Retail POS Kenya — Built for How Kenyan Shops Actually Sell
Scan with the camera, take M-Pesa first, and watch stock update the moment a sale happens — across one shop or ten branches. No terminal, no barcode gun, no month-end surprises.
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Retail in Kenya doesn't run the way a lot of point-of-sale software assumes it does. Customers pay by M-Pesa more often than cash or card, shops open a second or third branch long before they can afford a rack of tablets and barcode guns, and shrinkage — stock that quietly disappears between the shelf and the till — is a real cost, not a hypothetical one. AskBiz is a retail POS built around that reality. It runs on any Android phone or iPhone your staff already carry, uses the camera as the barcode scanner, and takes M-Pesa, Airtel Money and MTN Mobile Money as first-class payment methods rather than an afterthought bolted onto a card-first system.
Generic POS software wasn't built for a mobile-money retail floor
Most retail POS systems were designed around a card machine and a barcode scanner as separate purchases, with mobile money treated as an integration you configure later — if it's supported at all. For a Kenyan shop that means buying hardware you may not need, then still reconciling M-Pesa payments by hand at the end of the day because the till and the phone showing the M-Pesa confirmation are two different systems. Add a second branch and the problems compound: stock counts drift apart, nobody can see across locations without phoning each branch manager, and a consistent shrinkage pattern at one till can go unnoticed for months because no one is watching the numbers in real time.
One phone-based till, M-Pesa first, watching every branch
AskBiz turns the phone at the counter into the scanner, the till, and the mobile money terminal at once. Point the camera at a barcode and the item, price and stock level update immediately — no separate scanner to buy or charge. M-Pesa, Airtel Money and MTN Mobile Money are accepted directly against the sale, so there's no gap between what the customer paid and what the till recorded. Running more than one branch is built in from the start: transfer stock between locations with a full log of what moved and when, and see a consolidated view of sales and stock across every site from a single dashboard. Underneath it all, AI reviews transactions for the patterns that usually point to shrinkage — unusual voids, repeated discounts, or price overrides — and flags them before they become a pattern of loss.
Everything you need. Nothing you don't.
Built for business owners, not data scientists.
Scan any product with the phone camera at the counter. No barcode gun to buy, charge, or lose.
Take M-Pesa, Airtel Money, MTN Mobile Money, cash or card at the same till, matched automatically to the sale.
Move stock between branches and see a full audit trail of every transfer, in and out.
Every sale deducts from stock instantly, so what the app shows is what is actually on the shelf.
Unusual voids, repeated discounts, and price overrides are flagged automatically, branch by branch.
See sales, stock, and staff performance across every location without phoning each manager.
How it works
Add your first branch, then any additional ones. Each can have its own stock, staff, and till.
Scan existing barcodes with the camera or add items manually, with photos if you want them.
Scan at the counter, take payment by M-Pesa, Airtel, MTN, cash or card, and the sale records itself.
Transfer stock between branches as needed, and let AI flag anything unusual before it costs you.
Frequently asked questions
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