Fast checkout
Ring up sales in cash, card, or mobile money. Prices and stock are validated before a sale is recorded — no negative inventory, ever.
Local-first inventory & point of sale
Your store doesn't stop when the internet does.
DeepShelf is a desktop app for independent shops — inventory, checkout, staff roles, and reports that run entirely on your own machine. No subscription, no cloud account, no connection required.
One-time purchase · activate online once, then work offline
DeepShelf — Dashboard
DeepShelfDashboard
Inventory
Sales
Reports
Users
Backup
Today
Tue 14:32 · offlineSales
$1,284
▲ 12% vs yesterdayTransactions
47
▲ 5Low stock
6 items
Revenue — last 7 days
ProductStatusQty
Basmati Rice 5kgIn stock38
Palm Oil 2LLow4
Evaporated MilkOut0
fig. 01 — the dashboard, rendered offline
Works offline
Every feature — checkout included — runs with zero connectivity.
Encrypted at rest
Your database is sealed with SQLCipher. Not readable without the key.
Your data, your disk
Nothing leaves the machine unless you choose to back it up.
Why local-first
Cloud POS systems weren't priced for a shop like yours.
The default answer to store software is a monthly bill, a login screen, and a prayer that the Wi-Fi holds. There's a quieter option.
/01
The subscription treadmill
$30, $60, $90 a month — forever. Over three years that's more than the till, the scale, and the barcode scanner combined. DeepShelf is software you own.
/02
The outage tax
When the connection drops, cloud tills freeze and the queue walks out. DeepShelf keeps ringing up sales through blackouts, and doesn't notice the difference.
/03
Your numbers, held hostage
Stop paying and your sales history vanishes behind a paywall. DeepShelf keeps every record in an encrypted file on your own drive — export it any time.
What's inside
Everything a small store actually uses.
Built from the workflows of real shops: receive stock, sell it, count it, report on it. Nothing decorative, nothing missing.
Honest inventory
Every quantity change is a recorded stock movement — deliveries, damages, corrections. You can always answer “where did it go?”
Staff roles & auto-lock
Give cashiers a till, not the books. Role-gated access keeps reports and settings for owners, and the app locks itself after 15 idle minutes.
Reports that export
Daily sales, best sellers, stock valuation. One click to CSV for your accountant, or PDF for the back office.
Backups you can trust
Scheduled encrypted backups with checksum verification. Restore is restart-safe — a failed restore never leaves you with a broken database.
A full audit trail
Who changed what, and when. Every sensitive action is logged, so end-of-day reconciliation takes minutes, not detective work.
Getting started
From download to first sale in ten minutes.
Install the app
Download the installer for macOS, Windows, or Linux. No account creation, no activation server, no phone-home.
Load your shelves
Add products and categories, or bring your existing list in by CSV. Set opening stock counts as you go.
Open the till
Start selling. DeepShelf deducts stock with every sale, flags low items, and keeps the books balanced in the background.
Security
Your ledger stays under your counter.
Local-first only works if local also means locked down. DeepShelf is built like the data matters — because it does.
Encrypted database
The entire store database is encrypted with SQLCipher. Copied off the machine, it's unreadable without the key.
Hardened logins
Passwords are hashed with Argon2 — the same algorithm recommended for password storage by OWASP.
Idle auto-lock
Walk away from the till and the session locks itself after 15 minutes. Staff changes don't become security holes.
Verified backups
Every backup is checksummed and verified before it's trusted. A restore either completes cleanly or never touches your data.
Questions
Asked by shop owners like you.
What happens if my internet goes down mid-sale?+
Nothing. DeepShelf never touches the network during a sale — it reads and writes to a database on your own disk. You could pull the router out of the wall and keep selling all day.
Where is my data stored?+
In an encrypted SQLite database file on the machine running the app. You can back it up, move it, or delete it — it's a file you own, not a record on someone's server.
Can more than one person use it?+
Yes. Create local users with roles — cashiers get checkout and stock views, managers get reports and settings. Every action is tied to a user in the audit log.
What payment methods does checkout support?+
Cash, card, and mobile money. DeepShelf records the tender type and amount for each sale so your end-of-day totals reconcile by payment method.
What does it cost?+
DeepShelf is free while in beta, with no account or card required. When it leaves beta it will be a one-time purchase — not a subscription.
Can I get my data out?+
Any time. Reports export to CSV and PDF, and backups are standard encrypted database files. There is no lock-in by design — it's your data.
Simple pricingBuy DeepShelf
One store. One payment. No subscription.
Buy once, activate during setup while online, and keep daily sales, inventory, and reports running offline.
Ghana launch price
DeepShelf license
One store · one computer · one year of updates
GHS 500
Pay securely with Paystack. Your license appears immediately after verified payment.
Nigeria pricing is being finalised for local launch.