Retail · Bar · Restaurant · Chains

The till rings. The owner already knows.

Crown of Philly POS is two products that refuse to live apart: a fast South African till on the counter, and POS Central in the cloud — so a store manager, a regional manager, and a national owner each see the money they are allowed to touch. Not a spreadsheet. Not WhatsApp photos of Z-reports.

See honest prices Watch the till

POS Central national command centre showing region scorecards

2 productsRetailPOS + POS Central

3 layersStore · Region · National

R0 hardwarein the setup fee. Bring your own drawer.

Live nowSlovo, Burgersfort, Krugersdorp already on it

What you are buying

Not another till. A command system for people who actually own shops.

Most POS vendors sell you a register and a monthly invoice. We sell the moment after close of day: cash-up on the till, safe drop in the cloud, restock list for Monday, credit book for the customer who “will pay Friday”.

RetailPOS

The counter. Barcode, search, cash, card, mixed, refunds, exchanges, end-of-day cash-up that locks the till. House-account credit is there for retail and hospitality — under More Options, not on the everyday payment tiles.

POS Central

The owner’s office. Decision reports, stock, credit book, safe reconciliation, training academy, network health. National sees regions. Regional sees stores. Store sees tills.

The sync

Sales, users, stock, expenses, cash-ups, and credit book travel to the cloud. Cash-up no longer waits for the next login — it is queued on the till and pushed before the cashier is even on the login screen.

On the counter

Built for a South African till, not a Silicon Valley café demo.

RetailPOS login screen — Staff sign in by person, not by “whoever knows the PIN”. Every sale carries a store-scoped user key into the cloud.

Speed first. Then the audit trail.

Scan, F1 add, F2 search, F3 card, F4 cash, F5 mixed. Refunds need a manager. Cash-up counts the drawer, writes the Z, drops cash to the safe figure, and logs the cashier off so the next shift cannot spend yesterday’s float.

Retail layout
Restaurant / bar layout
More Options menu
End of day cash-up

Retail POS till with the original Card, Cash, Mixed, Refund and Reprint grid — The everyday grid stays on screen: Card, Cash, Mixed, Refund, Reprint. Credit is not a till tile — it is a More Options menu item, because house accounts are not every-transaction work.

Credit book on retail. Under More Options.

Spaza, supermarket, butcher, hardware — someone always runs a book. Charge to account and Credit Book live in More Options on both the supermarket till and the restaurant till, so cashiers still hit F3/F4/F5 without hunting. Charging a cart checks the limit. Collecting knocks the balance down. The ledger syncs to POS Central so the owner can see who to collect from first. Nobody is locked out because they sell Coke instead of kota.

In the office and in the car

POS Central is the product you open when the till is busy without you.

Store dashboard with live tills. Reports named after the decision, not the SQL. Training that changes with the role — national is not taught to count a drawer.

Restock Need buy list — Restock Need: what to buy, how many, what it costs. Goods and resources only — not Kota, not prints.

Buy list, not a stock dump.

Sales velocity versus stock on hand. Suggested order for the next 7, 14 or 30 days. Ingredients use the resource register so a ghost product row at quantity 0 cannot scare you into over-ordering Special Slice.

Cloud product registry with live quantities — Price book, barcodes, cost vs sell, cloud quantity, sync status — one register the till respects.

Stock that agrees with itself.

Restock on the phone. The till pulls it. The till cannot overwrite a cloud restock with a stale snapshot. That is the difference between “we have a cloud” and “Monday’s bakkie is loaded with the right boxes”.

Cash & the safe

Cash-up on the till becomes a deposit in POS Central. Safe reconciliation asks one question: does the safe hold what the tills said they dropped?

Credit book

Outstanding house accounts, ranked by exposure. Collect the large ones first. Same book the till just charged.

Network health

National sees if a region is online. Regional sees if a store is operating. Store sees the till: machine, disk, last heartbeat. No one is drowned in the wrong detail.

Who gets which buttons

Power is a privilege. We wired it that way.

Store manager

The full shop: cash-ups, stock, expenses, credit book, till health. They run Monday.

Regional manager

Store scorecards. Stock and expenses for their stores. No counting someone else’s drawer. No till IP addresses.

National / owner

Region money. Who is excelling, who is leaking. Totals, not till lines. They cannot “just fix” a price from Sandton.

Prices in Rand. On this page. No “contact sales”.

Pick how you want to pay. We will tell you which one we would take.

Three honest models. Hardware is never in the setup fee — drawers, printers, scanners, and customer displays are quoted apart, or you bring what you already own.

Pay-as-you-trade

Software at R0. We earn when the card machine earns.

2.4% + 35c / card sale

No monthly software bill
You run on our acquiring stack
Best for high-volume cafés that hate subscriptions
Churn risk if a cheaper bank rate shows up
Least predictable for us — we only recommend it if card mix is fat

What we sell first

Hybrid

A fair monthly + a smaller cut. Toast and Shopify POS live here. So should you.

from R790 / store / month

Starter R790 + 1.5% + 30c · 1 till
Growth R1,450 + 1.25% + 25c · 3 tills
Chain R2,200 + 1.1% + 20c · regions + unlimited tills
We can subsidise a printer on a 24-month Hybrid
You still own the relationship with the customer

Software only

Keep SpeedPoint / your bank. Pay us like a proper SaaS.

from R1,190 / store / month

Starter R1,190 · 1 till
Growth R1,890 · 3 tills
Chain R2,900 · regions, academy, priority
Extra till R190 / month
Highest friction to close — and the cleanest margin if you already have acquiring

Setup fee — once, and it is not hardware

Go-live is work: till config, users and roles, catalog import, a half-day on the floor, and a week of WhatsApp after the first cash-up. That is the fee. A cash drawer is not.

What	Rand	Includes
First store	R4,900	Config, import assist, on-floor training, go-live week
Each extra store	R2,400	Clone the playbook, train that floor
Extra till in an existing store	R750	Device pairing, receipt, drawer mapping
Hardware	Quoted apart	Printers, scanners, drawers, customer display — or BYO
Annual software	10 months	Pay yearly, skip two invoices

If a vendor bundles a cheap printer into “free setup”, you are financing it in the rate. We would rather show you the line.

Crown of Philly Pty Ltd

Come stand at a till with us.

We are in Witpoortjie. We install in Gauteng and Limpopo first because that is where the product already works for real shops — not a slide deck.

50 Andries Pretorius Street
Witpoortjie, Roodepoort 1724
Gauteng, South Africa

crownofphilly.com · solar, electrical, property — and now the till that reports home.

Book a demo

Bring a manager, a cashier, and last month’s Z-report. We will cash-up a dummy till, charge a house account, and open POS Central on your phone.

WhatsApp / call: use the number on crownofphilly.com

Walk-in: weekdays, ask for POS Central — not solar, unless you also want panels.