Free point of sale for South Africa
R0 a month, no contract, no hardware to buy. Built from first principles by people with more than 20 years combined experience inside South African retail. It runs on the device you already have, keeps selling when the internet drops and is simple enough to run yourself.
Why it's free
Every business should be able to sell, track stock and cash up properly without a monthly bill. Free is not a cut-down version. Every feature on this page is included, for good.
Sales, combos, refunds, stock and cash-ups on as many tills as your store needs. No contract and no card on file.
Combos, split payments, stock, refunds, blind cash-ups and reconciliations. Unlimited products, cashiers and tills, with no features held back.
Free does not mean you are the product. Your sales data belongs to you and is never sold or shared for advertising.
Why Mzansi POS
Free tills usually mean basic tills. We started from how South African counters actually run, queues at lunch, load shedding, mixed hardware and teams that change often, and built the real thing.
Designed by a team with more than 20 years combined experience building data and operations systems for South African QSR chains with hundreds of stores. Every table, screen and rule exists because a real store needed it.
Runs on the Android tablet, Windows PC, laptop or iPad you already own. Sales are processed on the device, so trading carries on through load shedding and dropped signal, then syncs when you're back.
No technician call-outs and no consultant to change a price. If you can use WhatsApp, you can load your menu, build a combo, add a cashier and open a till.
How it works
A supervisor opens a session for the cashier and records the opening float. Every sale, drop and refund is tied to that session.
Products are loaded once. Combos are built from them, so a 5 Pie Special opens a picker for flavours and a drink, with surcharges added automatically.
Cash, card, voucher, EFT or QR, and any mix of them on one sale. Change is calculated for you.
A sequential tax invoice number is issued and stock deducts per flavour, whether the pie was sold alone or inside a combo. Voids never use up a number.
The cashier counts the drawer and card batch without seeing the expected figure, so counts are honest, not adjusted to match.
The system works out what should be there and compares it. Anything over your store's threshold raises a deviation the manager must explain before sign-off.
The original sale is never edited. A refund gets its own credit note number, needs a supervisor and either returns stock or logs it as waste.
Reprinted slips are marked as copies and need a reason, which closes one of the most common till fraud routes.
Your data
Sales are processed on the device first, so the till never waits on the internet. Data then syncs to servers in South Africa, close to your stores and under local law.
Ring-up, change and slip happen instantly, even during load shedding or a dropped connection.
Only new records travel, in small batches, so mobile data stays low and nothing is lost if the line drops.
Encrypted in transit and at rest, in South African data centres. Each business only ever sees its own data.
Customer and staff details are kept to the minimum needed, and till PINs are never stored in plain text.
Each till numbers its own invoices, so trading carries on through outages without duplicate numbers.
Every change records who made it and when, from a price update to a cash drop to a manager's sign-off.
The honest answer
There isn't one for the till. Running a store on Mzansi POS costs nothing, and the features you rely on will never move behind a paywall.
We keep the lights on with optional extras for businesses that outgrow a single counter, such as multi-store reporting and integrated card payments. If you never need them, you never pay.
Load your products, build your combos and open your first till in an afternoon.