Check another branch without phoning
See what every location holds, what is on order and when it lands — from the counter, while the customer is still standing there.
UAE
Multi-branch · 5% VAT on every receipt
POS and retail software where the till, the shelf and the books agree.
Ring up a sale in two taps, on a counter machine or a tablet. Stock drops in the branch that sold it, VAT lands on the receipt, and the ledger posts itself — so the day closes with a number you can trust instead of a spreadsheet you have to argue with.
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- 14-day free trial
- Export everything, any time
Day close · Branch 2 · Shift 2 Posted
Sales · 214 receiptsAED 18,940.00
Card takingsAED 12,310.00
Cash expectedAED 6,630.00
Cash countedAED 6,590.00
Variance− AED 40.00
VAT 5% collectedAED 902.38
Banked and posted as JV-9014 · against a named cashier and shift
The problem
Three numbers that should match, and usually don’t.
At the end of a trading day a shop has a till figure, a stock figure and a books figure. When they come from three different systems, reconciling them becomes somebody’s evening — and the gap between them is where the money goes.
01
The till says one thing, the counted cash says another, and by the time anyone checks, nobody remembers who was on the counter.
02
A customer asks whether the other branch has it. Somebody phones. Somebody else looks on a shelf. The answer arrives after the customer has left.
03
Stock on the spreadsheet was last accurate at the last physical count, which was in March.
04
A return goes through as a cash refund out of the drawer. Stock never comes back, and the sale is still on the books.
05
Slow lines sit on the shelf for two years tying up cash, because nothing surfaces them until a clear-out.
06
VAT gets recalculated at filing time from a spreadsheet, rather than sitting on every document as it was issued.
None of that is a counter problem. It is what happens when the counter, the store and the ledger are three separate systems that sync overnight, or not at all.
At the counter
Two taps to a receipt. Everything else happens by itself.
Serving a queue is not the moment for a system to start asking questions. The counter is built to be fast, and the consequences are handled behind it.
1
Scan or search
Barcode, item code, or a few letters of the name. The price and the tax come off the item, so the cashier is not deciding anything and cannot get it wrong.
2
Hold, recall, serve the next person
A customer goes back for something else, the bill parks, and the queue keeps moving. Recall it when they return rather than starting again.
3
Take payment, however it comes
Cash, card, or split across both on one sale. Regular customers on terms go onto their account instead, and the balance is there to look at before you agree to it.
4
Print the receipt with VAT on it
The 5% VAT and the line detail a UAE customer expects, with your TRN on the tax invoice for a business buyer who asks for one.
5
Stock and books move together
Quantities drop in the branch that sold them, revenue and cost of sale post at real weighted-average cost, VAT lands in the payable account. One balanced journal, at the moment of sale, with no overnight sync to go wrong.
Sale INV-5120 · Branch 2 Posted
Items · 6 linesAED 612.00
Paid · cash AED 200 / card AED 442.60Split
VAT 5%AED 30.60
TotalAED 642.60
Stock out at real cost · revenue, cost of sale and VAT posted
Cash, shifts and shrinkage
The forty dirhams you never find out about.
Most retail loss is not dramatic. It is small, regular, and invisible when the day is closed as one lump sum. Closing by shift and by cashier makes a pattern visible long before it becomes a number worth confronting someone about.
Every sale carries who made it
The cashier and the shift are on the sale itself, so a figure at the end of the day can always be traced back to a person and a period rather than to the shop in general.
Float in, cash counted, variance out
The opening float is recorded when the shift starts. At close you enter what was actually counted, and the difference against what the system expected is calculated for you rather than worked out later from a notebook.
Returns and voids have a name on them
Refunds and cancelled sales are logged against whoever processed them, which is what turns a run of small write-offs into something you can actually look at.
Takings land in the ledger
The day’s cash and card go to the ledger as a posted journal and reconcile against the bank statement, so banking is a record rather than an act of faith.
Shift variance · 30 days · Branch 2 Report
R. Nair · 22 shifts− AED 610
S. Fernandes · 19 shifts− AED 15
M. Iqbal · 21 shifts+ AED 5
Discounts given31 · all one user
Voids after payment12
Not an accusation. A conversation you can actually have.
Stock
One item. Several places. One figure.
A second branch should not mean a second stock list. Every location — shop floor, back store, warehouse — is a location of the same item, on the same figure.
