Sell
Move from product selection to a recorded sale quickly, with payment and change handling built into the counter workflow.
CHIKARA STOREFRONT · OFFLINE-FIRST POS
YOUR DIGITAL
YOUR DIGITAL
CASH REGISTER.
Sell. Track stock. Keep customer records. Know your business. CHIKARA Storefront gives serious small businesses a professional point-of-sale system that works without internet — installed on the phone or tablet you already own.
Works offline
Installs like an app
One-time licence
Data stays on your device
The Storefront standard
A digital cash register that belongs behind your counter.
Storefront is more than a receipt maker. It is the working record of your shop — sales, stock, customers and transaction history brought together in one place.
Track
Stock changes as you sell, giving you a clearer picture of what is available and what needs attention.
Know
Searchable records and reports turn daily transactions into information you can use to run the business.
Why this exists
A busy shop is not the same
as a business you can see.
Sales happen all day. But at closing time, an owner still needs to know what sold, what is nearly finished, what money was recorded and which customers matter. Storefront turns those daily movements into a business record.
01
Sales with no record
Money moves through the till, a notebook and a phone — and none of them agree at the end of the day.
02
Stock you can only guess at
You find out something is finished when a customer asks for it. Reordering becomes guesswork.
03
Software that needs the cloud
Most POS systems stop working the moment the signal drops — which is exactly when you need them.
04
Subscriptions that never end
Monthly fees, forever, for tools built for chains — not for a shop on one street.
How it works
Four steps. One clear picture.
From the first product you load to a business you can actually read — on the phone you already own.
01
Set up your shop
Add your products, prices and stock levels. Scan barcodes with the phone camera, or import a CSV on Enterprise.
02
Sell at the counter
Quick product tiles, cart, discounts, cash with change, mobile money, card or on account — and a signed digital receipt.
03
Track stock & customers
Stock updates as you sell and low items are flagged. Customer records show what each person has bought and owes.
04
Know your numbers
Searchable sales history, reports with profit, and an end-of-day cash count on Enterprise.
What you get
A real records system.
Not a receipt generator.
Everything a serious small business needs to stay in control — built to work offline on the devices you already have.
01
Point of Sale
Quick product tiles, cart, cash with change, mobile money, card and on-account sales. Hold a sale while you serve someone else, give a discount, void with a reason.
02
Inventory
Track stock — in stock, low, out — with barcode scanning, a restock list you can share, and CSV import and export on Enterprise.
03
Customer records
Names, contacts, purchase history and balances for customers who buy on account, with each payment recorded.
04
Signed receipts
Every receipt carries a QR code and a signature the app can check, so an altered record is flagged. Share by SMS, WhatsApp or email, or print.
05
Reports & end of day
What sold, what is moving, gross profit and discounts given — plus an end-of-day cash count that shows over or short. On Enterprise.
06
Security
Owner PIN, a separate cashier PIN, optional biometric unlock and auto-lock. Your data is encrypted on your device by default.
Built for
People who actually stand behind a counter.
If you sell something and need to know what sold and what is left, this was built for you.
01
Retail & grocery
Spaza shops, mini-markets and neighbourhood stores that need fast sales recording and stock visibility.
02
Salons & services
Track services sold, manage product stock and keep regular client details in one place.
03
Takeaways & food
Record orders quickly, know when ingredients are running low, and keep a clean sales history.
04
Clothing & fashion
Stock tracking without complicated software designed for large chains.
05
Pharmacies & clinics
Clear records of what moved and what remains — with the security of an owner PIN.
06
Any serious SME
One-person operations and growing teams alike, on any modern phone or tablet.
Compared with typical POS systems
| Capability | Typical POS | CHIKARA Storefront |
|---|---|---|
| Works without internet | Often limited | Yes — designed for it |
| Pricing model | Varies by provider | One payment a year |
| Hardware required | Often proprietary | Any modern phone or tablet |
| Data model | Provider-dependent | Device-local by default |
| Operating model | Often cloud-dependent | Offline-first |
Get it on your phone
Install it in under a minute.
No app store and no download. Storefront installs from your browser and then works without internet.
01
Open the app page
Tap “Install the app” below in your phone’s browser.
02
Follow the install help
Storefront shows the exact steps for your browser, or installs straight away where the browser allows it.
03
Open it from your home screen
It opens full screen and keeps working offline.
Recommended browsers: Chrome (most recommended), Edge, Firefox, Safari, or your phone’s default browser.
On iPhone, installing works from Safari only. If you opened this link inside WhatsApp, Facebook or another app, open it in your browser first.
Simple, honest pricing
One payment a year. No monthly fees.
No monthly subscription. Each licence covers one full year from the day you activate it. Architecture and security are identical across plans — the plan only unlocks more capability.
Start here
Trader
$10per year
Everything you need to run the counter every day.
- Unlimited items
- Customer records and on-account balances
- Owner PIN protection
- Unlimited local history
- Receipts without the Storefront line
Enterprise
$25per year
Everything in Trader, plus the tools to know your numbers.
- Everything in Trader
- Item photos
- Reports, profit and end-of-day cash count
- CSV import / export
- Cashier role with its own PIN
- Biometric unlock
- Priority support
Coming next
Enterprise Plus
$40per year · not on sale yet
Everything in Enterprise, plus smarter tools that help you run and grow the business. We are building these now. Dates and final features are not promised yet.
- Everything in Enterprise
- Planned: stock-take that shows what is missing, in money
- Planned: sell in more than one currency
- Planned: supplier buying and money-out records
- Planned: a plain-language business check
ZiG equivalent accepted at the prevailing bank rate during the testing phase. After payment confirmation you receive a licence key that works offline — you enter it under Settings. Your year starts the day you activate the key, and you get 14 days after it ends to renew. Want to see it first? Open the app — without a key it runs as a small preview that holds 20 items.
Your business, your device
Your business. Your device. Your records.
Local by default
Sales, stock and customer records live on your device in an encrypted local vault — not on a vendor server you cannot inspect.
Protected access
Owner PIN, a separate cashier PIN, optional biometric unlock and auto-lock, so a lost phone is not a lost business.
No forced connection
Nothing needs to phone home to work. Your counter keeps running when the network does not. Back up an encrypted copy whenever you like.
Human presence
You should not be stranded behind the software.
Setting up a shop is a conversation, not a download. If you need help loading products, setting prices or getting your counter running, talk to the CHIKARA team.
A real conversation with our team — not a chatbot standing in for one.
Ecosystem
One standard of sovereign tools.
Storefront sits beside design, mining, agriculture, finance and workspace tools built the same way — offline-first, device-local, owned by the person using them.
Storefront
Sell · track · know
Configurator
Design, materials, price
CHIKARA Home
Full product family
Ledger
Reconcile the money
Precision Agriculture
Observe · analyse · act
Precision Mining
Claims & operations
Auto Advisor
Vehicle intelligence
ViewPort
Build · preview · publish
Ambassadors
Introduce the stack
Avilian Research
Investigate · reason · build
Honesty
What this is — and is not
- A record-keeping and point-of-sale tool, not a bank or financial advisor
- It records mobile-money and card sales; it does not process those payments itself
- Not a substitute for a qualified accountant or tax professional
- Your data lives on your device — you are responsible for keeping backups
- Pricing and feature availability may be refined during the testing phase
Ready when you are
Your next sale deserves a proper digital record.
Stop guessing. Start knowing. Get the offline-first POS and business records system built for the way African small businesses actually operate.