You had a big idea and you were ready to build the business you had dreamed of. The road was not smooth, but you got there! The business is going well, customers love what you sell, your following has doubled — and you are starting to think that a shop management system, a POS, might be what you need next. So you go searching online, and find… far too much to read!
If any of that sounds familiar, you have come to the right place.
In our previous post we shared how making your business easier to run does not have to mean an expensive, complicated system. The Qashier app on your Android device is enough on its own.
If you own a startup or run a small business from home, the Qashier app is a good way to keep the budget in check while you get the business going.
You can try the Qashier POS app free of charge, with no hardware at all, and still run the business smoothly with a POS system — no more worrying about how to take payment.
Every feature in one place, with the Qashier POS app
Whatever kind of business you run — a retail shop, a food and beverage outlet, a general service business — the Qashier app has it covered.
Shop management tools, sales reporting, support for e-payments: it does all of it. These features are designed to be easy to use and still powerful enough to run a business on.
All of it is built into the Qashier app. Instead of installing several pieces of software on several devices just to get one feature (customer relationship management, say), merchants can keep the workflow down to as few steps as possible and keep the business running smoothly with our app alone. It also makes planning the next promotion easier, because the sales and customer data all sit in one place.
1. Take payments on your phone
Payments are part of running any shop, and understanding the ways your customers want to pay is just as important a part of doing business.
With cashless payment taking off during the pandemic, many businesses turned to a POS system to keep up with demand. For a small business, though, buying a device or the hardware to support it can stretch the budget a little too far.
Merchants can use the Qashier app on an Android phone to take payment there and then. QR PromptPay is simple enough: scan the QR code, and the payment is made and received.
On top of that, Qashier POS has online invoicing (e-invoice) that sends the invoice straight to your customer's email. Chasing it up or cancelling it can be done directly in the Qashier app or on the QashierHQ dashboard. Merchants can take a deposit or the full amount, in the shop or online, with no difficulty at all.
And if a customer would rather pay by debit card, credit card or cash, merchants using the Qashier app can add the amount to keep a record of the day's sales. That is just how much the Qashier app has going for it.
2. The Qashier app makes tracking and checking sales easier
Say goodbye to chasing sales figures and counting up piles of receipts from several platforms by hand — bank transfers, e-wallets, paper receipts. Merchants can use the Qashier app alone to follow every payment, every bill and every order, all recorded together in one place.
Qashier is not limited to phones and tablets either: it works on the QashierHQ website as well, giving merchants a deeper view of their sales and of the rest of their operations, all uploaded to our powerful cloud.
3. Stock tracking to help you plan your restocking
Suppose you run a small retail business from home selling handmade jewellery. Merchants can list their products and stock levels in the Qashier app, and the app tracks the stock the moment something sells.
For a food and beverage business, on the other hand, merchants can keep track of how much of each ingredient is left.
Our ingredient and inventory management features are designed to keep the business running smoothly and to make restocking easier to plan, because the system tells you when an ingredient is running low.
4. Make life easier for food and beverage businesses with Qashier QR Ordering
If your business is in food and beverage, using the restaurant POS system in the Qashier app gives merchants more than they might expect. Meet Qashier QR Ordering, online food ordering by QR code, which lets merchants build an online ordering platform of their own with no commission to pay. And if your shop is a partner of FoodPanda or GrabFood, merchants can link those accounts to their Qashier account so the menu is the same on every platform.
5. More freedom to do business and run the shop from anywhere
Just download the Qashier POS App to your smartphone and you can keep the business running wherever you are, whenever you like. There is no problem being away from the shop. With payments built in, selling gets a great deal easier — no bulky equipment to carry, just one smartphone to take payment from your customers. Merchants can also grow the business, delight their customers and bring in new ones, which makes the Qashier app a good fit for SMEs and sole traders who want to run the business of their dreams for the long haul.
Digitalise your business — try the Qashier app free
Whether you are a sole trader starting your first business or an established shop owner, try POS for free — it supports businesses of every size. You can download it from the Google Play Store: download, register and set up your shop account in under five minutes and you are ready to go. And if you are already a Qashier customer, merchants can simply sign in with their existing account. That is all it takes to get ready to take the business a step further. Best of all, the Qashier app walks you through a demonstration the first time you open it, so it does not take long to get the hang of everything — and if you still have questions, our support team is there for you at any time. We are always glad to help.
This article is only one part of our writing on the Qashier app. For more on managing a business, merchants can search and read on in the resource centre, where we share plenty of good ideas and thinking that will be useful for your business. And in the next article we will go deeper into the features of the Qashier app — stay tuned!