions come from walking the aisles rather than from what actually sold. You are either overstocked on slow lines or out of the fast ones.
What you get
Set up for supermarkets & grocery stores
Barcode-first POS
Terminals per outlet, scan-to-bill, and every tender — cash, card, UPI, wallet — reconciled in one place at end of day.
Stock per location
Shop floor, back room and warehouse are separate locations in one ledger. You always know what is where, not just how much you own.
Deep catalogue
Categories, variants and pack sizes keep ten thousand SKUs navigable at the till and in purchasing.
Purchase orders
PO to goods receipt with line-level capture. Supplier price lists keep landed cost accurate as rates move.
Buy in cases, sell in units
Receive cartons, stock pieces, sell either. UOM conversions carry cost correctly the whole way through.
Expiry & batch tracking
FEFO picking on dairy, packaged food and anything else that dates, so near-expiry stock moves before it is written off.
GST built in
Every sale and purchase lands in the same books. GST reports come from those records, per registration.
Multi-outlet from day one
Add outlets without re-implementing. Roles, prices and stock resolve per site, and transfers are recorded.
In practice
What that looks like on a normal day
- 01
End-of-day that reconciles itself
Each terminal closes against its own till. Cash, card, UPI and wallet totals land in the same books, so the day balances without a spreadsheet.
- 02
Reordering from what sold
Purchase orders raised against real movement and supplier price lists, so fast lines stay on the shelf and slow ones stop tying up cash.
- 03
Online grocery, same shelf
Home-delivery orders draw from the same per-outlet stock as the counter. The last packet cannot sell twice.
- 04
Second and third store
A new outlet gets its own stock, prices and staff roles on day one, while you still see the group consolidated.
The apps behind it
InventoryOne stock position per outlet and warehousePoint of SaleTerminals per site, every tender in the same booksPurchasingPurchase orders to goods receipts, lot by lotInvoicingInvoices, payments, credit notes and outstandingTax & GSTFail-closed tax, multiple registrations per entityAccountingDouble-entry books, built as you tradeCatalogueVariants, modifiers and pack sizes, priced per channelUnits & MRPBuy in cases, stock in units, sell in eitherBatches & ExpiryFirst-expiry-first-out, per site
Online
Your website, on the same stock
Vritti builds the storefront and deploys it on Vritti Cloud, on your own domain. Connecting it to VAP is optional — but when it is connected, there is one catalogue and one inventory instead of two.
An online grocery store
Vritti builds and deploys a storefront reading live catalogue and per-outlet stock, so customers order from the branch that will actually fulfil them.
Delivery apps as sales channels
Aggregator channels get their own catalogue and pricing per outlet, so commission-adjusted pricing stops being a manual exercise.
FAQ
Supermarket — Frequently asked questions
Is this billing software fast enough for a supermarket at peak?
Yes. POS terminals run per outlet with barcode-first billing, and each terminal keeps its own till. Every tender type — cash, card, UPI, wallet — is captured at the point of sale and reconciled into the same books.
Can it track stock separately for the shop floor and the godown?
Yes. Shop floor, back room, warehouse and any other location are distinct sites or locations in one inventory ledger. Every movement between them is recorded, so a stocktake variance has an audit trail rather than being a mystery.
Does it handle buying in cartons and selling in pieces?
Yes. Unit-of-measure conversions let you receive by the case, stock by the piece and sell either, with cost carried correctly through each conversion so margin stays accurate.
Can a kirana or small grocery store use this?
Yes. A single-outlet store uses the same system as a chain — one site, one legal entity. You add outlets later without re-implementing, because multi-site is in the model from the start.
Does it support online grocery ordering?
Yes. Vritti builds your online store and deploys it on Vritti Cloud reading the same stock as your counter, so what customers see online is what the branch actually holds.
Get started
See it shaped like your business.
Tell us what you sell, how many outlets and registered firms you run and where you sell. We will walk you through a real system set up like yours — not a generic demo.