Grocery & supermarkets · South Africa
Groceries move fast, run on thin margins, and mix zero-rated basics with standard-rated goods — so a slow till or a shaky stock count costs you real money. Tallium puts a quick checkout, live inventory and VAT-ready accounting in one place, built for busy supermarkets and mini-markets across South Africa. Ring up sales, watch your stock, and keep your books ready for SARS without juggling separate tools.
From $79/month per shop · billed monthly · no free trial
Key takeaways
A basket often holds VAT-free basics like brown bread, maize meal and milk alongside standard-rated goods at 15%. Getting the split wrong on every sale quietly distorts your VAT and your margins.
Spoilage, miscounts and quiet losses eat into tight grocery margins. Without live stock levels you only find the gap at stock-take, long after the money is gone.
Month-end, paydays and weekend rushes create long lines. A till that lags on barcodes or price look-ups sends customers to the shop down the road.
When your sales, purchases and expenses live in notebooks and spreadsheets, every VAT201 period turns into a stressful reconciliation instead of a quick review.
Tag each item as zero-rated or standard-rated once, and Tallium applies the right VAT on every sale. Your VAT position updates in real time so the numbers behind VAT201 are ready when you are.
Stock drops as you sell and rises as you receive deliveries, so you always know what's on hand. Low-stock alerts and fast-mover reports help you reorder before you run out and cut spoilage on slow items.
Scan barcodes, weigh-by-price items and split-tender cash and card in seconds. The POS keeps queues moving even on your busiest paydays and works from the mobile app if a lane goes down.
Every sale, purchase order and scanned receipt flows straight into your accounting. Come reporting time you review clean figures instead of rebuilding them from scraps of paper.
Fast barcode and weighed-item checkout with cash, card and split payments — built for high-volume grocery lanes.
Live stock counts, low-stock alerts and expiry-aware tracking so you reorder on time and waste less.
Sales, purchases and expenses post automatically into a clean set of books for your store.
Per-product VAT rates and live VAT totals that keep your figures ready for SARS VAT201.
Daily takings, margin, top sellers and shrinkage reports in plain language, on any device.
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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