Accounting · Till · Inventory · Layby

The back-office
for African retail.

Books, till, inventory, sales, invoices, customers, multi-currency cash management — and laybys when you need them. Built for shopkeepers from Harare to Hwange.

Trusted at the till of Appliance & Home, Highlands · live on day one.

Multi-currency USD · ZAR · ZWG
Receipts & invoices PDF, thermal-printer ready
Multi-user Admin + staff roles
Your data CSV export anytime
What's inside

Everything a Zim shopkeeper actually needs.

No Excel sheets, no exercise books, no second-guessing how much cash you really have.

Till & cash management

Cash tills, EcoCash wallets, USD and ZWG bank accounts — each ledger keeps its own balance, and transfers between them are one click. End-of-day reconciliation tells you exactly where the variance came from.

Inventory

Receive consignment from suppliers, record what you've purchased outright, quick-add ad-hoc products at the till. Each item knows what it cost and what it's worth on the floor.

Receipts & invoices

Ring up a walk-in sale and print a thermal receipt. Or issue a Net-7 invoice with a real "Bill To" block, due date, payment instructions and a balance-due banner. PDF, every time.

Customers & statements

Every customer gets their own ledger: every receipt, every invoice, every layby payment in one signable statement. When it's time to chase a balance, the paper is already in your hand.

Laybys

Customer wants the fridge but can only afford it in three pieces? Open a layby, take the deposit, track every installment, hand over the goods when it's paid — and print the agreement they sign.

Reports & exports

Daily, weekly, monthly: revenue, cost of goods, gross margin, expenses, net. Top items, top customers. Export anything to CSV for your accountant — your data is never trapped.

Why Till Yi

Built where you actually work.

01

Multi-currency from day one

USD, ZAR, ZWG side-by-side. Set today's exchange rate, take payment in whichever currency the customer has, see your total cash on hand in USD-equivalent. EcoCash, bank, till — all separate ledgers, all reconciled.

02

One tool replaces five

Throw away the exercise book, the Excel sheet, the WhatsApp group, the receipt book, the layby clipboard. Till Yi covers all of it, and the numbers always agree because there's only one set of them.

03

Your data is your data

Every receipt, every invoice, every customer record — yours. Export to CSV any time. No vendor lock-in. If you stop using Till Yi tomorrow, you keep your records.

How it works

Up and running in a week.

1

We set up your instance

Your business name, your branding, your currencies, your cash accounts (cash till, EcoCash, your bank). You get the URL and the admin login.

2

We import your data

Existing customers, current inventory, opening cash balances. We don't make you start from zero — your books continue, on a cleaner system.

3

You start ringing up sales

Day one: walk-ins, invoices, laybys, payments — all flowing through. We're available for the first weeks while your team gets comfortable.

Questions

The things people ask first.

Which currencies does Till Yi handle?

USD, ZAR (South African rand), and ZWG (Zimbabwe gold) out of the box. Add more on request. Each cash account has its own native currency; the dashboard shows a USD-equivalent total using rates you maintain.

Can multiple staff use it?

Yes. Admins create accounts for cashiers, salespeople, accountants. Two roles right now (admin · staff); admin-only sections (team management, audit log) stay locked down. Every change is logged with who did what, when, from which IP.

Does it print receipts to a thermal printer?

The receipt PDF is 80mm wide — the standard for thermal POS printers. Print directly, or share on WhatsApp, or both.

What if I want to leave?

Export every table to CSV — sales, expenses, laybys, payments, customers, inventory. Your accountant can pick it up in Excel. Your business doesn't live inside Till Yi; it just runs better with it.

Does it work on a phone?

Yes — the whole UI is responsive. Most operators run a tablet at the till and a phone on the move. No app to install; it's a web tool.

How are backups handled?

Daily snapshots of your database. You can also export everything to CSV on demand for your own offline copy. We don't believe in single points of failure.

Ready when you are

See Till Yi running your shop.

20 minutes. We walk you through the till, the till, and the till. Then we set up your instance the same week.

Book a demo

Prefer to talk first? WhatsApp +263 78 413 7598 · Email hello@tillyi.com