Bigplus Point of Sale https://bigplushq.com/ Retail software, re-imagined. Mon, 14 Sep 2026 13:34:03 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1 https://bigplushq.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/cropped-favicon-32x32.png Bigplus Point of Sale https://bigplushq.com/ 32 32 LE|RU https://bigplushq.com/blog/leru/ Mon, 14 Sep 2026 12:44:00 +0000 https://bigplushq.com/?p=14749 How LE | RU keeps Paarl and Durbanville in sync, with inter-branch transfers and a Shopify integration that shares one clean stockroom.

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Customer Stories

Two stores, one stockroom: how
LE|RU runs multi-branch retail
on BigPlus

LE | RU curates clothing, jewellery and accessories for the modern Cape Town woman, from a store in Paarl and a second in Durbanville. Here's how owner Arina le Roux keeps stock, products and online orders moving between both.

LE | RU Customer Stories • September 2026
Inside a LE | RU store, jewellery and clothing on display
Fig. 01 Inside LE | RU, where every piece on the rail is also live online.

Two stores, one system

LE | RU curates clothing, jewellery and accessories inspired by the Cape Town lifestyle, sold from a store in Paarl and a second in Durbanville, alongside a Shopify store that ships nationwide. Running two physical branches next to a growing online shop means stock has to be accurate in three places at once, not just one till.

BigPlus gives LE | RU a single system across both branches. Inter-branch transfers record stock the moment it moves from Paarl to Durbanville or back, so both teams can see what's actually on the rail at the other store instead of guessing or phoning through.

One system, two stores, and a stockroom that finally agrees with itself.

How LE | RU uses BigPlus

Multi-store setup

Paarl and Durbanville run as two branches in one BigPlus account, with inter-branch transfers giving both stores a clear record of stock as it moves between them.

Product management

Every product, image and description is captured once in BigPlus. Nothing gets typed twice into a second system before it can go on the shelf or the site.

Full Shopify integration

Products, stock and orders sync between BigPlus and Shopify, so the online store reflects what's really in stock across both branches.

Store pickup

Customers can order online and collect from the Paarl store, with pickup enabled directly through the Shopify integration.

In her own words

“I am so happy we ended up using BigPlus. It's made a massive difference to us, and I'm a fan and forever grateful.”

LE | RU Arina le Roux, Owner, LE | RU
Gold and pearl necklace from LE | RU's jewellery range

Every piece, captured once

Jewellery like this is exactly why product management matters most: one clean listing in BigPlus, with the same image and description following the item to the shelf and to Shopify.

Two branches, one online store, and stock that tells the truth in all three places. That's the difference LE | RU has felt since moving onto BigPlus.

Running more than one store?

One shop or fifty, consignment or your own labels, tell us how you trade and we'll show you the parts of BigPlus that matter to you.

Book a demo

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]]> Loyalty https://bigplushq.com/blog/loyalty/ Fri, 11 Sep 2026 07:32:36 +0000 https://bigplushq.com/?p=14688 Blog/Features Features One loyalty programme, every place your customers shop Bigplus loyalty runs as a single balance across your till

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Features

One loyalty programme, every place your customers shop

Bigplus loyalty runs as a single balance across your till and your online store, not two disconnected point systems that never sync.

Bigplus Features • 11 September 2026 • 2 min read
Loyalty points being applied at checkout on a Bigplus till
Fig. 01 Loyalty points applied at checkout on a Bigplus till
The problem with most loyalty programmes

Two point systems that don't talk to each other

Most retail loyalty falls apart the moment a customer shops in more than one place. The till has its own points balance. The online store has another, usually bolted on through a separate app that was never built to talk to the POS. A customer who shops in both ends up with two accounts, two balances, and no way to combine them.

Bigplus treats loyalty as one balance, not two. A purchase in store adds points the same way a purchase through the WooCommerce or Shopify storefront does, and both update the same customer record in real time. Staff at the till can see it. The customer sees it. There's nothing to reconcile.

A loyalty programme that only works in one channel is really two loyalty programmes, and customers notice the difference.

Under the hood

How it works in Bigplus

Points that follow the customer

Every purchase, in store or online, adds to one loyalty balance instead of two separate programmes that never talk to each other.

Redeem anywhere, instantly

A customer can earn points on a Saturday in store and spend them on the website that night. Balances sync as soon as the till is back online.

Tiers and birthday rewards, automatically

Set tiered thresholds and birthday perks once, and Bigplus applies them at checkout without a cashier having to remember who qualifies.

One profile, not three spreadsheets

Loyalty sits on top of the same customer profile that already tracks purchase history, so promotions can target real buying patterns instead of guesswork.

01
Step one

A sale happens, anywhere

A customer buys something, whether that's at the till or through the online shop.

