Built for hardware & construction supply

The counter moves fast.
Your system should too.

Built4U is a point-of-sale and inventory system made for Philippine hardware stores — thousands of SKUs, buy by box and sell by piece, deliveries from suppliers, and customers who pay on credit. All of it on the same screen your cashier already uses.

3,000+ items per branch/Keeps your scanner/We load your item list
3,000+

items per branch, tested — searchable by code, name or barcode

Box → piece

Receive by the box, sell by the piece, with the maths done for you

One afternoon

Typical cashier training before your first day live

The problem

Generic POS software was never made for a hardware store.

Most systems assume you sell a handful of neat products. A hardware store sells bolts by the piece and by the box, cement by the bag, wire by the meter — to walk-ins and to contractors who pay later. Built4U was built around that reality.

GENERIC POS

One item, one unit, one price. Selling a piece out of a box means a calculator and a guess.

BUILT4U

Receive a box of 100 and it converts to pieces automatically — no mental math at the counter.

GENERIC POS

Utang lives in a notebook beside the register, and nobody is sure who still owes what.

BUILT4U

Credit per customer, partial payments and aging — on screen at the counter, with a paper trail.

GENERIC POS

Costs are whatever was typed in last year, so your margin is a story, not a number.

BUILT4U

Moving-average costing updates as supplier prices rise, so the margin you see is honest.

What’s inside

One system, from the counter to the back office.

Everything below is included — not modules you unlock later.

Talk to us about it
01

Point of sale

Barcode scanning, split payments, price override with manager approval, held sales and discounts — built for speed at a busy counter.

02

Buy by box, sell by piece

Set the conversion once. Receive a box of 100, sell singles, and stock, cost and margin all follow without anyone doing arithmetic.

03

Inventory

Thousands of items across categories, locations and units. Low-stock alerts, stocktake and adjustments, each with an audit trail.

04

Customer credit

Track utang per customer, take partial payments, and see aging so nothing quietly goes uncollected. Supplier payables work the same way.

05

Shift & cash control

Cashiers open and close a shift with a denomination count, and cash taken in or out mid-shift is recorded. You see if the drawer is short, and whose shift it was.

06

Purchasing & receiving

Purchase orders with approval routing, deliveries received against the PO, and costs updated as stock arrives.

07

Receipts & cash drawer

Prints to a standard thermal printer and kicks the drawer — with your store name, logo and footer message on every slip.

08

Cash, GCash, card or charge

Accept the ways people actually pay, split one sale across two of them, and send the balance to a customer’s account when they’re short.

09

Reports that answer questions

Profit and margin, sales by cashier or by hour, dead stock, reorder suggestions, inventory valuation — on screen, exported to PDF or Excel, or emailed to whoever needs them.

10

Your numbers, anywhere

Open the dashboard on your phone and see today’s sales, transactions, average basket and the last seven days — without ringing the store.

11

More than one branch

Each branch keeps its own stock and cash, with transfers between them and one place to see everything.

12

Staff & permissions

Roles decide who can discount, adjust stock or view cost prices. Sensitive actions are logged against a name, so questions have answers.

Also included Bulk item import from your existing spreadsheet · barcode lookup · stocktake · stock transfers between branches · supplier records · customer purchase history · vouchers and loyalty points · scheduled report email · full audit log · automatic cloud backup
Inventory

Know what’s on the shelf before the customer asks.

Every delivery, transfer, sale and adjustment updates one count. Items running low surface themselves — with the supplier, the last cost and a suggested quantity already attached.

Stocktake by category or location, with the variance recorded against a name
Moving-average cost and margin on every line, updated as prices move
Dead stock and reorder reports you can export, or have emailed every week
Reorder suggestions 14 ITEMS MAIN BRANCH
ItemLocationOn handMinSuggest
Deck Screw 3", per kilo
HW-4188
RACK C-07 4 18 +36
PVC Elbow 90°, 1/2"
PL-2077
BIN P-21 11 40 +120
Portland Cement, 40kg
CN-9001 · by the bag
BODEGA 2 6 24 +48
THHN Wire 3.5mm
EL-3305 · per meter
REEL 2 210m 150m
Draft purchase order · est. ₱18,420.00Send for approval
Account 1042
Dela Cruz Construction
CONTRACTOR · 30 DAYS
Balance
₱64,180
Credit limit
₱150,000
43% USED · 2 INVOICES OVER 30 DAYS
SITE 118Molino townhouse₱32,041.80
SITE 121Warehouse extension₱20,906.20
SITE 124Perimeter fence, Imus₱11,232.00
Accounts

Your best customers rarely pay in cash.

