Software for auto parts shop
- Inventory accuracy, percent of lines counted clean
- 87
- Part numbers that did not match
- 39
- Unit variance, counted less system
- -60
Every figure on this page is computed from the inputs entered, by the method stated below it. Binstockly publishes no catalogue, no interchange table, no fitment data and no target margin: the usage, the lead times, the costs and the prices are yours, and the defaults are a worked example to replace with your own figures.
Software for an auto parts shop has to do two jobs that pull in different directions: serve the counter while someone is standing at it, and keep the shelf honest when nobody is. Most shops buy for the first and discover the second is where the money went. The counter side is order entry, a price the staff can find fast and a receipt; the shelf side is the count, the reorder point, the margin and the turns. This guide is about the second, because it is the half a spreadsheet is still doing in most small shops, and it is the half that decides whether a 300 line count comes back at 87% accuracy or at 60%. What a shop should judge before buying anything: can it tell you what is on the shelf, when to reorder each line, what the counter is really making after the discount, and how many times the stock turns in a year. The five sheets on this site work all four figures free, with no account, so you can walk into a demo knowing your own numbers.
Open the Free auto parts inventory software Free to use. No account, no card, no trial clock.
Start with the count, not the catalogue
A shop's first instinct is to buy the parts data. The count is what decides whether any of the rest is true: 300 lines counted with 261 matching is 87% accuracy, and the 60 units nobody could find are $2,280 the accounts still carry. Work it on the free stock count sheet before you shortlist anything.
Decide what the counter actually needs
If you sell to the public across a counter, you need a catalogue with interchange and fitment, and that is a licensed data subscription rather than a feature. If your parts are known to you and the problem is the shelf, you do not, and paying for it is the commonest overspend in a small shop.
Judge the shortlist on your own four figures
Ask each vendor to produce inventory accuracy, a reorder point per line, the margin after the discount your counter really gives, and turns with days on hand, from your data. A system that cannot is storing your inventory rather than managing it.
Software for auto parts shop: common questions
Do I need a point of sale as well?
If money changes hands at a counter, yes, and that is a separate question from the shelf. Binstockly is not a point of sale and does not pretend to be: it keeps the parts, bins, counts, reorders and suppliers, and the sheets work the figures behind them.
What does a small shop usually get wrong first?
Buying on catalogue coverage and discovering the reorder points were never set, so the shelf is simultaneously overstocked on slow lines and short on fast ones. The reorder point sheet on this site takes four inputs and settles it per line.
Can I start free?
Yes. All five sheets compute on the page with no account and no card. Binstockly Pro at $49 a month is for keeping the parts, counts and reorders against the record, not for doing the arithmetic.
Binstockly Pro
Keeping what you make
The sheets are free forever. Pro turns them into the record: every part with its bin, cost, list price and last sold date, every count with its variance against the shelf it came from, every reorder against the supplier and lead time it assumed, your store's name and logo on the printed sheets, no watermark, and an export when the accountant or the buyer asks.
- Download as PDF
- No Binstockly watermark
- Save every sheet and reopen it later
- Your store's name and logo on the paperwork
- Export every sheet and every record in one go
- Send a sheet to a supplier or your accountant
- Connect Stripe
- Connect your books
$49per month, whole team
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Will it do what you need for Software for auto parts shop?
Tell us what your counter needs and we will tell you straight whether Binstockly Pro does it today, whether it is coming, or whether you need a full jobber system instead. A person reads these and replies.
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On the worked example, a 300 line count with 261 matching is 87% inventory accuracy and $2,280 of variance at cost.
Free auto parts inventory software (Inventory accuracy, percent of lines counted clean): 87, Binstockly, worked example.
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