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Stock Sewa 1.0
Two products, one platform, and a company promise we can finally state plainly. What shipped, what did not, and what we are building next.
By Stock Sewa Team
Stock Sewa is now two products on one platform: Stock Sewa Pharmacy and Stock Sewa Church. This post is the plain version of what that means.
What shipped
Stock Sewa Pharmacy covers the counter and everything behind it — point of sale, batch-level inventory, expiry tracking, purchase and reporting. Purchase, inventory and billing stay in sync automatically, which is the part that removes the daily reconciliation work rather than merely digitising it.
Stock Sewa Church covers congregation records, attendance, contributions and events. The design brief was to let church teams spend less time on registers, and to produce records a treasurer can stand behind.
What one platform means
The two products look related because they are. They share an authentication model, a reporting layer, an offline strategy and a design system. Work on one improves the other: the sync behaviour built for a pharmacy counter is the same behaviour a church office needs on a Saturday morning.
It also means we say no to a lot. A branded house works only if each product is a plain industry descriptor rather than a separate identity, and if the platform underneath is genuinely shared instead of three codebases wearing one logo.
What did not make it
Two things we expected to ship and did not. Multi-branch stock transfers for Pharmacy are built but not sufficiently tested against real branch workflows, and we would rather hold them than ship a transfer that loses a batch. Church event registration exists in a basic form and is not yet good enough to put in front of a congregation.
Both are in progress. We will write about them when they are actually done.
What is next
More depth, not more products. The near-term work is reporting people can act on rather than admire, faster delivery entry for Pharmacy, and giving statements for Church that print correctly the first time.
If you are running a pharmacy or a church office and something here sounds like your week, we would like to hear how you work today. That conversation shapes what gets built more than anything else does.
Running a pharmacy or a church office and recognise any of this? Tell us how you work today — stocksewa01@gmail.com.
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