Sell quickly at the counter, know what is left on the shelf and see the day's takings from your phone. SmartBiashara runs in any web browser, records M-Pesa, Tigo Pesa and Airtel Money payments against each sale, and keeps the till working when the internet drops.
Kariakoo branch · Till 2
Point of Sale
Today at this till
TSh 486,000
+8%Receipts
73
Paid by mobile money
61%
2 × Sembe 5 kg7,500
1 × Cooking oil 3 L21,500
1 × Sugar 2 kg6,400
1 × Bar soap ×64,800
TotalTSh 47,700
The problems we hear most often from owners in this trade.
You count the shelf on Sunday and three cartons of cooking oil are missing. A daftari (notebook) cannot tell you whether they were sold, given on credit or carried out the back door.
Customers pay with cash, M-Pesa, Tigo Pesa and Airtel Money in the same hour. At closing time the phone messages and the drawer tell different stories, and the evening goes on matching them.
Credit sales to regular customers are written on scraps or kept in the shopkeeper's head. Balances get disputed, forgotten or quietly written off.
When cost prices are not linked to each sale, a busy day can still be a poor day. A popular item priced too low can lose you money for months before anyone notices.
When you are at Kariakoo buying stock or visiting a supplier, the only way to know how the shop is doing is to keep phoning the person at the till.
Open SmartBiashara in a browser on a phone, tablet, laptop or desktop and start selling. Find items by name or scan them with a barcode scanner. If the connection drops mid-afternoon, the POS keeps taking sales so the queue does not wait.
Record each sale as cash, M-Pesa, Tigo Pesa, Airtel Money, card or bank transfer. Mobile money is reconciled against the sale it belongs to. At the end of the day you see totals per payment type instead of guessing from SMS messages.
Each sale reduces the stock count straight away, so the number on screen matches the shelf. Set a minimum level for fast movers like sugar, soap and flour and the system warns you before you run out. Load your whole product list from an Excel sheet instead of typing it item by item.
Raise a purchase order, receive goods against it with a goods received note (GRN) and the stock updates on arrival. Supplier ledgers show what you owe each supplier and what you have already paid, which helps when a wholesaler gives you goods on credit.
Give each regular customer a profile with their purchase history, credit limit and outstanding balance. Follow-up reminders help you collect before a balance grows too big. Customer profiles and credit limits come with the CRM module, available from the Basic plan.
Check sales, profit and stock value from your phone while you are away from the shop. Export reports to Excel, PDF or CSV, or share them on WhatsApp with a partner or accountant.
Here is how an example grocery and household shop in Dodoma, with one owner and two cashiers, might run a normal Tuesday.
The cashier signs in on the shop tablet with a Cashier login. Her role limits what she can change, while the owner's Admin login sees every screen and report.
Bread, milk and washing powder are scanned in seconds. One customer pays cash, the next pays by M-Pesa, and each payment is recorded against its own sale.
Twenty cartons of cooking oil arrive. The owner receives them against the purchase order, the GRN is saved, the stock count rises and the supplier balance updates.
A regular customer takes goods on madeni. The sale goes onto her account. If the shop is on the Basic plan or above, CRM also shows whether she is still within the credit limit you set.
The cashier counts the drawer against the cash total, while mobile money totals sit in their own lines. The owner opens the sales report on his phone at home and sees the day's profit.
Kariakoo branch · Till 2
Point of Sale
Today at this till
TSh 486,000
+8%Receipts
73
Paid by mobile money
61%
2 × Sembe 5 kg7,500
1 × Cooking oil 3 L21,500
1 × Sugar 2 kg6,400
1 × Bar soap ×64,800
TotalTSh 47,700
The retail checkout: scan or search items, choose cash or mobile money, and watch stock fall as each sale completes.
Every sale, delivery and adjustment leaves a record. When the count is short, you can see where the gap started.
Payment totals are already split by method, so the evening count is a check rather than an investigation.
Balances and limits sit on each customer's account, which makes the conversation about paying simple and factual.
With cost and selling price on every line, you can spot the items that sell well but earn little and adjust them.
The Basic plan covers up to three locations, so opening another duka does not mean starting a new system.
Still have a question? Ask our team on WhatsApp, phone or email.
The best POS for a Tanzanian shop is the one that keeps working when the internet is unreliable, records mobile money properly and tracks stock without extra effort. Price in shillings and local support by phone or WhatsApp matter too. SmartBiashara was built around those needs, but the honest test is to try it with your own products. The 14-day free trial needs no credit card, so you can compare it side by side with any other system.
No, you can use a phone, tablet, laptop or desktop you already own. SmartBiashara runs in a web browser, so there is no special terminal to buy. Many shops add a barcode scanner to speed up the counter, and the system supports scanners out of the box.
The POS is offline-ready, so the cashier can keep selling during an outage instead of sending customers away. Ask our team to show you how offline mode behaves on your own devices during the free trial, before you depend on it on a busy day.
The Starter plan is TSh 15,000 a month for one location, five users and up to 1,000 products. If you need customer credit tracking through CRM or plan to open more branches, the Basic plan is TSh 35,000 a month and covers up to three locations. Prices exclude VAT, and paying yearly costs ten months' price for twelve months.
Yes, you can record credit sales and track what each customer owes. Credit limits, customer profiles and follow-up reminders come with the CRM module from the Basic plan. Receivables and ageing reports show which balances are getting old.
SmartBiashara records your sales and produces the reports you need, but we do not advertise a direct EFD or VFD connection. Ask our team on +255 749 900 050 about your fiscal-device setup before you switch.
Yes, MiniPOS is a phone-first POS app made for kiosks and very small shops. It suits owners who want to record sales and stock on one phone without the full ERP. If the business grows, you can move up to SmartBiashara ERP later.
Start the 14-day free trial, load your products from Excel and make your first sale today. No credit card is needed, and our team answers on WhatsApp and phone Monday to Saturday, 8am to 8pm.
