The other tills
Extra checkout stations join over your own network, by cable or Wi-Fi. A sale rung up on one till shows on all of them straight away, and the stock count follows.
The POS system for South African shops that never stops selling
BelloPOS runs on your own Windows PC or Mac, with no internet needed, so the till keeps ringing when the fibre goes down. Start free, and pay in rand only when you need more.
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A free POS that does the whole job
Free forever with the Lite plan:
Free point of sale
The Lite plan is free forever. There is no monthly fee, and you never need a card.
Free monthly updates
A new version every month, free: new features, bug fixes and support for more devices.
Easy orders and receipts
A clear, simple screen to build an order in a few taps and print the receipt right away.
Barcode scanner support
Plug in any USB or Bluetooth barcode scanner. It works right away. Scan to sell, scan new stock, and print your own labels.
Receipt printer support
Use a small receipt printer (58 or 80 mm) or any printer your computer already uses. Choose how your receipt looks. Save invoices as PDF.
Free inventory desktop app
See your stock, your suppliers and your orders in one place. It all stays on your own PC, so your data is yours.
Need more? The paid plans add:
Unlimited users and custom roles
Add as many users as you need and choose exactly what each one can see and do.
Invoice export
Save all the invoices of a period as PDF in a few clicks.
Premium support
Priority help from our team when you need it.
Analytics dashboard
Revenue, profit, best-selling and most-purchased products, and what each user did.
Automatic backups
Your database is backed up on its own, so you never lose your data.
Full restaurant mode
A kitchen app for your cooks and a map of your tables.
Jobs, bookings & repairs
Take a device in, book an appointment or plan a visit, follow each job to the end, and print the customer's ticket.
Many tills on one network
Connect several tills over your local network. They share the same data.
Daily sales reports
Get your sales summary every day by Telegram and email.
See it in action
Every sector
Built for your business, whatever you sell
BelloPOS bends to the way each trade actually works, from the kitchen pass to the parts counter. Fifteen sectors, each with its own ready-made demo catalogue. Find yours below.
Restaurants
Tables, the kitchen pass and fast service.
Cafes & coffee shops
Quick orders, the counter and the terrace.
Supermarkets & grocery
Barcodes, stock and busy checkouts.
Bakeries & pastry
Weigh, sell and keep up with fresh batches.
Fashion & apparel
Sizes, variants and seasonal collections.
Beauty & cosmetics
Brands, testers and loyal customers.
Bars & lounges
Rounds, tabs and a busy counter.
Convenience & general retail
Snacks, drinks and everyday goods.
Butcher shops
Sold by weight, cut by cut.
Parapharmacies
Dermo-cosmetics, baby care and supplements.
Stationery & school supplies
Back-to-school rush, item by item.
Electronics & phones
Phones, accessories and high-value tickets.
Home appliances
High-value sales, deposits and deliveries.
Furniture stores
Showroom sales, deposits and orders.
Auto parts
Thousands of references, found in seconds.
Also made for
One app for the whole shop
Sell, count stock, let customers pay later, make invoices and more. See which plan has each tool.
Works fully offline
You do not need internet to sell.
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Checkout
Add items, add tax and take payment.
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Inventory & barcodes
Know how much stock you have. Print barcode labels.
Read moreGo (Included from BelloPOS Go)Product options & variants
Sizes, colours and other options on one product, with a price for each variant.
Read more
Go (Included from BelloPOS Go)Customer credit & statements
Let customers buy now and pay later. Set a limit and see what each one owes.
Read more
Discounts
Give a discount on a line or on the whole sale.
Read more
Go (Included from BelloPOS Go)Ares AI assistant
Ask in plain words. Ares adds products, finds sales and builds reports, in the app or on Telegram. It uses your own Gemini or DeepSeek key.
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Customer second screen
Your customer sees what they are buying on a second screen.
Read moreGo (Included from BelloPOS Go)Analytics dashboard
See your sales, your profit and your best products.
Read moreGo (Included from BelloPOS Go)Expenses
Record rent, bills and other running costs by day or month, in your own categories, with charts and export to CSV, Excel or PDF.
