POS software for textile and fabric shops in South Africa

Most retail systems only understand whole units. Your customer wants 3.4 m of a poly-cotton, 0.75 m of interfacing and two zips on one slip. Staff end up doing mental maths at the counter, keying manual amounts, and the till total quietly stops matching what actually left the roll.

A 50 m roll gets cut fifteen times a week across three staff. Between shrinkage, generous cutting and unrecorded sample pieces, the shelf and the spreadsheet drift apart fast. You only find out when a customer asks for 6 m of a bestseller and there are 4.2 m left — after you have promised it.

Short lengths pile up in a bin under the counter with no barcode, no cost and no price rule. Meanwhile last winter's suiting and that bolt of novelty print sit at the back of the shelf. Cash you paid your supplier in rand is sitting there as fabric instead of working stock.

Cash sales, card sales, layby deposits, supplier invoices from the Durban and Joburg wholesalers, courier costs — all of it lands in different places. Come VAT201 time you are reconstructing two months of trading from till rolls and a shoebox of slips, hoping the input VAT adds up.

Tallium AI's POS handles decimal quantities natively, so 3.4 m at your per-metre price is one keystroke, not a calculation. Ring up cut fabric, notions, trims and haberdashery on the same slip, apply a trade or bulk-buyer price, take cash, card or a layby deposit, and print or email the receipt on the spot.

Every metre sold comes off that roll's balance immediately, across all tills and any second branch. Set low-stock alerts per fabric so your bestsellers get reordered before they run dry, and raise a purchase order to your supplier from the same screen. Stocktakes are done on the phone against live figures, not a printout from last week.

Log remnants as their own sellable items with their own pricing, so a short length is scanned and sold rather than guessed at. AI insights flag which fabrics are moving, which have not sold a metre in months and where your margin actually sits — so your next buying trip is based on your own numbers, not a hunch.

Sales post straight to your accounts as they happen, and supplier invoices or courier slips are captured by photographing them — AI reads and categorises the receipt, including the VAT. Your VAT position updates as you trade, so pulling the figures for a VAT201 on SARS eFiling is a report, not an excavation. Confirm current rules with SARS or a local tax professional.