EPOS and stock control for phone shops
A shop that sells handsets, cases and chargers all day, and takes the odd repair, needs a till first. This one counts accessories by the box and tracks every handset on its own.
Forty sales before lunch
Nine o'clock. A case, a screen protector and a charging cable go through in one sale, scanned off the shelf, each coming off a quantity. The next customer buys a refurbished handset: that one is a single unit with its own IMEI, its own cost and its own price, and it leaves stock as itself rather than as one of a count.
Half ten. A regular asks for money off. The assistant on the till picks a discount the shop has defined, with a start date, an expiry, a usage limit and a cart minimum, and the server checks all four before it is applied. There is no free-text box for knocking a tenner off.
Midday. A customer trades in their old handset against a new one. It is costed and graded there and then and goes into stock as a unit, ready to sell. At close the drawer is counted against what the till says it should hold, and the difference, if there is one, is a figure rather than an argument.
The modules that made it happen
POS & SalesInventory & device unitsUsed devicesTrade-in & buybackCash drawer & cashbookMobile scanningWorkforceReports & tax
What a retail day runs on
From the first scan to the counted drawer, each step writes to the next.
- 01ScannedAccessories off a barcode, handsets by their IMEI.
- 02DiscountedFrom a rule the shop defined, checked on the server.
- 03PaidCard, cash, or both against one sale, with change recorded.
- 04Traded inCosted, graded and on the shelf as a unit.
- 05ReorderedAccessories below their reorder level show up for a purchase order.
- 06CountedThe drawer closed on a count, the difference visible.
A staff phone can be paired to the till from a QR code and used as a scanner for the open sale, so a busy counter does not need a second scanner bought for it.
Three things you can inspect
Real screens from the product, whose figures check against each other.
A split-payment receipt
One sale settled across card and cash. The tenders add up to the total, the change is what went back over the counter, and the balance lands on zero: the case where money usually goes missing.
A device unit's history
One handset by IMEI: what it cost, what it sold for, its condition, and the stock ledger that recorded it arriving and leaving. Quantity is derived from units, never typed.
A report total, and its source
The day's revenue and the sales it is made of, on the same screen. The rows add up to the total exactly, so the report is the till, traced.
A drawer that reconciles, a shelf that matches, discounts you can see
What a phone shop owner notices after the first month.
- The drawer reconciles
- Opened on a float, closed on a count, with the difference shown rather than guessed.
- The shelf matches
- Accessories by quantity, handsets by unit, so the system and the stockroom stop drifting apart.
- Discounts are rules
- Each has a start, an expiry, a usage limit and a cart minimum, and the server enforces them.
- Used stock is costed
- Each second-hand handset carries its own cost, so the margin on it is real.
- Reorders are not guessed
- Fast-moving accessories fall below their reorder level and show up to be ordered.
A till built for the shelf you actually have
The till
Accessories, handsets and repairs on one sale, with split tender.
Scan to sell
Barcodes for accessories; a staff phone can be the scanner.
Accessories by quantity
Cases, cables and chargers counted by the box, with reorder levels.
Handsets by unit
Every device its own record with its own IMEI, cost and price.
Used devices
Cost, margin and margin-scheme tax held per handset.
Trade-ins
Take a handset in against a sale and put it on the shelf as stock.
Discounts as rules
Defined once, with expiry and usage limits, applied at the till.
Cash drawer
Open on a float, close on a count, see the difference.
Invoices & payments
Part payments, corrections and refunds as one financial history.
Repairs when you take them
A repair ticket sits beside the sale, not in a separate system.
Stocktake
Count against a snapshot; stock moves only once approved.
More than one shop
One login across branches, with stock and staff kept per branch.
What phone shop owners ask
The questions shops ask before they switch, answered straight.
It is both, and the till is not an afterthought: accessories are scanned off a quantity, handsets are sold as individual units, and card and cash can be split across one sale. Repairs sit beside sales on the same record rather than in a second system, which suits a shop that sells most of the day and fixes some of it.
Handsets, yes, because two of the same model bought for different money are not the same stock, and the margin on a used one is only real if its own cost is known. Accessories are the opposite: a box of cases is a quantity with a reorder level. The system holds both shapes at once.
Discounts are rules the shop defines rather than an amount typed at the till. Each rule has a start date, an expiry, a usage limit and a cart minimum, and the server checks all four when it is applied, so a discount that has run out cannot be given again. Staff choose from the rules that exist; they do not invent one.
Yes. A USB scanner that types into the till works as it would anywhere, and a phone camera can scan too. A staff phone can also be paired to the till from a QR code on screen and used as a scanner for the open sale, with no app to install and no scanner to buy.
Yes, with the one you already have. Take the payment on your terminal and the till records it on the sale, split with cash if needed, so the sale, the receipt and the day's report agree. SlickCell Pro takes no cut of your takings, so you stay free to choose the card provider with the best rate.
Cost, condition and selling price are held on the individual handset, and margin-scheme tax is reported separately from standard tax, so a used sale and a new sale do not get mixed in the figures. This is general information rather than tax advice. Check the guidance that applies where you trade, or ask your accountant.
The drawer is opened on a float and closed on a count. The till knows what cash it should hold from the day's sales and change, so the close shows the difference as a figure. Card takings are listed separately, and the day's revenue in the report opens onto the sales it came from.
Yes, from one login, with stock and staff kept per branch and reporting available per branch or across the group. Multiple locations start on the Professional plan; additional branches are priced per month.
See the till on your own Saturday
Accessories by the box, a refurbished handset, a trade-in and a counted drawer. We will run the whole day end to end.