POS billing software for Indian retail counters

It is a real point-of-sale counter. You scan a barcode, the item and its price load instantly, the cart totals in real time, you take payment across cash, card, and UPI in one bill, and a thermal receipt prints — while the same sale posts a GST-compliant invoice and a journal entry into your books. There is no separate "export to accounts" step: the counter and the ledger are the same system.

Yes. Every item carries a code index, so a scan resolves to the item in one keystroke from a USB or Bluetooth scanner that types like a keyboard. For loose or unbarcoded goods — vegetables, grain, hardware sold by weight — you search by name or short code and add by quantity. Fast-moving counters keep the keyboard on the search box so the whole bill is built without touching the mouse.

Indian retail prices are quoted inclusive of GST — the sticker is the MRP and the tax is already inside it. ReadyBooks stores an optional MRP per item and, on a "prices include GST" bill, back-computes the taxable value and the CGST/SGST from the inclusive price so the line total matches the shelf price to the paisa. You bill at the price the customer sees; the tax split is derived correctly underneath.

Yes. A walk-in cash sale must be fully paid before it closes, but a credit (khata) sale is attached to a named customer and leaves a balance due that posts to that party’s receivable ledger. The khata balance shows up in the customer’s account and in your receivables aging, so the running tab every neighbourhood shop keeps is now on the books instead of in a diary.

A cashier opens a till with a starting float, rings sales through the shift, and closes the till with a Z-report that summarises sales by tender (cash, card, UPI), total collected, and the expected cash in the drawer against what was counted — so any discrepancy surfaces at handover, not at month-end. Shops that do not run formal tills can bill without a session; the till layer is optional.

Yes. The cart checks live stock as you add lines and guards against selling more than you hold, with the check scoped to the selling location. You can also sell the same item in more than one unit — a loose piece and a sealed pack of twelve — and stock moves in the base unit so the count stays correct whichever way it sold.

Yes. A counter refund reverses the original sale: it returns the goods to stock, posts the GST reversal, and records the money paid back, all linked to the original bill so the audit trail is intact. Returns are first-class, not a manual credit note you reconstruct later.

Yes. A half-built cart can be parked when a customer steps away to fetch one more item or sort out payment, and resumed later, so a single counter can hold several open bills at once without losing any of them. The next customer is served while the parked bill waits.

ReadyBooks produces an ESC/POS receipt sized for standard 58mm and 80mm thermal rolls — the format the vast majority of counter printers understand. Pair it with a thermal printer your operating system can already print to. We are honest that we do not certify every printer model, so test your specific device during setup rather than assuming plug-and-play.

Counter-driven Indian retail: kirana and general stores, supermarkets and self-service formats, pharmacies, hardware and stationery shops, and any business that bills face-to-face and needs the day’s sales to land in proper GST books automatically. Because it shares one inventory and ledger with the rest of ReadyBooks, the shop that starts at the counter already has accounting, GST returns, and reporting waiting when it needs them.