ShelfTech, South Africa
The whole shop, on one system.
Tills, cash office, goods received and reports all in one place, running on your own shop network. It keeps working when the internet is down.
What we are building
Shop tools for the shops nobody builds for.
Big wholesalers have had proper retail systems for years. Smaller local wholesalers, and the shops they supply, have been left with paper, spreadsheets and tills that do not talk to each other.
We spent time behind the counter first, watching goods come in and sold, credit sales get approved, and the cash office get balanced at the end of the day. Then we built for that, not for a demo.
The shop floor we built ShelfTech for.
No two shop floors look the same. We built ShelfTech to fit whichever one you run.
How it works
Three parts, one shop.
Everyone on the floor
Tills, the cash office, the manager's office and goods received all open the same system, on your shop's own network.
- Tills
- Cash office
- Goods received
StoreBrain
One small box, plugged in at the shop. It holds every sale, price and stock count, and keeps everything running with no internet.
- Plugs into the network you have
- Works when the internet is down
- One shop or several
The cloud
When there is a connection it syncs, so you can check on one shop or several from anywhere.
- Credit sales
- Stock and prices
- Reports
Who it's for
Built for a few kinds of shop. Starting with yours.
Features
Built for the reality of the counter.
From one till to a group of shops, ShelfTech covers the daily work.
Till software built for the counter
Scan, sell, take cash or credit, and print the receipt. A supervisor signs off a price change, and it is written down.
Cash office and goods received
Every sale lands in the cash office as it is rung up. Stock coming in is logged against the supplier and the invoice.
Stock and prices in one place
Barcodes are already known through GS1 South Africa. Change a price once, and every till in the shop has it.
Works when the internet is down
StoreBrain keeps selling, pricing and counting stock when the connection drops. It syncs the moment it's back.
How we built it
We started in the shop, not on a laptop.
- We sat with cashiers, supervisors and cash office staff while they worked.
- We followed goods from the delivery truck to the shelf, and wrote down every step.
- We watched how credit is given, and who has to say yes before it is.
- Everything in the system came out of those days, not out of a meeting room.
Names of the shops we worked in stay with them. What we learned is in the product.
Where we're at
Still building, in the open.
Talking to shops
Weeks on the floor with wholesalers and small shops.
DoneBuilding the system
Till software, cash office and goods received, all running on StoreBrain.
In progressTesting in a real shop
First shop going live with us.
NextMore shops
One owner, several shops, one view.
NextWhy ShelfTech
Plainly, what makes this different.
One system, not five
Tills, cash office, goods received and reports all in one place, instead of a different book or spreadsheet for each.
Works when the internet is down
The shop runs on StoreBrain, right there in the building. Sales carry on, nothing is lost, and it syncs later.
Built around how these shops work
Goods received, credit sales, cash office. The way the people at the counter already do it.
One shop or a group
Start with one. Add more when you are ready, with one view over all of them.
Simple toolsSmarter stockStronger business
We're building this in the open.
If you run a shop, or supply the ones that do, we'd like to hear how your day works.