A candle stand that keeps its own books.
A real store for the narthex and beyond: books, icons, and gifts, a fast Candle Desk for feast days, and a register that takes a tap, cash, or a check. Inventory counts itself down, low stock tells you when to reorder, and every sale lands in the parish books on its own.
The cash box no one balanced.
Candle money in one box, bookstore money in another, and a shoebox of receipts the treasurer dreads. No one really knows what sold or what is running low, and reconciling it all is somebody’s least favorite Sunday. A parish store should be a quiet blessing, not a headache. Symphonia rings up the sale, counts the stock, and posts to the books, so the narthex takes care of itself.
The whole store, and a register in hand.
What's selling at the office, and the Candle Desk in your pocket at the stand.
A store that runs itself.
The store doesn't sit in a silo.
Posts to the books
Every sale becomes a balanced entry in ParishBooks, so the till and the ledger reconcile themselves.
Same payment rails as giving
Card and tap sales run on the same secure Stripe rails as your online giving. The parish never stores a card.
Knows the buyer
A sale can attach to a parishioner, so a special order or a pledged item ties back to the right household.
The honest answers.
However they like. The register takes a tap, a card, or a phone, and records cash and checks too, so the candle stand is never held up and no one is turned away for want of a card reader.
Yes. Every product carries a stock count that ticks down with each sale, and a low-stock list tells you what to reorder, so the shelf and the screen always agree.
Yes. The Candle Desk is a dedicated, fast register for the narthex, built for the rush before a feast, so a volunteer can ring up candles without hunting through a catalog.
It does. Every sale posts a balanced entry to ParishBooks automatically, so the bookstore revenue is already in the ledger and the treasurer has nothing to reconcile by hand.
Let the narthex take care of itself.
See the store and Candle Desk ring up a real feast day, in a short, no-pressure walkthrough.