Coming soon · For wholesalers who sell on credit
You sold the goods. Where’s the money?
Stride shows what every customer owes, every post-dated cheque included, who to call today and which stock you can promise. One calm system, made for wholesale in Sri Lanka.
- Get paid
- Promise stock
- Trust the books
Runs on your own PC and works without internet. On your phone too. In Sinhala, Tamil and English.
Hill Country Footwear
Owes you
Rs 1,620,0001,200,000
Rs 1,375,000 of it in 3 cheques waiting to clearRs 955,000 of it in 2 cheques waiting to clear
Rs 380,000 left of a Rs 2,000,000 credit limitRs 800,000 left of a Rs 2,000,000 credit limit
Cheques
- Earlier #204118Waiting for the bankMoney in your bank account Rs 420,000ClearingCleared
- +2days #204119Can’t be cleared for 2 days Rs 315,000Post-dated
- +9days #204120Dated in 9 days Rs 640,000Post-dated
Came back
- −4days #198752Rs 1,500 return charge added Rs 180,000Returned
About 4,750 cheques come back every working day.¹
The money that comes back
Rs311.6 billion in cheques came back unpaid in Sri Lanka in 2025.¹
About 1 in 35 cheques was returned.¹
And cheques aren’t going away. In the first quarter of 2026, 6.1 % more cheques were cleared than a year before.¹
Your cheque drawer
50 chequesAt the 2025 national rate, 1 to 2 of them a month could come back.
In 2025 the average returned cheque was about Rs 274,000.¹
An illustration from national averages, not a forecast for your business.
A returned cheque isn’t the end of the money. Losing track of it is.
The old way
Four quiet leaks.
Every wholesaler who sells on credit knows them.
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The cheque drawer
Forty post-dated cheques in a drawer. Which are due this week? Which have you already banked?
chq 204119 · 315,000 ·
yesterdayin 2 days · banked?Every date lives in your head.
How Stride closes it -
The sale that should have stopped
The goods left on Monday. That order took the customer over their limit.
Lotus Lane · bal 800,000 · order 285,000 ·
okNow you’re lending, not selling.
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The six-invoice cheque
One cheque pays six invoices. Someone splits it by hand, after closing.
chq 600,000 → 98,000 + 112,500 +
67,00076,000 …Mistakes hide in the arithmetic.
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The pairs you promised
You promised 100 pairs of Runner 204 to a good customer. Then someone sold them to another.
100 pr · Runner 204 ·
kept for KandyA broken promise costs more than one sale.
How Stride closes it
And at month end, the statements. Evening after evening.
Same customer. Same cheques.
You’re guessing. Now you know.
Hill Country Footwear
Owes you
Rs 1,200,000
Rs 800,000 left of a Rs 2,000,000 credit limit
Ageing
- Current
- 30
- 60
- 90
- 90+
Cheques
- Earlier #204118 Rs 420,000Cleared
- +2days #204119Date moved · reason kept Rs 315,000Post-dated
- +9days #204120 Rs 640,000Post-dated
- −4days #198752Rs 1,500 charge added Rs 180,000Returned
Once you’ve seen your money this clearly, going back to the notebook feels like switching the lights off.
One calm system
Get paid. Promise stock. Trust the books.
Three things every wholesaler needs. One calm system that does all three.
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Get paid.
Every cheque, every credit limit, every statement, and a short list of who to call today.
See how -
Promise stock.
Know what you can promise, by size and colour, before you say yes.
See how -
Trust the books.
One ledger for stock and money, exact to the cent. Corrections that never erase history.
See how
01 · Get paid
A cheque diary that never forgets a date.
Every cheque has a date, a status and a story. Stride keeps all three. A post-dated cheque stays pending until its day, and nobody can clear it early. If the date changes, the reason sits beside the old date. If the bank returns it, the invoice owes the money again, with the return charge on record. Bounced by mistake? Restore it. The history stays, marked Edited.
Demo date+2daysToday
Hill Country Footwear · Kandy
Not for 2 more days. A post-dated cheque isn’t money yet.
History
- Received7 days ago · by Staff
- Date moved yesterday → in 2 dayscustomer asked · by Owner
- ClearedOn its date · by Owner
- Returned by the bankinvoice owes Rs 315,000 again
- Return charge Rs 1,500added to the invoice
- Charge waivedWVR-0007 · long-standing customer · by Owner
- Received
- Post-dated
- Cleared
- Returned
- Waived
Try it
A manager who won’t let the goods leave.
