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Tajir Point vs Excel

Excel or Tajir Point for your sales, stock and credit?

Excel is a brilliant tool and many shops start with it. This page is about the day it starts to cost you time, and what a POS does instead.

Written by Muhammad Hasnain, founder of Tajir Point.

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The short answer

Tajir Point is a better fit if…

Choose Tajir Point if you type sales into a sheet after the shop closes, your stock numbers never match the shelf, or more than one person edits the file.

Excel / spreadsheets is a better fit if…

Stay with Excel if you have very few sales a day, one person does all the entries, and you mainly need a list or a budget.

Where each one is stronger

Where Tajir Point helps

  • A sale at the counter updates stock, the customer's khata and your reports at once. Nothing to copy later.
  • No broken formulas, no wrong row pasted over the right one.
  • Each staff member has their own login and only sees what their role allows.
  • Prints receipts and works with barcode scanners and receipt printers.
  • Keeps selling offline and syncs later.
  • Send us your sheets and we load them for free.

Where Excel / spreadsheets is stronger

  • You may already have it, and you can shape a sheet any way you like.
  • Great for one-off sums, budgets and planning.
  • Your accountant probably works in it. You can still export from Tajir Point for them.
  • No new system to learn.

Tajir Point vs Excel / spreadsheets, feature by feature

“Partly” means on a higher plan, with an add-on or with a limit. “Coming soon” means built or being built, not released yet.

  • Recording a sale
    Tajir Point
    YesAt the counter, with a printed receipt. Stock goes down by itself.
    Excel / spreadsheets
    PartlyTyped into a row, often at the end of the day.
  • Stock levels
    Tajir Point
    YesStock per shop or warehouse, purchases from suppliers, low-stock alerts, barcodes.
    Excel / spreadsheets
    PartlyCorrect only if every sale and purchase was typed in.
  • Customer credit (khata)
    Tajir Point
    YesCustomer credit ledger with running balance, credit limits, 30/60/90-day aging, reminders and PDF statements. More →
    Excel / spreadsheets
    PartlyA separate sheet you keep in step by hand.
  • Accounts (P&L, balance sheet)
    Tajir Point
    YesDouble-entry books posted from sales and purchases: trial balance, P&L, balance sheet (Accounting add-on). More →
    Excel / spreadsheets
    PartlyPossible with careful formulas and a lot of time.
  • Several people at once
    Tajir Point
    YesEach staff member signs in with their own login and role.
    Excel / spreadsheets
    PartlyShared files can clash; anyone with the file can change any cell.
  • Barcode scanner and receipt printer
    Tajir Point
    YesWorks with USB, Bluetooth and network printers and scanners.
    Excel / spreadsheets
    NoNot built for a counter.
  • Works offline
    Tajir Point
    YesKeeps selling with no internet; syncs on its own when the line is back. More →
    Excel / spreadsheets
    YesA desktop file works offline; sharing needs internet.
  • Cost
    Tajir Point
    PartlyLight plan free for 3 months, no card. Then a paid plan (Shop or Business). More →
    Excel / spreadsheets
    Often already on your computer.
  • Moving your data
    Tajir Point
    YesFree: send an Excel or CSV export and our team loads products, customers, credit balances and stock. More →
    Excel / spreadsheets
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Where spreadsheets start to hurt

A sheet only knows what someone typed into it. On a busy day, sales get typed late or not at all, stock numbers drift away from the shelf, and the khata sheet stops matching the sales sheet.

When two people work on the file, one can save over the other's changes. A single wrong formula can change every total below it without anyone noticing.

What Tajir Point does instead

The sale is recorded once, at the counter. From that one entry Tajir Point updates stock, the customer's credit balance and your daily reports, and with the Accounting add-on it posts to your books too.

Purchases from suppliers add stock the same way. You see what sold, what is running low and who owes you, without building any formulas.

Keep Excel for what it is good at

You don't have to give up spreadsheets. Use them for planning and for your accountant, and let Tajir Point handle the day-to-day counter, stock and credit.

To switch, send us your product list, customer list and credit balances as Excel or CSV. Our team loads them for free before you go live.

Switching to Tajir Point

Send us an export from your current system or your sheets (Excel or CSV is fine) and our team loads your products, customers, suppliers, credit balances and opening stock for free before you go live. Book a free migration call.

Questions

Can I import my Excel product list?

Yes. Send us your sheets (Excel or CSV) and our team loads products, prices, barcodes, customers, suppliers, credit balances and opening stock for free.

Can I still get my data out into Excel?

Yes. Your data stays yours: you can sign in, view and export it, even after the free Light period ends.

Do I need to be good with computers?

No. The counter screen is made for shop staff, and you can book a free demo where we set it up with you in English or Urdu.

More comparisons

Shops that sell on creditTajir Point vs paper khataYour credit register, without lost pages, sums by hand or arguments over who owes what.Read the comparison Shops and cafés with a simple tillTajir Point vs a cash registerA till rings up sales. A POS also knows your stock, your credit customers and your profit.Read the comparison

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