Kenya · Textile & Fabric Retail
Running a fabric shop in Kenya means cutting to the metre, quoting per-piece prices for tailors and bulk buyers, and still knowing exactly what is left on the shelf at closing. Tallium AI gives you a fast counter POS, live roll-by-roll stock and VAT-ready accounting in one app — so a sale at the cutting table updates your stock and your books at the same moment. One flat price in USD, unlimited users, no per-seat fees, and no separate accounting subscription to bolt on later.
From $79/month per shop · billed monthly · no free trial
Key takeaways
A 40-metre roll of kitenge leaves in 2.5m, 6m and 0.75m cuts all day. Manual books round it, guess it, or forget the offcuts, so by month end you genuinely do not know whether you have 9 metres of that print left or none — and you re-order blind or dead-stock a shade nobody wants.
Walk-in customers pay per metre; tailors, school-uniform contracts and market resellers negotiate per-piece or full-roll rates. Staff end up remembering discounts in their heads, quoting inconsistently, and giving away margin on the exact fast-moving lines you make your living on.
Standard-rated sales, VAT on imported bales, and eTIMS-compliant invoices for business buyers all have to reconcile before you can file. When sales sit in an MPESA statement, a cash tin and a duplicate book, preparing a VAT3 return on iTax turns into days of hunting receipts instead of an hour of checking.
If you go to source at Eastleigh, Kariokor or an importer's warehouse, you are trusting whatever you are told over the phone. Without live numbers you buy stock you already have, miss the shade that sold out on Saturday, and have no way to see today's takings until you are physically back at the counter.
Cut 3.5m and the POS deducts 3.5m from that specific roll — decimals, not whole units. Every bolt, shade and design has its own live balance, so remnants stay visible instead of vanishing, and low-stock alerts tell you which prints to reorder before a customer asks for them.
Set a retail per-metre price and separate wholesale or tailor rates against the same product, and let the POS apply the right one automatically once you pick the customer. Roles and permissions decide who can override a price, so discounting is a decision you approve rather than one you discover later in the margin report.
Every sale, supplier bill and expense posts straight into accounting with VAT tracked on both sales and purchases, ready to support your VAT3 return on iTax. Snap a photo of a transport or landing receipt and AI reads and categorises it, so your input VAT records are built as you go — confirm current rules and filing requirements with KRA or a local tax professional.
Check today's sales, remaining stock on any design and outstanding tailor accounts from your phone while you are out sourcing. AI insights flag what is moving, what is sitting, and which customers are slipping, so buying decisions are based on your numbers rather than a guess at the supplier's counter.
A fast counter till built for cut-to-order selling: decimal quantities, mixed baskets, held sales for customers still choosing, and receipts printed or sent digitally. Works on the shop computer or a tablet at the cutting table.
Track every roll by design, colour and width with live metre balances, offcut visibility, reorder levels and full movement history — so you always know what is on the shelf and what it cost you.
Sales, purchases, expenses and cash positions post automatically from the till. Profit per line, supplier balances and monthly reports are ready without re-keying a single figure.
Record VAT on sales and on imported or local purchases, hold your KRA PIN and customer tax details on invoices, and pull clean summaries when it is time to prepare your VAT3 return.
Automatic receipt scanning and categorisation, plus plain-English alerts on slow-moving prints, margin dips and unusual discounting — the review you never have time to do manually.
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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