Your questions about shop software, answered

Cloud POS subscriptions in Pakistan generally run from about Rs. 900 to Rs. 6,000 per month for one shop. Older one-time-licence desktop software is usually quoted between Rs. 25,000 and Rs. 150,000 up front, with a yearly support fee on top. BazaarMint is Rs. 999 per month or Rs. 8,999 per year, with every feature included and no setup fee.

BazaarMint gives you 14 days free with every feature unlocked, and it does not ask for a credit card to start. You sign in with Google or your phone number and the shop is set up in a couple of minutes. If you do nothing at the end of the trial, nothing is charged.

Not with BazaarMint. One subscription covers billing, stock, udhaar, suppliers, expenses, staff logins, reports, printing and backups. There is no per-counter licence and no paid add-on modules. When comparing other systems, add up the licence, the yearly support, any per-terminal charge and the cost of getting your data out.

Free khata apps are fine if all you need is a record of who owes you money. They usually stop short of live stock, supplier purchases, costed profit and staff permissions, and several limit invoice counts or charge for printing and backups. If your shop carries real stock and you want a true profit figure, a paid system normally pays for itself quickly. Compare the real yearly cost, not the headline word free.

With BazaarMint an expired shop stays fully readable. You can open the app, look at every sale, customer and report, and print things. Only the actions that record new business are blocked until you renew, so nothing is lost or locked away. You can also take a backup file of everything at any time.

Yes. BazaarMint is offline-first, which means billing carries on with no connection at all and the sales sync by themselves once you are back online. This is different from cloud software that merely claims an offline mode. Test any system yourself: turn on aeroplane mode, make three sales, reconnect, and check all three arrived with the right stock.

Each customer has a running balance. You can sell on credit, take a part payment now and leave the rest outstanding, and print or share a statement showing every sale and every recovery. You can also see total outstanding across all customers, and which debts are oldest, so you know who to chase first.

Yes, and it is the number most shops have never had. Profit is worked out from what you paid for the goods, not just what you sold them for, and it subtracts discounts you gave, items that came back as returns, and your shop expenses. You can read it for today, for a month, or compare periods side by side.

Every sale reduces stock as it happens, and every purchase from a supplier adds to it. You set a minimum level per item and get a low-stock alert before something finishes. There is also a reorder plan that works out how fast each item actually sells and suggests how much to buy.

Yes. A return puts the stock back on the shelf, refunds the money or credits it against the customer balance, and adjusts your profit figure so the reports stay honest. Returns are where weaker software tends to fall apart, so it is worth testing on any system you try.

Yes, on a single item or on the whole bill, as a percentage or as a rupee amount. You can also set standing discount rules, for example a percentage off a category, and the till applies them automatically. If a discount would take a sale below cost, you get a warning but you are not blocked, because sometimes you have a reason.

Yes. A product can carry a second, lower wholesale price, and there is a switch at the counter that bills a whole cart at wholesale rates. You can also set a trigger quantity so the wholesale price applies automatically once a customer buys enough.

Yes, and they do not need a Google account or an email address. You create an employee with an ID and a six-digit PIN and they sign in with those on any device. You choose exactly which sections they can see, so a cashier can bill without seeing your profit or your purchase costs, and every action is recorded against their name.

Only if you give them that permission, and even then it is recorded. There is an audit log of who did what and when, covering sales, stock changes, discounts, deletions and more. Most shops give staff billing rights and nothing else, which removes the problem entirely.

It is stored in your own isolated account in the cloud and also cached on the device so the app works offline. Because it is synced, a stolen or broken phone does not take your shop history with it. You can export a complete backup file whenever you want, which is the thing that actually protects you.

Yes. You can export a full backup file and export products, customers, suppliers and sales to Excel. We think being able to leave is a fair test of any vendor. If a company cannot give you a clear answer to this question, treat it as a warning about everything else.

Only if you are a Tier-1 retailer, meaning a brand outlet or chain store, a franchise or authorised brand retailer, a shop inside an air-conditioned mall or plaza, or a business whose electricity bill over the last twelve months exceeded Rs. 1,200,000. Most kiryana stores, small pharmacies, mobile shops and small cafes fall outside all four tests. BazaarMint is not FBR-integrated, so a Tier-1 retailer should buy from an FBR-recognised vendor instead.

No. BazaarMint is one shop per account, with no combined stock or consolidated reporting across branches. You could run a second shop as a separate account and subscription, but the two would not talk to each other. If you need real multi-branch control, choose a system built for it.

Yes, the whole app, not just the billing screen. Urdu is set in proper Nastaliq type so it reads naturally, and numbers and prices stay in the digits everyone reads prices in. You can also set the language per employee, so an owner can work in English while a salesman works in Urdu on the same shop.

Email support@bazaarmint.com. The app also keeps working offline while a problem is sorted out, which matters more than it sounds, because a shop that cannot bill is a shop that is losing money that hour.