Short, useful reads from the PosMasr team: hardware that actually works in Egypt, the tax authority's rules, and habits that save money at the till. No fluff.
300 pounds a month looks cheaper than 8,500 once — until you work it out over three years. The real difference between a subscription and a license, what “free” actually costs, the fees that never appear on the pricing page, and exactly what PosMasr charges.
A normal PC with a touch monitor, an all-in-one terminal, or a used PC with a mouse? Sizes, touch types, a second screen for the customer or the kitchen, PC specs, the brands sold in Egypt and rough prices — with a table that says which setup fits which shop.
Shouting and paper, a ticket printer in the kitchen, or a kitchen screen on an old laptop over Wi-Fi? What each costs, how to keep the Wi-Fi reliable, and a decision table by shop size — PosMasr does both.
Direct thermal or ribbon? 40×30 or 58×40? Xprinter or Zebra? And before all that: does your shop even need a label printer, or will the receipt printer do? A decision table, sizes drawn to scale, and rough prices.
The credit notebook builds customers and loses money at the same time. The three habits that matter (a limit per customer, a printed statement, a reminder that isn't awkward), how credit accounts work in PosMasr, a real statement, and a weekly collection routine that takes ten minutes a day.
What do 100 pounds on the menu become on the bill? The correct maths for the 12% service charge and 14% VAT (VAT applies to the service too), tax-inclusive versus tax-exclusive pricing in one table, and how PosMasr prints and totals it.
The same product at two prices: one for the customer taking a piece, one for the shop taking a carton. How to set both in PosMasr once, when wholesale makes sense and when it doesn't, and the margin arithmetic that makes the carton worth it.
The stock on the till never matches the shelf by itself. A full count in one evening, with your phone and its camera, no paper and no scanner — then a shrinkage figure and an accurate reorder.
58 or 80 mm? USB or LAN? Auto-cutter or not? The printers you actually see in Egyptian shops with rough prices, what paper rolls cost, and how to fix the 'prints squares' and 'faded receipt' problems before you call anyone.
Not an article about suspecting people — about the controls that protect the honest cashier and the shop together. The five patterns that repeat in every shop, and the signal that shows in the reports before the loss grows.
Three budgets with real numbers: the bare minimum with the PC you own, a 58 mm printer and a scanner; a comfortable till with touch, a drawer and a 2D scanner; and a supermarket lane with a label scale and customer display — plus what to skip, what to buy used, and the software line.
The day the hard disk dies, the difference between 'we lost two days' and 'we lost three years of sales and credit' is a 150-EGP flash drive and a 30-second habit. What a PosMasr backup holds, how to take it, and how to restore it.
The drawer opens from the printer, not the PC — which explains half of all 'it won't open' calls. Types, sizes, a wiring diagram, the PosMasr settings step by step, a checklist for when it sulks, and rough prices.
Every box in the bin was money already paid. FEFO in two lines, the real cost of throwing stock away, and how an expiry date on every product in PosMasr turns waste into a sale before it is too late.
'Free' means five different things in POS software, and none of them stays free for three years. The five kinds, a real-cost table covering time, hardware, support and data-loss risk, and a checklist to run before choosing any program.
The e-receipt system in shop-owner language: what it really is, who has to join, ERP versus POS registration in the taxpayer profile, what the customer sees on the receipt, and how to switch it on in PosMasr in half an hour.
Excel is a fine choice for a first shop… until a specific moment. Here are the six moments the spreadsheet breaks, a task-by-task table, and how to move your products into PosMasr with a single CSV file without giving Excel up entirely.
EAN-13, UPC, Code 128, weight barcodes, QR, Data Matrix on medicines… what each one looks like, where it shows up in Egypt, what scanner you need, and how PosMasr handles all of them out of the box.
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