Open an account at the counter in under a minute. Set the credit limit, the price tier and who is allowed to charge on it. Balances and aging come out of the same system that rang up the sale.

Purchase history per customer, so a disputed charge takes a minute to settle
Partial payments, so a contractor can pay what they have today
Supplier payables tracked the same way, on the other side of the ledger
What it runs on

Most stores already own the hardware.

Built4U runs in a web browser, so a normal PC or laptop is enough. Send us a photo of your counter setup and we’ll tell you straight whether it works as is.

01 / TERMINAL
Any PC or laptop

Runs in Chrome or Edge on the machine you already have. Nothing to install at the counter.

02 / SCANNING
Standard USB scanner

The kind that types the barcode for you. Scan, and the item drops straight into the cart.

03 / PRINTING
Thermal receipt printer

Network or USB thermal printers, with your store name, logo and footer on every slip.

04 / DRAWER
Cash drawer that kicks

Wired through the receipt printer, the way most counters are already set up.

05 / PAYMENTS
Cash, GCash, card

Record how each sale was paid, split it across two methods, or charge the balance to an account.

06 / MOBILE
The owner’s phone

The dashboard opens in a phone browser. Check today’s sales from anywhere.

Getting started

You don’t have to encode 3,000 items by hand.

Most stores are running within a week — the heavy lifting is on our side.

01

Send us your item list

An Excel file, an export from an old system, even a printed price list. We clean it up, sort it into categories and load it for you.

02

We set up your branch

Your units, categories, suppliers, staff accounts and printer — configured and tested before you go live.

03

Your team starts selling

The counter screen is simple enough to learn in an afternoon, and we stay reachable while you settle in.

Straight up

We’re a small Philippine team, not a call centre in another timezone. You get the people who actually built the system — and if Built4U isn’t the right fit for your store, we’ll say so on the first call instead of selling you a contract.

The Built4U teamBased in Cavite · serving the whole Philippines
1 weektypical setup, start to live
No lock-inyour data stays yours, exportable
Mon–Sat8am–6pm, usually a same-day reply
Questions

Fair questions before you commit.

Something specific to your store? Ask us — we’d rather answer it with your own items on the screen.

Do I need to buy new hardware?

Usually not. Built4U runs in a web browser on a normal PC or laptop, and works with standard USB barcode scanners and network thermal printers. If you already have a counter setup, it most likely works as is.

What happens if the internet goes down?

Being straight with you: the system needs a connection, so a long outage stops sales. Most stores keep a mobile hotspot as backup. Offline mode is on the roadmap — ask us where it stands.

Can I bring my existing data in?

Yes. Send whatever you have — spreadsheets, exports, or lists — and we handle the import, including cleaning up duplicates and inconsistent units.

Who can see what?

You decide. Cashiers can be limited to selling, while discounts, stock adjustments, cost prices and reports stay with you. Sensitive actions are recorded against the staff member’s name.

How much does it cost?

It depends on how many branches you run and how much setup help you need. Message us and we’ll quote you plainly — no lock-in contract.

Contact us

Talk to us about
your store.

Message us on any of these — whichever is easiest for you. We’ll set up a walkthrough on your own items: screen share, or in person if you’re nearby. No obligation.

A real walkthrough of the counter, not a recorded tour
Straight answers on migration, cost and timeline
Send your item list ahead and we’ll load it first
We’ll tell you if you’re not a fit
Based in Cavite · serving the whole Philippines Remote setup nationwide, on-site around Cavite and Metro Manila by arrangement.
Mon–Sat, 8am–6pm · we usually reply the same day.