Both sides always post
Move stock between shops and the movement is a document, not a message. Nothing leaves one branch without arriving at another.
Refunds that put stock back
A return raises a credit note, restores the quantity and reverses the revenue, cost and VAT. The books and the shelf stay honest about it.
Reorder levels on the item
Set a minimum per item and see what has fallen below it — or just ask the AI assistant which lines are under their reorder level.
Stock counts without shutting
Count a section at a time, post the adjustment, and read the variance by item and by value instead of one number at year end.
Real cost, including landing it
Freight, duty and clearing spread across the shipment, so margin per line is true margin rather than the supplier’s invoice price.
Hardware & setup
Runs on what is already on your counter.
It is a browser-based counter, so it runs on the machine you have — a desktop till, a laptop, an Android tablet or an iPad. We do not sell hardware, and you are not locked into a brand of ours.
Barcode scanner
Any USB or Bluetooth scanner that types like a keyboard. No driver and nothing to configure.
Receipt printer
Standard thermal receipt printers, plus A4 tax invoices to an ordinary office printer.
Cash drawer
Opens off the receipt printer, the way it already does today.
Keep your existing bank card terminal — the payment mode is recorded on the sale, so card takings reconcile at close. Setup is your item list, your opening stock and your opening balances, which is the part that takes planning and the part we do with you.
Set up for your counter
Eleven trades, already configured.
The ledger, the stock and the till are the same underneath. What changes is the unit you sell in, what comes back, and who buys on account. Pick the one that looks like your business.
Paint Shop
Every shade its own item, in litres or tins, costed at what you paid.
Stationery Shop
Counter sales and school contracts, quotation through to a statement.
Mobile Shop
High-value stock across branches, with returns that reverse properly.
Computer Shop
Walk-in sales plus corporate orders, approvals and purchase orders.
Optical Shop
Frame and lens counted separately, with deposits against the order.
Jewellery Shop
High-value stock in the unit you trade in, with a valuation that drills.
Perfume Shop
Hundreds of lines, one stock figure, transfers that post both sides.
Ceramic & Tiles
Showroom and warehouse as two locations of the same item.
Auto Parts
Counter sales and workshop issues out of one stock figure.
Clothes Shop
Seasonal lines across shops, returns as credit notes, transfers that post.
Coffee Shop
Two hundred small sales a day, and a close that reconciles.
Not listed?
The platform is the same underneath. Tell us your trade and we will show you how it maps.
Compared with what you use now
Where a standalone POS stops.
| What you need | POS app + separate accounts | VISIONS ERP |
|---|---|---|
| Sale posts to the ledger | Overnight, or by export | At the moment of sale |
| Stock across branches | Per-till, synced | One figure, live |
| Cost of sale at real cost | Estimated later | Weighted average, posted with the sale |
| Cashier shift variance | If the POS happens to have it | By shift and by person |
| Purchasing and landed cost | A separate system | The same system |
| 5% VAT return totals | Rebuilt at filing time | Already summed |
| Credit customers and PDCs | Not usually | Inside receivables |
| Payroll for shop staff | A third system | Posts to the same ledger |
What you can see
Or just ask the AI assistant
Twelve reports. Four of them you’ve never had.
Each one answers a question you are currently guessing at.
The day
Day close & banking
Cash, card and VAT, reconciled
Shift variance by cashier New to you
Where the small losses are
Hourly sales New to you
When to put a second person on
Discounts & voids by user New to you
What is being given away, and by whom
Stock
Stock by branch and location
What is where, right now
Dead and slow lines New to you
Cash sitting on a shelf
Stock count variance
What the count says against the system
Below reorder level
What to buy this week
Money
Margin by item and category
At real landed cost
Profitability by branch
Which shop actually earns
Receivables aging
Which account to chase
VAT return summary
Output and input, already totalled
Shift variance and dead lines are the two worth switching for. The first is money leaving the drawer. The second is money that never left the shelf.
Not just a till
It’s a full ERP underneath.
Retail is a vertical on the same platform as everything else you run — which is the difference between a counter app and a business system, and why a second shop is a setting rather than a second purchase.
See the full feature listReal double-entry accounting
Chart of accounts, journals, AR and AP, post-dated cheques, bank reconciliation, fixed assets and an audit trail — the ledger is here.
