A till-only POS sees two of the eight things that happen to a carton of stock. Follow one carton of soap, then answer five questions to see if one system is enough.
A link that sends only sales can make a day's profit look six times too high. Here is the entry each POS event should post, and a worked day in UGX.
Where the system runs decides what happens in a power cut. A decision table, outage figures by country and a five-year cost worksheet for small shops in Africa.
What a cloud inventory system is, what keeps working when the power or internet drops, and a checklist of what a shop in Africa should test before it buys.
Six POS reports show the sales you are losing now. Here is the action for each, a worked Nairobi example, and why a 10% discount can halve your profit.
A one-week plan to train shop staff on a new till: credit, split payments, returns, the cash register and the offline drill, with a sign-off sheet to copy.
Run two or three branches you can't visit every day: the five numbers to compare each week, a worked Nairobi and Nakuru example, and the controls for stock and cash.
US rankings pick systems that don't take cards in Africa. Here are ten tests to run in a free trial, built for African shops, with a scoring sheet you can copy.
A flat 10% points reward can give away most of a thin margin. Price points product by product, run credit with a limit, and ask before you send offers.
Time a week of shop jobs, then hand the biggest to a tool: five tools with free plans, from the till and the stock book to WhatsApp, Google, flyers and staff tasks.
Two numbers per product stop both problems. A reorder point, three ways to size safety stock, an order-up-to level, cartons and cash, worked in UGX.
An automation map of nine inventory tasks, the order to automate them in, and why a small shop should automate the low-stock alert but not the order.
