Shop Layaway and Reserved-Item Deposit Register

Shop Layaway and Reserved-Item Deposit Register is an offline app (one HTML file in a zip) for a shop that sets items aside for customers who pay a deposit now and the rest later. Each reservation records the item, the price, where it is held, the hold end date and every payment. The app works out the balance, checks the deposit against your own minimum, and tells you who is overdue and who is owed money back.

The problem it removes: Items are set aside with a deposit written on a slip or in a chat. Between shifts nobody knows which shelf holds what, how much was paid, or when the hold ends, so a held item is sold to someone else or sits for months. When a customer cancels, the deposit to keep or return is decided from memory. This app keeps one record per reservation and one list of what needs action today.

What is inside:

• Reservations with item, price, shelf location, hold end date and status (Holding, Collected, Cancelled, Expired)
• Deposits, part payments and refunds with automatic receipt numbers and a printable A5 receipt or refund voucher
• Balance, percent paid and a deposit check against the minimum deposit you set
• Today page: ready to hand over, ending within 7 days or overdue, deposits to give back, deposits below your minimum
• Cancellation handling: the amount the shop keeps, the amount still owed back and a refund voucher
• A5 reservation slip for the customer with the item, price, balance, hold end date and your own terms
• Example data you can load in one click, a Start here guide and an Honest limits panel
• JSON backup and restore, CSV export, and CSV import with a check of every row before anything is added

Who it is for: boutiques, furniture and electronics shops, gift and toy shops, jewellers and any counter that sets goods aside against a deposit and has no system that remembers it between shifts.

What it is NOT: It does not count stock, so a held item is not taken off your stock list anywhere else. It does not take card payments, issue tax invoices or tell you what you may keep after a cancellation: you enter the amount kept according to your own written terms. Nothing is sent automatically. It is not legal, tax or accounting advice, it is not connected to any government system, bank or messaging service, and it does not file or send anything by itself. UAE e-invoicing is not part of it.

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Verified by us: scripted tests in Chromium (97 checks through the real screens: adding, editing and deleting records in every table, required-field messages, backup then clear then restore, CSV export then import, keyboard order, print layouts rendered to PDF, no horizontal scrolling at 375 and 1280 pixels, no network requests) and an independent recalculation by a separately written Python evaluator of 1177 calculated values (25 randomised rows plus the example data) with 0 mismatches. Not tested: Safari and Firefox beyond what is stated here, and no real printer was used (print layouts were checked as PDF).