Guides and answers for South African business
Practical answers to the questions a shop or restaurant owner actually asks — choosing a till, what a receipt must show, what card acceptance really costs, counting stock, and trading through load-shedding.
Everything here so far
How to choose a POS system in South Africa
The questions that actually decide whether a till suits your shop — and the costs that are easy to miss until the first invoice.
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What a South African receipt must show
The difference between a till slip and a tax invoice, and what the VAT Act requires on each.
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Taking card payments in a small South African shop
How card acceptance is actually priced, why the machine and the software are separate decisions, and what to check before signing.
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Counting stock without closing the shop
A stock count you can actually finish, why the number never matches, and what the variance is telling you.
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Running a till through load-shedding
What to power, what it costs, and how to keep trading through a scheduled outage without guessing.
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What these are, and what they are not
They are written for somebody who has not bought a till before and would rather understand a decision than be sold one. Where a question has a general answer we give it, and where the answer depends on your own numbers we say which number to go and check.
They are not legal, tax or financial advice. Where a guide states a legal requirement — what a tax invoice must contain, how long records must be kept — it reflects the legislation as commonly applied, and legislation changes. Confirm anything that matters with SARS or your own accountant rather than with a software vendor, including this one.
We also do not cite figures we cannot source. There are no search volumes, no market share claims and no competitor pricing tables here, because we would be making them up. Where a cost illustration appears it is arithmetic on a stated assumption, and the assumption is stated so you can substitute your own.
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