02
Step two

Bigplus calculates the reward

Points are worked out automatically from the sale total and whatever tier rules apply, with no manual entry required.

03
Step three

Every channel sees the same balance

Real-time sync between the till and WooCommerce or Shopify means there's never two numbers to reconcile.

04
Step four

Redeemed wherever it's earned

The customer spends the balance at any till or at online checkout. It's the same number either way.

Bigplus customer profile showing a synced loyalty balance
Fig. 02 A customer profile with one loyalty balance, updated from every channel
Built in, not bolted on

No separate loyalty app to manage

Loyalty lives inside the same POS and back office Bigplus retailers already use for stock and sales. There's no second login, no separate dashboard, and no export and import between systems just to keep points accurate.

For a retailer weighing up a loyalty app on top of their existing POS, the real question isn't whether it can calculate points. It's whether the balance it shows a customer at the till matches the one they saw online an hour earlier. Bigplus keeps that number the same everywhere, because it was never two systems to begin with.

See loyalty running on your own till

Book a demo and we'll show you points, tiers and redemption working across your store and your online shop, on one balance.

Book a demo

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Integrations

Run Your Whole Shop on Your Yoco Card Machine

BigPlus installs directly onto a Yoco Khumo Print or Neo Touch, turning the card machine already at the counter into a full point of sale, with every payment captured as a sale, a stock movement and a line in the day's reporting.

Yoco Integrations • 12 August 2026 • 3 min read
BigPlus running on a Yoco card machine
Fig. 01 BigPlus on a Yoco Neo Touch card machine at the counter.
The setup

One card machine, one system

Most retailers already have a Yoco Khumo Print or Neo Touch behind the counter, taking card payments every day. BigPlus installs directly onto that same machine and turns it into the full point of sale for the shop: products, stock, customers and reporting, running alongside the payment Yoco is already processing.

There is no second device to buy and no separate terminal to learn. The card machine a retailer already trades on becomes the till.

You keep the Yoco machine and the Yoco rates. BigPlus runs everything else on top of it.

The mechanism

How it works

Same machine, no swap

Keep trading on the Yoco Khumo Print or Neo Touch already at the counter. BigPlus installs on it directly, so there is no new terminal to unbox or learn.

Sales and stock, instantly

The moment a card payment clears on Yoco, BigPlus logs the sale and deducts the stock, so the shelf and the ledger agree without anyone re-keying anything.

Runs on any device

BigPlus is built to run on Windows PC, Mac, iPad and Android, so a Yoco terminal at the till can sit alongside a laptop in the back office on the same system.

One dashboard, every terminal

Run BigPlus across several Yoco machines or several stores and every one of them feeds the same live dashboard, with reporting and permissions set per site.

Setup

Go live in three steps

01
Step one

Keep the Yoco machine

Install BigPlus straight onto the Khumo Print or Neo Touch already in use. No new hardware to buy, no terminal to swap out.

02
Step two

Load the catalogue

BigPlus imports the product list and stock so every sale on the card machine maps to the right item from day one.

03
Step three

Start selling

Ring up a sale, take the card on Yoco, and watch it land in BigPlus immediately, live stock and reporting included.

BigPlus point of sale running on a Yoco card machine at the counter
Fig. 02 BigPlus at the counter on a Yoco card machine.
Load-shedding

Keeps ringing when the power drops

BigPlus runs entirely on the device it is installed on, so a Yoco terminal keeps taking sales through a network outage or load-shedding, then syncs everything back the moment the connection returns.

For a shop already running on a Yoco Khumo Print or Neo Touch, the integration means the card machine does not just take the payment: it becomes the point of sale, the stock system and the reporting dashboard, all on the one device.

Put BigPlus on the Yoco machine you already own

Book a demo and see BigPlus running live on a Yoco Khumo Print or Neo Touch.

Book a demo

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]]> Kalk Bay Co-op https://bigplushq.com/blog/kalk-bay-co-op/ Fri, 14 Aug 2026 09:59:16 +0000 https://bigplushq.com/?p=14063 How an owner-run Cape Town boutique keeps thousands of consignment pieces, every colour, size and cost, straight in one system.

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One shop, 3 000 SKUs of South African design

Kalk Bay Co-op is an owner-run boutique stocking local designers on consignment. Here's how the shop keeps every colour, size and cost tracked.

Kalk Bay Co-op Customer Stories • 12 August 2026
Inside Kalk Bay Co-op: painted pink and orange walls, rails of clothing and printed textiles
Fig. 01 The shop floor in Kalk Bay, with clothing, bags and homeware from South African designers and makers.

