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KENYA BUSINESS GUIDE

POS for Nail studio in Kenya

Plan for priced services and daily capacity slots. Use this guide to decide how your counter should record products, stock and money before choosing your POS setup.

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1. Prepare

Choose the preset. Enter your products, selling units, prices and counted stock.

2. Sell

Find or scan an item, set the quantity and record cash or a manual payment reference.

3. Check

Print the receipt, review stock changes and track any customer balance.

4. Close

Count the till cash and compare it with expected cash in the shift report.

Explore the business-specific examples below. The demo uses sample records. Live payment processing and eTIMS submission are not connected.

Your business details, at a glance

Start with the selling unit

Define each treatment and separately charged decoration or removal service. Stocked retail products remain separate from treatments.

Example catalogue for this business

These six examples illustrate the configurable preset. Prices are sample figures, not market quotations. Replace them with your actual catalogue and counted opening stock before trading.

Starter item or serviceIllustrative KES price
Manicure700
Pedicure1,000
Gel polish1,200
Gel removal session300
Nail repair per nail100
Nail art fixed set500
A stock check you can rehearse

Suppose the opening count is 20 units of Manicure. Receiving 10 units and selling four should leave 26, before any recorded returns or adjustments. A physical count of 25 needs an explained adjustment; changing the selling price will not resolve the missing unit.

Check the cash separately from other payments

Illustrative till check: two Manicure units and one Pedicure total KES 2,400 at the example prices. If the drawer opens with KES 1,000 and this is its only cash sale, expected closing cash is KES 3,400. An M-Pesa sale of the same amount does not increase physical drawer cash.

Barcode and receipt checks

Print distinct labels for Manicure and Pedicure. Scan each into an empty basket and check the displayed product, unit and price. Scanning the first label twice should add two units of the first item, not one unit of each. A barcode identifies an item; it does not usually supply its batch expiry date.

A test receipt for two Manicure units and one Pedicure should total KES 2,400 at the illustrative prices, before discounts. Check the unit labels, quantities and payment method against the basket. The cashier's display name belongs at the receipt footer; an unconnected sales receipt is not an eTIMS fiscal invoice.

What needs special attention

Appointment times, technician commissions and treatment-material usage are not automatically calculated.

Defined service units can be sold. Booking calendars, job cards, commissions and custody tracking are not included.

Customers, branches and offline work

A customer taking two Manicure units at the example price owes KES 1,400 if the whole sale is on credit. A later KES 700 collection leaves KES 700 outstanding. It is a repayment against the existing balance, not another product sale. The blocked partial-credit return workflow must not be bypassed.

If the main shop has 12 units of Manicure and a second branch has five, a sale of two at the second branch should leave three there and 12 at the main shop. Check the branch and selling counter before checkout. This example does not imply an inter-branch transfer or dispatch system.

Offline access requires an initial connected load and device preparation. Shared workspace offline changes are owner-only; staff access and synchronisation need connectivity. Back up and rehearse recovery on sample records. A separate independent business needs its own installation and database.

Licence price and installation

US.99 one-off launch software licence for one business installation, including its branches and tills. Hardware, installation, hosting and support are charged separately. Future upgrades are subject to separately stated terms. Ask for a written quote stating the total and any applicable taxes before purchase.

Cash checkout and manually entered payment references are available. Automatic M-Pesa prompts, card processing and eTIMS submission are not connected in this release. These require their own provider setup and integration; a manually recorded reference is not payment verification.

Before you choose this preset

Ask for a demonstration using Manicure, Pedicure and Gel polish, rather than an unrelated generic product. Test one ordinary sale, an unknown barcode, a return and a closing count. Compare the demonstrated workflow with this business's specialist requirements before treating a preset as a complete industry system.

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