Choose the preset. Enter your products, selling units, prices and counted stock.
Business POS guides / Photocopy shop
KENYA BUSINESS GUIDEPOS for Photocopy shop in Kenya
Plan for page units and separately priced finishing. Use this guide to decide how your counter should record products, stock and money before choosing your POS setup.
Find or scan an item, set the quantity and record cash or a manual payment reference.
Print the receipt, review stock changes and track any customer balance.
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
Separate black-and-white, colour and binding services. Decide whether duplex work is priced by printed side or physical sheet.
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 service | Illustrative KES price |
|---|---|
| A4 copy | 5 |
| A3 copy | 10 |
| Stapling service | 10 |
| Double-sided A4 copy per sheet | 8 |
| ID copy per sheet | 10 |
| Spiral binding 50 pages | 100 |
A stock check you can rehearse
Suppose the opening count is 20 units of A4 copy. 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 A4 copy units and one A3 copy total KES 20 at the example prices. If the drawer opens with KES 1,000 and this is its only cash sale, expected closing cash is KES 1,020. An M-Pesa sale of the same amount does not increase physical drawer cash.
Barcode and receipt checks
Print distinct labels for A4 copy and A3 copy. 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 A4 copy units and one A3 copy should total KES 20 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
The cashier must enter the measured job quantity; the software does not read copier counters automatically.
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 A4 copy units at the example price owes KES 10 if the whole sale is on credit. A later KES 5 collection leaves KES 5 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 A4 copy 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 A4 copy, A3 copy and Stapling service, 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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