One Stock Count and One Profit Number — Whether You Sold In Person or on WhatsApp
For most small Kenyan sellers, 'selling online' means taking orders through WhatsApp or Instagram DMs, not running a website. AskBiz lets you record those sales in the same place as your in-person ones, so your stock and your daily profit are never split across two systems.
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Ask a market vendor or small shop owner in Kenya whether they sell online, and most will say yes — but what they mean is customers messaging them on WhatsApp or ordering through an Instagram post, not a shopping-cart website. That kind of selling is real and common, but it usually lives completely separate from the till: the in-person sale goes into the POS or the notebook, and the WhatsApp order gets written on a scrap of paper, remembered, or not tracked at all. AskBiz isn't a website builder or a shopping-cart platform — it doesn't host an online store. What it does is give you one place to record every sale, in-store or arranged online, so your stock count and your profit number are always the true, combined picture rather than two separate guesses you have to add together.
One business, two untracked sales channels
A customer buys a dress at the stall — that goes in the till. Another customer messages on WhatsApp asking if you have it in blue, agrees a price, and pays by M-Pesa — that sale often never touches your stock count at all. Multiply that across a week and you've got a real gap: stock looks like it's still there when it isn't, your daily profit number is missing sales you definitely made, and at month end you're trying to remember which items moved through DMs versus the counter. The two channels aren't the problem — not tracking them the same way is.
Every sale goes through the same system, whatever the channel
When a WhatsApp or Instagram order is agreed, you ring it up in AskBiz just like an in-person sale — same product list, same stock deduction, same payment recording for M-Pesa, Airtel Money, MTN Mobile Money, cash or card. AskBiz doesn't host your online store or manage the DMs themselves; it's the record-keeping and stock layer that sits underneath however you actually take the order. The result is one inventory count that's always accurate regardless of where the sale happened, and one daily profit figure that reflects everything you sold — not just what crossed the counter.
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Ring up an order arranged over chat the same way as an in-person sale — same items, same stock deduction, same record.
Stock deducts the moment any sale is recorded, so what the app shows always matches what you actually have left, regardless of channel.
In-person and online-arranged sales roll into the same daily total, so you're never missing DM sales from your figures.
Add or find products with your phone camera when confirming an order, whether it came from a walk-in or a chat message.
M-Pesa, Airtel Money, MTN Mobile Money, cash or card — however the online order gets paid, it's recorded consistently.
Record a sale offline when confirming a chat order somewhere with weak signal — it syncs automatically once you're back online.
How it works
Ring up counter sales on your phone with the camera scanner or product list, same as any AskBiz sale.
Once a buyer agrees to purchase over chat, add the same items to a sale in AskBiz — no separate spreadsheet or notebook.
Log the M-Pesa, Airtel, MTN, cash or card payment for that order just like any other sale.
Your stock count and daily profit reflect every sale — counter and chat-arranged — in the same dashboard.
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Stop keeping two separate sales pictures
Record every sale — counter or chat-arranged — in one place, with one stock count and one true profit number. Free to start.
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