POS and stock software for pet shops in Kenya

Large bags of dog and cat food are your biggest stock investment and your slowest shelf. Order too much and money sits in the back room until the expiry date creeps up; order too little and a regular customer walks to the shop down the road. Without live stock figures per size and brand, most owners guess from memory and end up doing both at once.

Pet shops carry hundreds of small lines — collars, leads, toys, treats, shampoos, aquarium kit, small-animal bedding — and counting them by hand on a notebook or spreadsheet is a job nobody finishes properly. Shrinkage and miscounts stay invisible for months, and you only notice when a shelf is empty or the numbers stop matching the till.

If your taxable turnover crosses the KES 5,000,000 threshold you have to register for VAT with KRA, issue compliant invoices through eTIMS and file a VAT3 return on iTax. Doing that from a shoebox of receipts at month end is stressful and slow, and it's easy to miss the sales you rang up on a busy weekend.

Grooming, live fish, premium kibble and cheap accessories all feel like they contribute, but few pet shops know the real margin on each. Discounts to regulars, expired stock written off quietly and supplier price rises all chip away at profit without ever showing up in one place you can look at.

Scan or tap to sell, split payment between cash, card and mobile money, and take a deposit against a special order for an aquarium or a big feed sack. Every sale updates stock instantly and posts straight into your accounts, so there is no end-of-day re-typing. Staff who need only the POS get a till-only login — and every login is included at no extra cost.

Track each variant separately — 2kg, 10kg and 20kg of the same brand are three different things on your shelf and in your books. Set reorder points so slow-moving accessories don't drift out of stock and fast-moving feed gets flagged before it runs dry, and use batch and expiry tracking on food, treats and medicated shampoos so you sell the oldest stock first.

Tallium AI tags VAT on sales and purchases as they happen and keeps a running picture of what you owe, so the figures for your VAT3 return on iTax are ready rather than reconstructed. Photograph supplier invoices with the mobile app and the AI reads and files them for you. Confirm current registration rules, rates and eTIMS obligations with KRA or a local tax professional before you file.

Reports show best and worst sellers, gross margin per category, stock sitting still and quiet trading hours — no spreadsheet work needed. AI insights flag the patterns worth acting on, like a brand whose margin has slipped since the last supplier price change or a line you're consistently overbuying.