If a sale would take a customer over their credit limit, Stride stops it. Only you, the owner, can let it through, and your reason is written down. A warning is easy to click past. A hold is not.
New sale · Lotus Lane Fashions · Maharagama
Rs 285,000197,600
Within limit
Try it
Clear warning signs, not guesswork.
- 2 returned cheques this yearReturned ×2
- Paying 18 days beyond termsLate
- Owes 80 % of the limit, including cheques in handHigh
Consider a holdClear rules, explained.
One cheque. Six invoices. Settled.
Customers pay in lump sums. Enter the cheque once and Stride spreads it across their invoices, oldest first or exactly as you choose. Anything left over waits as customer credit for the next order.
Cheque #771204 · Northgate Shoe House
Rs 600,000
- INV-101874 daysRs 98,000OpenPaid
- INV-102461 daysRs 112,500OpenPaid
- INV-103148 daysRs 76,000OpenPaid
- INV-103733 daysRs 140,000OpenPaid
- INV-104019 daysRs 85,000OpenPaid
- INV-10436 daysRs 76,000OpenPaid
Rs 12,500 kept as customer credit
Pick fewer invoices: this cheque covers Rs 600,000.
Your morning, on one screen.
Who to call. Which cheques to bank. Which statements to send. One short list every morning, on your phone or at your desk. Send a clear statement on WhatsApp in a tap.
65.0 % of Sri Lankans aged 5 to 69 can use a smartphone, tablet or computer on their own. 35.9 % can use a computer.² Stride works where you do.
Ready-made messages for statements, reminders and order confirmations. You check each one, then tap send.
Each customer’s consent, and every message you send, is kept on record. SMS and email work too.
Know the people behind every order: contacts, calls, visits and follow-ups, on the same page.
9:15
Today
TodayCall today · 3
- HCHill Country FootwearPromised
- LLLotus Lane FashionsOverdue
- SSSouthern Step TradersDue soon
Bank today · 1 cheque · Rs 265,000
- #350021 · Northgate Shoe HouseDue today
Statements ready to send · 1
- Southern Step Traders
9:15
Southern Step Traders
Sent on WhatsApp
02 · Promise stock
Say yes with confidence.
Every size. Every colour. Every pair.
Sixteen lines become one grid.
Hill Country Footwear wants 100 pairs across eight sizes in two colours. Line by line, that’s sixteen lines to type. In Stride it’s one grid, filled the way you already think: style, colour, size. Every cell shows the pairs you can still promise, and a past order repeats in one tap.
Not in footwear? Sizes and colours become whatever your trade uses.
Promised means promised.
Pairs held for one customer stay held. What you can promise is what’s on the shelf, minus what’s already promised. Selling held stock needs your OK and a reason. Stock is counted in whole pairs, whether you sell one pair or a thousand.
Runner 204
| EU 39 | EU 40 | EU 41 | EU 42 | EU 43 | EU 44 | EU 45 | EU 46 | Total | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Black | –418 left14 left | –636 left30 left | –860 left52 left | –10100 left90 left | –1072 left62 left | –840 left32 left | –312 left9 left | –18 left7 left | –50 |
| Tan | –410 left6 left | –624 left18 left | –830 left22 left | –1028 left18 left | –106 left6 left0 left · 4 short |
–820 left12 left | –39 left6 left | –14 left3 left | –50 |
0 pairs · 8 sizes · 2 colours100 pairs · 8 sizes · 2 colours Backorder 4
EU 42 · Black
- On hand
- 120
- Reserved
- 2030
- Free to sell
- 10090
These pairs are held for Hill Country Footwear. Selling them needs the owner’s approval and a reason.
Try it
Deliver in parts. Lose track of nothing.
Send 60 today and 40 next week. Delivery notes, goods received notes and backorders stay in view. Returns become credit notes, sellable or damaged. Short shipments become debit notes to your supplier.
SO-0388 · Hill Country Footwear · 100 pairs
Dead stock is cash you can’t spend.
See how long stock has sat, which sizes sell and which runs are broken. Turn what’s running low into a draft purchase order in one click, matched to the sizes that actually sell. If you import, freight, duty and customs clearing are spread into your true unit cost.
Print a barcode label for every size and colour, on A4 sheets or label rolls. Scan it to add to an order.
- Bought
- Sold
EU size · pairs bought and sold this season
Reorder sizes 41–43 · 60 pairs
PO-0094 drafted03 · Trust the books
One press. Everything moves together.
