ToolFor Café

Closing Count

Count what's left. Order what's missing.

Staff count stock at closing against your par levels, and the app writes one printable or copyable reorder sheet per supplier.

Download the source

Zip, 208 KB. MIT licence. Built 19 Oct 2026.

Live preview

Loading the live site…

This is the real site, not a mock-up. Click around; the button on it opens the working app.

What you get

Everything a tool needs, already done.

Pages and screens

  • Hero
  • How it works
  • Worked example
  • Count screen
  • Order sheet
  • Items and suppliers
  • Open the app

Features

  • Counts stock against owner-set par levels
  • Rounds reorders up to whole packs
  • Groups the order list by supplier
  • Copy or print the order sheet
  • Dated history of counts kept in the browser
  • CSV export of items, units, pars and suppliers

Palette

  • #b4471c
  • #9c3b15
  • #fff6ee
  • #f6dfd0
  • #2a1c13
  • #6d5c50

Style

  • Warm
  • Editorial
  • Minimal
Closing Count on a phone
On a phone, as shipped.

For developers

A real codebase, not a page builder export.

Stack

Vite, React 19 and TypeScript for the app. The launch page is plain HTML, CSS and a little JavaScript with no build step. Vitest for unit tests, Playwright for browser tests.

Run it

unzip closing-count.zip
cd closing-count
npm install
npm run dev

In the zip

  • site/ the launch page with the built app in site/app/
  • src/ and e2e/ the app source and tests
  • docs/technical-docs/ architecture, runbook, quick reference
  • START-HERE.md and LICENSE (MIT)

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