Purchasing and imports
Requests, orders, goods receipts and vendor bills, in any currency, with landed cost for containers you bring in yourself.
HR & payroll
The staff whose shifts you are measuring sit in the same system as the payroll that pays them.
CRM and account customers
Accounts, payment terms and statements for the customers who do not pay at the counter.
Dashboards and AI assistant
Ask “which lines have not moved in ninety days?” in plain English and get the table back. No report builder to learn.
Add a workshop later
Servicing or fitting switches on beside the counter, on the same stock and the same books — see garage software.
Built for the UAE
It fits how a shop here actually trades.
Not a generic retail tool with a currency switch bolted on the side.
5% VAT on every document
Calculated on invoices, credit notes and purchases, with the totals your return needs already summed. How VAT filing works.
Ready for e-invoicing
Structured invoice data is already in the system, so the format the UAE regime will require is not a rebuild. What e-invoicing requires.
Buy in USD, sell in AED
Multi-currency purchasing with dated exchange rates and a base-currency ledger that still balances at month end.
Post-dated cheques
PDCs from account customers tracked inside receivables from the day they are issued through to clearing.
One shop or a group
Deira, Al Quoz, Sharjah — several branches on one stock figure and one set of books.
Approvals where they matter
A stock adjustment or an order over a value you set can be routed for sign-off before it posts.
Pricing
One licence, the whole shop.
Basic
One branch, 1 users. Counter and POS, stock, purchasing and a full double-entry ledger with 5% VAT — everything a single shop needs to stop reconciling by hand.
Several branches? Professional is AED 215 for 1 users across 1 branches. Larger group? Enterprise is priced to the estate.
FAQ
Straight answers.
Still unsure? Send us a message — a person replies, usually the same day.
What hardware do I need to run the POS?
Whatever is already on your counter. It runs in a browser on a desktop till, a laptop, an Android tablet or an iPad, and works with standard USB or Bluetooth barcode scanners, thermal receipt printers and the cash drawer that opens off the printer. We do not sell hardware, so you are not locked into a brand of ours.
Does the receipt carry 5% VAT and my TRN?
Yes. VAT is calculated on every invoice, credit note and purchase, the tax invoice carries your TRN, and the totals your VAT return needs are already summed. A full tax invoice is available for business customers who ask for one.
Can I see stock in another branch from the counter?
Yes. Every branch and store location is a location of the same item on one figure, so you can answer the customer while they are still in front of you, and raise the transfer from the same screen. Transfers post both sides, so nothing leaves one shop without arriving at another.
How do returns and exchanges work?
A return raises a credit note against the original sale. Stock goes back on the shelf, and the revenue, cost of sale and VAT all reverse. That is what stops a refund quietly leaving the sale on your books.
Can I close the day by cashier and see the variance?
Yes. Sales carry the cashier and the shift, and closing records the opening float, the expected cash and the counted cash with the variance calculated for you. Returns and voids are logged against whoever processed them, so a pattern shows up as a pattern rather than as a bad month.
Does the counter keep working if the internet drops?
No. It is a browser-based counter and it needs a connection, so there is no offline till mode that queues sales and syncs afterwards. It is the question we are asked most, and worth raising with us before you commit if your location has unreliable connectivity.
Can regular customers buy on account?
Yes. Account customers sit in receivables with payment terms, and the balance and aging are there to look at before you agree to a sale. Statements go out per account, and post-dated cheques are tracked through to clearing. Note that the aging is what you check — there is no hard block that stops the counter selling to an account that is over its limit.
How many branches can I run?
Multi-branch stock, users and reporting are included, and the plan sets the limit — one on Basic, three on Professional, unlimited on Enterprise. Adding a branch is a switch rather than a migration, because it is the same system underneath.
Do I need separate accounting software?
No. Every sale writes its own balanced journal at real cost, with revenue, cost of sale and VAT posted together the moment it happens. The counter and the books are the same system, so month end stops being a reconciliation project.
What happens to my data if I leave?
You export it — products, customers, transactions and the full ledger — in formats that open in a spreadsheet or go to another system. No exit fee and no waiting on a ticket.
Related
Where retail meets the rest of the business.
Put a real day through it.
Bring a day of your own sales and see it posted end to end — stock out, revenue in, VAT on the receipt, and a close that balances. Fourteen days free, no card, export any time.