Toy & baby shops — Nigeria
Toy and baby shops carry hundreds of small items — teethers, puzzles, feeding bottles, prams, board games — across a dozen brands and age ranges, and each one moves at a different speed. Tallium AI gives you a fast till, live stock counts and VAT-ready books in one app, so a busy Saturday at the counter still leaves you with clean numbers on Monday. It runs on a shop counter, a laptop or a phone, with unlimited staff logins and one flat price in USD.
From $79/month per shop · billed monthly · no free trial
Key takeaways
A toy and baby shop stocks everything from ₦1,500 rattles to ₦180,000 travel systems, often in three sizes and five colours. Once the shelf count drifts from the notebook, you stop trusting either — and you end up buying stock you already have while a fast-selling nappy size sits empty for a week.
Christmas, Children's Day and back-to-school pull most of the year's toy sales into a few weeks, so you buy heavy and hope. Without a clear record of what actually sold last season and at what margin, that guess turns into shelves of leftover licensed toys that only move at a discount.
Sales go through a cash drawer, a POS terminal and transfers to your bank; supplier invoices arrive on WhatsApp. When the monthly VAT return is due, someone spends days rebuilding the month from receipts, and it is easy to miss input VAT you were entitled to claim.
Baby shops constantly take deposits on cots and travel systems, hold items for a customer until payday, or order a colour that isn't in stock. Paper hold-slips get lost, two staff promise the same unit, and you find out at handover when the customer is standing at the counter.
Scan or search by name, take cash, card or transfer, split payment if a parent pays part in cash, and print or send the receipt. Every sale writes straight to stock, so the count on your phone matches the shelf without anyone doing a nightly tally. Barcodes for unbranded items can be generated and printed from within the app.
Tallium AI keeps sell-through, margin and stock-turn by product, brand and category, so you can see what December actually did last year before you commit cash this year. Reorder points flag slow-moving lines and low nappy sizes early, and AI insights surface the patterns you'd otherwise miss on a busy week.
Sales, purchases and expenses post to the accounts as they happen, with VAT tracked on both sides so your monthly VAT return figures are already sitting there. Snap a supplier invoice with your phone and the AI reads the vendor, amount and tax lines and files it — please confirm current rules and rates with NRS or a qualified local tax professional.
Take a part-payment against a cot or pram, mark the unit reserved so it disappears from sellable stock, and raise a purchase order for a colour you need to bring in. Anyone on shift can see the customer, the balance owing and the expected date, so a shift change doesn't lose the sale.
Fast counter till for cash, card and bank transfer, with barcode scanning, split payments, holds, deposits, returns and exchanges — plus offline-tolerant selling so a network dip doesn't stop the queue.
Track every toy, feeding item and pram by SKU, brand, age range and variant. Reorder points, batch receiving against purchase orders, stock counts and transfers keep the shelf and the screen in agreement.
Double-entry books that build themselves from your sales and purchases — bank reconciliation, supplier balances, expenses via receipt scanning, and profit and loss you can read without an accounting background.
VAT tracked on sales and purchases as they post, with figures ready for your monthly VAT return and records kept in one place for NRS. Confirm current rules with NRS or a qualified local tax professional.
Daily takings, gross margin by category, sell-through by brand, dead stock, staff sales and end-of-day cash reconciliation — on the shop screen or your phone.
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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