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Go (Included from BelloPOS Go)Salaries
Pay your staff by day or month, bonuses included, with each employee's history and export to CSV, Excel or PDF.
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Pro (Included in BelloPOS Pro)Restaurant module
Draw your rooms and tables, and send orders to the kitchen.
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Pro (Included in BelloPOS Pro)Kitchen web app
The kitchen sees new orders on a phone or tablet.
Read morePro (Included in BelloPOS Pro)Handheld web app
Take orders, and repair tickets with Services, on a phone. It uses the same data as your till.
Read morePro (Included in BelloPOS Pro)Multi-terminal (server / client)
Use many tills in one shop. One main PC keeps all the data.
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Pro (Included in BelloPOS Pro)Services: jobs, bookings and repairs
Repairs, bookings and on-site jobs for 19 service trades — phone repair, garages, laundries, salons, plumbers and more — with statuses, quotes, parts, payments, warranty and printed tickets.
Read moreAres AI, built in
Your shop now has its own AI assistant
Ask Ares in plain words, by text or voice, on the till or on Telegram from your phone. It answers in seconds, and it does the work for you.
Included in Go, Pro and Pro+. Ares needs internet and runs on your own DeepSeek or Gemini AI key, which usually costs a few cents a day. With Pro and Pro+, we connect it for you.
Ares
Online, on your till
How much did I sell today?
Today: 87 sales, 4,230.00 in total. Best seller: Coca-Cola 33cl, 64 sold. 3 products are running low.
Add 24 Fanta 33cl at 7.00 in Drinks
Done. Fanta 33cl is in Drinks: price 7.00, stock 24.
Send me this month's sales by day as a PDF
Here is your report:
sales-by-day.pdfAsk anything about your shop
Sales today or this month, best sellers, stock value, low stock, who owes you money, what each cashier did.
It does the work
Ares adds and edits products, prices and customers, fixes stock, rings up a sale and prints it. You just ask.
Talk to it in your language
Type or send a voice note. Ares understands typos and mixed languages, like French, Arabic, Darija and English, and answers in yours.
Your shop in your pocket
On Telegram, ask from anywhere. Get reports, alerts when stock runs low or a sale is deleted, and send product photos straight to your catalog.
Reports in seconds
Any report as PDF, Excel or CSV, without opening a single menu.
Safe by design
Ares only does what each user is allowed to do, and asks before deleting or changing many things at once.
BelloPOS ProFor shops ready for the next step
One server, the whole shop on the same data
Your tills, your waiters' phones and the kitchen screen all work on a single database that sits in your shop, not in the cloud, not on someone else's server.
The server PC
One computer holds the database: products, stock, prices, sales and staff. It is the machine that stays on, and everything else simply connects to it.
Your local network · no internet needed
The handheld app
Your waiter takes the order at the table from a phone browser. Nothing to install, no app store, and nothing to type again at the counter.
The kitchen screen
Orders appear in the kitchen the moment they are sent, on any phone or tablet browser. No paper tickets, no slips lost between the room and the pass.
Your data stays in your shop
The database is on your own PC. If the internet drops, and it does, the tills, the phones and the kitchen keep working.
Pay once, sell forever
Take Pro as a lifetime licence: no fee per till, no yearly renewal, no bill that grows with your turnover. Prefer monthly? Buy a key only for the months you need.
Grow at your own pace
Start with one till today. Add a second station, the waiters' phones and the kitchen screen when the business is ready: same app, same data.
Multi-terminal, the handheld app and the kitchen app are included in the Pro licence.
See BelloPOS ProTrusted by 300+ stores
Shop owners who sell with BelloPOS
What store owners told us after switching to BelloPOS.
Verified customer
Even when the internet drops, BelloPOS keeps selling and printing receipts. Our counter never stops, and that is exactly what I needed.
Verified customer
I installed it myself in one afternoon. The barcode scanner and the receipt printer worked straight away, no technician needed.
