POS software for pet shops and pet supply stores in South Africa

Pet food, wet trays, treats and supplements all carry best-before dates, and slow lines quietly age out on the bottom shelf. Without batch and expiry visibility you only find out when a customer turns a tin around at the counter, and you write off stock you already paid for. Bulk buys of a flavour that never moved make it worse, because the cash is tied up in a pallet you cannot return.

A single pet shop carries dry food in three bag sizes, tick and flea treatments, tanks and pumps, bird seed, litter, leads, toys and live fish. Counting that by hand is a weekend job, and multiple bag sizes of the same brand get mixed up on the shelf and in the spreadsheet. When the stock number is wrong, you either miss a sale or order a repeat of something already sitting in the back.

Zero-rated grocery lines, standard-rated pet products, supplier invoices and card settlement fees all have to land in the right place before a VAT201 is filed on SARS eFiling. Most owners keep a shoebox of till slips and a spreadsheet that never quite balances to the bank. The result is late nights before every filing period and a nagging worry that something has been missed.

Add a Saturday assistant, a groomer and a stockroom helper and per-seat accounting or POS pricing climbs fast. So owners share one login, and then nobody can tell who processed a refund or adjusted a stock count. On top of that you are often paying separately for a till system, a books package and a stock tool that do not talk to each other.

Record batch numbers and expiry dates on incoming food, supplements and parasite treatments, and Tallium AI flags what is approaching its date so you can discount or bundle it while it still has value. Sell-through reports show which flavours and bag sizes actually move in your area. Over a few months that turns guesswork ordering into a buying list based on what your customers really take home.

Scan a barcode at the counter and the shelf figure, the reorder alert and the cost of sale all update together, with each bag size held as its own item so 2kg and 12kg never blur. Low-stock levels per product trigger reorder suggestions before a bestseller runs dry. Stocktakes happen on a phone as you walk the aisle, so you can count the aquarium wall on a quiet Tuesday instead of closing on a Sunday.

Every sale, supplier bill and expense posts straight to the accounts with its VAT treatment attached, and receipts are captured by photo with the AI reading the supplier, date, amount and tax for you. Reports summarise output and input VAT for the period so preparing a VAT201 for SARS eFiling is a review rather than a rebuild. Always confirm current VAT rules, rates, zero-rating and registration thresholds with SARS or a qualified local tax professional before you file.

Every person in the shop gets their own named login with permissions set to their role, and it never adds to the bill. You can see who rang up a sale, who discounted it and who adjusted stock, which makes shrinkage conversations factual instead of awkward. Accounting, invoicing, POS, inventory, e-commerce and the Tallium AI Marketing and CRM tools all sit under one account, so there is nothing extra to buy or integrate.