Point of sale, stock and retail management in Morocco
Guides, comparisons and practical advice for retailers: POS software, offline inventory management, barcodes and invoicing.
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Kitchen display (KDS): what it actually changes in service
A kitchen display is not a faster printer. It replaces a single copy on a rail with state shared between the kitchen, the floor and the till. Here is what…
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Food cost: pricing a dish and defending the margin
Overall food cost is nearly useless: it is the cost per dish that decides your margin. Here is a recipe card worked line by line on a tajine, and the…
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EAN and GTIN barcodes: do you actually need one?
Most shops never need to buy a barcode. Here is the difference between an official code and an internal one, when the first becomes necessary, and how to print the…
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How a cash register actually works
A cash register is two different things depending on who you ask: a machine, or software. Here is what really happens during a sale, and what the till does when…
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Choosing a barcode scanner: what actually matters
Almost every scanner works, because a scanner is a keyboard. Here are the three cases where the cheap model is a mistake, and the two settings nobody explains.
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Your thermal printer stopped printing: an 8-step diagnosis
Eight times out of ten it is neither the till nor the software, and the fix costs nothing. The symptom table, then the diagnosis in order: most likely and cheapest…
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Is a DGI-compliant till mandatory in Morocco?
The law does not mandate a brand of till: it mandates what the document must contain and how long it must be kept. Here is what is genuinely required, and…
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Rent or buy your till: the honest calculation
“Renting” covers three very different arrangements and only one is genuinely a rental. Here is which is which, the month buying pulls ahead, and the cases where renting is still…
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POS software: the hidden costs and the real five-year bill
The advertised price is rarely what you pay. Here are the eight cost lines a price list never shows, the method to price your own quote, and a worked five-year…
