Sales
Counter sales and orders
- Search by group size, AGM or CCA
- Cash and check, change due, receiptsCards coming
- Swaps, refunds and exchanges
- Quotes that hold their price, then become orders
- Pick, pack, ship, track
The problem
Your store software is giving T-shirt shop
Sound familiar?
- Cores tracked on a clipboard. Somewhere.
- Warranty swapped at the counter. Supplier never billed.
- Fleet buyers calling to ask what they owe. Again.
- Stock in one app, the website in another, and the real numbers living rent-free in one coworker's head.
One record, start to finish
Purchase order to warranty claim in one system. Every sale keeps its price, fees, core and warranty terms, so six months later the answer is already there.
- Prices lock when the order is placed.
- "Paid" means someone recorded a payment, not that a screen said so.
- Corrections keep the original. Nothing financial gets deleted.
- Every change logs who, when and why.
- Busbar support gets in only when you say so, and you can read the log.
- Your data is yours. Download all of it, anytime.
Features
Everything the shop runs on
Everyone sees their part. The counter sees prices and stock. Accounting sees invoices. Nobody sees your margins unless you say so.
Stock
Inventory, purchasing and receiving
- Stock by store and warehouse, reservations included
- Counts and adjustments, with a reason every time
- Low-stock alerts for each location
- Purchase orders, scan-to-receive, supplier returns
- Transfers between locations
Wholesale
B2B buyer portal
- One account, named buyer logins you approve
- Their prices, their quantity breaks
- Paste up to 50 SKUs and order
- Net terms, credit limits, holds and deposits
- Statements and tracking, so they call less
- Pay invoices onlineComing
Service
Cores and warranty claims
- Core charges from sale to credit
- A list of everyone who still owes you a core
- Warranty claims with photos, from the counter or the portal
- Supplier reimbursements tracked separately
Storefront
Your branded storefront
- Your name, logo and colors. We get a tiny "Powered by Busbar".
- You pick what's public
- Stock at the shopper's nearest store
- Checkout and custom domainsComing
Customers
CRM
- One customer list for the counter, portal and invoices
- Duplicate checks, so "Bob's Towing" and "Bobs Towing LLC" stay one customer
- Opportunities, follow-ups and tasks
- Service tickets linked to orders and claims
On the way
- Card payments
- Online checkout
- QuickBooks Online sync
- Vehicle battery finder, once the fitment data is licensed
- Custom domains
Built for batteries
The weird parts of selling batteries, built in
All optional. Turn on what you use.
Core charges and returns
CoresCharge the core unless the old one comes in. Set your return window. Inspect, credit, done. Cores that show up with no receipt get a queue instead of a shrug.
Core tracker · example fleet account
6Charged at sale
4Returned and inspected
2Still out
1 mystery core waiting to be matched.
California battery fee
FeesSet it once. It lands as its own line, with the required notice, on every lead-acid sale. Tag your resellers and they skip it.
Fee ruleOn
- Name
- California battery fee
- Amount
- $2.00 per battery
- Applies to
- Products tagged lead-acid
- Except
- Customers tagged reseller
- Basis
- Health & Safety Code §25215.2
Warranty pro-rating
WarrantyManufacturer terms ride along with every sale. Claims show free replacement, pro-rated or expired. Then Busbar tracks what the supplier owes you, because nobody else will.
Claim · 60-month warrantyPro-rated
Customer pays 36 ÷ 60 = 60% of the price paid. The other 40% goes toward the replacement.
Supplier
Submitted
Approved
Partly paid
Serial and date codes
UnitsRecord the code at handoff. Look it up later and get the order, the customer and the warranty. Serials never get reused, so when someone swears it's the same battery, you have receipts. Literally.
4F27-0918
Group 94R AGM battery · date code 10/26
Sold 2026-10-14 on order 1042 · Main store · walk-in customer
Free replacement until 2028-10-14, then pro-rated to month 60
Switching
Leaving Shopify? It's not you, it's the cores.
Import products and customers from Shopify's CSV exports. Preview every row first. Keep Shopify running until you're ready.
- New SKUs created, existing ones left alone
- Possible duplicate customers held for review
- Bulk updates with a before-and-after preview
- Old orders and passwords stay in Shopify
Import preview · nothing saved yet5 rows
| Row | Record | Result |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | AGM-100 Deep cycle AGM 100 Ah | Ready to create |
| 2 | SLA-7 Sealed lead acid 7 Ah | Ready to create |
| 3 | GC2-6V Golf cart 6 V flooded | Already exists, skipped |
| 4 | Customer · example fleet account | Ready to create |
| 5 | Customer · example walk-in buyer | Same phone as an existing customer · review |
3 ready · 1 skipped · 1 to review
Plans
Three plans. Pick your era.
Same software on every plan. Pick the one that fits how you sell. Early-access shops help shape what's in each.
Retail
One shop, one counter, a lot of batteries.
Contact us for pricing
- Inventory, purchasing, receiving and counts
- Counter sales, quotes, invoices and returns
- Your own online catalogCheckout coming
- Battery search and specs
- Core tracking
- Warranty records and claims
- Customer records
- Partial fulfillment and backorders
- Staff-entered wholesale pricing
- Delivery address and order status
- Preset staff roles
- Standard reports
- Email and ticket support
- Card and in-store paymentsComing
- QuickBooks OnlineComing
Retail + Wholesale
Also selling to fleets and installers on account.
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Everything in Retail, plus:
- Self-service ordering portal for business buyers
- Automatic pricing tiers and customer pricing
- Buyer logins, no per-login charge
- Separate purchaser and accounting permissions
- Net terms, credit limits and holds
- Statements and overdue reminders
- Delivery scheduling and driver assignment
- Custom roles and permissions
- Sales, receivables and account profitability reports
- Scheduled phone help
Distribution
Branches, a warehouse and trucks on the road.
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Everything in Retail + Wholesale, plus:
- Branch pricing and branch staff access
- Transfers between locations
- Delivery routes and proof of delivery
- Branch and consolidated reporting
- Priority support
- Live delivery trackingComing
- Configurable workflowsComing
Add-ons: more staff, more locations, training and data migration. Card processing will be optional once payments launch.
Early access
Get in early
Busbar is opening to a small group of battery shops and distributors first. Tell us about yours and we'll be in touch.
Want the tour? Tick the demo box. In about 20 minutes we'll ring up a sale, take back a core, settle a warranty claim and watch a fleet buyer order on account.