What if I still want to keep a paper backup?

You can, but most owners find they stop needing it once the app's record is the one they actually trust.

Is this only useful once I have a lot of stock?

It helps from the first sale — the main cost of a notebook isn't volume, it's that a tax return or a stock check takes real time to reconstruct by hand whenever you need one.

StashBill vs Pen & Paper

How StashBill compares to a notebook and a calculator

A notebook costs nothing to start. Here's what it costs to keep using once the shop gets busy.

A lot of small shops start — and stay — on a notebook and a calculator, and for a slow counter with one person running it, that's a perfectly reasonable choice. StashBill exists for the point where remembering prices, tallying stock by hand, and reconstructing a GST return from handwritten receipts starts taking longer than the sales themselves.

Side by side

Feature	StashBill	Pen-and-paper bookkeeping
Stock counts	Updated automatically every time you scan a sale	Counted by hand, usually once a day at best
Price lookups	Scanned or looked up instantly	Remembered, or checked against a separate price list
Tax calculation	Applied automatically per item and country	Calculated by hand per invoice
Filing a tax return	Exportable records, ready to hand to your accountant	Manually tallied from a stack of handwritten receipts
What's actually in stock right now	One number, always current	Only as accurate as the last manual count

Details for Pen-and-paper bookkeeping checked on 19 October 2026. Features and pricing change — check the provider's own site before deciding.

Where StashBill is the better fit

Nothing to tally by hand at the end of the day — the count is already right.

Tax fields fill themselves in instead of being calculated per invoice from memory.

A record you can export and hand to an accountant, instead of a stack of paper to transcribe.

Worth considering

A notebook has zero setup, zero cost, and works with no device at all — genuinely simpler for a very small, very slow counter.

Some owners know their stock and prices well enough by memory that formal tracking feels like overhead, at least at first.

Switching over

There's no ledger to transcribe on day one — start scanning what's in front of you, and StashBill builds the record from there.

Coming soon — see launch status

Frequently asked

No — most shops start by scanning items as they come up, whether that's a new delivery or a sale, and let the record build up naturally.

Coming soon to Android, iOS, Windows & macOS

StashBill is in final development. It will be free forever for one device — no card required.

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