Verified customer
Paying once instead of every month made the choice easy. And the free updates keep bringing features we actually use.
Verified customer
Now I know exactly what is in stock and which customers still owe me money. It saves me time every single day.
Get started in a few steps
BelloPOS Lite, Go & Pro
Works 100% offline
- 1Download and install BelloPOS on your device
- 2Activate the app with your activation keyGo & Pro only (Lite needs no key)
- 3Add your products directly on the POS
- 4Start selling, no internet required
BelloPOS pricing
Pay once, sell forever — or go monthly, no commitment. Pro and Pro+ come with free setup done for you.
BelloPOS runs on a Windows computer or a Mac. Open the link there.
BelloPOS Lite
Free foreverFreelifetime
No card. No registration. Download it and start selling in minutes: everything runs offline, on your own computer.
- No card needed
- Works 100% offline
Download now
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Want more? Turn on every Pro feature free for 7 days, right inside the app.
- Works 100% offlineFree
- Sales history, catalog & customersFree
- Inventory trackingFree
- Receipt printingFree
- Discounts on a line or the whole saleFree
- Printer configurationFree
- Barcode scanning for productsFree
- Customer second screenFree
- Interface & printing in 36 languagesFree
- 1 user accountFree
- Free updates every monthFree
- 14-day money-back
- Pay once, sell forever
- Works 100% offline
Using BelloPOS in {country}BelloPOS is your app for tracking sales, stock, customers and Ares AI. It is not a certified cash register ({cert}): if you take payments from consumers, keep your certified till for the receipts and run everything else from BelloPOS.
BelloPOS Go
For a shop with one till
R 6 419lifetime
R 372per month
Pay for as many months as you need · upgrade to lifetime anytime
R 3 721R 4 464per year
You save R 743(16% off)
That's R 310 a month, paid once for 12 months
14-day grace period after each paid period · no automatic renewal
Pays for itself in 14 months compared with a typical R 465/month POS.
Buy now14-day money-back guarantee
- Works 100% offline
- Pay once, sell forever
- Same features, paid month by month
- Free updates every month
- Everything in BelloPOS Lite
- Unlimited users
- Choose what each worker can do
- Manage purchases
- Export invoices
- Customer credit & statements
- Product options & variants
- Delivery companies
- Wholesale prices (price groups)
- Custom fields
- No watermark
- No ads on the lock screen
- Analytics dashboard
- Expenses
- Salaries
- Activity log (who did what)
- Automatic backups & restore
Best value
BelloPOS Pro
Restaurants, service businesses and shops with many tills
R 12 000lifetime
R 651per month
Pay for as many months as you need · upgrade to lifetime anytime
R 6 512R 7 812per year
You save R 1 300(16% off)
That's R 543 a month, paid once for 12 months
14-day grace period after each paid period · no automatic renewal
Pays for itself in 15 months compared with a typical R 835/month POS.
Buy now14-day money-back guarantee
- Works 100% offline
- Pay once, sell forever
- Same features, paid month by month
- Free updates every month
- Everything in BelloPOS Go
- Restaurant module
- Tables management
- Kitchen screen
- Handheld cashier web app
- Services: jobs, bookings, calendar and invoices
- Many tills in one shop
- Second screen ads
- Reports via Telegram & email
Ready-to-Sell Pack, included free
- Remote installation on your computerR 905
- Printer, scanner and cash drawer set upR 720
- We add your first 1,000 products and 100 groupsR 3 680
- Import from Excel or your old systemR 1 830
- Ares AI connected, on the till and on TelegramR 905
- Tables, kitchen screens and extra tills set upR 1 460
- 1-hour staff training on videoR 1 460
- 3 months of priority help (WhatsApp & phone)R 1 460
Total valueR 24 400You pay, onceR 12 000
Done for you
BelloPOS Pro+
Done for you: we set up everything
R 17 581lifetime
R 837per month
Pay for as many months as you need · upgrade to lifetime anytime
R 8 372R 10 044per year
You save R 1 672(16% off)
That's R 698 a month, paid once for 12 months
14-day grace period after each paid period · no automatic renewal
or 2 × R 8 791, interest-free
Buy now14-day money-back guarantee
- Works 100% offline
- Pay once, sell forever
- Same features, paid month by month
- Free updates every month
- Everything in BelloPOS Pro
- One setup expert for your shop, start to finish
- Services set up for your trade
Ready-to-Sell Pack, included free
- Priority setup: selling within 48 hours of getting your product listR 1 830
- Remote installation on your computerR 905
- Printer, scanner and cash drawer set upR 720
- We add all your products (up to 10,000)R 7 380
- Import from Excel or your old systemR 1 830
- Ares AI connected, on the till and on TelegramR 905
- Tables, kitchen screens and extra tills set upR 1 460
- Training for your whole team, until everyone is readyR 3 680
- Receipts and invoices with your logo, tax number and VATR 720
- 12 months of priority help, answered the same dayR 5 530
- Check-up call after 30 days to fine-tune everythingR 905
Total valueR 43 400You pay, onceR 17 581
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Download free and turn on the trial in the app. No card, nothing to pay.
