A grocery cashier app that runs on your phone

Dukkani is a full cashier and point-of-sale (POS) app for grocery shops, mini-markets and supermarkets. It runs on your phone or computer with no cashier machine: sell by barcode or by tapping the item, take cash, card or “on account”, stock goes down by itself, and at the end of the day you know how much you sold, how much you made and how much is in the drawer.

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The cashier, the debt book, the customer statement, the daily report, receiving goods, wholesale orders and the invoice — screen by screen from the app. Open it on YouTube ›

A cashier and POS app for grocery shops: what does it do?

• Sell by barcode with the phone camera or a barcode scanner, or by tapping the item.
• Payment methods: cash, card, or on the customer's account (goes straight into the debt book), or part cash and the rest as debt on the same invoice.
• Print the invoice or send it to the customer on WhatsApp.
• Returns, discounts and invoice edits, controlled by permissions.
• Stock goes down with every sale, and it alerts you when an item is running low.
• Daily report: sales, estimated profit, and what should be in the drawer.

How to start in minutes

1. Sign up with your phone number and pick “I have a grocery shop”.
2. Add your items: scan the barcode and the name fills in, or start with the ready-made items in one tap and adjust the prices.
3. Start selling: tap or scan the item, choose the payment method, and that's it.

See the cashier in action (48 seconds)

One sale, step by step

1. Scan the barcode or tap the item, and it goes into the basket with its price.
2. Change the quantity, or sell by the carton instead of the piece if the item has a carton.
3. Choose: cash, card, on account, or part cash and the rest as debt.
4. Print the invoice or send it to the customer on WhatsApp, and the stock and the drawer update by themselves.

Things you won't find in a normal cashier

• Take a photo of a page from your paper debt book; it reads the names and amounts, and you check them before they're saved.
• Your customers order from your shop's link or on WhatsApp, the order reaches you neatly with prices and the total, and on delivery it's recorded as a cash, card or on-account sale.
• “Say what happened”: type it in your own words, like “Abu Fahad owes 25” or “sold 2 Pepsi cash”, and the form fills in ready for you.
• Add a new customer and sell to them on credit even with the internet down.
• Take a photo of the supplier's invoice; it checks the total and helps you add the goods to stock.
• Expenses and purchases are deducted from “expected in the drawer”, so you know how much you should really have.

A cashier app for your phone: install it like any app

• Android: open dukkanlink.com in Chrome, and from the ⋮ menu choose “Install app” or “Add to Home screen”.
• iPhone and iPad: open it in Safari, tap the Share button, then “Add to Home Screen”.
• Computer: it runs straight from the browser, with a barcode scanner and printer.

VAT and invoices

If your shop is registered for VAT, turn on VAT and enter your tax number in Settings, and your invoices come out with 15% VAT from the first sale. You can also work out the VAT on any price with the free VAT calculator. Dukkani is also linked with ZATCA (Fatoora — Phase 2): enter your business details and the OTP from Fatoora once, and Dukkani handles the link and sends every invoice and return to ZATCA automatically, and the receipt comes out with the ZATCA code.

Cashier without internet: selling doesn't stop

Selling doesn't stop: cash, card or credit, even for a new customer. Everything is saved on the phone and sent by itself as soon as the internet is back, and the app opens without internet with the same saved number. Invoices you make while the internet is down wait on your phone, and once the connection is back they're sent and show up in your account from any device.

Barcodes and printing invoices

• With the camera or a scanner: Scan with the phone camera, or with a barcode scanner if you sell from a computer and it gets busy.
• An item with no barcode (bread, vegetables, things you pack yourself): print a label for it from the free barcode generator and sell it by scanning like anything else.
• The invoice: Print it on an 80 mm thermal receipt printer or A4 paper, save it as a PDF, or send it to the customer on WhatsApp.

Closing the till at the end of the day

Type how much you counted in the drawer and tap “Close the till”: it shows you the expected amount and the difference (match, short or over), and the result is saved at closing time so it doesn't change later. Debt collections and expenses each get their own line, so you know where the difference came from.

Why a phone instead of a cashier machine?

• No machine to buy, no installation to pay for: your phone is enough.
• See your shop while you're out: sales, debts and stock from anywhere.
• More than one device at the same time: you and your cashiers, each with their own account, permissions and shift.
• In the worker's language: Arabic, Urdu, Bengali, English (grocery app in the worker's language).

Quick comparison

For the detailed comparison: Comparing cashier and debt-book apps for grocery shops in Saudi Arabia

Who is it for?

• Grocery shops, mini-markets and supermarkets, with one cashier or several.
• Household goods and accessories shops, and small shops that sell by the piece and by the carton.
• Shops where the worker speaks Urdu or Bengali: the app is in their language.

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