Industry — Textile & Fabric Retail
Fabric retail runs on metres, not units — and a POS built for boxed goods will fight you every day. Tallium AI lets you cut and bill by the metre or yard, keeps a live count of what is left on every roll and dye lot, and files the numbers straight into accounting so your VAT records stay tidy for the Oman Tax Authority. One app for the counter, the stockroom and the books, with unlimited users on every plan.
From $79/month per shop · billed monthly · no free trial
Key takeaways
A customer wants 3.75 metres of one design and 1.2 metres of another, with a small discount because it is the tail of the roll. Most tills force whole numbers or a manual price override, so the sale goes through as a rounded guess. Over a month those roundings quietly eat margin and make the stock count meaningless.
Rolls get cut for samples, for alterations, for a relative, and for a customer who changed their mind at the counter. Unless every cut is recorded the moment it happens, the shelf and the ledger drift apart. By the time you do a physical count in Ruwi or Salalah, you are reconciling hundreds of part-rolls from memory.
Two rolls of the same reference can come from different lots with a slight shade difference. If your records only track the design code, you can sell a customer four metres now and two more next week that do not match. That is a return, an argument, and a piece of fabric you may never sell at full price.
Retail cash sales, credit accounts for tailors and boutiques, imported bolts, and cash expenses from the souq all end up in different places. When the VAT return period closes, you are chasing paper invoices and re-keying figures into spreadsheets instead of running the shop.
Ring up 3.75 m at the price you set per metre, mix several cuts on one bill, and apply a remnant discount without breaking the record. Tallium AI stores the exact quantity sold, so the receipt, the stock figure and the margin all agree. Barcode or code lookup keeps the queue moving on a Thursday evening.
Each sale, sample cut, return or transfer moves inventory in real time, so the number on screen is the number on the shelf. Set reorder points on your fast-moving staples and get alerted before the last few metres go. Stock counts become a short check rather than a weekend of guesswork.
Use variants to separate lot, shade and width under one design so staff pick the right roll and you can tell a customer exactly how much of that lot remains. Sales history by variant shows which colours actually turn over and which have been sitting since last Eid, so your next buying trip is based on evidence.
Every sale, purchase and expense posts to the accounts as it happens, with VAT captured line by line so your VAT return figures are ready when the OTA period closes. Snap a photo of a supplier or delivery receipt and AI reads and files it. Please confirm current rules and filing dates with the Oman Tax Authority (OTA) or a qualified local tax professional.
A fast counter screen made for cut goods — decimal metres, multiple cuts per bill, remnant discounts, held bills for customers still browsing, and card or cash tendering with a compliant printed or emailed invoice.
Roll and variant-level stock by design, lot, shade and width, with live quantities, reorder alerts, and full movement history so you can trace where every metre went.
Sales, purchases, expenses and customer credit post automatically to a real set of books, giving you profit by month, outstanding balances from tailors and boutiques, and reports you can hand to your accountant.
VAT captured on every transaction with your VATIN on invoices and period summaries that make preparing the VAT return on the OTA e-portal straightforward.
Receipt scanning, automatic categorisation and plain-English pointers on slow-moving designs, seasonal swings and margin drift — so you spot problems while they are still small.
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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