Supermarket, minimart or grocery

A supermarket, minimart or grocery sells a wide range of everyday goods through several tills, many of them scanned and some, such as fruit, vegetables and meat, weighed. Kila runs it as a shop: the till is the main screen, and nothing is added or taken away for this kind of business.

What is special

What a supermarket gets from Kila is the shop’s, used at a supermarket’s pace. As Soko Fresh Mini-Mart runs it:

• Several tills, a shift each. Each cashier opens their own shift on their till and closes it with a count: Open a shift. An X reading prints a shift so far without closing it, and Check the trading day shows every till’s day in one place.
• Food sold by the kilo. A supermarket does not start with the rules for selling by weight. Soko Fresh Mini-Mart added them: its Business profile shows Weighed goods under Rules that apply (2). With them, the till weighs fruit, vegetables and meat, reads the scale’s labels and sells by amount: see Change quantities and sell by weight and Selling by weight.
• Offers at the till. A promotion comes off by itself when the cart qualifies: four bottles of Fizzi Cola say “Fizzi Cola 500ml: buy 3, get 1 free: you save KES 70.00” (3), and the total says You saved KES 70.00 (4).
• Loyalty points that members earn on every sale and spend at the till: How loyalty points work.
• Returned goods inspected before they go back on sale: Inspect returned goods.

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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.
• The till screen: the till, as Soko Fresh Mini-Mart’s cashiers use it.
• Selling by weight: the rules for goods sold by the kilo.