Talstok in facts
Checked against the software on 5 October 2026. Quote any line.
What is built
What it is
Talstok is retail software for independent UK shops. It runs the till, the stock, an online shop and the back office from one set of records, in a web browser.
Who it is for
High street shops, online shops, repair shops, shops that buy and sell second-hand goods, food shops, and salons and barbers (the till and stock today; appointments are coming).
Price
From £20 a month for each shop that takes real money. Test shops are free. The price is per shop, not per person. Plans for each kind of shop, with add-ons on top, are coming, so a shop will pay only for the parts it uses. What each plan includes is being decided, and this page will say when it is.
Features
Each shop switches its features on or off in Settings, under Features: selling at the counter, shipping, purchase orders, bundles, batches, recalls, a mailing list, second-hand buy prices and grades, items kept one by one, services and customer accounts. A feature that is off is hidden from the menu.
Card payments
Online, through Stripe, paid into the shop’s own Stripe account; Stripe charges the shop its own fees. At the counter, on the shop’s own card machine, and recorded at the till.
Cash
A shop can take cash only, with no payment account.
Till
Sells in a web browser; records cash, card-machine, bank transfer and cheque payments (a card is charged on the shop’s own card machine); finds items by stock code or serial number; emails receipts; shows the day’s takings by payment method. An owner or a manager refunds a counter sale from its order.
Stock
One count per item per shop, with history, stocktakes, low-stock levels, suppliers, purchase orders, batches with best-before dates, a recall list, bundles, and items tracked by serial number or IMEI.
Online shop
A shop window with collections, search, basket and Stripe checkout; delivery rates and click and collect; discounts; order emails; a label file for Royal Mail Click & Drop, and one for Evri to check against Evri’s own template the first time. Or the shop’s own website on the public catalogue.
Second-hand buying
Grades, buy-price lists per item or per gram, and grading questions, published on the public catalogue for the shop’s own website to show.
Repairs and services
A price list of jobs, per job or per unit, published on the public catalogue for the shop’s own website to show.
Developers
A REST API, an MCP server for AI assistants (protocol 2026-07-28 and older versions), and a public catalogue for a shop’s own website.
Staff
Owner, manager, packer and viewer roles; each person logs in with their own email address and a code sent to it.
Records
Orders are never deleted; price changes are kept; the whole shop can be downloaded as CSV and JSON.
Not built yet
Named so nobody is surprised. Coming means planned, and not yet available.
- Online sign-up (shops join by email).
- Coming Plans for each kind of shop, with add-ons on top, so a shop pays only for the parts it uses.
- Coming Appointments and bookings, beside the stock and the payments, for salons, clinics and anyone who sells their time.
- Coming The page builder for a shop’s own website.
- Coming Stock and orders kept in step with other selling channels.
- Coming Delivery and telephone orders, for takeaways and any business that delivers.
- Coming An order emailed to a supplier automatically when an item falls to its reorder point, as an option.
- Coming Tablet and desktop apps, later.
- Recording a purchase from the public, seller ID checks and store credit.
- Repair job tracking.
- Card reader connections and printed receipts.
- Working offline.
- Separate tills in one shop, each with its own takings.
- Selling a bundle, or a product that needs a batch number, at the till (both sell online).
- Selling by weight, at the till or online.
- Several stock locations under one shop.
- Marketplaces, gift cards and loyalty.
- Working out VAT on sales, VAT returns and the VAT margin scheme’s stock book.
- Importing directly from Shopify.
See it with your own products
A test shop is free. Nothing in it is real: no money moves, and it never emails a customer. You pay only once a shop takes real money.