How much inventory management software costs depends on how it is priced, and for the owner of a handful of stores the only figure that compares one vendor with another is all the stores for a year, divided by the stores. Per-user and per-line prices hide the chain's growth in the invoice; a per-store price shows it. What the price should buy is the record, because the arithmetic a small chain needs, the transfer between two stores, the shrink from a count, the turns, the par and the reorder, the consolidation across the entities, is free on this site, sheet by sheet, with no account. This page sets the cost against that line.
The figure that compares vendors
Ask for the price of every store for twelve months and divide by the stores; that is the cost per store per year, and it is the only figure that survives a vendor changing from per-user to per-line pricing. Then ask what the price steps to when a fourth store opens. Rollupvo Pro is one flat monthly price for every store and every entity, so the answer to the second question is nothing.
What the cost is buying
Not the arithmetic: the transfer sheet, the count sheet, the turnover sheet, the par sheet, the shrink and waste sheet and the consolidation schedule on this site each work their figure from the owner's own numbers, free. The cost is buying the record of those figures against each store and entity, the reminders when a count or a par is due, the owner's name on the paperwork, and the export when the accountant or the buyer asks. A quote priced above what that record is worth to the chain is a quote to decline.
Hours are a cost too
The owner's time counting, transferring and reconciling is the larger cost on most small chains, and software that makes the count faster earns its price before any feature is counted. The count sheet on this site takes a store's opening stock, receipts, sales and count and returns shrink, turns and days on hand in a minute; the paid plan keeps those counts so the next one starts from the record.
Questions people ask about how much does inventory management software cost
How much does inventory management software cost a small chain?
Whatever every store for a year comes to, divided by the stores; that is the figure that compares vendors. Rollupvo Pro is one flat monthly price for every store and every entity, and the sheets on this site are free.
Is the arithmetic part of what I pay for?
It should not be: the transfer, count, turnover, par, shrink and consolidation sheets on this site work every figure free with no account. The price buys the record, the reminders and the export.
What happens to the price when a store opens?
Per-store and per-user prices step up; Rollupvo Pro does not, because it is one price for the whole set of stores and entities.