Confirm a sale and Stride moves the stock, oldest first so your profit is right. It raises what the customer owes and writes a balanced entry in the books, all in one step. There’s no second app, so there’s nothing to sync and nothing to drift apart. Exact to the cent.
INV-1046 · Hill Country Footwear
Runner 204 · Black · EU 41
24 pairs × Rs 4,000
Rs 96,000
Try it
Stock
Runner 204 · Black · EU 41
120 pairs → 96 pairs
Oldest batch first · received 41 days ago
Customer
Hill Country Footwear
Owes you Rs 1,200,000 → 1,296,000
Rs 800,000 → 704,000 credit left
Books
Balanced
Not enough stock? The whole sale stops. Two people selling the last pairs at once? Only one gets them.
Corrected in ink. Never erased.
Fix a payment the way a careful bookkeeper would: cross it out in ink with a note, never tear out the page. Each correction gets its own number, a reason and a date. The original stays on record, marked Reversed. Only the owner can do it, so cash can’t quietly disappear.
- RCPT-0412 · Southern Step Traders · Rs 50,000 · CashReversed
- REV-0012 · −Rs 50,000 · Entered on the wrong customer · by Owner · todayOwner only
- RCPT-0413 · Lotus Lane Fashions · Rs 50,000 · Cash
A filing cabinet that tidies itself.
Every invoice, delivery note, payment and expense is filed by year, month, week and day on your own PC. Open any of them in a browser, print it or save it as a PDF. If a copy is deleted or changed, Stride puts it back. A checked backup is taken every day and before every update. Keep a copy off the PC too, on a USB drive or in an online storage folder.
Stride Records202610-OctoberWeek-3 (15-21)2026-10-17INV-1046.html
Checked backup · today · 14 daily copies kept, plus one before every update.
Your staff sell. Your margins stay yours.
Staff can sell, deliver and collect. Costs, margins, suppliers, purchases and the books stay with you. Stride itself enforces this. It isn’t just hidden on the screen.
Your accountant gets clean exports and books that add up.
Trial balanceProfitCash movementExpenses
Owner sees
Staff see
Calm screens. Your words. Your phone.
Run your day from the shop PC, or from your phone on the road.
Hill Country Footwear
Owes you
Rs 1,296,000
Rs 704,000 left of a Rs 2,000,000 credit limit
Ageing
- Current
- 30
- 60
- 90
- 90+
- Earlier#204118Rs 420,000Cleared
- +2days#204119Rs 315,000Post-dated
- +9days#204120Rs 640,000Post-dated
- −4days#198752Rs 180,000Returned
9:15
Customer
Owes you
Rs 1,296,000
Offline · 2 changes waitingSyncedRs 704,000 credit left
Cheques
- #204119Rs 315,000Post-dated
- #204120Rs 640,000Post-dated
- #198752Rs 180,000Returned
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On your phone.
Open Stride in your phone’s browser. It keeps working when the signal drops and catches up when it’s back.
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On your PC, no internet needed.
Stride runs on your own PC, with your records filed right there.
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Tap again, safely.
If the connection drops mid-save, just try again. Stride won’t bill twice or record a payment twice.
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Tax invoices, only if you need them.
VAT-registered? Switch on tax invoices in the gazetted TAX INVOICE format, with VAT and SSCL reports. If not, leave it off and keep things simple. Your accountant can confirm what you need.
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Sinhala, Tamil and English.
Screens in your language, and documents in the language your customer reads.
Your business
Statement of accountගිණුම් ප්රකාශයகணக்கு அறிக்கை
Southern Step Traders · Galle
Amount dueගෙවිය යුතු මුදලசெலுத்த வேண்டிய தொகை
Rs 336,000
1 cheque pending · due soonPost-dated
ගිණුම් ප්රකාශය · கணக்கு அறிக்கை
A statement, in the language your customer reads Illustrative data.
Designed with a working Sri Lankan footwear wholesaler. Made for any wholesaler who sells on credit: textiles, bags, cosmetics, stationery, hardware, electrical and auto parts.
Switching
Whatever you use today, this is the next step.
Pick what you use now.
