Point of sale
Fast keyboard- and scanner-driven billing, with holds, returns, discounts and mixed payments.
Retail · Point of sale
Retail POS and inventory software built around your counter
A retail system is judged at the counter, in seconds, by a person with a queue in front of them. Linksoft builds retail software that is fast where it must be fast — and honest behind the scenes, where stock, margins and accounts have to agree.
The counter sets the requirements
Everything else in a retail system is negotiable; the counter is not. Billing has to be quick with a keyboard or a scanner, it has to handle the awkward realities — a price override, a mixed cash-and-card payment, a return against an old receipt, a customer who wants the item held — and it has to keep working when the internet does not.
We specify the counter workflow first, on-site, watching your busiest hour. A system designed from the back office forward always turns out to be slow exactly where slowness costs money.
Stock that is live across every branch
The second question retail asks is whether the item is available at another branch. That requires one stock ledger covering every location, updated as sales happen rather than as somebody finds time to post them — with transfers between branches recorded as movements and variance from physical counts recorded as adjustments with a reason and a name attached.
Purchase, landed cost and margin sit alongside it, because retail decisions are margin decisions: which lines earn, which lines merely turn over, and which have been sitting since last season.
- 01 One stock ledger across all branches, updated at the point of sale
- 02 Barcode support and variants — size, colour, pack
- 03 Branch transfers recorded as movements, not silent adjustments
- 04 Physical count variance recorded with reason and user
- 05 Margin, fast movers and dead stock reported per branch
The back office closes itself
Every sale, return, purchase and adjustment posts into double-entry accounts as it happens, so the day's cash position, the month's margin and the trial balance are outputs of trading rather than a reconstruction project. FBR digital invoicing issues from the same flow where the business is registered for sales tax.
Loyalty, customer accounts and credit sales are supported for the shops that run them — and honestly, for many single-branch retailers a simple system is the right system. We will tell you when that is the case.
What the system includes
Modules are configured to your operation during scoping — you take what your business runs on and leave what it does not.
Inventory & variants
Live stock by branch with barcodes, size/colour/pack variants and batch tracking where needed.
Purchasing & landed cost
Purchase orders, goods receipt and true landed cost feeding accurate margins.
Branch transfers & counts
Stock movements between branches and physical count variance with an audit trail.
Customers & credit
Customer accounts, credit sales, loyalty and outstanding balances where the shop runs them.
Accounting & FBR invoicing
Double-entry books posted from trading, with compliant electronic invoices at the counter.
Staff & shifts
Cashier-wise sales, shift handover and till reconciliation.
Owner reporting
Daily sales, margin by line, dead stock and branch comparison, live rather than at month-end.
Where the proven parts come from — stated plainly
Retail is on our owner-verified list of industries served, and the components a retail system needs are components we run in production: inventory with batch identity moving between locations, sales posting automatically into double-entry books, FBR-compliant electronic invoicing at the point of sale, and role-scoped access so a counter user cannot open the margin report.
What we will not do is show you a screenshot of a chain we have not deployed. Scope your shop with us, and the working systems those parts run in today are what we will show you instead.
See the client register →Asked and answered
Can the POS keep working if the internet goes down?
Yes, where your shop needs it. We can build the counter to keep billing offline and sync when connectivity returns, or deploy the whole system on-premise. It is a specification decision we make with you, not a limitation you discover later.
Does it handle multiple branches?
Yes — one stock ledger across every branch, transfers recorded as movements, and reporting available per branch and consolidated for the owner.
Can it issue FBR-compliant sales tax invoices?
Yes. Our FBR Iris Digital Invoicing System issues compliant electronic invoices from the same flow as the sale, so counter billing and compliance are one action.
We are a single shop. Is custom software overkill?
Sometimes, and we will say so. If an off-the-shelf POS fits your practice without daily workarounds, buy it. Custom earns its cost when your stock, pricing or accounting has a shape the packages cannot hold.
Can it track product variants like size and colour?
Yes — variants, packs and barcodes are standard, and batch or expiry tracking is added where the product category needs it.
How does it stop stock theft and billing fraud?
Role-based access, an audit trail on every adjustment and void with the user's name attached, cashier-wise sales and till reconciliation per shift, and physical count variance recorded with a reason rather than silently absorbed.
Tell us how your operation actually runs.
We scope on-site, specify in writing, and tell you honestly whether custom software is the right answer — before any commitment.