No big payment up front
Go, Pro and Pro+ are also sold by the month, and Pro+ can be paid in 2 interest-free payments. Just ask us on WhatsApp.
No contract, no lock-in
Buy the lifetime licence and it is yours. Your data stays on your own PC, and you can copy it to a USB stick any time.
Every feature, explained on its own page
What each module does, the screens it uses, and the questions merchants ask about it.
Touchscreen POS software
The till screen your staff will actually use: one tap per item, one second per payment, and nothing waiting on a connection.
Stock management software
Every sale and every delivery moves the count, so what the screen says is what is actually on the shelf.
Barcode and label software
Any scanner works out of the box, and anything without a barcode gets one you print yourself.
Invoicing and receipt software
A thermal ticket for the queue, a proper PDF invoice for the customer who asks, both out of the same sale.
Customer management software
Know who is in front of you, what they bought last time, and the details their next invoice needs.
Customer credit and account statements
Set the limit before the sale, follow every debit and payment, and hand the customer a statement that adds up.
Purchasing and supplier software
Record what arrived and what you paid, then let stock, cost prices and supplier history update together.
Sales reporting software
What sold, what earned, who sold it and what to order next, without exporting anything to a spreadsheet.
Restaurant POS software
The floor, the pass and the bill on one system, still running when the line goes down mid service.
Repair & service business software
A phone left for repair, a haircut booked for 10 o'clock, a leak to fix at a customer's: one ticket per job, one number, nothing lost.
Offline POS software
Not an offline mode that catches up later: the software simply runs where your shop is.
Multi-till POS software
One PC holds the data, the other terminals talk to it over your own network, and nothing leaves the building.
Staff accounts and permissions
Everyone gets their own login, each role gets exactly the buttons it should have, and the history says who did what.
Built for trading in South Africa, load shedding included
Most cloud till systems need the internet for every sale. In South Africa that is a risk: when the power goes, the fibre router and the cell tower backup often go with it, and the queue starts walking out. BelloPOS keeps everything on the computer at your counter. Put the PC and slip printer on a small UPS or inverter, and you keep scanning, printing till slips and counting stock for as long as the lights are off. Customers tap on your own card machine, which runs on its battery and SIM, and you record the payment in BelloPOS. Nothing waits for a connection. When the power comes back, there is nothing to sync and nothing to re-enter: the day's sales are already in your report.
It is made for the way South Africans trade. A spaza shop in Soweto can run the free Lite plan on an old laptop. A takeaway in Durban can send orders to the kitchen and split bills with Pro. A hardware store in Pretoria can sell at trade prices to builders and keep an account book for regulars who pay at month-end. Prices on this site are shown in rand, the 7-day Pro trial needs no card, and our team sets up Pro and Pro+ for you, then helps on WhatsApp. A café in Gqeberha or a butchery in Johannesburg gets the same tools, in plain English, with the AI assistant Ares ready to answer questions like how much you sold this week.
