BIZA · Point of sale
Fashion & footwearSize, colour, and the deal that goes with them
For fashion, footwear and apparel retailers · September 2026
One shirt is twelve products: three colours, four sizes, each with its own barcode and its own pile on the shelf. The promotion is buy two get one free, the customer wants to exchange the medium for a large, and the queue is watching.
One product, its options on one screen, the deal applied as the basket fills, and an exchange that puts the medium back where it came from.
One productColours and sizes as options, not twelve separate items
AppliedBuy X get Y, mix and match, bundles — on the basket, automatically
Store creditAn exchange the customer can spend today or next week
Per groupStaff, members and trade each on their own price list
What a fashion counter needs
01
Variants the counter treats as one thing
A product carries its options — size, colour, fit — and the counter shows them on one card. Scanning a variant barcode adds that variant directly; tapping the card opens a picker showing which sizes are actually on hand at this shop.
- Options on one product card
- Scan a variant barcode to add it directly
- On-hand per variant, per shop
- Images on the grid, or a dense list for speed
- Search by name, code or barcode
- Best-selling and recently-sold ordering
02
Deals that apply themselves
Buy two get one free, three for a fixed price, a percentage off a category, a bundle price for a set — each runs automatically or behind a coupon code, limited by customer group, dates, days of the week and a time window. The cart shows what each deal took.
- Buy X get Y, mix and match within a set
- N for a fixed price, or a bundle price
- Percentage or amount off a category
- Coupon codes with a reason when they do not apply
- Limits: minimum basket, maximum discount, usage
- Revenue stays gross; the discount has its own line
03
Exchanges without an argument
A return picks the lines and quantities coming back, records a reason and refunds as cash, credit to the account or store credit on a card in the customer name. The items go back into stock at this shop, and the credit note references the original invoice.
- Return per line, with quantities
- Reason recorded on the credit note
- Refund as cash, account credit or store credit
- Store credit spendable like a gift card
- Restocks at the shop that took the return
- Works offline against this counter's copy of the sale
04
Members, staff and trade, priced differently
Customer groups carry their own price lists, with quantity breaks where you want them. Pick the customer at the counter and their pricing and their deals apply; leave it as a walk-in and the shelf price stands.
- Customer groups: members, staff, trade
- Price lists with quantity breaks
- A list per group and per counter
- Resolution: customer group, then counter, then shelf
- Promotions limited to a group
- List price shown under the line when it applies
05
Gift cards that behave like liabilities
A gift card sold at the counter is money you owe, not money you earned: it posts to the gift-card liability and becomes revenue only when it is spent. The code prints on the receipt, the balance is checked live on redemption.
- Sold from the cart with a value and optional expiry
- Posts to a liability, not to revenue
- Code and balance printed on the slip
- Redeemed as a tender, checked live
- Reloaded or voided from the back office
- Points earned on the goods total as well
A Saturday on the shop floor
- 10:00Open the counter with a float; the promotion for the weekend is already live.
- 11:20Two shirts and a third free: the deal applies as the third goes in, and the cart says which deal took what.
- 13:05A member is picked on the sale; their price list drops three items to the member price.
- 15:40An exchange: a medium comes back, a large goes out, the difference settles on store credit.
- 17:15A gift card is sold for 500.00 and prints its code on the slip.
- 20:30Close the counter. Every deal given is a line in the ledger, not a mystery in the margin.
What the books get
A 690.00 basket with 15% VAT and a 230.00 buy-two-get-one-free line, paid by card:
Dr Bank - card acquirer 793.50
Dr Sales discounts given 230.00
Cr Apparel sales 920.00
Cr VAT output 103.50
Stock 3 variants moved at this shop's location
Cart "Buy 2 get 1 free" shown against the line it discounted
Specification
| Merchandising | Product options (size, colour, fit) with per-variant barcodes and stock; promotions and coupons with group, date, day and time limits; price lists with quantity breaks; gift cards, store credit and points |
| Devices | Windows, macOS and Linux desktop app; iPad and Android tablet; phone; any browser, installable as a web app |
| Printing | ESC/POS thermal printers over the network, or USB / serial / Bluetooth through the computer's print queue; 58 mm and 80 mm; cash drawer opens on cash sales |
| Tenders | Cash, card, bank transfer, gift card, store credit, loyalty points and on account (the balance stays on the customer's receivable); mada in Saudi Arabia, UPI with a scan-to-pay QR in India; split across any number, each banked to the account you choose |
| Cash control | Shifts per counter with a counted float, cash in / out with reasons, blind count at close, X and Z reports, variance, cashier PIN switch, audited drawer opens |
| Offline | Every sale, return and cash movement queues on the device and posts exactly once when the connection returns |
| Compliance | ZATCA Phase 1 QR and Phase 2 clearance (Saudi Arabia), GSTIN with HSN/SAC and a UPI QR (India), TRN (UAE), plain receipts elsewhere |
| New | Tiers and punch cards; one-tap store credit; account payments at the counter |
New at this counter
What the fashion floor now has:
- Loyalty tiers. Tier by lifetime points with a multiplier, shown to the cashier at checkout and printed on the receipt.
- Punch cards on the lines you choose, rewards as store credit in the customer’s name.
