Vantage Point
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The till your floor deserves.

A fast, clean point of sale that posts every sale straight to the ledger: cash, card, mobile money, vouchers and customer accounts, across every till and every branch.

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Sales & POS in Vantage Point

Point of sale software for Zimbabwean shops and branches

Most tills in Zimbabwe are islands. The shop takes the money, someone writes the day's takings into a book or a spreadsheet, and days later a bookkeeper turns that into accounting entries — by which time nobody can remember which sale was cash, which was EcoCash and which was a customer paying down an account. Vantage Point removes that gap entirely. The till is part of the accounting system, so a sale posts revenue, tax, cost of sales and the movement of stock at the moment the cashier finishes it.

That matters most where Zimbabwean retail is hardest: multiple currencies and multiple payment methods on the same receipt. A customer can pay part in United States dollars, part in ZiG and the balance on EcoCash, and the system records each tender in the currency it was taken in, converts using the rate held for that transaction, and prints one compliant receipt. The same sale is submitted to the ZIMRA fiscal system in the background without the cashier doing anything extra.

Control sits where it belongs. Cashiers open a till with a float and close it against a physical count, so a shortage is attached to a named person and a shift instead of appearing as an unexplained difference at month-end. Discounts are capped by role, with a manager's approval needed above the cap and a margin floor that refuses to sell below cost. Voids need a manager's credentials and a reason, and reverse the stock and the payment together.

What's inside

Everything between the shelf and the ledger.

The POS is not a separate system. Every tender, void, discount and voucher posts to the same general ledger as your accounts.

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Multi-tender checkout
Cash, card, EcoCash, InnBucks and OneMoney with quick tender, exact-amount shortcuts and change calculation.
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Till sessions & cash-up
Open a till with a float, close it against a physical count, and see the variance per cashier per shift — including USD takings settled in Rand.
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Discounts with a ceiling
Per-role discount allowances with manager step-up above them and a margin floor that refuses a sale below cost.
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Promotions & loyalty
Buy-one-get-one, percentage and bundle offers applied automatically at the till, plus a points programme that redeems to a voucher.
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Account sales & returns
Sell on account against a credit limit, take partial returns back at the original layer cost, and put the buyer's TIN on the fiscal receipt.
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Manager-authorised voids
Voids require a manager's credentials and a reason. Stock and payments are reversed cleanly, with a full audit trail.
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Gift vouchers
Issue, redeem and track vouchers by customer phone number, with balances and redemption history.
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FX at the till
Transaction FX rates for USD and ZiG, so a multi-currency sale is one scan, not a calculation.
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Receipts & printing
ZIMRA-compliant thermal receipts over USB, serial or WebUSB, on 58mm or 80mm paper, with test print built in.
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Sales reports & intelligence
Nine till-sales reports plus product and client profitability across both till and invoiced revenue, with margin by line.
In the product
Taking payment: cash, card, mobile money or on account
·Taking payment: cash, card, mobile money or on account
Every till sale across every branch, as it happens
·Every till sale across every branch, as it happens
Closing a till against a physical count, per operator and shift
·Closing a till against a physical count, per operator and shift
Nine till-sales reports, by product, branch and cashier
·Nine till-sales reports, by product, branch and cashier
Questions

Sales & POS, asked and answered.

Does the point of sale submit receipts to ZIMRA automatically?

Yes. Each branch runs its own registered virtual fiscal device, and every sale is signed and submitted to the ZIMRA Fiscalisation Data Management System in the background. Cashiers do nothing extra, and anything that fails to submit appears on a dashboard rather than being discovered at month-end.

Which payment methods does the till accept?

Cash, card, EcoCash, InnBucks and OneMoney, plus gift vouchers and sales on a customer's account. Several can be combined on one sale, and the system calculates change and keeps each tender recorded in the currency it was received in.

Can it handle sales in both United States dollars and ZiG?

Yes. Both currencies are handled natively from a single exchange rate store, and a rate is stamped on the transaction, so a multi-currency sale is one scan rather than a calculation the cashier does on paper. Takings received in Rand against a US dollar till are handled at cash-up.

How do I stop cashiers giving away margin on discounts?

Each role is given a discount allowance. Anything above it requires a manager to authorise the sale on the spot, and a margin floor refuses any line that would sell below cost regardless of who approves it.

Does it work with a thermal receipt printer and a barcode scanner?

Yes. Receipts print to 58mm and 80mm thermal printers over USB, serial or WebUSB, with a built-in test print, and the selling screen is designed to be driven by a barcode scanner rather than by typing product codes.

Can I run more than one shop on it?

Yes. Every branch and every till reports into the same ledger, so takings, stock and margin can be read per till, per branch or across the whole business without anybody consolidating spreadsheets.