Hardware & building supplies • United Arab Emirates
Hardware and building supplies shops in the UAE juggle thousands of SKUs, trade customers on account, and 5% VAT on every sale. Tallium AI puts fast POS, live inventory, and FTA-ready accounting in one app — so you can ring up a sale, check stock across your counter and back store, and see your VAT return taking shape without spreadsheets or juggling separate tools.
From $79/month per shop · billed monthly · no free trial
Key takeaways
Screws, pipes, paint, power tools and fittings run into thousands of lines, often sold by piece, box or metre. Without live counts you oversell fast-movers, tie up cash in dead stock, and waste hours on manual counts.
With standard 5% VAT, every counter sale, trade invoice and supplier bill has to be recorded correctly for your VAT201 return. Doing this by hand at quarter-end is slow and error-prone, and mistakes can mean penalties from the FTA.
Contractors and builders expect to buy on credit and settle later. Tracking who owes what, chasing overdue balances, and issuing proper tax invoices with your TRN is hard when it lives in notebooks or a basic till.
A separate cash register, stock sheet and accountant's file means numbers never match. You re-key the same sale three times and still don't know your true margin on cement versus hand tools.
Track thousands of SKUs by piece, box, pack or length with barcodes, low-stock alerts and reorder points. Every counter sale updates stock instantly, so what the screen shows is what's on the shelf.
Tallium AI applies 5% VAT to sales and purchases automatically, prints tax invoices with your TRN, and keeps figures return-ready so your VAT201 is a review, not a scramble. Always confirm current rules with the FTA or a local tax professional.
Set up account customers, issue tax invoices, take part-payments, and see outstanding balances and ageing at a glance. Automated reminders help you get paid without awkward phone calls.
POS, inventory and accounting share the same data, so a sale at the counter flows straight into your books, stock and reports. AI receipt scanning captures supplier bills in seconds and true margins are always up to date.
Fast counter checkout with barcode scanning, split and account payments, and instant tax-invoice printing built for busy hardware trade.
Manage thousands of SKUs across counter and back store with units, barcodes, reorder points and low-stock alerts.
Double-entry books, expenses, AI receipt scanning and clear reports that stay in sync with every sale and purchase.
Automatic 5% UAE VAT on sales and purchases, TRN tax invoices, and VAT201-ready figures for filing with the FTA.
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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