Introducing Hisab: Your Shop, Finally in Order

For years we have engineered custom ERP platforms for enterprises with complex, cross-border operations. But back home, we kept meeting another kind of business: the pharmacy in Bole, the grocery in Piassa, the wholesaler supplying half a neighborhood, the importer clearing containers at customs. Businesses that run Ethiopia's daily trade — and still run it on paper notebooks, memory, and software priced in dollars that was never built for them.

Hisab is our answer, and it is built exclusively for the Ethiopian market. The name means exactly what you think it means — the daily reckoning every shopkeeper already does. Hisab simply does it properly: an offline-first point of sale with barcode scanning, real-time inventory with expiry and low-stock alerts, and true financial statements — profit & loss, balance sheet, cash flow — so you know today's profit, not just a guess at net margin. Everything is priced only in Ethiopian Birr, with no dollar conversions anywhere, and the whole platform works in both Amharic and English.

What makes Hisab different is that it isn't one generic tool stretched over every kind of shop. There are three dedicated business portals — Retail, covering 27 shop types from pharmacies to hardware stores; Wholesale, for suppliers selling to other businesses; and Import, for traders bringing goods through customs. You pick your portal, and Hisab shapes itself to that trade: you create your products, manage your stock, register customers, and run everything yourself, end to end, with no consultant required.

Because Hisab is offline-first, the system keeps selling even when the connection drops — sales queue locally and sync when the network returns. And because it is built by Adosystems on the same architecture we deliver to enterprise clients, a shop that grows into a chain, or a wholesaler that grows into a distributor, never hits a ceiling: the data and the platform grow with you.

Hisab is live today at hisab.adosystems.com. Create an account, choose retail, wholesale, or import, set up your shop, and ring up your first sale in minutes. Every feature on the roadmap starts as a conversation with a shop owner — we would love for the next one to be with you.

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Retail management built for Ethiopian shops — POS, inventory & reports, all in ETB. Live today.

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