The internet goes down. Your counter doesn't
Most “offline” POS software is a website with a cache — when the connection dies, so does your checkout. POSFORRETAIL installs the whole system on your machine, so selling offline isn't a fallback mode. It's just how it runs.
How it works
Why it keeps working when nothing else does
The whole system runs on your machine
This is not a website with a cache. The desktop app installs the full application and its own database on your till. When the internet dies, nothing has to "fall back" — you were already running locally the entire time.
Every sale is on disk before it is anywhere else
A sale is committed to the database on your own hardware the moment you take payment. It is not held in browser memory waiting for a network call, so a dropped connection cannot lose it.
Reconnect and it catches itself up
When the line returns, the till pulls down what changed on the cloud and pushes up everything you sold — automatically, in both directions. Documents carry their own identity, so nothing is double-counted no matter how many times a sync retries.
The honest list
What works offline — and what doesn't
Every POS says “works offline”. Almost none tells you where the line is. Here is ours.
Ring up sales
Full checkout, no internet needed. Sales are written to the database on your own machine before anything touches the network.
Print receipts
The print agent runs locally on the till and talks straight to your thermal printer.
Scan barcodes
Your product catalogue lives on the machine, so lookups never wait on a server.
Take cash & card tender
Both are recorded offline. Note: card means recording the tender — the card machine itself is your bank’s, not ours.
Customer khata (credit)
Attach a customer, post credit, see balances — all local. Ledgers reconcile on the cloud when you sync.
Stock, purchases & GRN
Receive goods, adjust stock, move it between locations. Stock movements post locally and travel up on sync.
Reports
Sales and stock reports run against the local database, so they work at full speed with the line down.
Accounting & GL
Journals, chart of accounts and statements are cloud-only. Your offline sales still produce correct journals — they are posted when the till syncs.
Expenses & bank reconciliation
Entered on the web app, not the till.
Adding users, branches or products
Set up on the cloud, then pulled down to every till.
First-time setup & activation
Installing and activating a till needs a connection once. After that it can go dark for the length of your offline window.
Offline windows
How long can you stay dark?
Your plan sets how long a till runs without reaching us. Touch the internet at any point and the clock resets — in day-to-day use you will never see the edge of it.
7 days
Starter
15 days
Professional
30 days
Enterprise
1 year
On-premises
Selling on credit while you are offline? See how the customer khata works.
Offline POS — common questions
Sell through the next outage.
Fourteen days, every feature, no card. Pull the plug on your router and see for yourself.
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