Notebook
What staying costs
Every cheque date lives in your head.
| Today | With Stride | |
|---|---|---|
| Post-dated cheques | A date to remember | Listed the morning it’s due |
| Over-limit sales | Noticed later | Held until you approve |
| Statements | Written by hand | Ready in a tap, sent on WhatsApp |
| Records | One book, one copy | Filed by date, backed up daily |
Excel
What staying costs
Every sale typed twice, and formulas that quietly break.
| Today | With Stride |
|---|---|
| Stock sheet, then debtors sheet | One confirmation moves stock, balance and books |
| Totals that drift | Exact to the cent, always balanced |
| Whoever has the file sees your margins | Staff never see costs or margins |
| Cheques in a column | Cheques with real dates and statuses |
Retail POS app
What staying costs
Built for the counter, not for credit.
| Today | With Stride |
|---|---|
| Walk-in sales | Credit customers with limits |
| Cheques as an afterthought | Pending, cleared, returned: every cheque |
| Sizes one line at a time | Whole size runs in one grid |
| One sale, one receipt | Part deliveries, credit notes, price lists |
Accounting software
What staying costs
Made for the accountant, and often tied to one PC.
| Today | With Stride |
|---|---|
| Sizes and colours as a workaround | Every size and colour its own item |
| Collections kept somewhere else | Who to call today, built in |
| One office PC | Your PC and your phone |
| Stock kept elsewhere | Stock and books in one ledger, with exports your accountant can use |
International tools
What staying costs
Often billed in dollars, and built for other markets.
| Today | With Stride |
|---|---|
| Often billed in US dollars | Rupees and Sri Lankan dates |
| Cheque rules from elsewhere | Built around Sri Lankan cheque rules |
| Rarely in Sinhala or Tamil | Sinhala, Tamil and English |
| Customer follow-ups often an add-on | Stock, credit and customers in one place |
Two separate apps
What staying costs
Two sets of numbers that slowly stop matching.
| Today | With Stride |
|---|---|
| Sync and hope | One step, one ledger |
| Stock value and balances drift | Nothing to sync, nothing to drift |
| Two places to check | One place to look |
Already on a wholesale system that tracks cheques? Stride also gives you calm, modern screens, size-grid ordering, follow-ups and statements on WhatsApp, and it works on your phone.
Bring your business with you.
Products, sizes, customers, suppliers, opening stock and balances come across from Excel or CSV. You see a preview first, every row is checked, and nothing is half-imported.
Preview · stock-list.xlsx · 2,140 rows
- R204 · Black · 42 · 120 pairs
- R204 · Black · 43 · 72 pairs
- R204 · Tan · 41 · 30 pairs
- C88 · White · 40 · 64 pairs
- R204 · Tan · — · 24 pairsRow 418 · size missing
- R204 · — · 44 · 40 pairsRow 1,207 · colour missing
Nothing is imported until every row is right.
Switching without the risk.
See it first.
Ask for a walkthrough in your own sample workspace, kept apart from any real business.
Bring your lists.
Import from Excel with a preview. Nothing goes in until every row is right.
Get set up with our help.
We show you around and answer your questions. Help is built into Stride along the way.
Keep what’s yours.
Records filed on your PC, and every list exports to a spreadsheet.
With every cheque in its place, guessing feels expensive.
Get early accessPlain answers.
Can I see it before I decide?
Yes. Ask for a walkthrough and we’ll set up your own sample workspace, filled with sample data and kept completely apart from any real business’s records.
Does it need the internet?
No. On your PC, Stride works without internet. On your phone, it keeps working offline and catches up when you’re back online, so your phone and your PC show the same records.
I keep everything in Excel. Do I start again?
No. Bring products, sizes, customers, suppliers, opening stock and balances from Excel or CSV. Stride checks every row first and imports nothing until it’s all right.
Can my staff use it without seeing my costs?
Yes. Staff can sell, deliver and collect. Costs, margins, suppliers, purchases and the books stay with you.
Will my staff and I find it easy to learn?
Stride uses the words you already use: cheques, pairs, statements, price lists. Ask for a walkthrough and we’ll show you around your own sample workspace, where you and your staff can try every step before anything real goes in. Screens come in Sinhala, Tamil and English, and help is built in along the way.
Will my accountant be happy?
Every sale, payment and correction posts a balanced entry, exact to the cent, and nothing is silently edited. Lists export to CSV, and journals export for common accounting packages. If you’re VAT-registered, switch on tax invoices; your accountant can confirm what you need.
Who is Stride for?
Wholesalers and distributors who sell on credit. Footwear and apparel first, and any trade with cheques, part deliveries and price lists.
What happens when I ask for early access?
We reply on WhatsApp or email, show you around Stride and answer your questions, including pricing. Nothing is decided until you say yes.
Coming soon
Wholesale, in step.
Be among the first wholesalers to run on Stride. Say hello and we’ll show you around.
- Get paid
- Promise stock
- Trust the books
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