Scan, weigh, pay — on as many lanes as you have, with every cashier’s drawer accounted for at the end of the day.
SageBizet is free, browser-based supermarket and grocery store software with a fast scanning checkout that sells by weight and by the pack, reads counter-scale labels, taxes each product at its own rate, runs several lanes with cashier handovers and reconciles every shift in a cash office.
Tomatoes by the kilo, a 6-pack of water, a bottle that needs an age check: a till built for one-price items turns every basket into a negotiation.
Basic foods exempt, everything else at the standard rate. Working it out by hand, or with a till that knows only one rate, means the tax you file is a guess.
Three lanes, two shifts each, one count at closing. When the cash is short, nobody can say which shift it happened on.
Thousands of products do not fit on a grid of buttons, and a till that loads them all every morning is slow before the first customer.
07:30
Each cashier opens their lane’s drawer with a counted float. The Lanes board shows who is on which lane.
09:00
Barcodes add items without a pause; a scale label adds the weighed produce at its weight; a multipack barcode adds the pack at its own price. Exempt and standard-rated goods are taxed separately on the same receipt.
12:00
A bottle of wine is in the basket: the lane asks once whether the customer is old enough, and the sale records that it was checked.
15:00
The morning cashier counts the drawer and hands the lane to the afternoon cashier in one step; what is over the new float goes to the cash office.
18:00
Import a supplier’s price list from a spreadsheet, then print shelf labels with the price per kilo or litre for what changed.
21:30
Every shift on every lane in one table: what each drawer should have held, what was counted, and the difference.
A scan-first checkout that sells by the piece, by weight and by the pack, reads counter-scale labels, keeps a compact catalogue on each lane and works offline.
Every lane has its own drawer and shifts; a handover closes one cashier’s count and opens the next, and the cash office shows each shift’s variance.
Stock is kept in the unit it is sold in, packs take their units off the shelf, and every movement — sale, delivery, transfer, count, damage — keeps its reason.
Sales by department, gross profit from real costs, dead stock and reorder suggestions from each product’s rate of sale.
Cashier, Supervisor, Stock worker, Inventory manager, Purchasing manager and Branch manager roles are ready, and staff can be limited to a branch.
A product can be sold by the piece, by the kilo, gram, litre or metre. For loose produce the cashier types the weight from the scale or enters the product’s PLU, and the line shows the weight and the price per kilo. A counter scale that prints EAN-13 labels with a prefix (21 to 29) and the weight or the price is read directly at the till; the format is set to match the scale. A product can also come in packs — a 6-pack, a case of 24 — each with its own barcode and, if it is cheaper bought whole, its own price. Stock is always kept in single units, so a 6-pack sold takes six off the shelf and a 6-pack returned puts six back.
| Scanned | What goes on the bill |
|---|---|
| A product barcode | One of that product, or one more of it |
| A pack barcode | The pack, at the pack’s price, taking its units from stock |
| A scale label (prefix 21–29) | The weighed product, at the weight on the label |
| A PLU typed in | The product; if it is sold by weight, the till asks for the weight |
Set the standard rate once, then add other rates such as Exempt or Reduced and give them to the products they apply to. Each sale works out the tax for each rate on its share of any discount, prints each rate on the receipt, and records the rate every line was charged at. A shop with one rate gets exactly the same arithmetic as before.
Each lane is a register with its own drawer. The Lanes board shows which are open, who is on each, the takings and customers of the shift, the cash the drawer should hold, voids and returns, and the average time from the first scan to payment once a lane has enough sales. Handing a lane over counts the outgoing cashier’s drawer and opens it for the next one with the float they start on. The cash office lists every shift of the day with its float, cash sales, cash in and out, expected and counted cash, and the over or short, beside the day’s takings by payment method.
Products kept by batch record the lot and expiry date when a delivery is received, and every sale, write-off and transfer takes from the earliest-expiring batch first. The expiry board shows what is past its date or close to it, valued at cost, ready to reduce or write off. A recalled batch makes every lane warn before the product is sold, and lists the known customers who bought it since it arrived. Fridges and freezers get a temperature log, with readings outside the safe range flagged and explained.
Change the prices of a whole department, a brand or everything from one supplier by a percent, an amount, to a price or to a margin, and see every new price and margin before it is made, now or on Monday morning. A branch can have its own prices. Offers include buy 2 get 1 free, 3 for a price, and members-only discounts for customers attached at the till, and each offer shows how it sold against the days before it ran.
The reorder list works from each product’s rate of sale and each supplier’s real delivery time, rounds up to whole cases, and shows its arithmetic on every line, ready to become a draft order. Every product has a page with its sales, margin, days of stock left, waste and cost history. Analysis shows profit by month from takings down to net, what shoppers buy together once there are enough baskets to trust it, and which hours the checkout is busiest.
A supermarket in SageBizet is also a retail business, so it has returns and exchanges, store credit and gift cards, stock by location with transfers between branches, purchase orders received by scan, stock counts with reasons for every shortfall, markdowns with a price history, promotions, customer groups, loyalty with tiers, dead stock and reorder suggestions.
Free during early access: POS, inventory, booking, an online store and reports included. No credit card, no per-user fees, set up in minutes in your browser.