Cosmetics retail runs on small items with big counts: creams, soaps, hair products and fragrances across hundreds of SKUs, many in near-identical packaging, some with expiry dates, all easy to misplace and easy to pilfer. The margin is good — when the stock control is.
SellarPro keeps a cosmetic shop's catalogue under control with barcoded products, expiry awareness, live counts and per-product profit, whether you sell retail at Makola-level bustle or supply salons in bulk.
Problems the right pos for cosmetic shop must solve
Hundreds of similar-looking SKUs
Three shades, four sizes, same box. Barcodes remove the guesswork at the till and in stock-takes, so the 250ml doesn't get sold at the 100ml price again.
Expiry dates on shelf stock
Creams and treatments expire, and expired beauty products are both a write-off and a reputation risk. Expiry tracking flags what to push or promote before the date bites.
Retail and salon-supply in one shop
Walk-in customers pay retail; salons buy in dozens at wholesale rates on account. Multiple price levels and customer-linked credit sales run both sides of the business in one system.
Restocking the right products
Beauty trends move fast. Fast-mover reports by brand and category show what to reorder before it runs out and what fad stock to stop buying.
SellarPro as your pos for cosmetic shop
SellarPro brings sales, inventory, purchasing, customers and reporting into one system. You record a sale in seconds, stock levels update automatically across every branch, and the dashboard shows profit — not just revenue — in real time.
- Barcoded catalogue with instant search for lookalike products
- Expiry-date visibility to promote or clear stock before write-off
- Wholesale and retail price levels, per customer or per sale
- Credit accounts for salon customers with statements and payment history
- Brand and category profit reports for smarter restocking
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What running without a system actually costs
Businesses in this trade that run on paper and memory typically lose between two and five percent of stock value every month to a combination of unrecorded sales, quiet pilferage, damaged goods that were never written off and prices remembered wrongly at the counter. On a shop turning over GHS 30,000 a month, that is GHS 600–1,500 gone — every month, invisibly. A subscription that costs less than a tenth of that and makes the loss visible is not an expense; it is recovered profit.
Six things to check before choosing business software
- A real free trial. Load your actual products and run real sales for a week. Software that survives your busiest day has earned the subscription.
- Your hardware, not theirs. Standard barcode scanners and thermal printers sold in Ghana should just work; proprietary hardware is a lock-in tax you pay at every expansion.
- Everything in the base price. Inventory, purchases, expenses, reports and staff accounts should be included — not sold back to you as per-store or per-employee add-ons.
- Mobile money as a first-class payment. If MoMo has to be recorded as "cash" or "other", daily reconciliation will never be clean.
- Cedis, not dollars. If the price is quoted in USD, your software cost changes every time the exchange rate does. Insist on GHS billing with published prices.
- Role-based staff accounts. Cashiers should not see cost prices or profit; managers should not need your login. Shared passwords end audit trails.
SellarPro is built to pass every one of these checks — which is exactly why we publish the list.
From sign-up to first sale
- Create your account. Register online in a few minutes — no card required to start.
- Set up your products. Import your product list from Excel/CSV, or add items with prices, barcodes and opening stock.
- Add your team. Create cashier and manager accounts with role-based permissions so staff only see what they need.
- Start selling. Ring up sales on a laptop, desktop, tablet or phone; print or WhatsApp receipts to customers.
- Watch the numbers. Daily sales, profit and stock reports arrive on your dashboard automatically.
Our onboarding team walks you through setup on WhatsApp or a call — most shops are selling on SellarPro the same afternoon they sign up.
Week one, honestly described
Day one is about getting live, not getting perfect: import or enter your fastest-moving products, set prices, create logins for anyone who sells, and put through the first genuine sale. Perfection can wait; the record-keeping starts today.
Days two to four build the habit. Every sale goes through the system — no exceptions, because exceptions are where the old leaks hide. Expenses get logged as they happen. By midweek the daily summary starts telling you things: which hours are busiest, what actually sells, how takings split across cash and MoMo.
By day seven the system knows your week better than the notebook ever did: what sold, what it cost, what was spent, who owes you. The weekly report becomes the Sunday habit that replaces guessing with deciding — and the onboarding team stays on WhatsApp throughout if anything needs a hand.
What the dashboard tells you every day
- Debtors (credit) report — who owes what, and for how long. The oldest balances rise to the top, which is exactly the order collections should happen in.
- Expense breakdown — the month's spending by category. The first month's version is routinely the most surprising document a business owner has ever read about their own shop.
- Best-sellers by margin — not what sells most, but what earns most. The two lists differ more often than owners expect, and the difference redirects your buying.
- Daily sales summary — the day's takings by payment type, ready at closing. Cash in the drawer either matches it or you know exactly what to ask about, tonight rather than at month end.
- Low-stock list — everything below its reorder level, effectively your next restocking trip written for you before you knew you needed it.
Each report is a tap away on any device, built automatically from the selling you were doing anyway.
Transparent pricing in Ghana cedis
SellarPro is priced in GHS with no dollar billing, no per-terminal charges and no long-term lock-in. Every plan includes updates and support.
| Plan | Monthly price | Best for |
|---|---|---|
| Solo | GHS 99 | One shop, one user getting off paper and Excel |
| Growth | GHS 150 | Growing shops that need staff accounts and fuller reporting |
| Business | GHS 250 | Multi-branch and wholesale operations |
See the full feature breakdown on our pricing page, or start free and upgrade when you are ready.
Where new users go wrong (and how not to)
- Running two systems "just in case". Keeping the notebook alongside the software means neither is trusted and both are half-maintained. Commit for two full weeks — the doubt resolves itself.
- Letting exceptions breed. The sale rung "later", the expense paid from pocket, the credit given without recording — each exception invites the next. The rule that saves the system: if it happened, it goes in.
- Buying hardware first. Choose the software, then buy the scanner and printer it supports (standard ones, ideally). Hardware-first shoppers routinely own devices their eventual software cannot use.
- Skipping opening stock. Without accurate starting quantities, the first stock report looks wrong and confidence dies early. Count what you have before go-live — even approximately — and correct at the first stock-take.
Why businesses pick SellarPro
- Built for Ghana. GHS pricing, VAT/GRA-aware receipts, and workflows that match how shops here actually trade.
- Offline-capable. Keep selling when the network drops; everything syncs when you are back online.
- Human support. WhatsApp, phone and email support from a team in Accra — not a ticket queue in another timezone.
- All-in-one. POS, inventory, purchases, expenses, customers, staff and reports in one subscription instead of five tools.
- Grows with you. Start with one till and scale to multiple branches, warehouses and an online storefront without changing systems.