VAT, till slips and records: what South African shops should know
A good POS system makes the paperwork easier, but the rules are set by SARS and the Information Regulator. Here is a plain summary of the points that touch your till, with the official source for each. Rules change, so confirm anything that affects your business with your accountant.
Tax invoices and till slips
SARS says a VAT vendor must issue a full tax invoice when the price is more than R5 000, may issue an abridged tax invoice at R5 000 or less, and needs no tax invoice at R50 or less, where a till slip showing the VAT is used instead. The invoice must be issued within 21 days. BelloPOS lets you put your shop name, address and VAT number on every slip and make numbered invoices.
sars.gov.zaVAT at 15%, with some foods zero-rated
SARS levies VAT at the standard rate of 15%, and a limited range of goods is zero-rated, including basic foodstuffs such as brown bread and maize meal. Prepared, ready-to-eat food is generally standard-rated. In BelloPOS you set the VAT rate on each product, so a grocery can mix zero-rated staples and standard-rated items on one slip. Ask your accountant which rate applies to each line.
sars.gov.zaWhen you must register for VAT
SARS says that from 1 April 2026 it applies a compulsory VAT registration threshold of R2.3 million in taxable supplies a year, up from R1 million, and a voluntary threshold of R120 000. SARS also notes the change still has to pass through Parliament's legislative process. Your BelloPOS reports show your sales totals, but whether you must register is a question for your accountant.
sars.gov.zaKeep your records for five years
SARS says a VAT vendor must keep tax invoices, import and export documents and proper accounting records for five years, as the audit trail SARS uses to check compliance. BelloPOS keeps every sale on your own PC and can export the invoices of a period as PDF. Back up your data regularly, to a USB stick or with the scheduled backups in Go and above.
sars.gov.zaElectronic records: form and location
The Tax Administration Act lets SARS prescribe how electronic records must be kept, including where they are stored and how quickly you can hand them over. SARS published a draft public notice on this in 2021, and we could not confirm the final current version. If you rely on BelloPOS data as your records, check the current SARS notice with your accountant.
sars.gov.zaCustomer details and POPIA
If you keep customer names and phone numbers, for an account book or a loyalty list, POPIA applies to how you collect, use and protect them. The Information Regulator says sole proprietors and small businesses that process personal information must register an Information Officer. Promotional SMS or WhatsApp messages generally need the customer's consent. BelloPOS keeps this data on your own PC, not in our cloud.
inforegulator.org.zaBelloPOS is not certified, registered or approved by SARS or any other South African authority, and this summary is not tax or legal advice. Tax rules change, so check with your accountant or tax practitioner before relying on it.
Every way your customers pay
South Africans still pay with cash, but tap, QR codes and instant EFT are growing fast. BelloPOS records each payment by method so your cash-up balances, while the money itself goes through the card machine or app you already use.
- Cash, with change worked out and a cash drawer that opens on the sale
- Card and tap, on your own card machine from your bank or provider
- QR payments such as SnapScan and Zapper, recorded as their own method
- EFT and instant payments such as PayShap, for larger orders
- Split payments, for example part cash and part card
- Customer accounts (the book), where regulars pay later, in Go and above
- Open and close each shift with a float and an X/Z report
BelloPOS does not connect to card machines or process payments itself. The customer pays on your existing card machine or app, and you record the method and amount in BelloPOS.
How South African businesses use BelloPOS
A spaza shop in Soweto
Bread, airtime, cold drinks and loose sweets all day long, with cash on the counter and a card machine for the rest. The owner scans what has a barcode and prints labels for what does not. Regulars buy on the book and settle on payday, with Go tracking each balance. When load shedding hits, a small UPS keeps the laptop and slip printer going, and selling carries on.
A bunny chow takeaway in Durban
Lunch rush, phone orders and a queue out the door. With Pro, the counter sends each order to a kitchen printer, staff take orders at the tables from their own phones, and split bills take seconds. Every sale is saved on the PC in the shop, so a fibre outage on Florida Road never stops service. The owner checks the day's best sellers each night.
