Point of sale · Inventory · Double-entry ledger
You sell your products. You pay your people.
But are you actually making money?
Most shops know today's cash. Few know this month's profit. Artho posts every sale, purchase and expense to a real double-entry ledger while you work — so the answer is one report away, for every company you run.
- Default currency
- ৳ BDT
- Fiscal year starts
- 1 July
- Books
- Double-entry, per company
- Day closes at
- 23:59 BST
One ordinary Tuesday
You did four things. The ledger did the accounting.
Nobody opened a journal. Each row below was posted by the screen you were already on — and the codes are the real ones from the chart of accounts Artho seeds for every new company.
A retailer takes 40 copies on credit.
One order screen. Stock drops, a receivable opens, VAT is set aside. You typed a memo; the ledger got three lines.
| Dr | 1300 | Accounts Receivable | 10,500 |
| Cr | 4100 | Sales Revenue | 10,000 |
| Cr | 2200 | VAT Payable | 500 |
…and the stock is costed at weighted average.
Nobody looked this up. The cost came from the supplier entries you already recorded.
| Dr | 5100 | Cost of Goods Sold | 6,400 |
| Cr | 1400 | Inventory | 6,400 |
They pay, and you knock ৳500 off for settling early.
The receivable closes to zero. The discount is not a fudge in the price — it is its own account.
| Dr | 1100 | Cash | 10,000 |
| Dr | 4300 | Sales Discounts | 500 |
| Cr | 1300 | Accounts Receivable | 10,500 |
Rent goes out.
Pick the expense type once; it remembers which account it belongs to.
| Dr | 5300 | Rent Expense | 18,000 |
| Cr | 1100 | Cash | 18,000 |
The day closes itself.
A scheduled job writes today’s balance next to yesterday’s. At month end you open Reports and the trial balance already balances.
What you stop doing
The evening re-typing goes first.
Instead of
A POS app plus accounting software
Two systems, a monthly CSV export, and a reconciliation argument.
Every sale, receipt, purchase and expense writes its own balanced entry the moment it is saved.
Instead of
Accounting software alone
Someone re-types the day’s sales into journals each evening.
The POS is the source document. The ledger is downstream and automatic.
Instead of
A spreadsheet per company
Formulas drift. Last year’s file is the only backup. Two people cannot use it at once.
Per-company books, role-scoped access, and a daily balance chain you can audit day by day.
Instead of
An ERP
Months of implementation and a per-seat licence.
Sign up, add a company, sell in the same hour. The chart of accounts seeds itself.
Five rules the ledger keeps
Decisions worth knowing before you commit.
Accounting software is mostly a set of promises about what will not happen to your numbers. These are ours, and each one is checkable in the app.
Read the manual- 01
Nothing is deleted from the ledger.
Edit a sale and the old entry is reversed, a fresh one posted. The audit trail keeps both.
- 02
Books are per company. Access is per person.
One login, five companies, and a member who can see two of them and only the modules they need.
- 03
Amounts are integers.
Every line is stored in paisa as a big integer. Floating-point rounding never reaches a balance sheet.
- 04
The daily balance is a chain.
Each day stores yesterday’s closing figure beside its own, so a broken link shows instead of hiding in a running total.
- 05
You are never locked out of your numbers.
Every report prints or saves as a PDF. Stop paying and the account goes read-only — nothing is deleted.
Who it is for
Businesses where “who owes me what” is a daily question, not a year-end one.
If every sale is anonymous and settled in cash, a till app is enough. If half your sales go out on credit and come back over weeks — inventory, named customers, dues — this is the shape of the problem Artho was built for.
Publishers & book distributors
Title catalog, specimen copies to teachers and reps, credit sales to retailers, yearly bill summaries with settlement discounts.
Wholesale & distribution
Supplier stock entries, weighted-average cost, per-customer receivables, courier charges per memo.
Retail shops & showrooms
Fast order entry with live stock checks, cash / paid / due split, daily cash position.
Manufacturers & small factories
Raw-material purchases into inventory, staff salaries, owner capital and drawings, monthly profit and loss.
Service businesses with a product line
Direct receipts posted to any income account, category-mapped expenses, full accounting without inventory pressure.
Groups running several companies
One login, separate books per company, one team with per-company access.
Poor fit, honestly: restaurants needing table and kitchen orders, hourly billing against timesheets, and per-branch stock inside one company — stock lives at company level today.
Books kept on Artho
Plans
One subscription. Every company under it.
Every plan starts with a 14-day trial, no card. A plan sets companies, members, and journal entries per month. Pay by mobile banking or bank transfer; the plan is active within hours.
Basic
- —1 company
- —2 team members
- —1,000 transactions / month
- —Core POS & accounting
Standard
Most chosen- —3 companies
- —10 team members
- —3,000 transactions / month
- —Core POS & accounting
- —Tax module
- —Priority support
Pro
- —10 companies
- —Unlimited team members
- —10,000 transactions / month
- —Core POS & accounting
- —Tax module
- —Priority support
A walkthrough on your own numbers
Bring last month’s khata. We will post it together.
Thirty minutes on WhatsApp. We set up your companies, load your products and opening balances, and you watch the first trial balance come out even. Answered during business hours, Bangladesh time.