The shop

Kalk Bay Co-op trades a few steps from a working fishing harbour on the False Bay coast, on a strip of galleries, antique dealers and coffee shops where the foot traffic is part local, part passing through. Inside, the walls are painted hot pink and orange, and the rails carry clothing, bags, textiles and homeware from South African designers and independent makers.

The co-op model is a core part of the businesses, with most of the stock arriving on consignment. Designers keep ownership of their inventory until the pieces sell, with payments being made at month end based on their sales movement.

One owner, one shop floor, more than 3 000 SKUs, and every unit being tracked to their respective designer.

How Kalk Bay Co-op uses Bigplus

Every colour and size, all tracked

A dress in three colours and five sizes is one piece of design and fifteen sku's to track. Bigplus holds it as a matrix product, so the till sells "olive, size 12" while the stock list keeps the full grid intact. The owner can look at a single product card and see which size is moving and which one has been on the rail since winter.

Consignment without the guesswork

Stock brought in on consignment is recorded against the designer who owns it. When a piece sells it is already attributed, so settling up is a report rather than an evening with a pile of receipts. Designers get a clear answer about what sold and what is still on the shop floor.

Cost in, profit out

Product costs are captured with the product, so that gross profit and margin are visible per item, per designer and per category in real-time as sales are processed. For designers working on a fixed consignment commission, this simplifies calculating payouts.

One till, and the day in numbers

Bigplus is the only system the shop needs open. Sales, returns, customers and stock movements all land in the same system, which means reporting is a byproduct of ringing up a sale rather than a separate job for after closing.

In her own words

“It is a really easy to use system that helps us save time and focus on the fun part of retail: interacting with customers.”

Kalk Bay Co-op Owner, Kalk Bay Co-op
Kalk Bay Co-op shopfront window, open daily 9am to 5pm

Where the spreadsheets stop.

Tracking variants, consignment ownership and true cost are the three things a shop outgrows first. Kalk Bay Co-op runs all three in one system, with no plugins and no spreadsheets running in the background.

Retail at this scale does not need an enterprise ERP. It needs those few things that slowly get neglected once the rails fill up, handled automatically and in one place. Start where you are and scale when you are ready.

Talk to us about your store

One shop or fifty, consignment or your own labels: tell us how you trade and we'll show you the parts of Bigplus that matter to you.

Talk to us about your store

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]]> Offline Mode https://bigplushq.com/blog/offline-mode/ Tue, 11 Aug 2026 10:15:23 +0000 https://bigplushq.com/?p=14014 Every register keeps working, even offline.

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Offline Mode: built in, not bolted on

Bigplus keeps selling when your internet doesn't. Every register runs entirely on the device, so a dropped connection stops being a crisis and starts being a Tuesday.

Bigplus HQ Features • 17 August 2026 • 2 min read
Bigplus Offline Mode dashboard set to Force Offline, showing offline data still syncing
Fig. 01 No connection, no problem. Offline Mode running in Force Offline
The problem

The reality

Every retailer knows the feeling. A queue at the till, a customer with card in hand, and then the screen freezes. The internet is down. In a lot of point of sale systems, that is where trading stops. Sales are lost, customers walk, and the day's momentum is gone.

Connectivity is never guaranteed, whether it is a power cut, an ISP outage, a dropped connection in a busy shopping centre or unreliable Wi-Fi in an older building. It is not a rare edge case. It is something every store hits eventually. This is exactly the problem Bigplus Offline Mode was built to solve, and it is worth understanding what genuine offline resilience looks like, because not all offline features are equal.

The moment Bigplus loses connection, it does not ask your staff to do anything differently.

The mechanism

How Offline Mode works

Sales don't pause

Ring up items, apply discounts, and take cash or account payments exactly as normal. The register doesn't know it's offline, and neither does the queue.

Stock stays accurate

Every offline sale still deducts stock locally, so on hand counts are correct the instant connectivity returns, not after a manual recount.

Customers are still recognised

Profiles, purchase history and account balances are cached on the device, so regulars don't become strangers just because the Wi-Fi dropped.

Receipts print as normal

Receipt printers and customer displays keep working off the local connection, no cloud round trip required for every line item.

The stakes

Why it matters

01
Continuity

Customers never know

The queue keeps moving at the same pace, online or not. No apology, no cash only sign taped to the till.

02
Accuracy

Numbers you can trust

Stock and sales figures reconcile automatically, so nobody's re keying a stack of handwritten slips at closing time.

03
Confidence

Staff don't panic

There's no special mode to switch on or remember. The till behaves the same, so training doesn't change and mistakes don't creep in.

04
Honesty

Where the limits are

Card payments still need a live connection to authorise, that's true industry wide, not a Bigplus gap. Cash and account sales never stop.

Bigplus Offline Mode dashboard back to Status Online after reconnecting
Fig. 02 Back online, everything already synced
Resilience

Every register works alone

There's no single point of failure. Each till queues its own sales independently, so one device losing signal never holds up the rest of the store.

