At the counter
Friday morning at a roastery in Shubra. Hagg Ahmed comes in with his old tin: “the usual, a quarter, and add a little cardamom this time.” Behind him a lady wants “twenty pounds of hazelnuts”, and a boy asks for a hundred grams of spice for kofta. The man behind the counter knows all of it by heart — what he cannot do is ring it up quickly and correctly, so it goes in as “various” and the stock drifts further from the truth every week.
The weight and volume pack is built for exactly this counter. Switch it on in Settings → Weight and volume, pick your shop's template — roastery, spices, sweets, fresh (butchers and greengrocers) or perfume — and the till starts speaking the language of the shop.
Type it the way he says it
One box takes the amount in whatever form the customer used:
| You type | The till understands |
|---|---|
| 250 g · 0.25 kg · 250 grams in Arabic digits | A quarter kilo of that item |
| “a quarter” (rub‘) | 250 g — the word every Egyptian counter uses |
| 20 pounds (20 جنيه, 20 ج م) | As much as 20 pounds buys, to the gram — and the line charges exactly 20 |
| 3 pieces | Three pieces through the item's average piece weight |
The tub's weight comes off by itself
Define your containers once — the 250 g tub, the tahini jar, the honey bottle — with their empty weight. When an item has its own container, the till takes the tare off by itself; otherwise pick one or type the grams. The customer pays for the olives, not the plastic, and the line keeps the proof: “gross 0.300 − tare 0.050 kg”, with the container's name. Volume items (millilitres) never take a tare in grams, by design.
Scale labels, and your own pre-pack labels
If your scale prints barcode labels, the layout of that barcode is now configurable — weight or price inside, the common layouts ready as presets — and a bad label is refused with its reason instead of “barcode not found”. The background is in scale barcode labels; a scale wired to the till is in scales connected to the PC.
No label scale? Weigh and pack in the morning, and print your own labels: the item, the net weight, the price per kilo, the total, the packing day and “best before”, with a barcode the till reads back exactly like a scale's label. The bags of mixed nuts for the weekend are ready before the rush.
Blends and saved formulas
The blend builder takes parts by amount (3 ml + 2 ml + 5 ml) or by percentage of a size (60 % Brazilian + 40 % Colombian, of 500 g), adds the mixing fee if you charge one, and the container — or none, if the customer brought his own. Each part is taken from its own stock at its own price, so at the end of the month you know how much cardamom actually left, not just how many “blends” you sold.
Then save it: “Hagg Ahmed's blend”, or your house blend. Next Friday it is one tap, at any size — a quarter or a kilo, the proportions kept. On the receipt the blend prints as one item with its size and price, and with its recipe unless you prefer to keep your house formulas to yourself.
From the sack to the bag
A processing batch records what really happens behind the counter: a sack of green coffee goes into the roaster, and roasted bags come out. You enter what went in and what came out; PosMasr works out the loss and its percentage, shares the cost of the sack (plus the batch's own cost, if you add one) over the outputs by weight, and carries it into their cost. The roasted kilo now has a real cost, so its profit in the reports is real too. Packing one sack into many small bags is the same batch.
Stock is kept in kilos and litres, with a stock-by-weight report (whole sacks plus loose), and counts or deliveries can be typed the way they arrive: “2 sacks 3.5 kg”.
Bottles, refills and evaporation
- A bottle linked to a product is charged as its own line; “own bottle” leaves it out.
- A refill price list prices each size (30, 50, 100 ml) with and without each bottle that holds it.
- Shrinkage and evaporation are write-off reasons of their own, so the oil that went into the air is not mistaken for theft.
What we have not tried yet
- On PosMasr Cloud the weighing and blend windows open on the till app; a plain browser tab shows the Sell page without them.
- In the program on your PC: one scale-label layout (online takes several), and saved formulas stay on that PC — they do not travel to the online edition.
Which plans include it
| Edition | Weight and volume (blends, tare, batches) |
|---|---|
| PosMasr Cloud | Shop, Business and Chain (and the 14-day trial) |
| The program on your PC | Silver and up |
Shop is 1,999 EGP a month; compare every plan on the PosMasr Cloud page and the desktop packages on Prices. The setup steps are in the manual.
Quick answers
Does the receipt change for my other items?
No. A weighed line prints as “0.250 kg × price per kilo”; everything else prints as before, and tax is untouched. With the pack switched off, nothing changes at all.
Can the customer keep his blend secret from the receipt?
The shop decides: receipts print the blend's recipe by default, or only its name (“Hagg Ahmed's blend”) if you switch that off.
I sell by the piece and by weight. Is that a problem?
No. “3 pieces” is converted through the item's average piece weight, and items you sell by the piece stay as they are.
Does it work when the internet cuts?
Yes. The units, containers and label layouts are settings every till keeps, so weighing and blends go on offline; a formula saved offline is sent on the next connection.
Ring up “a quarter, the usual” in two taps
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