Spindle Software
Why shops use it
A counter run from a notebook loses money quietly: stock walks out, sales go unrecorded, and nobody can say at the end of the month whether the shop made a profit.
Horizon puts the till, the stock book and the cash book on one cheap Android phone. Every sale is recorded as it happens, stock goes down by itself, and the owner sees sales, expenses and profit for any day, week or month, from anywhere.
A day at the counter
- Open the till
The cashier signs in; the owner sees who is selling at which branch.
- Sell
Scan a barcode or tap a product, take cash, mobile money, card or credit, and give a receipt.
- No signal? Keep selling
Sales are saved on the phone and sent to the server when the network returns, without duplicates.
- Stock keeps itself
Every sale takes the item off the shelf; low stock and items near expiry are flagged.
- Close the day
Cash-up, expenses and the day's profit, by cashier and by branch.
What it does
At the till
- Barcode scanning and quick product buttons
- Cash, mobile money, card and credit, or one sale split across several
- Receipts, and an offline sales queue
- Cash-drawer shifts and handovers
Stock
- Batches and expiry dates, first-expiry-first-out
- Low-stock alerts and reorder suggestions
- Suppliers, purchase orders and price history
- Weight-based items, unit conversions and bulk price tiers
Money
- Sales, expenses, purchases and profit for any period
- Debtors and customer credit with payment history
- Several branches under one owner, each its own trade
- Roles that keep the cashier on the till and the records unchanged
Mobile-money booths
- Airtel, MTN and Zamtel float and cash in a ledger nobody can edit
- Alerts the moment float and cash stop adding up
- Commissions and teller handovers
Set up for your trade
Tell Horizon what you run and it sets the counter up for that trade, without screens you will never use: groceries and mini-marts, bars and bottle stores, restaurants and takeaways, butcheries, wholesalers, spares and hardware, pharmacies, and mobile-money booths. A grocery in town and booths in the townships can sit under one owner.
Plans
From a single booth to many branches. Every plan starts with a 14-day free trial, with no card needed, and the subscription can be paid by Airtel Money, MTN MoMo or Zamtel Kwacha.
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