MAE POS

MAE POS is a point-of-sale system MAE makes and licenses to supermarkets and shops in Nigeria. It runs on the shop’s own computers: one PC is the server, and the tills are browsers on the shop’s network. It covers selling, cash shifts, stock, customers on credit, reports and backups.

It comes in two editions, Basic and Pro, switched by a signed licence MAE issues for each shop and checked by the server. Alongside it, the MAE Owner phone app shows the owner every sale as it happens, today’s totals and each closed shift, from anywhere.

A shop can’t stop selling because the internet is down, so the till has to work without it. But owners who aren’t at the counter still want to know what is being sold, and whether the cash in the drawer adds up.

Nigerian supermarkets also sell in their own way: by the piece and by the carton, loose goods by weight from a scale label, and payment in cash, by transfer or by POS card.

MAE POS needs no internet at all. Each sale, void, refund and shift close is queued as part of the sale itself and sent to MAE Owner whenever the shop is online, so nothing is lost when the connection drops.

On the phone, the owner sees sales arrive, checks each closed shift against what was counted, and reads the day’s reports. The app is view only: nothing on it can change the shop.