POS software for florists and gift shops in South Africa

Roses, lilies and greenery have a shelf life measured in days, not months. Without a live view of what came in from the market and what has already been used, florists over-order before a big weekend and throw away hundreds of rands of stock the following Tuesday — or run dry mid-Saturday and turn customers away.

A gift shop sells over the counter, takes phone orders for delivery, and fills corporate gift hampers on account. When those live in a till roll, a WhatsApp thread and a paper diary, someone eventually delivers the wrong arrangement to the wrong address, or a R2,400 corporate order never gets invoiced at all.

Once your turnover crosses the R1,000,000 registration threshold, VAT201 becomes a routine part of the month. Most small shop owners are still adding up till slips and supplier invoices by hand at the deadline, which is where mistakes on input VAT from florist suppliers and packaging vendors creep in.

A bouquet is stems plus foliage plus wrap plus ribbon plus labour. Very few florists know what a signature arrangement actually costs to build, so pricing is set by feel and by what the shop down the road charges. Seasonal price spikes on imported blooms quietly eat the margin without anyone noticing until the year-end.

Tallium AI tracks stems, sundries and finished gift lines in real time. Sell a bouquet at the till and the components come off stock immediately, so your morning market list is based on what is genuinely left in the cold room rather than on a guess. Low-stock alerts flag fast movers before a big trading weekend.

Ring up walk-ins on the POS, capture phone and delivery orders against a customer with the address and delivery date attached, and invoice corporate accounts from the same screen. Everything lands in the same ledger, so nothing gets delivered without a matching sale on record.

Every sale, supplier bill and expense is captured with the correct VAT treatment as it happens, and receipt scanning pulls supplier invoices in with the amounts read automatically. When VAT201 is due you are pulling a report on SARS eFiling figures you already trust, not rebuilding a month from paper. Confirm current rules with SARS or a local tax professional.

Build recipes for your signature arrangements and hampers so Tallium AI knows exactly what goes into each one. Reports show gross margin per line, per category and per trading day, and AI insights surface which products are quietly losing money when market prices climb.