A short pitch on running many shops without paper, phone calls, and hope. Ten slides, five minutes.
Prepared for chain owners & directors · 2026
How it runs today
The daily sales sheet. The attendance register. The stock book. The cash-up slip, photographed into a WhatsApp group at closing. Head office finds out what happened in a branch a day late, from a photo, if the photo comes at all.
Many of Sri Lanka's best-known chains cannot even list their own branches on their websites. If the website can't see the branches, neither can the office.
What it costs
Stock variance nobody catches until the yearly count. Cash-up differences that become "adjustments." Attendance marked for people who left at lunch. Wastage written off without a photo or a reason.
And expansion multiplies it. Chains are opening branches across the island again. Every new branch is one more set of books nobody reads.
The law already moved
Employers with fifty or more employees must submit EPF returns electronically, every month. That is current law, not a future plan. A register book in each branch cannot produce those returns. The paper era has a closing date, and the enforcement tools just went digital.
What B3 builds
Attendance, the daily checklist, cash-up, and stock counts on one phone at the branch. Works offline; syncs when it can.
Every branch on one screen, live. Problems flag themselves: a branch that hasn't cashed up, a stock variance, a missed opening checklist.
Attendance feeds your EPF e-Returns. Every count, cash-up, and write-off is stamped and stored. Audits and disputes become lookups.
Built for shops
Sinhala, Tamil, and English. Big buttons, five-minute routines that replace the book one-for-one. The cashier's day doesn't change. The manager's evening doesn't change. What changes is that you see it all, the moment it happens.
Proven somewhere harder
This system is being built for Sri Lankan plantations: thousands of workers, no signal in the field, wage law changing under them, and international auditors at the gate. A shop with WiFi and twenty staff is the easy version. Your branches get software forged in worse conditions than they'll ever see.
Why this fits a family business
No enterprise ERP project, no committees, no year-long rollout. Per-branch pricing a family business can say yes to in one meeting. Start with one branch; if it works, switching on the next nineteen is a phone call, because every branch is the same shape.
The offer
The ask
One meeting to choose the pilot branch. One visit to set up. Thirty days to the numbers. B3 is Methika and Thanuka: small, fast, Sri Lankan, and built for how family chains actually run.