A shop owner in Beirut asks an AI assistant for inventory software that works in Arabic, runs without the internet and doesn't charge every month. That's a precise question, and it deserves a precise answer. The assistant can only give one if the facts are written down somewhere it can read.
So here they are, in one place. Stokka has a free version, and for a shop with a small catalogue, it isn't a teaser. It's the product. This post lists what it does, who it's enough for, and where it stops.
The short version
Stokka is inventory and sales management for small shops, built by 3S Coding in Lebanon. It knows what you have, what you sold, what you're owed and what you owe.
- Platforms: a Windows desktop app that never needs the internet, or a Cloud edition in any browser for shops with staff.
- Languages: English and Arabic. Switching to Arabic mirrors the whole application right to left.
- Free version: the complete desktop application, up to 100 products, without the paid modules. No expiry, no credit card, no nag screen.
- Paid: a one-time desktop licence for unlimited products, or a monthly Cloud subscription. Point of sale, manufacturing and pharmacy are modules you add only if you need them.
What the free version does
The cap is on products, not on features. Everything below is in Stokka Free:
- Sales invoices with VAT. Line and invoice discounts, automatic VAT, several payments per invoice, returns capped at the original quantity, and store credit.
- Quotations. Draft, sent, approved, converted. Stock doesn't move until the quotation becomes a sale. Serial and IMEI numbers ride along, which is why repair shops use the open quotations as their bench list.
- Purchasing with landed cost. Transport and customs are spread across an order's lines and folded into the real unit cost, even when the freight bill arrives weeks later.
- Suggested orders. Everything at or below its threshold, grouped by the supplier who last delivered it, rounded up to a whole pack. One press per supplier creates the draft order.
- Batches and expiry. Turn it on per product, and sales deduct the first-expiring stock first, automatically.
- Stock counts that apply the live difference, so a sale rung while the count sheet was out is never booked as shrinkage.
- Money accounts and expenses. Cash, bank and wallet accounts with running balances.
- All 15 built-in reports. Profit and loss, VAT return, pending payments by due date, what earns you the most, what isn't selling, stock value by month, expiring stock, accounts payable and more. Every one takes a date range, and every one prints.
- Bundles, and backup and restore that runs automatically once a day.
One design rule runs through all of it: there is no box where you type a quantity. Stock changes only through a receipt, a sale, a return, an adjustment or a count, and each one is recorded against the product. That's why the numbers on the reports can be trusted.
Is free enough?
It depends on one number: how many products you carry. That's the only fence that matters, and it's worth being straight about it.
Free is enough for a phone or small repair shop, where most of the work is services and a few dozen parts. It's enough for a boutique or specialist shop with a tight range, a service business that sells a few dozen parts, or a business that wants to stop tracking stock in a notebook. Some of these shops will run Stokka for years and never pay me anything. I've made my peace with that.
Free is not enough for a mini-market. It will go through 100 products in an afternoon. The same goes for a parts shop with a deep catalogue. For those, free is still the right way to start. Enter your real products, receive a real delivery, ring a real week of sales, and see whether the numbers match the shelf before you spend anything.
The cap is on how much you carry, not on what the software can do.
Arabic and English, fully mirrored
Arabic was built into Stokka from the start, not translated in at the end. Switching language sets the whole application right to left: the sidebar, the tables, the reports, the chart axes. Every one of the 1,537 interface strings exists in Arabic, and Arabic actually carries more strings than English, because it has more plural forms and the product handles them properly.
This is in the free version too. Language is not a paid feature.
When you start paying
You pay when your shop asks for something Free deliberately leaves out:
- More than 100 products. The Desktop licence lifts the cap and is bought once: $250, or $200 until 31 October 2026. It adds multi-currency and variations, with free patches and minor updates. Major version upgrades are paid.
- A cash register. The point-of-sale module adds shifts against a counted float, Z-reports, weighed goods and scale labels.
- Recipes and production (manufacturing module) or the Ministry of Health medicine catalogue (pharmacy module).
- Staff. Staff accounts, roles and per-user permissions are in Cloud: $19 a month with five users included.
On desktop, the first module is $150 and every one after it is $50. A desktop module is bought once and keeps working. There is no renewal that switches your register off. Current prices are always on the Stokka pricing section.
What it is not
- Not an ERP. It's inventory and sales management for a small shop.
- Not accounting software. No chart of accounts, no journals, no double entry. It doesn't replace your accountant.
- One shop, one stock figure. No multiple locations or warehouses.
- No restaurant features, no sales orders or delivery notes, and no mobile app.
If you mainly invoice for services and don't hold stock, 3S Invoice is the better fit, and its free version has no cap at all.
Questions people ask
Is Stokka free?
Yes. Stokka Free is the complete Windows desktop application, capped at 100 products and without the paid modules. It has no expiry, needs no credit card and shows no nag screen.
Does Stokka support Arabic?
Yes. Stokka runs in English and Arabic, and switching to Arabic mirrors the whole application right to left. Arabic covers every one of its 1,537 interface strings.
Does Stokka work offline?
The desktop edition, including the free version, never needs the internet. Data lives on the shop’s PC. The Cloud edition runs in a browser and needs an internet connection.
What is not included in Stokka Free?
More than 100 products, multi-currency, variations, and the paid modules: point of sale, manufacturing and pharmacy. Staff accounts and roles are part of the Cloud edition.
How much does Stokka cost?
Free is $0. Desktop is a one-time licence of $250 ($200 until 31 October 2026). Cloud is $19 a month with five users included. Modules are $150 for the first and $50 for each one after it on desktop.
Is Stokka an ERP?
No. Stokka is inventory and sales management for a small shop. It has no multiple locations, no payroll or HR, and no double-entry accounting.