- One-tap store credit from an exchange or a reward, offered at checkout when the customer is named.
- Account customers settle at the counter, oldest invoices first.
Integrations on request: RFID readers and card terminals from your country’s acquirer (Geidea and mada in Saudi Arabia, Pine Labs and Razorpay in India, Stripe elsewhere).
The whole counter
Everything above sits on one product. This is all of it, the same in every edition, whether or not your counter needs each part on day one.
Selling
- Search by name, SKU or barcode; category chips; sort by best-selling or recently sold
- Variants on one card, with a picker; a variant barcode adds that variant directly
- USB and Bluetooth scanners with no setup; camera scanning in the mobile app
- Keyboard shortcuts: F2 search, F4 pay, F6 park, F8 returns, F9 exact cash
- Line and cart discounts, and price overrides, each behind its own permission
- Sold by the piece, kg, metre or litre; weight and price labels from scales
- Options with minimum and maximum choices, priced on the line
- Park a cart with a note and resume it on any counter
- A second screen for the customer; a self-checkout kiosk
- Full-screen register mode; phone and tablet layouts built for touch
Payments
- Cash with quick-amount chips, a keypad and exact cash; change worked out
- Card and bank transfer with a reference, banked to the account you choose
- Gift cards, store credit and loyalty points as tenders
- On account, within the customer’s credit limit
- mada in Saudi Arabia; UPI with a scan-to-pay QR in India
- Split one bill across any number of tenders
- Tips to a liability, never revenue; a service charge by percentage
- Account payments at the counter, oldest invoice first
- Trade-ins and charge-to-room, where the counter uses them
Receipts
- 58 mm and 80 mm thermal slips, printed as an image so every script prints as shown
- Auto-print, and the drawer opens on cash sales
- Email with the invoice PDF attached; WhatsApp with a link to it
- Reprint any sale from Transactions
- The receipt title, tax number and fiscal QR your country requires
- Serial, batch, expiry and HSN on the lines that need them
Customers and loyalty
- Walk-in by default; any customer from the address book in one search
- Customer groups, with their own promotions and price lists
- Price lists with quantity breaks, by group or by counter
- Promotions: percent off, amount off, fixed price, buy X get Y, N for X
- Schedules, days, hours, limits and coupon codes that say why they did not apply
- Points, tiers with multipliers, and punch cards that pay out as store credit
- Gift cards sold, reloaded and voided, booked as a liability
Stock
- Each counter sells from its own location, with live on-hand on every card
- Low stock, out of stock, not stocked here and backorder, per product
- Serial numbers and batches with expiry, soonest-expiry first
- Returns put back the exact unit or batch that came back
- Recipes that take ingredients off the shelf, costed first-in-first-out
- Transfer stock between locations from the counter
- Price and product changes reach open counters without a reload
Cash and trust
- Shifts per counter with a counted float
- Cash in and out with reasons; a mistake is voided with a reversing entry
- Blind count at close, X and Z reports, and the variance
- Every cashier is a real user; switch by PIN, lock the counter to step away
- Permissions checked by the database, not just the screen
- Voids, no-sale drawer opens and sign-ins recorded with a name
Returns
- Return any line or all of them, against the original sale
- Refund in cash, as a credit on the account, or as store credit
- A credit note every time, with its own number
- Returns work offline against the counter’s own copy of the sale
Tables and kitchen
- Floors and tables with seats; table states: free, seated, not sent, bill printed
- Move or merge tables, or move some items onto another table’s bill; the kitchen gets a slip
- Kitchen tickets per station, printed and on a kitchen screen, in rounds
- A kitchen log with time to plate, reprints and cancelled tickets
- Courses and seats; split by item or seat; print the bill before paying
- Comps with a reason, a daily limit per person, a manager PIN past it, and a report
- Guests order from the table by QR, from the categories you choose
- Pickup and delivery orders, with a delivery charge added for you
- Reservations and a waitlist; tips paid out to each server
Offline
- Sales, returns, cash movements and shift open and close all work offline
- Everything queues on the device and posts exactly once when the line returns
- Anything the server refuses stays visible, with the reason, until someone acts
Oversight
- A live dashboard of every counter and outlet, refreshed every 15 seconds
- Sales by hour, tender mix and top items
- Attention flags at thresholds you set: variance, voids, refunds, discounts, no-sales
- Reconciliation: what the counters took against the ledger and the journal
- Reports for tips, comps and ingredient shortfalls
Compliance
- ZATCA Phase 1 QR and Phase 2 clearance in Saudi Arabia
- GSTIN with HSN/SAC in India; TRN in the UAE; VAT numbers elsewhere
- Age checks and prescriptions before the line goes on the bill
- A controlled-drug register, batch recalls and warranty checks by serial
Devices and hardware
- Desktop app for Windows, macOS and Linux
- iPad and Android tablets, and phones; or any browser, installable
- ESC/POS printers on the network, or USB, serial and Bluetooth through the computer
- Cash drawers on the printer’s port; ticket printers per kitchen station
Screens from a demo workspace, “Cardamom Cafe & Store” in Kochi.
See it on your own counter
Start a free trial at my.biza.app, or ask for a walkthrough on your own product options, your own deals and a real scanner. The POS guides are at biza.app/docs.