Web based Point of Sale (POS)

FEATURES

🏪 Point of Sale (POS)

• Live item search — type 2+ letters, matching items appear instantly
• Barcode scanner support (USB keyboard-emulating scanners)
• Retail & wholesale pricing toggle per sale
• Decimal quantities (kg, litre) — e.g., 0.600 kg, 2.4 kg
• Per-line price override for special deals
• Invoice-level discount (amount)
• Customer auto-complete by name or phone
• Quick inline customer creation from POS
• Walk-in sales with no customer required
• Four payment methods: Cash, Card, Bank Transfer, Credit
• Cash Received field + automatic Change-to-Give display (orange panel)
• Credit sales enforce customer selection and add to customer balance automatically
• Receipt auto-prints on sale completion
• Cart Reset / Clear button

🖥️ Customer-Facing Display (Second Screen)

• Live sync with POS (1-second polling)
• Full-screen two-column layout: banner gallery (left) + live cart (right)
• Rotating promotional banners (multiple uploads, configurable interval)
• Shows item name, unit, quantity, amount
• Large yellow total for visibility
• Orange Change to Give panel for cash payments
• Animated "Thank You" overlay after each sale
• Auto-refreshes banner list every 60 seconds

📦 Inventory Management

• Add / edit / disable items
• Retail price and wholesale price per item
• Cost price for profit analysis
• Unit selection (pcs, kg, g, ltr, ml, pack, box, carton, bag, bottle, dozen, meter)
• Category management (with parent categories)
• Supplier management
• Stock quantity tracking
• Low-stock alert threshold per item
• Expiry date tracking per item
• Tax rate per item (or use shop default)
• Tax-exempt flag per item
• Active / inactive toggle
• Barcode field with duplicate detection
• SKU field
• Barcode Quick-Scan bar for bulk entry
• Stock movements audit trail (purchase, sale, return, adjustment, damage, expiry)
• Admin/Inventory/Cashier can all access item entry

👥 Customer Management

• Full customer records: name, phone, email, address
• Credit limit per customer
• Running credit balance
• Customer ledger with two tabs: Invoices & Payments
• Expandable invoices showing full line items
• Record payments (cash, card, bank transfer)
• Payment auto-applies to oldest unpaid invoice first (FIFO)
• Or settle a specific invoice by clicking its invoice icon
• Customer statement of account
• Search by name or phone

🏦 Bank Transfers

• Dedicated transfers register
• Filter by date range and status (verified / unverified)
• Summary cards: total / verified / unverified
• Verify button — confirms money landed in your bank
• Verified badge with verifier name + timestamp
• Unverify option (admin only)
• Full audit trail on verification
• Receipt and sale view accessible per row

🚚 Delivery Management

• Create delivery orders with customer name, phone, address
• Link delivery to existing customer (auto-fill)
• Add multiple items per delivery with quantities
• Assign to specific delivery staff
• Delivery charge field
• Six status stages: pending, assigned, out for delivery, delivered, failed, cancelled
• Delivery staff see only their own assignments
• Staff updates status from mobile/browser
• Automatic timestamp when marked delivered
• Filter by status in the admin list

📊 Reports

• Sales Report — daily totals, invoice count, tax collected, top-selling items
• Tax Report (MIRA-compliant) — gross sales, exempt sales, taxable sales, GST collected, net revenue, per-invoice detail
• Stock Report — full inventory with cost value total
• Expiring Items — configurable threshold (7/30/60 days)
• Low Stock — items below alert threshold
• Out of Stock — currently unsellable items
• Customer Credit Report — outstanding balances
• Cashier Session Report — drawer reconciliation
• All reports filterable by date range
• Print-ready layout
• Excel export (CSV) with shop header on every file
• PDF export with shop logo, name, address, TIN, contact, and period

📝 Quotations

• Full quotation system for wholesale customers
• Live item search (same as POS)
• Decimal quantities and price override
• Quick customer creation from within the quote
• Per-quote discount, notes, and terms
• Valid-until date
• Six status stages: draft, sent, accepted, rejected, expired, converted
• Print as professional A4 document with logo
• One-click Convert to Sale — becomes a real sale, reduces stock, records GST
• Expiry warning highlight on the list

👨‍💼 Staff & Roles

• Five roles: Super Admin, Admin, Cashier, Inventory, Delivery
• Role-based menus (users see only what their role allows)
• Per-role page access control
• User enable / disable
• Password hashing (bcrypt)
• Last-login tracking
• Activity audit log (who did what, when, from which IP)

⚙️ Settings

• Shop name, address, phone, email
• TIN and GST registration numbers (MIRA)
• Default tax rate
• Currency
• Timezone (Asia/Karachi UTC+5)
• Invoice footer text
• Logo upload
• Favicon upload
• Banner gallery for customer display
• Banner rotation interval
• Auto-save configuration on upload

🔐 Security

• Login required — no anonymous access
• CSRF protection on all forms
• Session regeneration on login
• SQL injection prevention (prepared statements throughout)
• Role-based access on every page
• HTTPS-ready with .htaccess template
• Audit log for all sensitive actions
• Password hashing (never stored in plain text)

🧾 Receipts & Invoices

• 80mm thermal receipt layout
• Auto-print on sale
• Shop header with logo, name, address, TIN
• Customer name and phone shown when applicable
• Line items with quantity, unit price, line total