Looking for a Jewels 2000 alternative? ZSolTech answers all 22.
Buyers looking at Jewels 2000 typically run US retail stores and want POS, repairs and inventory in one system — and increasingly ask about cloud access and modern hardware support. ZSolTech is jewellery-only ERP with published pricing from $300/month — 21 modules and 1,000+ functions spanning POS, inventory by weight, manufacturing, refinery, wholesale, bullion and accounting on one live database.
Why jewellers pick ZSolTech
22 / 22
capabilities answered
Every question on both checklists below, answered on record.
$300
published, per month
Price on the page — no sales call required to learn the cost.
21
modules, one database
Retail, wholesale, manufacturing, refinery and bullion together.
3
languages: EN · AR · UR
With editable captions, so your trade's own terms appear.
Where ZSolTech pulls ahead for a Jewels 2000 buyer: ZSolTech is cloud, web and desktop on one live database with published pricing from $300/month — and it keeps going past retail into manufacturing wastage, refinery assay, wholesale memo and bullion. Ask any system how a sale posts to both the metal ledger and the books in a single step. Put the same questions to every vendor you shortlist — our answers are below, with a way to verify each one in a live demo.
Ten questions to ask Jewels 2000 — and any jewellery software vendor
Put these to both vendors in a live demo. The ZSolTech column is our answer, on record.
| Dimension | Ask Jewels 2000 (and every vendor) | ZSolTech's answer |
|---|---|---|
| Published pricing | Is pricing public, or do you need a sales call to learn the cost? | Published: Retail $300/mo, Professional $499/mo, Enterprise $999/mo — on the pricing page. |
| Live gold pricing | Does the POS price from a live, karat-wise daily rate — or is metal value typed by hand? | Live rates auto-applied by karat (Daily Karat Master); one morning update reprices everything. |
| Weight + piece inventory | Is stock tracked by gross/net/pure weight AND by piece (barcode/RFID) on the same record? | Yes — dual tracking is the core data model, with RFID and barcode on the same records. |
| Old-gold exchange | Can a buy-back be valued at today's rate and netted against a new sale on one invoice? | Yes — exchange, purity testing and netting happen inside the sale flow. |
| Manufacturing | Are job cards issue-to-recovery — metal out, metal back, loss, dust recovery, wastage costed? | Yes — full job-card lifecycle including boiling/melting, repairs and diamond jobs. |
| Schemes & CRM | Are gold-savings (chit) schemes, loyalty and occasion reminders built into the POS? | Yes — enrolment, installment collection at the counter, and scheme due-date reminders. |
| Accounting | Is double-entry accounting native (metal + money), or does data export to a separate package? | Native — Trial Balance, P&L, Balance Sheet with stock revalued at live metal rates. |
| Deployment | Cloud, on-premise, or both — and can you switch later? | Both — cloud SaaS or your own SQL Server on-premise; desktop, web and POS-touch share one database. |
| Compliance | Are VAT/GST invoices, e-invoicing (e.g. ZATCA), KYC/AML on cash sales built in? | Built in — including Gulf VAT, e-invoicing and high-value cash-sale KYC workflows. |
| Migration | Will they import your item masters, customers, balances and stock — or do you start from zero? | Structured import of masters, customers, balances and stock, with a guided go-live in 2–6 weeks. |
Checklist current as of publication; product capabilities change — confirm everything in a live demo with your own data. Deep-dives: jewelry ERP system, jewelry POS, inventory software and jewelry ERP pricing.
The questions that separate jewellery ERPs from each other
Most established jewellery vendors answer the checklist above well. These are the capabilities that need their own data model — so they are hard to add later, and worth testing before you commit.
