POS for Restaurant in Kenya

Create a separate sellable item for each fixed meal or portion. A plate of food is the sales unit; the ingredients used to prepare it are a different stock problem.

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.

Suppose the opening count is 20 units of Chicken & chips. 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.

Illustrative till check: two Chicken & chips units and one Beef stew & rice total KES 1,500 at the example prices. If the drawer opens with KES 1,000 and this is its only cash sale, expected closing cash is KES 2,500. An M-Pesa sale of the same amount does not increase physical drawer cash.

Print distinct labels for Chicken & chips and Beef stew & rice. 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 Chicken & chips units and one Beef stew & rice should total KES 1,500 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.

This preset does not deduct ingredients from recipes or send kitchen tickets. Choose it for fixed-item checkout only if that matches the restaurant's workflow.

Fixed menu items and portions are supported. Recipe costing, ingredient deduction, table management and kitchen tickets are not included.

A customer taking two Chicken & chips units at the example price owes KES 1,100 if the whole sale is on credit. A later KES 550 collection leaves KES 550 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 Chicken & chips 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.

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.

Ask for a demonstration using Chicken & chips, Beef stew & rice and Fresh juice, 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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