The Problem
Plenty of hardware stores, mini-markets, pharmacies, and auto parts shops still run on handwritten notebooks, ageing POS terminals, or a spreadsheet only the owner knows how to edit. The cost of that is quiet but constant: a customer asks "how much is this?", and the answer requires walking to the back, finding the boss, or guessing.
The owner becomes the bottleneck for every price. Workers can't answer confidently because they don't have access to the catalog. Shelf labels drift out of date because reprinting them every week isn't realistic. And nobody can say what an item actually cost without digging through supplier invoices.
What We Built
A universal iOS app that puts the whole catalog in every employee's pocket.
Point the camera at a barcode and the price appears in about a second. That single interaction carries most of the product: anyone on the floor can answer a pricing question without leaving the customer, and without asking anyone.
Behind the scan sits a searchable catalog with live stock counts and supplier history — who sold you the item, at what price, and when. Adding new products is deliberately fast: scan the barcode, take a photo, set a price, done.
Pricing that respects who's asking
The same product screen shows different things depending on the role, so cost data stays with the people who should see it.
Owners and managers see the full breakdown — catalog net, VAT, discount, their own cost, and profit per unit. Workers and cashiers see only the sale price, which is all they need to serve a customer. Managers are scoped to their branch. Bulk repricing lets an owner adjust a whole product group in one action, with a sample preview before committing, and discounts can be set per group or per customer for loyalty pricing.
Built for the shops that actually use it
Stockuro works offline. Guest mode runs fully local, so a shop can try the app on the floor before creating an account or trusting it with their catalog.
It was designed first for stores across MENA, Israel, and Palestine, which made right-to-left layout a foundational requirement rather than a late retrofit — Hebrew and Arabic are treated as first-class throughout the interface, not bolted on after the English version shipped. The app runs on iPhone and iPad from iOS 15.1 onward, so it works on the hardware stores already have rather than requiring new devices.
The Impact
The bottleneck moves off the owner. Prices on the floor stay current without reprinting labels, workers stop guessing, and customers stop waiting while someone goes to check. Stockuro is free for stores — no per-SKU fees, no per-user fees, and no expiring trial — with paid upgrades reserved for things a growing shop opts into later, like an online storefront, multi-branch support, and analytics.