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The shop system that reads like a good book.

The everyday tools you'd expect from Bookmanager — scanning, receiving, special orders, used-book buys — rebuilt for the web, at a fraction of the price.

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$49
a month · no setup fee
Millions
of titles, priced & auto-filled
7-day
free trial · cancel anytime
The BookForge seal on a bookseller's desk
One flat price includes
Point of saleInventorySpecial ordersTrade-insPurchasing
A shelf of leather-bound books
Everything under one roof

One system for the whole shop floor.

Ring a sale, take a trade-in, chase a special order, and reorder what's selling — without switching apps or paying for four of them.

Register & POS

Barcode checkout, loyalty, gift receipts, split tender. Runs on any screen — no proprietary till.

Fast checkout

Inventory

Scan an ISBN and the title, author, section, cover and price fill themselves from millions of records.

Auto-priced

Special orders

Take a customer request, order it, and notify them the moment it lands on the hold shelf.

Kept in the loop

Trade-ins & used

Quote buyback at a percentage of list, print store credit, and shelve used stock in one flow.

Your rules

Purchasing

Reorder from live sell-through, build POs, receive against them, and send vendor returns.

Never out of stock

Book lists & reports

Publish shareable staff-pick lists, and see sales by section, top titles and slow movers.

Shelf-talkers online
A bookseller's desk — ledger, brass scanner, stamps and leather-bound stock
One counter,
everything on itNew, used and rare — the day book, the special orders, the till. BookForge keeps track of all of it from one place.
Why booksellers move

The quote at the till, without the quote for the software.

The Corner ShelfRegister
Circe · Madeline Miller$17.99
Dune · Frank Herbert$10.99
Trade-in credit−$6.50
Total$22.48

One price. No setup fee. Cancel anytime.

The old shop systems bill by the terminal and charge to get you started. BookForge is one flat monthly price, with nothing to install and no long-term contract — so the numbers work for a shop your size.

  • ✦ $49 a month — no per-terminal fees
  • ✦ No setup or onboarding charge
  • ✦ Month-to-month — leave whenever you like
  • ✦ One click downloads every record — and leaves with you
Features

Built for the way a bookshop actually runs.

Not a generic retail POS with books bolted on — every screen is shaped around titles, editions, sections and special orders.

Inventory

Scan once. It fills in the rest.

Point the scanner at any ISBN and BookForge pulls the title, author, publisher, section, cover art and list price from a catalog of millions of titles. No typing, no guessing a shelf.

  • Cover art downloaded and stored — never a broken image
  • Section suggested from the book's own subjects
  • List price pulled so your margins are honest
Inventory4,207 titles
Circe
Madeline Miller · 9780316556347
Fiction$17.995
Braiding Sweetgrass
R.W. Kimmerer · 9781571313560
Nature$20.002
The Overstory
Richard Powers · 9780393356687
Fiction$18.957
Stacked leather-bound used books beside a brass balance scale and a Trade-ins nameplate
Trade-ins & used books

Buyback quotes your staff can trust.

Set one rule — say, 25% of list price — and every trade-in quote is calculated the same way, whoever's at the counter. Print store credit, shelve the used copy, done.

  • Percentage-of-list or flat shelf-price modes
  • Store-credit accounts that follow the customer
  • Used stock lives beside new on the same shelf map
Trade-in quote25% of list
The Night Circus · list $18.00$4.50
Educated · list $28.00$7.00
Where the Crawdads Sing · $17$4.25
Store credit$15.75
Purchasing & special orders

Reorder what's selling, chase what's asked for.

Live sell-through tells you what to restock; one click turns a reorder list into a purchase order. Special orders notify the customer the moment their book hits the hold shelf.

  • POs built from real sales velocity, not a hunch
  • Receive against a PO — stock updates as you scan
  • Vendor returns and credits tracked to the penny
Purchase order · IngramDraft
Braiding Sweetgrass
below reorder point
×6$132.00
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow…
sold 4 this week
×4$60.00
The Bee Sting
special order · Casey N.
×1$18.00
Switch from Bookmanager

The tools you rely on. A fraction of the price. No lost data.

Bookmanager has run indie shops for decades. BookForge brings the everyday tools you count on into the browser — for a lower monthly price and no setup fee. When you're ready, we import your existing catalog straight from your backup.

CapabilityBookForgeBookmanager
Runs in any web browserYesWindows desktop
Millions of titles with covers & pricingYesYes
Point of sale & loyaltyYesYes
Inventory, purchasing & special ordersYesYes
Setup & onboarding fee$0Varies
Monthly price$49Higher

Your data comes with you.

When you close Bookmanager it writes out a database backup. Hand us that file and we do the rest.

STEP 01

Send us your backup

Export or locate your Bookmanager SQL backup — the file it produces on shutdown — and upload it securely.

STEP 02

We map & import

Titles, stock counts, sections, customers and special orders come across, matched to their full catalog entries.

STEP 03

You open the next morning

Log in, scan a book, ring a sale. Same store you've always run — now in the browser, for a fraction of the price.

And it can leave with you too.

One button hands your whole shop back: catalogue, customers, store credit and gift-card balances, every sale, the full stock ledger — plain CSV files that open in Excel. No request, no waiting on us, no fee. On every plan, from day one of the trial.

WHY

Because we've been the customer

Every system this shop's owner bought made joining easy and leaving hard. That isn't a technical limit — someone chose it.

HOW

The same columns our importer reads

The export runs both directions, so your history moves in from whatever you're on now, and back out again whenever you want it.

EVEN IF

You stop paying

If the subscription lapses the till stops, but the export doesn't. Your records are yours whether or not you're still a customer.

Pricing

Priced for a bookshop, not a chain.

One flat monthly price. No per-terminal fees, no setup charge, no surprise line items. Start free for 7 days.

Starter
$49/mo
for a single-location shop
Everything you need to run the floor day to day.
  • Register, POS & loyalty
  • Inventory with auto-fill & covers
  • Trade-ins & store credit
  • Special orders
  • Up to 5 staff logins + 4 register (cashier) logins
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Advanced
$129/mo
for busy & multi-register shops
Everything in Starter, plus your shop online.
  • Everything in Starter
  • Public web storefront & online orders
  • Customer portal & wishlists
  • Email & SMS marketing
  • Events, book clubs & subscriptions
  • Shelf label printing
  • Up to 25 staff logins + unlimited register logins
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Is there really no setup fee?

None. Legacy shop systems often charge a setup or onboarding fee — we don't. You can be ringing sales the same afternoon you sign up.

Can I bring my data from Bookmanager?

Yes. Send us your database backup and we import your catalog, stock, customers and special orders. See .

What does the free trial include?

The full Advanced plan for 7 days — every feature, nothing to install. Keep going on whichever tier fits when the trial ends.

Do I need special hardware?

No proprietary till. BookForge runs in the browser on the computer, tablet or laptop you already own, with any standard USB barcode scanner and receipt printer.

Run the shop, not the software.

Start free for 7 days. No setup fee, no long-term contract.

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