Guides for running a small business

Plain, practical guides for owners of shops, groceries, salons, service businesses, cafes and stalls in Malaysia. No sign-up needed to read them, and they hold whichever POS you use.

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• How to choose a POS system for a small business in Malaysia - A practical checklist for Malaysian shop, salon, grocery and cafe owners choosing a point-of-sale system: hardware, offline selling, payments, stock, reports, staff and lock-in.
• Cloud POS vs a POS terminal: working out the real cost - How to compare the three-year cost of a traditional POS terminal with a cloud POS on a tablet: upfront hardware, subscriptions, support, staff logins, replacements and payment fees, with a worked example.
• How to do an end-of-day cash-up in a small business - A step-by-step end-of-day closing routine for shops, salons, stalls and cafes: opening float, counting cash by denomination, reconciling card and QR payments, delivery platform payouts and investigating a variance.
• What happens to your POS when the internet goes down - How offline mode in a cloud POS works: what keeps working with no connection, where orders are stored, how they sync, what cannot work offline, and how to prepare a market stall, shop or salon for an outage.
• Stock tracking for a small shop, without a full stocktake - How a small retail shop, grocery, pharmacy or salon selling products can start tracking stock without closing for a full stocktake: products and barcodes, low-stock levels, purchase orders, cycle counts and slow movers.