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One system. Set up for how your trade actually works.

The software is the same in every shop. What differs is what we switch on, what the bill looks like, and what the counter is arranged to do quickly.

Grocery

The shelf and the stock figure stop drifting apart.

A counter that is busy in bursts, a few thousand lines, and one person who is owner, buyer and cashier at once.

What usually goes wrong

  • The stock figure and what is on the shelf drift apart
  • Regulars buy on credit and nobody is quite sure who owes what
  • Prices live in somebody's head

How it is set up

  • Short item codes so unlabelled goods are still fast
  • Credit limits per customer, enforced at the till
  • 58 mm till roll, Sinhala or bilingual
  • Batches switched off — most grocery lines do not need them
Scan barcode · type item code or name
  • F2Search
  • F3Hold bill
  • F4Customer
  • F6Held bills
  • F8Edit line
  • F9Pay
CustomerSunil Motors
  • Brake Pad Set — Front3,700.001191712 × 1,850.00Avurudu Sale 5% −185.00
  • Engine Oil 4L5,600.001001391 × 5,600.00
  • Oil Filter2,670.001004823 × 890.00
Subtotal11,970.00
Discount−185.00
To pay3 products · 6 pcs11,785.00
The counter

Supermarket

Nothing reaches its date at the back of the shelf.

Several branches, staff on shifts, and perishable stock that turns into a loss if nobody is watching the dates.

What usually goes wrong

  • Milk and yoghurt reach their date at the back of the shelf
  • The drawer is short and the shift has already gone home
  • Promotions get applied inconsistently by different cashiers

How it is set up

  • Batches with expiry, and the oldest lot always sold first
  • Shifts: a count at open, a count at close, the difference named
  • Promotions by category, applied by the till rather than by the cashier
  • Reorder levels on fast movers, so the warning comes before the gap
All stock · Kandy Road4,182 lines
ProductOn hand
Highland Milk 1L100482412
Prima Bread 450g10013918Reorder
Chello Yoghurt 80g119171301
Anchor Milk Powder 400g1045532403 batches
Sugar 1kg1007716Reorder
Stock, per counter

Spare parts

A document the garage can file, and thirty days to pay it.

Garages and fleet owners, parts known by number as often as by name, and accounts settled monthly.

What usually goes wrong

  • Customers want a proper A4 invoice, not a till roll
  • Credit is extended on trust and chased on memory
  • The same part has four names and one of them is a part number

How it is set up

  • A4 invoices with your bank details and signature lines
  • Credit limits and a list of who owes what, largest first
  • Item codes and barcodes side by side, searchable by either
  • VAT registration number and breakdown printed on the invoice
Sample Motor SparesNo. 1, Sample Road, ColomboVAT 000000000-7000INVOICEINV-COL-260817-0042
ItemQtyAmount
Brake Pad Set — Front23,700.00
Engine Oil 4L15,600.00
Oil Filter32,670.00
Subtotal
11,970.00
Discount
−185.00
Total
11,785.00
Authorised SignatureReceived By
An A4 invoice

Marine and fishing supplies

Stock that has to last a season, and customers who pay after the catch.

Seasonal demand, high-value items, and customers who buy on account between catches.

What usually goes wrong

  • Stock arrives in one large delivery and has to last
  • Payment comes weeks after the goods do
  • A single missing item costs a boat a day

How it is set up

  • Supplier terms recorded, so what is owed and when is not a guess
  • Reorder levels tuned to lead time rather than to shelf space
  • Credit customers with limits that hold at the counter
  • Purchases received against the supplier's own invoice number

Not on this list?

Tell us what you sell and we will say honestly whether it fits.

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