Inventory & Stock · For Zimbabwe

Track inventory on your phone and know what you actually have.

Stock that 'disappears' quietly eats 10–25% of a shop's margins. Swipee automates inventory: scan a barcode, sell, and stock decrements by itself in USD or ZiG — with low-stock alerts before you run dry.

For most Zimbabwean shops, stock lives in a notebook and in someone's head. Sales happen over the counter, nobody writes them down properly, and by month-end you cannot say what you had, what you sold, or what walked out. That guesswork is how profit leaks away.

Swipee replaces the notebook with an inventory that runs on the same phone as your till. Add items with prices and minimum reorder levels, scan barcodes at checkout, and every sale removes the right quantity automatically. Low-stock warnings fire before bestsellers sell out, and you get full history for audits and reordering.

Because Swipee was built in Zimbabwe, dual currency is native: item prices and stock value are tracked cleanly in USD and ZiG, and your dashboard shows today's sales, margins, and stock value per branch.

What you get with Swipee

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Automatic deduction

Every sale removes stock in the same transaction, so the till and the ledger can never disagree.

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Barcode everything

Scan barcodes with the phone camera to add items and ring up sales faster.

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Low-stock alerts

Set reorder points and get warned before your bestsellers run out and customers walk away.

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Categories & variants

Organise items by category, with variants, SKUs, sizes, batches, and expiry dates.

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Full audit trail

See every stock movement — sales, additions, corrections — so shrinkage is visible, not mysterious.

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Multi-store stock

Watch each branch's stock and performance from one owner dashboard, including cash drawn or loose change.

Phone inventory vs notebook & spreadsheet

Stock control apps only work if they sit where the sale happens. Swipee puts inventory inside the till, not in a separate tool.

With SwipeeThe old way
Where stock is recordedInside the same app as the tillSeparate notebook or spreadsheet
Stock updatesAutomatic on every saleManual, remembered, or end-of-day
Low-stock warningsAutomatic reorder alertsNone — you find out at the shelf
Barcode supportCamera scans items inNot available
Multi-currency valueUSD & ZiG nativeManual conversion
Shrinkage visibilityAudit trail of every moveUnexplained losses every month

Frequently asked questions

How does Swipee stock control work?

You add items with prices and (optionally) minimum levels. When you ring up a sale, the exact quantity is removed from inventory in the same transaction. Low-stock alerts then tell you what to reorder and when.

Do I need to buy a barcode scanner?

No. Swipee reads barcodes with your phone camera. If you have existing barcodes, scan them in; if not, you can create your own labels.

Can I track inventory in both USD and ZiG?

Yes. Prices and stock value are tracked natively in USD and ZiG, and sales can mix both currencies in a single transaction without manual conversions.

Can I manage more than one shop?

Yes. The owner dashboard shows stock and performance for every store branch in one place, so you can reorder and compare without visiting each counter.

Does the inventory app work offline?

The till is built for intermittently connected counters. Sales queue on the phone and sync when the network is available, so you can keep selling during outages.

Is the inventory app really free?

Stock control, barcode scanning, and the owner dashboard are free for merchants during the Zimbabwe pilot, alongside the cash till.

Stop guessing. Track stock on your phone.

Join the free pilot, scan your shelf into Swipee, and get low-stock alerts the moment stock runs low.