Furniture & homeware

A furniture or homeware shop sells sofas, beds, kitchenware and furnishings, many of them big enough to be delivered and dear enough to be paid in parts. Kila runs it as a shop, with no extra rules.

What is special

Nothing is added or taken away: the till, the home page and the set-up list are the shop’s. The shop’s credit and delivery features carry the big items: layaway, where the goods stay in the branch until they are paid, hire purchase, where the customer takes them home after a deposit, and delivery to the customer’s door with proof of who received it.

There is no demo furniture shop yet. Mwangi Hardware uses layaway, hire purchase and deliveries.

How Kila sets it up

The main screen is Till (scan and sell).

Rules it follows:

None. Kila's standard rules apply.

Its words:

Kila's standard words: customer, product, sale, receipt and branch.

Its set-up steps

1. Business details and KRA PIN
2. First branch, opening hours and till
3. Products with prices and VAT
4. Opening stock
5. Suppliers
6. Reorder levels
7. Staff and roles
8. M-Pesa till or paybill
9. KRA eTIMS and item codes
10. Scanner, receipt printer and drawer
11. Returns policy and till rules
12. First sale

Its home page

• Sales today against the same day last week
• Tills open and their takings
• Top sellers today
• Low or out of stock
• Gross margin and Margin watch
• Payments waiting for confirmation
• Approvals and reviews waiting
• Products without a KRA item code
• Licences, permits and returns due
• Services due and reminders

Roles it starts with

• Till supervisor: Runs the tills on the floor: reviews shifts and counts, approves discounts and voids within limits. No prices, settings or purchasing.
• Merchandiser: Keeps products, prices and shelf labels up to date; suggests prices below the minimum margin. No money or tills.

Where to go next

• Shops: everything a shop does in Kila, from the till to the reports.
• Put goods on layaway: a deposit and instalments, the goods kept in store.