Industry — Textile & Fabric Retail
Selling fabric is not like selling boxed goods. A customer asks for 3.75 metres of a specific dye lot, wants it cut, priced per metre, maybe with lining and tailoring added — and your system needs to keep up at the counter without slowing the queue. Tallium AI gives textile and fabric shops in Bahrain one app for POS, roll-level stock, purchase orders and VAT-ready accounting, so what you cut on the floor is what shows in your books.
From $79/month per shop · billed monthly · no free trial
Key takeaways
A 50-metre roll of crepe is not one unit — it becomes a 4.5m cut, a 12m cut, and a remnant. Generic retail software forces you to fake it with 'pieces', so you never know how much usable fabric is left, which rolls are nearly finished, or how much shrinkage and cutting loss you are quietly absorbing each month.
A bride comes back for two more metres and the shade does not match, because the second roll came from another lot. Without lot and roll tracking, your staff are guessing from memory or scribbled tags, and the shop eats the return or the discount to keep the customer.
Bahrain's standard VAT rate is 10%, and registered businesses must file a VAT return with the NBR. If sales sit in a cash drawer or a notebook, purchases sit in a supplier file, and tailoring income sits somewhere else, someone spends days rebuilding the numbers into a return instead of running the shop.
Manama asks Riffa whether they still have the navy sherwani fabric, someone walks over or calls, and by the time an answer comes the customer has left. Add tailoring orders, advance payments and supplier credit, and it becomes very hard to say which lines actually make money.
Tallium AI POS handles decimal quantities properly, so 3.75m rings up at your per-metre price with no mental maths. Set a unit per product, add cutting or stitching charges as separate lines, and stock reduces from the exact roll the moment you take payment — cash, card or BenefitPay-style flows all recorded to the same day-end totals.
Track each design by lot and roll, with the remaining length on every one. Staff can see at the counter that Lot 4412 has 6.2m left before promising a customer more, and remnants below your threshold can be flagged for a clearance rack instead of dying at the back of a shelf.
Every sale, refund, supplier bill and expense posts to the accounts as it happens, with VAT captured on the line. Snap a photo of a supplier invoice and the AI reads and categorises it. When it is time to prepare your VAT return, the figures are already there — confirm current rules and rates with the NBR or a local tax professional before you file.
Because everything runs in one cloud account, both branches and your stock room read from the same numbers. Reports show margin by design, by supplier and by salesperson, and AI insights point out slow-moving stock tying up cash and fast movers you are about to run out of before a wedding or Eid rush.
Fast counter billing with decimal metre quantities, cutting and tailoring charges, holds for customers browsing, split payments and clean day-end cash-up.
Roll, lot and colour-level stock with remaining length, reorder alerts, stock takes on a phone and transfers between branches without paperwork.
Sales, purchases, expenses and supplier balances post automatically, so your P&L and cash position are current without a month-end rebuild.
VAT captured on every sale and bill, with summaries laid out to make preparing your NBR VAT return straightforward.
Raise POs to local wholesalers or overseas mills, record part deliveries, and land freight and duty into cost so your true margin per metre is real.
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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