Category: Retail in Morocco
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VAT for a Moroccan shopkeeper: rates, receipts, filing
Which rate on what, what the receipt has to print, and what your accountant needs at month end. The 2024-2026 reform took four rates down to two: here is what…
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Free Excel template to run a clothing shop
A free Excel file for a clothing shop: stock per size and colour, margins per model, markdowns and shrinkage, and the number nobody tracks: models broken on size.
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Free Excel template to run a restaurant or a snack bar
A free Excel file for a restaurant or a snack bar: recipe cards, food cost per dish, ingredient stock, and the gap between what should be left in the kitchen…
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The receipt: what it must carry, and why
For a sale of goods to a private customer, article 145-III of the Moroccan tax code lets the till receipt stand in for an invoice, provided it carries certain details.…
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Stock management in Excel: free template, formulas, and limits
A free Excel stock management template, no sign-up: six tabs, four formulas, no macros. Remaining stock computes itself, thresholds warn you, and the article says where a spreadsheet stops.
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Cash register or card terminal: not the same machine
A card terminal takes a card. A till records a sale. They are not two options to choose between: most shops have both. Here is what each does, and the…
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Avoiding stockouts without tying up cash
Ordering “when it is nearly gone” produces both problems at once: stockouts and overstock. The reorder point is three numbers. A full worked example at 96 units.
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The cash float: how much, in what notes, and who counts
A cash float is not picked at random: it is sized on the change you hand back, composed of specific denominations and counted twice a day. A worked example at…
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The ten numbers to check every week
Ten numbers, each with the report it comes from, read in fifteen minutes on the same day each week. Not twelve, because two of the usual twelve cannot be corrected…
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Average basket: measure it, then move it
Two shops with the same average basket can have opposite problems: few items, or cheap items. The fix for one makes the other worse. Here is how to separate them…
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Doing a stock take without closing the shop
The annual inventory is the worst method for a small shop: a ten-month-old variance cannot be explained. Here is how to count one shelf a week, in an hour, without…
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Loyalty programmes: what works, and what it costs
Most schemes reward behaviour that would have happened anyway. Here are the three mechanisms, what each actually costs, and why a well-kept customer record is often worth two of them.