| Capability | Ask Jewels 2000 (and every vendor) | ZSolTech's answer | How to verify it live |
|---|---|---|---|
| Depth beyond the counter | Does one system cover retail, wholesale, manufacturing, refining and bullion — or is retail the whole product? | One platform: 21 modules and 1,000+ functions spanning POS, wholesale and memo, manufacturing, refinery, bullion trading, fixed assets, payroll and BI on a single database. | Ask which of those five they run natively versus through a partner. |
| Refinery & assay | Are purity testing and refining part of the same system, or a separate process on paper? | Same database — XRF scanning, fire assay, purity test issue/receipt/return with authorisation and amendment, purity comparison, production-loss recovery and return-to-safe. | Ask to see an assay sheet linked to the intake it came from. |
| Offline capability | If the internet drops during trading hours, can the counter keep selling and reconcile afterwards? | Yes — offline export/import with an offline log and controlled unlock, plus cloud invoicing and cloud sales for hybrid operation. | Ask them to describe, step by step, a sale made with no connection. |
| Metal position & hedging | Can the system hold an open (unfixed) metal position and fix it against a live trading account? | Yes — a full hedging desk: purchase/sales/receipt/payment fixing (HPF, HSF, HRF, PHF, RHP, RHS) with MT5 login and live position retrieval. | Ask them to show an open metal position on screen, then fix part of it. |
| Unfix & component-wise diamond | Can you buy or sell a diamond before its price is fixed, and transfer it component-wise between branches? | Yes — unfix purchase and sale, partial approvals with a pending list, and component-wise branch transfers and assembling. | Ask for an unfix purchase followed by a partial approval. |
| Karigar & job-work ledgers | Does every karigar have a running metal balance, with wastage measured per craftsman and per process? | Yes — job cards issue and receive metal by weight, with loss, dust/lemel recovery and net wastage computed per karigar, per process and per job, plus a karigar BOQ ledger. | Ask to open one karigar's ledger and see grams outstanding today. |
| Gulf labour compliance | Does payroll handle WPS, gratuity, end-of-service entitlement and air tickets — or only salaries? | All of it: WPS agent master, gratuity and end-of-service accrual, leave salary, air-ticket entitlement and registers, with biometric attendance feeding the calculation. | Ask to see an end-of-service figure for one employee, today. |
| Footfall & conversion | Can you measure walk-ins, not just sales — so you know your actual conversion rate? | Yes — Signum footfall capture with zone and window masters and staff in/out tracking, so conversion has a real denominator. | Ask what their system reports as yesterday's conversion rate. |
| Loss controls & authorisation | Who can approve a discount, a rate override or a stock adjustment — and is that enforced or just understood? | Enforced: discount OTP above a threshold, document authorisation by voucher type, permissions by process AND location, plus edit/delete history and a user transaction log. | Ask them to attempt a discount above the limit in front of you. |
| Reverse & policy pricing | Can you work backwards from a tag price to its components, and apply a buy-back policy consistently? | Yes — reverse price ratio master for tag-price-down pricing, and policy-driven buy-back settings rather than a decision made per customer. | Ask them to derive making charges backwards from a finished tag price. |
| Small-order economics | Can several small custom orders share one melt and casting run, with loss split back per job? | Yes — job merging and splitting, casting tree up/down, with returned weight and loss allocated across the jobs on the tree. | Ask how a single-piece order is costed without carrying full overhead. |
| Language & localisation depth | Beyond translation, can screen labels and terminology be changed to match your trade's vocabulary? | English, Arabic and Urdu with user-editable form captions and a dictionary — so tola, masha, ratti, kat, ghat, tunch and karigar appear as your staff say them. | Ask them to rename a field to your own trade term, live. |
We publish the "how to verify" column deliberately: a claim you can test in a demo is worth more than one you have to trust. Explore the depth for yourself in the full feature catalogue, manufacturing, karigar accounts and wholesale ERP.
What moving to ZSolTech looks like
A guided migration, not a restart.
1 · Data import
Item masters, customers, supplier balances and stock — with weights, karat and purity — imported from your current system's exports.
2 · Parallel run & training
Your team trains on your own data; counter staff learn the POS in days, back office in a week or two.
3 · Go-live in 2–6 weeks
A guided cut-over with support on standby — history intact, books balanced from day one.
Jewels 2000 vs ZSolTech — common questions
Straight answers about pricing, evaluation and migration.
Jewels 2000's pricing is not something we can quote — confirm current pricing directly with the vendor, and ask specifically about implementation, training, support renewals and per-branch or per-user charges, which is where jewellery software quotes usually grow. ZSolTech publishes its pricing: Retail $300/month, Professional $499/month and Enterprise $999/month, with custom development included in every plan.