Essence POS

Features

Everything you need to run and grow a shop

A till your staff can use all day, stock you can trust across every branch, and the numbers to tell you what's actually working. Online or off.

Sell

The till your staff use all day.

A fast till
Search or tap through your products, or punch in a price. Runs on any Android phone or tablet you already have.
Keeps selling offline
Power cut or network down, the till still rings up sales. Everything syncs by itself once you reconnect, and you can see exactly what's still waiting.
Park a sale
Hold an order, serve the next person, come back to it. Nothing lost when a customer goes back for one more thing.
Receipts, printed or shared
Thermal printers over Bluetooth, USB or network — or send a PDF straight to the customer's phone.
Refunds with a record
Refund at the till within your window, and every refund is logged against the person who made it.
More than one currency
Price and take payment in the currencies you actually trade in, at the rates you set.

Stock

Know what you have, everywhere.

Load your stock from a photo
Photograph a handwritten or printed stock list and we type it up — item names and quantities, line by line. This is how most shops get started without a week of data entry. Try it free →
Stock on hand
What's in each shop and warehouse, updated as you sell.
Alerts before you run out
Set a level per product and get told while there's still time to reorder.
Counts you can trust
Stock counts hide the expected figure, so staff record what's actually on the shelf instead of confirming what the system already thinks.
Move stock between shops
Transfer stock from one branch to another and keep both sides accurate.
Purchase orders that suggest themselves
Order from your suppliers, and let the replenishment worksheet propose what to reorder based on what's moving.

Money

What you actually made, not just what you took.

Profit, not just turnover
Margins by product and by shop, so you can see what's worth selling.
What sold today
Sales by day, shop and till, without exporting anything into a spreadsheet first.
Cash accounted for
Every cash movement recorded, and shifts that reconcile at close.
Every price change, on the record
Who changed a price, when, and what it was before.
Expenses from the floor
Staff log expenses at the till; you approve them in the office.
What actually sells
Product intelligence on your best and worst lines.

People

Who did what, and what they're allowed to do.

A PIN for each cashier
Staff sign in with a PIN on a shared till, so every sale has a name against it.
Permissions by role
Each person gets only what their job needs — voids, refunds, price overrides and approvals are all separately controlled.
Shifts that close properly
Open a shift, close it, and reconcile the cash drawer against what was rung up.
How your team is doing
Performance per employee, so you know who's carrying the shop.
You approve every till
A new device registers itself and waits for you to let it in.

Across the whole business

Two apps, one system

Admin dashboard

For you, in any browser.

Runs the business
Products, stock, suppliers, purchase orders, expenses, staff and reporting for every location, from anywhere.
The Essence POS admin dashboard showing today's takings, recent orders and stock levels across locations.
The admin dashboard — takings, orders and stock for every shop, in a browser.

Cashier app

For your staff, on any Android device. iOS is coming.

Runs the till
Selling, refunds, shifts, cash-up, stock counts and transfers — working through an outage and syncing by itself afterwards.
An Essence POS analytics screen showing sales performance over time and best-selling products.
Sales and product reporting — what sold, what it earned, what to reorder.
The Essence POS cashier app on a phone, showing a product grid and a running sale.
The cashier app — the till your staff use all day, on a phone or tablet.

See it on your own stock

Photograph a stock list and watch it come back as typed items. No signup.