From the field

It isn't hypothetical either. One Bigplus retailer lost fibre mid afternoon on a Saturday, their busiest trading day, and nobody at the till even flagged it to head office. Thirty two sales later, when the connection came back, everything synced in the background without anyone touching a screen, a moment our support manager Tyler still points to as proof the design works.

Connectivity will fail somewhere, sometime, whether it's load shedding, a router reboot, or a fibre fault outside your control. What decides the outcome isn't luck. It's whether your POS was built assuming that would happen.

Stop hoping. Start trusting your till.

Book a demo and see Offline Mode handle a dropped connection live. Setup and training are included, so your whole team knows exactly what changes when the Wi-Fi goes down. Which is nothing.

Book a demo

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]]> Xero https://bigplushq.com/blog/xero/ Wed, 15 Jul 2026 14:36:21 +0000 https://bigplushq.com/?p=13881 Sales sync straight into Xero, automatically.

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Bigplus × Xero · Now live

Your books, on autopilot.

Bigplus now syncs your sales, payments and inventory straight into Xero. Every sale you ring up, at the till or online, lands in your accounts automatically.

Book a demo See pricing
Syncs every 5 minutes VAT mapped to Xero rates Setup handled for you
Bigplus syncing sales into Xero
Synced today
R248k
Manual capturing
R0.00
5 min
Sync interval, all day, every day
1
Deposit to reconcile per tender type
Daily
Accurate gross profit in Xero
0
Manual capturing, from day one

If you run a retail business, you know the Sunday-night ritual. Exporting sales reports, capturing invoices into your accounting system, and hoping the numbers still match by month-end.

That ritual just ended. The Bigplus × Xero integration is now live. No exports, no manual capturing, no "we'll fix it at year-end."

In partnership with Xero
How the sync works

Everything posts itself.

Once connected, Bigplus creates a clean set of accounts in Xero, all prefixed "Big Plus", so everything from go-live sits neatly apart from your legacy numbers. A clean cut-over, not a tangled migration. Then the sync takes over.

Sales sync every 5 minutes

Every POS and account sale posts to your Big Plus sales account, with VAT mapped to the correct Xero tax rates.

Cost of sales, in real time

Each sale writes a cost-of-goods journal, so your gross profit in Xero is right every day, not just after a stocktake.

Payments close the loop

Card and cash payments mark invoices as paid via per-tender control accounts, and payments flow both ways.

Walk-in sales stay tidy

Cash sales roll up into one daily summary invoice, so your Xero contacts aren't flooded with one-time buyers.

Stock posts automatically

Registrations and write-offs flow to a dedicated inventory control account, keeping your stock value honest.

Xero · Big Plus control accounts Tuesday's trade
Big Plus Card Tender Control187 sales, rolled upR84 120.00
Big Plus Cash Tender ControlDaily summary invoiceR12 940.00
Bank depositR97 060.00
Reconciled R97 060.00
Why it matters

Each system does what it's best at.

Bigplus is your source of truth for retail — products, inventory, purchases, customers and sales. Xero stays the source of truth for the rest of the business — rent, phone bills, supplier statements and bank reconciliation. No double capturing, and no arguing about which number is right.

01
Time

Hours back, every week

Manual sales capturing disappears. Your bookkeeper reconciles one daily deposit per tender type instead of re-typing every transaction.

02
Accuracy

Profit you can trust daily

Because cost of sales posts with every sale, your income statement is decision-ready every morning, not six weeks after month-end.

03
Errors

The till is the ledger

Every manual capture is a chance for a typo. Automated posting means the number in Xero is the number from the till.

04
Audit

A cleaner audit trail

Control accounts, daily summaries and clearly prefixed accounts make life easier for your accountant, and cheaper for you.

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One of our retailers went live on the integration this month, trading through POS from day one. By the next morning, their finance team was reconciling bank deposits against the control accounts. No capturing, no catch-up, no drama.
The Bigplus team
From a go-live earlier this month
First week live

What their finance team saw when they switched.

Day 1Trading through POSEvery sale posting to Xero from the first transaction
Day 2Reconciling depositsBank recs against control accounts, next morning
0Catch-up capturingNothing to re-type, nothing to fix at month-end
Getting started

Stop capturing. Start reconciling.

Book a demo and watch your sales land in Xero live. Our team handles the setup with you. That's the Bigplus way: hands-on onboarding, local support, no figuring it out alone.

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Available on the Advanced plan

Account mapping
We set up your Big Plus accounts and map them with you.
Tax rates
VAT mapped to the correct Xero tax rates before you trade.
Training included
Your team and your bookkeeper, walked through it properly.

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