Accounting · Till · Inventory · Laybys

The back-office for African retail.

Double-entry books, till & multi-currency cash, inventory, sales, quotations, invoices, customers and laybys — one tool, one set of numbers that always agree. Built for shopkeepers from Harare to Hwange.

Live at the till of Appliance & Home, Highlands — running real sales every day.

Multi-currency USD · ZAR · ZWG
Double-entry books Trial balance that always balances
Receipts & invoices PDF, thermal-printer ready
Your data CSV export, anytime
Everything inside

One tool for the whole shop.

No exercise books, no scattered spreadsheets, no second-guessing how much cash you really have. From the till to the trial balance.

Till & cash management

Cash tills, EcoCash wallets, USD and ZWG bank accounts — each keeps its own balance, transfers are one click, and the dashboard rolls them into a USD-equivalent total.

Inventory

Receive consignment, record outright purchases, quick-add at the till. Item codes and categories, cost vs. floor value, and a zero-quantity audit trail so nothing sold ever just disappears.

Sales, receipts & invoices

Ring up a walk-in and print an 80mm thermal receipt, or issue a Net-7 invoice with a real Bill-To block, due date and balance-due banner. Take a deposit up front — even before the stock lands — and apply that customer credit to the invoice on delivery. PDF, every time.

Quotations

Quote a customer in seconds, hand them a branded PDF, and convert it to an invoice or sale when they say yes — no re-typing, no separate spreadsheet.

Laybys

Take a deposit, track every installment, void a reversed payment without losing the record, and hand over the goods when it's paid — then print the agreement they sign.

Customers & statements

Every customer gets one ledger — receipts, invoices, layby payments — in a single signable statement. When it's time to chase a balance, the paper is already in your hand.

Real accounting

Derived double-entry general ledger behind every transaction. Trial balance, balance sheet and income statement — all balanced by construction, all exportable to PDF for your accountant.

Reports, aging & exports

Revenue, cost of goods, margin and net by day, week or month. AR & AP aging so you know who owes you and who you owe. Export anything to CSV — your data is never trapped.

The dashboard

Your whole shop, at a pulse.

The moment you ring up a sale or take a layby payment, the cash collected today ticks up in front of you — split into sales and laybys, in every currency, rolled into a USD total. No closing the till to find out how the day went.

  • Live "collected today", refreshing as money comes in
  • Cash position across every till, wallet and bank account
  • Working capital — revenue, cash out, net — this month at a glance
  • Inventory value, supplier balances and layby receivables in one place
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Why Till Yi

Built where you actually work.

01

Multi-currency from day one

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

02

One tool replaces five

Throw away the exercise book, the spreadsheet, the WhatsApp group, the receipt book and 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, invoice and customer record is yours. Daily off-site encrypted backups, CSV export 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 (till, EcoCash, bank). You get the URL and the admin login.

2

We import your data

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

3

You start ringing up sales

Day one: walk-ins, invoices, quotations, laybys and payments all flowing through. We stay close for the first weeks while your team settles in.

Questions

The things people ask first.

Is this real accounting, or just a sales log?

Real accounting. Every transaction feeds a double-entry general ledger, so your trial balance, balance sheet and income statement are always in balance — and downloadable as PDF for your accountant. You run the shop; the books keep themselves.

Which currencies does Till Yi handle?

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

Can multiple staff use it?

Yes. Admins create accounts for cashiers, salespeople and accountants. Admin-only sections (team, audit log) stay locked down, and every change is logged with who did what, when and 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, 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.

How are backups handled?

An encrypted snapshot of your database is taken nightly and stored off the server, with restores tested regularly. You can also export everything to CSV on demand for your own offline copy.

Ready when you are

See Till Yi running your shop.

A 20-minute walkthrough of the till, the books and the laybys — then we set up your instance the same week.

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