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Arca for stationery stores

Your stationery store in order, even selling a thousand cheap things

Ring up fast in the back-to-school line, know how many notebooks you have left and see how much copies and prints make next to merchandise.

From $299 MXN a month. No contract.

A neighborhood stationery store with notebooks and supplies on the shelves
Arca on the iPhone: the summary of sales, profit, average ticket and units

What happens today

What slips away without control

1

A thousand cheap items, zero control

Pencils, erasers, loose sheets. So many and so cheap that nobody counts them, and that's where the money goes.

2

Back-to-school catches you short

Grid notebooks run out the first week and lined ones pile up in September.

3

Copies are charged and never recorded

The service comes in as cash, with no record, and at closing you don't know what was copies and what was goods.

How Arca helps

Fast at the counter, clear in the books

  • Fast checkout in line

    The month's 12 best sellers up front, search by name and barcode scanner.

  • Copies and prints, recorded

    Charge them with quick sale by typing the amount: they show in the closeout as a sale and don't move inventory.

  • Variants by color and size

    One notebook, five rulings, three sizes: one product with its variants, each with its own stock.

  • Back-to-school with data

    Compare this August with last year's and buy what actually sold.

  • Labels for items without a codeFrom Básico

    Print barcodes on letter paper and stop looking up prices by hand.

  • Several stores, one inventoryOn Pro

    If you have another branch, see stock in both and move goods between them.

Step by step

How a stationery store uses Arca

  1. 1

    Add your items

    One by one with the camera or from Excel. What you sell by pack and by unit, as two products.

  2. 2

    Charge your services

    Copies, prints and binding with quick sale: type the amount and done.

  3. 3

    Sell

    Cash, card or transfer; item discounts if you give them.

  4. 4

    Review your season

    Best sellers, and which day and hour you sell most, to be ready next cycle.

Pricing

A plan for every size of business

Every plan includes sales, inventory and analytics. Change plans or cancel anytime.

Local

Your counter, in your pocket.

Try it free for 7 days

$107.50MXN /month

Billed $1,290 MXN once a year.

Tax included. The first 7 days are not charged; after that, the charge is yearly. Cancel before then and you are not charged anything.

You save $258 MXN a year compared with paying monthly.

Includes:

  • One store · 1 phone
  • Sales log and inventory
  • Hasta 300 productos
  • Business analytics
  • Advanced analytics (ABC, turnover, margin)
  • Export to Excel and PDF

It's for the iPhone app. With this plan Arca doesn't open in the browser. Android coming soon.

Básico

Recommended

Your store on your computer, your phone and online.

Try it free for 7 days

$249.17MXN /month

Billed $2,990 MXN once a year.

Tax included. The first 7 days are not charged; after that, the charge is yearly. Cancel before then and you are not charged anything.

You save $598 MXN a year compared with paying monthly.

Everything in Local, plus:

  • One store · 3 phones
  • Arca on the computer
  • Bring your inventory in from a file
  • Online catalog
  • Labels and barcodes
  • Collections to group your catalog
  • Store credit with a balance per customer
  • Support from the app

Pro

Several branches, one inventory.

Try it free for 7 days

$415.83MXN /month

Billed $4,990 MXN once a year.

Tax included. The first 7 days are not charged; after that, the charge is yearly. Cancel before then and you are not charged anything.

You save $998 MXN a year compared with paying monthly.

Everything in Básico, plus:

  • Up to 3 stores · 10 phones
  • Transfers between locations
  • Finances: expenses, profit and tax

The Arca community

Businesses like yours already run on Arca

They left the notebook and the spreadsheet behind, and now know what they have, what they sell and what they make.

What businesses that use it say

«Por primera vez tengo el control de mi flujo de efectivo y sé en qué está invertido cada peso de mi negocio.»

Montse A.

«Nos quitó el miedo a tomar decisiones de inversión, porque ahora cada movimiento está respaldado por números claros y exactos.»

Carolina T.

«Antes perdía muchas ventas porque no sabía cuánto inventario tenía disponible. Con Arca eso ya no es un problema: tengo el control completo de mi negocio y sé lo que pasa en él.»

Carlos A.

Start your free week

No contract. Cancel anytime.

Can I charge copies without deducting inventory?

Yes, with quick sale: type the amount and charge. It shows in your sales and closeout but doesn't move inventory. Since it has no recorded cost, margin reports count it separately.

How do I handle items sold by unit and by pack?

As two products, the pack and the single unit, each with its price. Arca doesn't split a pack into units on its own.

Can I see what sells at back-to-school?

Yes. Pick the dates and see best sellers, profit and the map of which day and hour you sell most.

Does it work for two stores?

Yes, with Pro: up to three stores, stock for each one and transfers between them that don't change total value.

Try Arca in your business for a week

Add your products, sell for a day and see how much you made. If it doesn't work for you, cancel before the week ends and pay nothing.