A hardware store in Pretoria
Builders and walk-in customers want different prices. BelloPOS Go keeps a trade price group for contractors, so the right price appears when their account is picked at the till. Cement, screws and paint are scanned in from supplier deliveries against purchase orders, and low-stock alerts flag what to reorder. Numbered invoices with the store's VAT number print for the builders who need them.
A clothing boutique in Cape Town
Sizes, colours and seasonal stock make counting by hand slow. The owner prints barcode labels for every item, sells on a laptop near the fitting rooms and sees which lines move on the best-seller report. Tourists tap their cards on the shop's card machine, locals pay with SnapScan, and each payment is recorded by method so the cash-up matches at closing.
Questions South African shop owners ask
Does BelloPOS work during load shedding?
Yes, as long as the computer or tablet has power. BelloPOS runs on your own PC, Mac or Android tablet and does not need the internet to sell, print till slips or count stock, so a dead router or a weak signal does not stop the till. Many shops run the PC, slip printer and cash drawer from a small UPS or inverter. Your card machine runs on its own battery and SIM, and you record each payment in BelloPOS. Only Ares AI and plan activation need the internet.
Is there really a free POS system?
Yes. BelloPOS Lite is free for good, not a trial. You can sell, print till slips, add products, scan barcodes, track stock and use a customer screen on one till. We never ask for a card. When you want an account book for regulars, trade prices, scheduled backups or Ares AI, move up to Go. Restaurants and shops with more than one till usually choose Pro.
How much does BelloPOS cost in rand?
The pricing page shows every plan in rand. Go, Pro and Pro+ are sold as a one-time licence that you keep for good, or as a monthly or yearly key paid upfront, with no debit order and no automatic renewal. If a key ends, the app goes back to Lite and keeps all your data. You can try every Pro feature free for 7 days first, and paid plans have a 14-day money-back guarantee.
Can it print a proper till slip with my VAT number?
Yes. You choose what appears at the top of the slip: shop name, address, phone number and VAT number. You set the VAT rate for each product, including 0% for zero-rated items, and the slip shows the VAT. With Go you can also make numbered invoices with the customer's details. BelloPOS is not approved by SARS, so ask your accountant to confirm your slips and invoices meet the rules for your business.
Does it work with my Yoco, iKhokha or bank card machine?
Yes, side by side. BelloPOS does not connect to card machines or process payments. The customer taps or inserts their card on your existing machine, and you choose card as the payment method in BelloPOS. The same goes for SnapScan, Zapper and EFT. Your daily report then shows cash, card and other methods separately, so cashing up is quick.
What hardware do I need?
A Windows PC or laptop, or a Mac running macOS 12 or later. A touch screen, an 80 mm or 58 mm slip printer, a USB or Bluetooth barcode scanner and a cash drawer are useful but optional, and most models you can buy locally will work. BelloPOS also runs on Android tablets (Android 7 or later). With Pro, extra tills and waiters' phones connect to the main PC over your shop's own Wi-Fi.
Who sets it up, and how do I get help?
You can install Lite yourself in a few minutes. Pro and Pro+ include our Ready-to-Sell Pack: we install BelloPOS, set up your printer, scanner and cash drawer, add your products and train your staff, remotely and on WhatsApp. Pro+ adds all your products loaded for you, data imported from Excel or your old system, and 12 months of priority help. Go buyers can ask questions on WhatsApp too.
Where is my sales data kept?
On your own computer, in your shop. BelloPOS does not send your sales or customer details to the cloud, which is why it keeps working offline and why you stay in control of your customers' personal information under POPIA. Because the data lives on one machine, make backups: copy them to a USB stick on any plan, or let Go and above back up on a schedule.
Still have a question? Get in touch
The POS system for South African shops that never stops selling
Download BelloPOS Lite for free today. Upgrade only when your shop needs more.
BelloPOS runs on a Windows computer or a Mac. Open the link there.
BelloPOS for Android runs on tablets, not on phones. Open this page on your tablet or your computer.
Download anywayFree download for Windows · checking the latest release… · works offline
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