Furniture & home décor — Kenya
Selling sofas, dining sets and home décor means big-ticket sales, long delivery times, deposits, layaway and stock that sits in a showroom, a godown and sometimes a workshop all at once. Tallium AI puts your till, your stock and your books in one app, so a sale in the Nairobi showroom updates the stock count in the store and lands in your accounts the same second. Everything is priced in USD, billed monthly, with unlimited users on every plan — your salespeople, delivery team and accountant all work in the same system at no extra cost.
From $79/month per shop · billed monthly · no free trial
Key takeaways
A customer pays 40% on a KES 180,000 bedroom set, collects in three weeks, and pays the balance on delivery. In a notebook or a spreadsheet that becomes three separate scribbles, and by month end nobody can say confidently how much customer money you are holding, which orders are fully paid, or which balances have quietly gone uncollected.
The display piece is in the showroom, the sellable units are in the godown in Industrial Area, and two more are on a container that hasn't cleared. Salespeople promise delivery dates based on what they can see, customers get let down, and you end up re-ordering items you already own or discounting slow movers you forgot were there.
Furniture retail throws off imports, freight, workshop repairs, delivery charges and returns — all of which affect what you report. If receipts live in a shoebox and sales live in a till roll, preparing your VAT3 return on iTax becomes a stressful weekend job, and reconciling what you issued through eTIMS against your own sales record is worse.
Free delivery to Karen, a boda run to replace a broken drawer runner, an assembly team's time, a damaged piece written off — none of it shows up on the sales ticket. Your gross margin on paper looks healthy while the bank balance says otherwise, and you can't tell which product lines or which branches are actually carrying the business.
Record a sale with a part-payment, and Tallium AI tracks the deposit, the outstanding balance and the delivery status against that one order. You can see at a glance what is paid, what is owed and what is waiting to go out, and the accounting entries — customer money received, revenue recognised on the sale — are created for you rather than reconstructed later.
Inventory is tracked per location, so the showroom and the godown each have their own real count and a sale in one place doesn't silently drain the other. Purchase orders show what's on the way and when, so your salespeople can quote an honest date instead of a hopeful one, and low-stock alerts warn you before your best-selling dining set sells out.
Every sale, purchase and expense is captured with its VAT treatment as it happens, and the AI reads photographed supplier invoices and receipts so they are categorised without typing. When it's time to prepare your VAT3 return on iTax, the numbers are already there and tie back to your sales records — including what you issued through eTIMS. Confirm current rules with KRA or a local tax professional.
Log delivery costs, assembly labour, freight on imports and write-offs against the right accounts, and your reports show margin after the real cost of doing business. AI insights flag what changed — a line whose margin slipped, a branch whose costs jumped, stock that hasn't moved in ninety days — so you can act on it while it still matters.
A fast showroom till built for big-ticket sales: deposits, part-payments, delivery scheduling, M-Pesa, card and cash, and a proper receipt for the customer — with the sale posting straight into your accounts.
Live stock counts per showroom and godown, variants for fabric, finish and size, low-stock alerts, and visibility of what's on order so you never promise a sofa you can't deliver.
Full double-entry books running quietly in the background — sales, purchases, expenses, supplier balances and customer balances — with reports you can actually read without an accounting degree.
VAT captured on every transaction as it happens, so your figures for the VAT3 return on iTax are ready when you are, and your records line up with what you issued through eTIMS.
Profit and loss, stock valuation, best and worst sellers, aged customer balances and branch comparisons — refreshed live, and exportable for your accountant or your bank.
Build your plan in a minute — pay only for the parts of your business you run. From $79/month per shop.
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