POS and stock software for bookshops and stationery stores in Nigeria

A single title can arrive in hardback, paperback and a new edition, and a pack of biros comes in five colours. When your stock list is a notebook or a spreadsheet, staff guess at prices, reorder titles you already have three copies of, and miss the ones that quietly sold out. By the time you notice, the customer has already gone to the shop down the road.

In the weeks before a new term, parents arrive with full school lists — twelve exercise books, a set of textbooks, a maths set and a school diary. Ringing that up by hand or on a basic calculator till is slow, error-prone and painful when the line reaches the door. One mispriced textbook repeated fifty times is real money gone.

Last year's edition, the novel that never caught on, the specialist reference book ordered for one customer — they sit on the shelf tying up cash you needed for the new syllabus titles. Without clear reports on what actually sells and how fast, it's hard to know what to discount, return to the supplier or simply stop reordering.

Supplier invoices from publishers and wholesalers, printing costs, transport, rent — most of it ends up in a drawer until it's time to file. Nigeria's monthly VAT return and the move to the National E-Invoicing Solution both reward businesses that keep clean, dated records as they go, not once a month in a panic.

Ring up a barcode straight off the back of a book, or type a few letters of the title, author or ISBN when there's no barcode on a locally printed workbook. Each item carries its own price, so an edition change or a supplier price rise is updated once and applied at every till, in every branch.

Add items quickly, adjust quantities in one tap, apply a discount to a whole basket for a school or a bulk buyer, and take cash, card or transfer. Hold a basket while a parent goes back for one more item, then pick it up again — no need to start over or clear the queue behind them.

Every sale reduces stock instantly, and you set a reorder point on the lines you never want to run out of — exercise books, biros, the core syllabus titles. Reports show you the fast movers and the shelf-sitters by category, so ordering from your publisher rep becomes a decision rather than a guess.

Sales flow straight into your books, and supplier invoices go in by photographing them — the AI reads the amounts and files them for you. That gives you a running picture of profit, expenses and the VAT you have collected and paid, so your monthly return is assembled from real records. Confirm current rules with NRS or a local tax professional.