Juice bars & ice cream shops · Saudi Arabia
A juice bar or ice cream counter lives or dies on the queue. Tallium AI gives you a POS that rings a mango-passion blend or a double scoop in a couple of taps, watches your fruit, milk, cups and tubs as they go out the door, and files every sale straight into your books with VAT handled the way ZATCA expects. One app, one flat monthly price in USD, and unlimited staff logins at no extra cost.
From $79/month per shop · billed monthly · no free trial
Key takeaways
Between 4pm and midnight in a mall or on a busy corniche strip, orders come in bursts. A till that needs six taps to build a custom smoothie — pick base, pick fruit, add protein, no sugar, large cup — turns a five-minute rush into a fifteen-minute one, and people walk to the shop next door.
Fruit, milk, cream and ready mixes have short lives. Without a live count you only find out you're short of strawberries when a customer orders one, and you only find out you over-ordered when you're pouring litres of milk down the drain at the end of the week.
A large mango juice might use 400g of fruit, ice, sugar syrup and a cup with a lid and a straw. Most shops price by feel and never see that a top-selling item is barely breaking even once cups and wastage are counted in.
Cash and mada card sales, supplier bills for fruit and packaging, delivery aggregator payouts — it all has to reconcile into a VAT return for ZATCA, with compliant invoices. Doing that from a shoebox of receipts and a till roll costs a full weekend every quarter.
Lay your menu out on tiles by category — juices, smoothies, milkshakes, scoops, cones, tubs, toppings — with modifiers for size, sugar level, extra shot or extra scoop attached to the item. Staff tap the drink, tap the size, take payment. New part-time hires are productive on their first shift because there is nothing to memorise.
Link each menu item to its ingredients, so selling a large orange juice deducts the oranges, cup, lid and straw automatically. You see what's left in real time, get low-stock nudges before the weekend rush, and can record wastage in a tap so spoilage shows up as a number instead of a mystery.
Set a cost per kilo or litre for every ingredient and Tallium AI works out what each drink and scoop actually costs you to make, including packaging. AI insights flag the items quietly losing money and the ones worth pushing on the menu board, so you can reprice with evidence rather than a hunch.
Every sale posts to your accounts with VAT applied at the right rate, supplier bills go in by photographing the receipt, and the AI reads and categorises them for you. Come filing time your VAT return figures are already assembled instead of reconstructed. Always confirm current rules with ZATCA or a local tax professional.
Tile-based menu with sizes, sugar levels, toppings and extra scoops as modifiers. Works fast on a counter screen or a tablet, handles cash and card, splits bills, and prints or emails the receipt.
Recipe-level tracking for fruit, dairy, syrups, cones, cups and lids. Live counts, low-stock alerts, wastage logging and supplier reorder lists so you buy what the shop actually uses.
Sales, purchases, rent, salaries and utilities in one ledger that updates itself from the till. Daily takings, profit by month and cash position without a spreadsheet in sight.
VAT applied per item, tax-compliant invoices, and return-ready summaries so the numbers for your ZATCA VAT return are ready when you are.
Automatic receipt scanning and categorisation, plus plain-English reads on your best hours, slowest sellers and creeping ingredient costs.
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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