This is a work plan, not a pitch: what to export from the old program, what carries over and what does not, what to do during the week both are open, and when it is safe to stop paying the old vendor. Straight away: there is no file import.
“Moving the database” sounds like one job. It is really five separate jobs, three of them short. The table below takes them one at a time.
No file import: neither Excel nor CSV. A product gets in by four routes — the built-in catalogue, a label photo, a delivery note sent to the assistant, or plain typing. In all four you set the quantity and the price yourself, because those are yours.
The old program’s code column does not move, but the codes are not lost: they are on the goods. Scan an unknown code at the till and the app remembers it and opens the list — tap the product and the code is attached. One product can hold several codes.
Rather than copying the old figure, count what is on the shelf on switch day: the old number has usually drifted from reality already. When you enter intake, use the cost price you actually paid.
You have fewer debtors than products, so this is short: a name, phone, amount, due date and note for each. The phone number is required and unique. Read each amount twice as you copy it: there is no fixing it later — once a debt is recorded you can only add payments against it, never edit or delete it. This is the one list on the whole move that deserves your full attention.
In the suppliers section you record the outstanding balance and due date for each; partial payments live there too. The total you owe shows on the home screen.
Past sales do not move, and it is better to know that in advance: the BuySale report counts from the day you start, so there is nothing to compare against in the first month. Export the old reports BEFORE you switch the old program off.
BuySale is not a fiscal cash register: it issues no fiscal receipt and is not connected to the tax system. If your old program was tied to your fiscal till, that link does not come with you — the till stays exactly as it is.
So only one part of the move is heavy: the product list. The rest is a few hours of work.
Do this before you stop paying. In many programs access closes when the subscription ends and the data stays inside — by then it is too late.
Running in parallel does not mean entering every sale twice — do that and your seller quits on day three. Only the first day goes into both; after that the old program simply stays open for reference.
Choose a slow trading day. Export everything on the list above from the old program and count the shelf — stock goes in from that count.
Not the whole list — only what moves every day. Once that is in, the till works, and the rest fills in as you sell.
Exactly one day. In the evening compare two numbers: the day’s takings and the stock figure for a few products. If they match, from day two sales go only into BuySale.
Once the debtors are in, stop writing credit in the old program and in the notebook. Two credit ledgers is the most expensive mistake of the move: that is exactly where money goes missing.
Give the seller a PIN and set permissions: credit sales, returns and seeing the cost price are granted separately. One shift spent standing beside them settles a month of questions.
Scan the shelf tag after tag. The count is kept on the server — stop halfway or come back from another phone and you carry on from the same place. At the end you get the list of discrepancies.
We have no measured figure and will not invent one: we have never timed “so many seconds per product” with a stopwatch in real shops. But the job is one repeated action — entering one product — and that action you can time yourself, then do the arithmetic.
So take the number from your own shop, not from us: on the first day of the trial enter twenty products with your phone timing you. Divide by twenty, multiply by the length of your list — that figure is yours, because it was measured on your range at your typing speed. Either way it is not a one-night job and does not need to be: an hour after closing, and the list fills itself.
On money: the trial runs 7 days, no daily fee is charged during it and no payment card is requested. So the week with both programs open costs you nothing extra on our side — on the cheapest plan that is 46 410 UZS worth of time.
Nine items. If all nine are “yes”, you no longer need the old program.
Whoever sits down at night to type two thousand lines stops halfway and does not open the app the next day. Start with what sells daily; the rest fills in as you trade — an unknown code at the till is attached on the spot.
When entering old stock it is tempting to write today’s price, but net profit is calculated from the cost price. Write what you actually paid — the first month’s profit depends on it.
The most expensive mistake. Credit in one place and sales in another leaves both sets of records wrong, and nobody can say which is true. After day one, write in one place only.
Changing software does not change your obligations to the tax authority. BuySale issues no fiscal receipt and connects to nothing; your registered online till or virtual till carries on as before.
Learn more →The file itself cannot be poured into the database: BuySale has no Excel or CSV import. But you do not have to retype the list either — open it on screen, PHOTOGRAPH it and send it to the AI assistant. It reads the name, quantity and price from each row and builds an editable intake card; if there is a barcode or expiry column, it takes those too. You review and confirm, and only then does the stock move. A handwritten notebook or a supplier waybill works exactly the same way.
No, it does not. The BuySale report counts from the day you start, so in the first month there is nothing to compare with last year. Export the old reports before you switch off and keep them — access may close afterwards.
No. The codes are on the goods — there is nothing to retype, only to scan. An unknown code at the till is remembered and the list opens: tap the product and the code is attached, and next time it is found instantly. An item with no factory code gets your own code starting with “20” in one tap, and its label prints.
Yes. Anything already in the list sells at the till straight away and you add the rest as you go. One caveat: the Android and Windows apps keep selling offline for up to 7 days, while the browser version needs internet (what to do when the connection drops).
Once all nine items above are “yes”. The three that matter most: the stocktake matches, every debtor is moved and the total owed is right, and the files you need are exported and saved. Do not rush — one extra week of subscription is cheaper than one lost debt.
No. The trial runs 7 days, during which no daily fee is charged and no payment card is requested. So the week with both open costs nothing on our side; the old program you keep paying for as before.
Changing software is not a one-day job, but it need not take a week either. The pages below answer whether the move is worth making at all.
If there is no old program and the list lives in Excel or a notebook, the route differs.
Learn more →How the switch-day count works and what happens if you stop halfway.
Learn more →Is your old program expensive? A table of openly published prices.
Learn more →How to start with BuySale: sign in by phone number with a code from Telegram, set up your shop, add your first products and try 7 days free.
Learn more →What you can use instead of BILLZ in Uzbekistan: price, device and fiscal integration in one table, taken from each vendor’s own site on 18.09.2026.
Learn more →BuySale pricing by shop type: from 6 630 UZS a day, 198 900 UZS per 30 days. 7 days free and no setup fee.
Learn more →BuySale assistant
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