Guides

Practical guides for book depots and stationers

Step-by-step guides to features that exist in the current build, with real screenshots. Each guide says what is not built yet.

The import check step: 3 rows ready, 1 already there, 2 errors (a wrong ISBN check digit, opening stock without a cost) and 1 warning about another edition

Going live

Moving your item list into BooksPOS from Excel

Bring in products with opening stock, customers with what they owe and suppliers with what you owe them, from a CSV file, with every row checked before anything is saved.

26 Sep 2026 · 6 min read

Khata

Taking an advance from a parent, and using it on the bill

Record money a parent pays ahead as an advance (not a sale), use it later with the "From advance" tender, and refund what is left, with the drawer and khata staying right.

26 Sep 2026 · 5 min read

The Add a till on another PC dialog showing the store PC address and a one-time code

Setup

Adding a till on a second PC in the shop

Let a second computer bill against the same stock: switch on the store PC's shop-network listener, create a one-time code, and connect the new till. Plus how to remove one.

26 Sep 2026 · 5 min read

Screenshot of the current build (26 Sep 2026), synthetic demo data.