How to choose software for your shop

There is no such program. The answer depends on your shop: whether the fiscal receipt must come from the software, whether you sell by weight, how many points of sale you have, whether you keep customer credit, how your internet behaves and who will enter the catalogue. Those six answers cut twenty systems down to three or four, and only then do you look at price.

No, not if the software is not connected to the tax system. A fiscal receipt comes from an online till or a virtual till, while bookkeeping software keeps stock, profit and customer credit. In many shops the two work side by side. BuySale issues no fiscal receipt and is not connected to the tax system. Check with the tax office or your accountant what the rules are in your case.

A cheap plan usually hides a limit, and it makes itself felt quickly. Optimo Basic allows up to 500 products, REGOS Start gives 1 warehouse, 1 web till and 2 users, PosPoint Start one workstation and YesPOS Standard a single till. So look not at the price but at the limit you personally will hit.

Yes, but with limits. MoySklad’s Free plan has no time limit but is capped at 5 users, 1 legal entity and 100 products, counterparties and documents — in a real shop that runs out fast. Loyverse’s core POS is free too, but its site says nothing about Uzbekistan, the som or the Uzbek tax system. BuySale has no permanently free plan, only a 7-day trial.

In a shop run by the owner or one or two sellers, yes. The phone camera reads barcodes, no computer or separate scanner is needed and the hardware cost disappears. But if your queue moves very fast, or you need paper on every sale, test that in your own shop during the trial — that is the only place you will get the answer.

This is the most hidden cost in the whole choice. There are three routes: import from Excel or CSV, picking from a ready-made catalogue, and adding by barcode. Ask each vendor in advance which of these they have. BuySale has no Excel or CSV import — items come from the catalogue, from scanning a code or from a photo of the label; an Excel export of stock is available.

You need to ask each vendor separately, because the answers differ. In BuySale a warning arrives in Telegram a few days before the balance runs out; at zero or negative balance new sales and goods-in are not recorded, but nothing is charged for those days and your data stays put — both the old records and the top-up screen remain open. There is one exception: if for 6 months after the service stops there is no top-up and no sign-in, the public offer allows the account to be deleted together with its data — you are warned in Telegram at least 30 days before, and signing in or topping up in that time cancels it.

At two things: how much each extra point of sale costs, and whether you can see all branches in one report. BILLZ lists 179,000 UZS per extra point, Optimo 100,000 UZS and UMAG 92,000 UZS, while the mDokon plan is counted per point of sale. In BuySale a second shop opens as a branch on the same account with one shared balance — each open branch adds 6 630 UZS a day; there is no in-app report that puts all branches on one screen (the combined total comes in the evening Telegram report).

A fair question. That is why every figure carries a source and a checked date, and why everything about competitors comes only from their own official sites rather than from review articles. We have also written our own limitations openly and set out when you should choose somebody else. Even so, open the sites yourself — ours and theirs.