Products
ALINEA Niaga
Manage your trade more easily. Grow your business with more direction. ALINEA Niaga is designed to help traders and small business owners manage everyday trading more practically. From a neighbourhood warung or a grocery store to a clothing shop or a growing retail business, it aims to bring the daily running of the business into one organized digital system.
The challenge
Running a shop means making dozens of small decisions every day. Stock is counted by eye and remembered by habit, sales go into a notebook or never get written down, prices change but not every shelf is updated, and at the end of the week it is hard to say what actually sold, what is running low and what the business really earned. This is not a failing of the owner. It is what happens when the records live in a notebook, a phone and someone’s memory.
Stock that is hard to follow
Goods come in and go out all day. Without a clear record, an empty shelf is noticed only when a customer asks for the item.
Sales that go unrecorded
When the shop is busy, writing things down is the first thing to be skipped, and the day’s takings become an estimate.
Prices kept in memory
Buying prices, selling prices and special arrangements are remembered by one person rather than recorded in one place.
Little view of the business
It is hard to see which goods sell well, which sit unsold, and how this week compares with the last.
Who it is for
Warungs and neighbourhood shops
Owners who serve customers while also keeping the stock and the records themselves.
Grocery and convenience stores
Many kinds of goods, quick turnover and prices that change often.
Clothing and accessories shops
Items that differ by size, style and colour and need to be told apart.
Building material stores
Heavy and varied goods, bought from many different suppliers.
Small retailers
Traders who sell directly to customers and want their business better organized.
Growing trading businesses
Owners adding staff, products or branches who need tidier records than a notebook can offer.
Role in the ALINEA ecosystem
Position in the ecosystem
ALINEA Niaga is the application in the ecosystem for people who sell goods. It is designed as a practical starting point for small traders, and as the business grows it can sit alongside the other ALINEA applications rather than being replaced by them.
Planned capabilities
ALINEA Niaga is a product concept in planning. The capabilities below describe what it is designed to do, and the application is not yet available.
Sales records
Daily sales written down clearly, so takings are no longer a guess.
Stock and inventory
Goods in and out followed, with a signal when an item is running low.
Product and price records
A list of your goods with buying and selling prices in one place.
Suppliers and purchasing
Who you buy from and what you have ordered.
Business activity summaries
A simple view of sales, stock and purchases from day to day.
Made to grow with the business
Most traders do not start with a large system, and they should not need one. ALINEA Niaga is designed so that a business can begin with the everyday basics and add more as the work becomes more demanding.
1. Start simple
Record products, prices and sales so that the day’s trading is written down in one place.
2. Keep stock in view
Follow what comes in and goes out, and see what is running low before it runs out.
3. Add suppliers and purchasing
Record who you buy from and what you ordered, so restocking is planned rather than rushed.
4. Look at the whole business
As staff, branches or finances become more involved, connect to ALINEA Finance, Inventory or Business.
How it connects to other modules
- ALINEA Inventory
A shop whose stock, storage or suppliers become more complex can move to fuller inventory records.
- ALINEA Finance
When bookkeeping, invoices and reports are needed, sales and purchase records can feed ALINEA Finance.
- ALINEA Business
Shops that also take orders or serve regular customers can use ALINEA Business for those relationships.
- ALINEA Sites
A shop that wants to be found online can have a website through ALINEA Sites.
Next step
If you run a shop or trade in goods, tell us how you keep track of stock and sales today, and we will share how ALINEA Niaga is designed to help.
Early conversations are open. Tell us about your requirements and we will share how this module is designed to address them.