Online bookstore with tidy categories, Arabic search and stock counts

An online bookstore on Madar is a ready store at a link like yourstore.madar.iq, where you organise books and stationery into categories and brands, and shoppers search in Arabic without spelling variants getting in the way. Shoppers pay on delivery, and you count your stock regularly. You start with a free 10-day trial, no card needed.

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What a bookstore or stationery shop needs

A big catalogue of small itemsA bookshop carries titles, pens and notebooks at small prices, so you need a catalogue that is easy to arrange and a known limit: up to 500 products on Basic and 5,000 on Pro.
Categories, publishers and authorsShoppers look for a book by category, publisher or author, and for a pen or notebook by type, so you need categories and brands that follow the way they search.
Search that forgives spellingA shopper types احياء علوم الدين without the hamza, or مكتبه with a ha instead of the ta marbuta. Your store needs a search that does not lose the sale over a spelling variant.
Regular counts and the school seasonDemand for textbooks and stationery rises as the school year starts and shipments arrive, so you need regular stock counts and an easy way to record each shipment.

How Madar serves a bookstore or stationery shop

Every book and pen as a product with options
Add each book, notebook or pen as its own product with photos and a price, and set options such as colour or size where needed.
Categories and brands for publishers and authors
From your dashboard you create categories such as novels, school books and notebooks, and brands named after publishers or authors, then attach each product to its category and brand.
Arabic search that looks past hamza and ta marbuta
Store search matches أ, إ, آ and ا, the ta marbuta and the ha, and the alef maqsura and the ya. A shopper who types الاداب finds الآداب, one who types مدرسه finds مدرسة, and one who types هدي finds هدى.
Shop counts and received shipments
You count your stock regularly and compare the real count with the recorded quantity. At the start of the school year you record shipments of notebooks and books as a stock adjustment on each item. Warehouses: 2 on Basic and 5 on Pro.
Cash on delivery for book and stationery orders
Shoppers pay for their books and stationery when the order arrives, with no advance transfer. Madar takes no commission on the order and there are no hidden fees, in both plans.

Illustrative example: a bookshop before the school year

A bookshop sets up categories for novels, school books and notebooks, and brands for publishers. Before schools open it counts its stock, records a shipment of notebooks and bags in one action, and gets an alert when an item runs low. The delivery fee is IQD 5,000 to Baghdad and IQD 8,000 to the other governorates. The numbers here are for illustration only.

Questions from bookshop and stationery owners

Can I sell books online together with school and office supplies?

Yes. One Madar store holds books and school and office supplies together, so you create a category for each type and a brand for each publisher or author. Shoppers still find what they want when they spell a title differently, because search looks past the hamza and the ta marbuta.

How many products can I add to a bookstore?

The Basic plan in Madar holds up to 500 products and the Pro plan up to 5,000. These are the two limits available, so if your catalogue is larger, start with the titles and items that sell most and add more as your plan allows.

How do I count the bookshop's stock before the school year?

You start a stock count in Madar and enter the quantities you actually counted, then compare them with the recorded quantity and correct the difference. When goods arrive you record them as a stock adjustment, and the movement log shows what changed.