Feature by feature, without hiding the limits, ours included. We compare ways of running a shop, not brands.
| Feature | LE BIJOUTIERfrom 290 DH/month | Generic POSoften cheaper | Ledger & Excelfree, on the face of it |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gram rate, prices recalculated automatically | |||
| Till with sessions and closing | |||
| Repairs with cost and tracking | |||
| Custom orders with a deposit | |||
| Gold buyback and trade-in | |||
| Transfers between stores | |||
| Barcode labels per piece | |||
| Customer loyalty | |||
| Invoices, quotes and purchase orders | |||
| Customer follow-up and appointments | |||
| Guided setup and training | · | ||
| Arabic interface | · |
The “ledger & Excel” and “generic POS” columns describe what those ways of working typically allow, not one particular product. “Partial” marks what depends on the vendor chosen or on the shop's own habits.
It costs nothing, it never breaks down and it needs no training. As long as you are alone in the shop and your stock fits in your head, it does the job, and nobody should tell you otherwise.
It breaks at three precise moments: when a second salesperson arrives and no one knows who wrote what, when you open a second shop, and on inventory day, when it can tell you nothing beyond what you copied into it.
Built well, a spreadsheet goes a long way: it calculates, it filters, it sorts, and it gives you a stock value in one formula. The condition is that weight and hallmark sit in their own columns instead of being written into the item label.
Its limits lie elsewhere. Two people cannot work on it at once without getting in each other's way, nothing records who changed what, and it will never print a barcode label to put on a ring.
It takes payment, it prints a receipt, it holds a stock. For a shop selling twelve of the same item at the same price, that is exactly right.
A jewellery shop does not sell that. It sells unique pieces priced on a weight, a hallmark and a rate that moved this morning, it sends pieces to a workshop, it takes deposits on orders that do not exist yet, and it buys gold from private sellers whose identity it has to keep. A till does none of that.
It costs a subscription, and it asks for the one genuinely long effort in this whole story: entering your existing stock. Nobody can spare you that, and it is better known before you start than after.
In return you get what the other three do not give: prices that follow the rate, a piece tracked from drop-off to delivery, a buyback traced through to the material balance, an inventory that produces discrepancies rather than a total, and a history where nothing changes without leaving a trace.
If you are alone in the shop, with eighty pieces in the window and no gold buyback, a ledger or a well-kept spreadsheet is enough. A subscription would be money badly spent, and we would rather say so.
As soon as a team is involved, the maths changes. The real cost is no longer the subscription, it is what you cannot see: the piece nobody can locate, the deposit taken without a trace, the inventory gap found six months later with no way to explain it.
And if you buy gold from customers, the question barely stands. This is not about comfort: you keep your sellers' identity documents, and that data needs a serious place to live.
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