POS for Hardware Stores in Uganda | CranePOS Hardware & Building Materials
For hardware & building-materials stores

The point of sale built for hardware & building materials

Sell cement by the bag, cable by the metre and nails by the kilo - all priced correctly. CranePOS handles mixed units, trade customers on credit and fast quotations, so your counter runs smoothly and nothing slips through.

Sell in any unit, priced correctly

Credit customers, fully tracked

Quotations and invoices in minutes

Purchases and suppliers in order

EFRIS & URA

Compliant

The daily reality

Mixed units and trade credit make hardware hard to run

Hardware stores juggle thousands of varied items, different units of measure and customers who buy on account - a recipe for errors on paper.

Selling in many different units

Cement by the bag, cable by the metre, paint by the litre - mixed units make manual pricing a nightmare.

Trade customers who buy on credit

Contractors and fundis buy on account, but tracking who owes what on paper leads to lost money.

Quotes that take too long

Preparing quotations for big jobs by hand is slow, and delays cost you the sale.

Huge, varied stock

From nails to iron sheets, tracking thousands of varied items by hand means constant stock surprises.

No clear view of margins

With hundreds of items at different markups, it is hard to know which lines actually make money.

Messy supplier and delivery tracking

Orders from multiple suppliers and part-deliveries are hard to reconcile without a system.

The CranePOS way

A counter that handles every unit and every account

CranePOS is flexible enough for the way hardware stores really sell - by piece, by weight, by length and on credit.

Sell in any unit, priced correctly

Set up products in the units you actually sell - pieces, metres, kilos, bags, litres - each with the right price, so checkout is accurate every time.

  • Flexible units of measure per product
  • Fixed and percentage discounts
  • Fast search for large catalogues

Credit customers, fully tracked

Keep a profile for every contractor and trade account, track outstanding balances and see who owes what at a glance.

  • Customer profiles and purchase history
  • Outstanding-balance tracking
  • Per-customer statements

Quotations and invoices in minutes

Turn a big enquiry into a professional quotation, then into an invoice and a sale, without re-typing a single item.

  • Quotations that convert to sales
  • Professional, branded invoices
  • Printable documents ready to share

Purchases and suppliers in order

Raise purchase orders, track deliveries and auto-update stock on receipt, with multiple suppliers per product for the best price.

  • Purchase orders with delivery tracking
  • Multiple suppliers per product
  • Automatic stock updates on receipt

Any unit

bags, metres, kilos, pieces or litres

Every account

credit balance tracked in real time

Minutes

from enquiry to quotation to sale

Questions & answers

Hardware store POS - frequently asked questions

Can CranePOS sell products in different units like metres and kilograms?

Yes. You can define the unit of measure and price for each product - pieces, bags, metres, litres, kilograms - so pricing at the till is always correct.

Does it track credit customers and outstanding balances?

Yes. Keep a profile for every trade customer, record what they owe and track outstanding balances and statements in real time.

Can I create quotations for big building jobs?

On the Premium and Fiscalised plans you can create professional quotations and convert them straight into invoices and sales without re-entering items.

Will it help me manage suppliers and deliveries?

Yes. Raise purchase orders, track part and full deliveries, and let stock update automatically when goods are received.

Is CranePOS EFRIS ready for a hardware business?

The Fiscalised plan issues URA fiscal e-invoices and e-receipts with automatic VAT - useful when supplying VAT-registered contractors and companies.

Build a better-run hardware store

Handle mixed units, trade credit and fast quotations with a POS made for hardware and building materials.