What is in one
In India "billing software" often means the same thing. The parts that matter:
- The item list — names, prices, tax rates and HSN codes, variants and add-ons.
- The billing screen — fast enough for a queue, by scan, search or tap; by the piece or by weight.
- Payments — cash with change, UPI, card, split between them, and credit (khata).
- The kitchen, for restaurants — KOTs or a kitchen display.
- Stock that comes off as things sell.
- The close — the drawer count and a day-end report.
The hardware is usually a phone, tablet or PC, a thermal receipt printer and a barcode scanner. A card machine is normally a separate device from the bank.
Example
A kirana store sells 250 g of loose cashews at ₹1,200 a kilo. The POS charges ₹300, takes 250 g off the shelf's stock, and puts the sale in the day's UPI or cash column — so at closing the count, the stock and the money all agree.
How Nivasik handles it
Nivasik's POS is ₹1,499 per outlet a month, on any plan or on its own for a restaurant or shop that is not a hotel. It covers restaurants, cafés, bars, bakeries, grocery and kirana stores, and shops of every kind:
- Barcode and SKU scanning, label-scale barcodes that carry the weight, and selling by the piece or by the kilo.
- Split payments, quick cash with change, and a UPI QR code for the exact amount (a QR, not a payment gateway); khata, gift cards and credit notes.
- Tables with QR ordering, kitchen tickets by round, a waiter app and a kitchen display by station.
- Stock that comes off as it sells, including recipes; batches with their own cost and expiry.
- A cash drawer per counter with shift close; reports down to GST by HSN, GSTR-1 data and a Tally import file (CSV).
- Offline billing on shop counters, with real bill numbers, syncing when the internet is back.