General store
Billing and udhaar for a kiryana store, with no internet
A kiryana counter runs on three things software usually gets wrong: weighing, credit, and the fact that the line does not stop when the connection does. SalezFlow POS sells 1.5 kg of rice as an ordinary line, puts udhaar on a real customer account with a limit you set, and keeps doing both with the internet down all day, because everything lives on the computer behind your counter.
What goes wrong today
Three things this trade loses money on.
The udhaar notebook is the business, and it is one book
A paper khata is the only record of who owes what, it cannot be searched, and a disagreement about it is unwinnable. Every credit sale here lands on that customer's account automatically, with the bill behind it — what was taken, what came back, what was paid, and when. Set a ceiling per customer and the till refuses the sale that would cross it, rather than telling you afterwards.
Weighing means a calculator and a hand-written slip
Quantity is decimal where you want it: rice by the kilo to three places, eggs by the each. If your scale prints a barcode with the weight inside it, the till reads the weight straight off the label and prices the line itself.
Nobody knows what the drawer should hold
Open the shift with a float, record money in and out during the day, and count the notes at close. The till shows what it expected, what you counted and the difference. Print it and the figure is frozen — voiding something next week cannot quietly change a slip you already signed.
What you get
Everything a general store runs on.
One app, one price. Nothing here is an add-on, and nothing here is a promise the download breaks.
Sells with the line down
Billing, printing, stock, customers and reports run on your own computer. The internet is needed once to activate, then only in the background — and when it is not there, the shop does not notice.
Udhaar with a ledger and a limit
Credit sales post to the customer's account in one tap. Each account has a balance, a statement, and an optional ceiling the till enforces at the moment of sale rather than in a report the next morning.
Sell by weight, or by the each
Decimal quantities per product — three decimal places where you need them, whole units where you do not — with the arithmetic done in whole units so a kilo of rice can never round into a paisa that is not there.
Scale labels scanned straight in
A weighing scale that prints an EAN with the weight embedded is read directly: the till resolves the product, pulls out the weight or the price, and puts the line on the bill. Your own printed barcodes always win a lookup, so a scanned code can never ring up the wrong item.
Quick tiles for the ten things everyone buys
Pin the fast movers to the checkout screen so loose items with no barcode take one tap. Every cashier keeps their own set.
A drawer that gets counted
Float, cash in and out, a blind count if you want the cashier to count without seeing the target, and a Z-report that is frozen the moment it is printed.
Questions
What a general store usually asks.
Can I keep selling if the internet goes out for a week?
Yes. Nothing about ringing up a sale needs a connection. The licence check runs quietly in the background and, if it cannot reach us, the shop carries on trading on the last check it made.
Can a customer pay part in cash and put the rest on udhaar?
Yes. A bill can be settled several ways at once — some cash, the rest on account — and only the part that went on account becomes a receivable. Your drawer figure counts only the cash.
How do I stop a cashier writing off half a bill as a discount?
Set the most any bill may be discounted. Going past it, or charging anything other than the shelf price, needs a manager's password typed in at the till — the cashier stays signed in, the bill keeps their name, and who approved it is recorded.
I already have my products in Excel. Do I have to type them again?
No. Upload the spreadsheet, check the preview row by row, and import. A re-import of the same file updates prices and names and deliberately leaves your stock alone, so a morning export imported back in the evening cannot erase the day's sales.
Put your own products in and pull the cable.
That is the whole argument, and it takes an afternoon. Install it, enter twenty real lines, ring up a sale with the network unplugged, and take a backup.
What you need
Read next
- Install & set upDownload, install past the first-launch warning, choose how the computer runs, set the shop up and enter the licence.
- Printers & scannersShare one receipt printer between every terminal, or give each its own, and how barcode scanners work with the POS.
- Why offline-firstSix guarantees and the mechanism behind each, plus an honest comparison of an offline till against a cloud POS.
- FeaturesThe twelve things the app does: barcode billing, stock that cannot oversell, credit accounts, batches and expiry, shifts, loyalty, promotions and filable reports.