Simple Stock Management

Judgement

What it is

Complete system

What it does

A web app for searching, updating and transferring stock between a warehouse and shops, storing data in SQLite.

Adopt it when

A small charity or shop with one warehouse feeding a few outlets wants a basic free stock tracker and can host it themselves.

Watch out

The current rewrite is labelled beta and not for production by its own author, and it has had no third-party security audit.

Ready for

Experimental

Runs as

Self-hosted server

Built with

Python, JavaScript and SQLite

How established

Established: started 7 years ago, no tagged release yet.

What the license allows

Use inside your business is unrestricted, but anything you distribute that includes it must be released under the same license.

Judged on 2026-11-03 from the project's README and GitHub data. The license and age lines are worked out directly.

Built from

Follow it down: Simple Stock Management → CPython → GCC → LLVM project → runs on a microchip

How compilers were built, back to punched paper tape

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