You opened your shop today. The lights came on. So did the customers. Then the internet went down.

If you're using most POS apps, sales stop. Receipts don't print. You write totals on a notepad and hope to catch up at the end of the day. Some of those sales get forgotten. Some of that stock walks out the door because nobody was tracking it. By Friday, the numbers don't add up.

This is daily life for shops, pharmacies, mini-marts and boutiques across Ghana, Nigeria, South Africa, Kenya, Côte d'Ivoire, Egypt and Rwanda. The big global POS systems were built for somewhere with reliable broadband and one location. Yours wasn't.

Cart10 was.

WORKS OFFLINE — REALLY OFFLINE

When the network drops, Cart10 keeps selling. Scan a barcode, take cash or mobile money, print the receipt exactly the same as when the network is up. The moment your connection comes back, every sale syncs automatically. No lost transactions. No manual re-entry. No notepad.

CATCH SHRINKAGE BEFORE IT EATS YOUR MARGIN

Most retailers lose 5–15% of their stock to staff theft, miscounts and creative cash handling. Cart10 makes that nearly impossible:

Every sale is logged with the cashier's name and the exact time
Shift open/close requires a counted cash float; variance is calculated automatically
Returns and big discounts require manager approval (you set the threshold)
A live audit log shows who changed what stock count and when

If your numbers were short last month, you'll know exactly why this month.

SEE EVERY BRANCH FROM YOUR PHONE

Whether you run one shop or twenty, Cart10 gives you a single dashboard showing today's sales, today's profit, who's on shift, and what's running low. Open it from your bed. Open it from another city. The shop doesn't need you in the room to keep running honestly.

NEVER LOSE A SALE TO EXPIRED STOCK

Pharmacies, food stores and cosmetics retailers know this pain. A customer asks for a product, your cashier sells it, the customer comes back the next day furious because it expired last month. Cart10 tracks every batch's expiry date and warns the cashier at the moment of sale. Earliest-expiry items sell first, automatically.

SERIAL NUMBERS FOR HIGH-VALUE GOODS

Phones, electronics, appliances, every unit's IMEI or serial number is tracked from receipt to sale. Customer comes back six months later for warranty? You can find the exact device they bought, when they bought it, and from which staff member.

BUILT FOR THE WAY AFRICAN SHOPS ACTUALLY SELL

Split payment between cash, MoMo (MTN, Vodafone, AirtelTigo), card and bank transfer on the same sale
Discount per line, per cart, or by percentage
Hold a sale, serve the next customer, resume the first one
Customer ledger with credit limit and statement
Bluetooth thermal receipt printers supported (Xprinter, Goojprt, EPSON)
Barcode scanning with your phone camera or a USB scanner

WORKS ON WHAT YOU ALREADY OWN

Cart10 runs on Android phones and tablets, in any web browser, and as a Windows desktop app for your main till. All three stay in sync in real time. No new hardware required to start.

NO INSTALLATION HEADACHE

Open an account, add your first product, sell it. That's the onboarding. No consultant required. No three-week setup. We migrate your Excel inventory in for you, free, during your first month.

PRICING THAT MAKES SENSE FOR A SMALL SHOP

Start free for 30 days. After that, plans start at a price designed for a corner shop not a multinational. No long contracts. No setup fees. Cancel any time.

WHO IS THIS FOR?

Single-branch shops, multi-branch chains, pharmacies, mini-marts, supermarkets, hardware shops, electronics stores, boutiques, beauty stores, wholesale and distribution.

SUPPORT IN YOUR TIME ZONE

Real humans, on WhatsApp, during West African business hours. We answer in plain English not jargon.

Try Cart10 free at cart10.com. Your shop deserves better tools than a notepad.