Guides and ideas for running a shop: point of sale, stock and the numbers that matter.
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.
A point of sale system does more than take money: every sale moves stock, cash and credit. Here is one sale in a Kampala shop, traced record by record.
The records every small employer needs, the legal minimum annual leave in five African countries with two worked examples, and how to set up HR in ArmPOS.
