The customer’s own prices
Price lists by customer type and currency, with quantity bands and start and end dates. An approved deal for that customer wins. The seller never types a price.
Point of sale
Point of sale software for wholesalers and distributors
A POS that travels. SalesBlitz runs on Android handhelds with built-in printers, so your sellers invoice, take payment and print the receipt at the customer’s counter, and the office sees every sale as it syncs.
POS for the trade
Point of sale for selling to shops, not shoppers
Most POS systems are tills: a screen, a cash drawer and a queue of walk-in shoppers. Wholesale and distribution sell differently. The buyer is a shop, a bar, a supermarket or a hardware store with an account. The price depends on who they are and how much they take. Some pay cash, some pay later, and the crates have to come back.
SalesBlitz is point of sale built for that trade. Every sale belongs to a customer on your books and to a seller’s selling run, so it carries the customer’s prices, credit position and returnables. It lands in the right cashbook, in the right currency, the moment it syncs. When the sale happens from a van on a route, the same handheld is your van sales software.
At the counter
What the POS does at the counter
Tax worked out per line
Prices include VAT. Each product carries its rate, zero-rated and exempt are kept apart, and surtaxes such as a withholding tax are added on the device.
Several payments per invoice
One invoice can take several payments. Each goes into one of the seller’s cashbooks, and each cashbook has one currency and one payment method, such as cash in US dollars.
Credit control at the sale
The handheld shows the customer’s credit limit, what they owe and the headroom left, and refuses a credit sale that would go over the limit.
Receipts and fiscal receipts
Thermal receipts on the built-in printer, 58 or 80 mm wide. With ZIMRA fiscalisation on, the receipt carries a QR code for the fiscalised invoice and, once Fiscalizer has answered, its invoice number.
Honest corrections
A completed invoice can’t be edited. An invoice still being written can be cancelled with a reason, and anything after that is corrected with a credit note from the office, so the record stays true.
How it works
From price list to cash-up
Set up products and prices
Load products, customers and price lists in the web back office, from Excel or from your ERP through the Sync API.
Register the handhelds
Enter your company’s 6-digit code on each device. The office approves it, and each seller signs in with a PIN.
Sell
Pick the customer and add the lines; price, VAT and any surtax are worked out. Take payment, or leave the balance on account if you allow credit.
Print
The receipt is ready at once. With fiscalisation on, the invoice goes to Fiscalizer in the background, and the sale doesn’t wait for it.
Cash up
At the end of the run the seller counts each cashbook blind. The office sees what was expected against what was declared, and receives the cash.
Back office
The back office behind the POS
Everything the handhelds do lands in the web portal: invoices, payments, credit notes, stock movements, cash-ups and returnables, each with an audit trail of who did what, when, and from which device.
- A sales register with one row per invoice line: seller, route, customer, product, price and fiscal number.
- Collections by payment method and currency, the collection rate, and aged debtors against credit limits.
- Stock on hand and every movement, per warehouse and per van, valued at average cost.
- Customer statements, credit notes and cash-up sheets as A4 PDFs.
- Every report exports to Excel and CSV.
Back-office users are free and unlimited on every plan; you pay per selling van. See pricing.
Who it’s for
Businesses that sell to the trade
- Wholesalers selling to retailers, bars, bottle stores and hardware stores on account.
- FMCG distributors whose sellers invoice from the van or at the customer’s premises.
- Manufacturers selling direct to the trade with their own sales team.
- Businesses in Zimbabwe that need fiscalised receipts on mobile sales: see ZIMRA fiscalisation.
Questions
POS software: your questions
Is SalesBlitz a retail till for walk-in shoppers?
No. It is point of sale for trade selling: every sale is to a customer on your books, made during a seller’s selling run. A new customer can be added on the handheld at the counter, and the office approves it if it fails a check such as a duplicate phone number.
What hardware do I need?
An Android device for each seller. Sunmi handheld terminals (V2 Pro, P2 and T2) have the receipt printer built in; on a phone without a printer, the receipt stays on screen. We can supply Sunmi devices, or you can bring your own.
Is it a fiscalised POS?
It can be, in Zimbabwe. With fiscalisation switched on, every invoice and credit note is sent to Fiscalizer, which submits it to ZIMRA, and the receipt carries a QR code for the fiscalised invoice. The ZIMRA fiscalisation page explains how it works.
Can customers pay in more than one currency?
Yes, on every plan. Each invoice is in one currency and is paid in that currency, into a cashbook of the same currency. Credit limits are judged in your main currency.
Does it work offline?
Yes. Sales, receipts and payments are made offline and synced later. A receipt printed before the invoice reached Fiscalizer carries a QR code that leads to the fiscalised invoice once it has been sent.
Can I import my products and customers?
Yes. Products, customers and price lists import from Excel, or your ERP keeps products, prices and stock in step through the Sync API.
What does it cost?
It is priced per van per month, with every feature on every plan: $17 on your own Android device, $19 with receipts printed on a Bluetooth printer, and $30 with a Sunmi V2 Pro handheld whose repair and maintenance are on us. Back-office users are free.
Keep reading
Related
- Van sales software
Route sales from a van: visits, mobile invoicing, van stock and cash, offline-first.
- ZIMRA fiscalisation
Every invoice and credit note fiscalised through Fiscalizer, without holding up a sale.
- ERP integration
Products, prices and stock in from your ERP; every closed selling run back to it.
- Zimbabwe
ZiG and USD, VAT and surtaxes, ZIMRA, and routes where the signal drops.
- Pricing
Per van, per month: $17, $19 with Bluetooth printing, $30 with a Sunmi handheld.
Put a point of sale in every seller’s hand
Register a handheld, load your price lists and make your first sale.