Vintro Pro Knowledge base · Choosing

Which software fits your second-hand shop?

A till system, a web shop, a spreadsheet, or something that works piece by piece. This page starts with the times the answer is not Vintro Pro.

We sell software. This page starts with when you should not take it.

That is not modesty. Search today for which system suits your shop and you get a page full of sales pages — each one saying that their product is the answer. A comparison the author always wins, you read once and never again. So we do it the other way round: first the four times it is not us, then the one time it is.

Four kinds, and what each was built for

There are not twenty. There are four, and they were built for different problems:

  1. A spreadsheet or a notebook free

    Columns you choose yourself. It can do anything and guards nothing. It lasts longer than sellers admit, and it rarely trips on the number of pieces — it trips on your photos not being where your figures are.

  2. A till system counts quantities

    Built around the counter: a cash drawer, a card terminal, a receipt, and stock counted down per article. Ten identical chairs are one article with a stock of ten.

  3. A web shop built to sell

    Strong at displaying, taking payment and shipping. Its stock list is a by-product of its shop window, not an administration — and you notice that the moment you also sell somewhere else.

  4. Something that works piece by piece counts pieces

    Every piece its own card, with its own photo, purchase price and margin. Ten chairs are ten cards. This is where Vintro Pro sits.

Four times you do not need us

There are four cases in which you will not be happy with us: you sell series rather than unique pieces, you need a till with a card terminal, your country’s legal register is your heaviest work, or you already run a web shop. Each of the four is written out with the reason — and with what to take instead.

Read when Vintro Pro is not right for your business →

Three questions, and you know which kind it is

Not which brand — which kind. Four of the six outcomes send you somewhere other than to us.

This tree runs on your own screen and sends nothing anywhere. Nothing is stored and nothing is measured.

Four countries: what you will find beside us

Where you are changes the answer. Not through VAT but through the register your country asks of you — and through what the local market has already built:

BE nothing specialised

general till systems only. No package came up that is built around unique pieces and the margin scheme.

NL register built in

there is till software that fills the opkopersregister directly, with the stolen-goods check inside it.

FR livre de police

the best served of the four: packages that build in both the registre des objets mobiliers and TVA sur marge.

UK around the margin scheme

software built around the stock book HMRC asks for per item, including the global accounting variant.

Searched on 5 September 2026, each time in that country’s own language. No brand names appear on this page: they change, and a stale name here would be our mistake, not your problem. And an empty result for Belgium does not prove nothing exists — only that nothing came up.

What your country asks of your records is set out item by item in what belongs in your stock list — where the four registers are each checked against their own government.

And the one time it is us

You sell pieces that are each different. You buy them from private sellers, so no invoice follows and you draw up the purchase document yourself. You account for VAT on your margin, and that margin hangs entirely on the evidence, piece by piece, of what you paid.

That is one flow: photo, purchase price, label, sale, margin — per piece, not per article number. A till system cannot do that flow, and a web shop does not keep it. It is the only thing we do better, and it is enough when it is your work.

Measured on 5 September 2026. The four countries were checked with a search in each country’s own language; the register duties themselves were checked earlier against the FPS Finance, the Belastingdienst, service-public.fr and HMRC, and carry their sources on the stock list page. If something no longer holds, tell us — we measure again and put a new date here.

This is a guide to choosing, not tax advice. Which VAT scheme applies to your business is something to check with your accountant.

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Ten pieces is all it takes to know whether it fits

Vintro Pro keeps your purchase price, your selling price and your margin per piece, and prints your labels. If after ten pieces you see it is not your kind of work, you will have paid nothing.

Free up to 10 pieces, no card number and no end date.

Frequently asked questions

Do I need software for my second-hand shop?

Not necessarily. A spreadsheet lasts longer than most sellers will admit: it is free, you know it, and it does everything you need at the start. The real question is not whether you need software but what costs you the most time today. If recording your purchase price piece by piece costs you nothing, there is nothing to solve.

What is the difference between a till system and per-piece stock control?

A till system counts quantities: ten identical chairs are one article with a stock of ten, and every sale takes one off. Per-piece stock control counts pieces: ten chairs are ten cards, each with its own photo, purchase price and margin. If you sell series, the second kind works against you; if you sell unique pieces, the first kind does.

When do I not need Vintro Pro?

In four cases. If you sell series rather than unique pieces: get a till system. If you take money at a counter with a card terminal: Vintro Pro is not a till and handles no payments. If your country’s legal register is your heaviest load: in the Netherlands, France and the UK there are packages that build that register in, and we have no register link at all. And if your web shop and your stock have drifted apart: what you are missing is a connection, not a third system.

Is a spreadsheet enough for my stock?

Often yes, up to a point. What trips it up is usually not the number of pieces but the evidence: your photo sits in a folder on your phone, your purchase price in column C, and at an inspection or a customer question you have to bring the two together. As long as that does not bother you, switching costs time nothing will give back.