Industries
Retail shops
General stores, garment shops and electronics counters that need to keep billing through an outage and satisfy FBR without extra evening work.
What gets in the way
- The line drops during the evening rush and billing stops.
- The till bills entirely offline and syncs in order when the connection returns, so the queue keeps moving.
- Cashiers give discounts nobody approved.
- Discount ceilings are enforced per cashier, and any override above the ceiling is authorised and recorded against a named supervisor.
- FBR invoicing becomes an evening data-entry job.
- Invoices are submitted as you bill, with the FBR invoice number and QR printed on the customer’s receipt.
- The counter cannot tell whether a price includes a scheme or a customer rate.
- Retail and trade price lists, per-customer rates, schemes and bonus quantities live in the system rather than on a sheet beside the till.
In practice
Who it is for, and what setup involves
A typical setup for a shop
One register, an item list imported from whatever spreadsheet you already keep, your existing barcodes, and a thermal printer you probably own. Most shops are selling by the end of the first afternoon. The parts that take longer are the ones that are about your business rather than the software: agreeing opening stock, and deciding what each cashier is allowed to discount.
What changes on day one, and what changes in month three
Day one is mostly relief: billing is faster, the receipt carries the FBR invoice number, and the day's takings reconcile against sales without anyone typing a paper list.
Month three is where the value actually lands. That is when you have enough recorded history to see which lines move, which sit, which customers are slow to pay, and how much discount is being given and by whom. None of that is visible in a day book, because a day book records transactions without relating them.
The question shop owners ask that we answer honestly
"Will this slow down my counter?" Only if you make the item list harder to search than it needs to be. A shop with clean item names and barcodes bills faster than it did on paper. A shop with four hundred items called variations of the same word does not, and that is a data problem worth fixing before you blame the till.
When we are the wrong fit
If you bill fewer than a handful of invoices a month, or you sell purely on time rather than goods, a spreadsheet is genuinely cheaper and we will tell you so. We would rather lose a PKR 1,000 subscription than have a shop paying for something it does not need.
Terms
Terms used on this page
Plain definitions of the words a buyer here actually searches for.
- Discount ceiling
- The largest discount a cashier may give unaided; above it a supervisor authorises the sale and is recorded against it by name.
- Shift reconciliation
- Comparing cash counted at the end of a shift against sales recorded during it, so a shortfall is identified while the staff on duty are known.
- Price list
- A named set of prices, such as retail or trade, applied to a customer so the right price appears at the counter without a sheet beside the till.
- Thermal printer
- A receipt printer, commonly 58mm or 80mm wide, whose print density determines whether a printed QR code remains scannable.
- Touch terminal
- An all-in-one till with a touchscreen, one of the three form factors supported alongside a desktop and an Android tablet.
Questions people ask before they buy
Twenty minutes, your own data, no slides.
Bring a month of your own sales, a payslip you argue about, or last term’s fee sheet. We will show you what it looks like in MjFour.