Retail accounting software where the till and the ledger are one thing.
Every sale rung up at any store posts to the books as it happens — revenue, cost of goods and the cash or card it was paid with. Each store gets its own profit and loss, its own stock and its own cashier accountability, and the company gets the consolidated view without a spreadsheet. Built for chains of one to twenty locations.
Per-store P&L, live
See which store makes money today, not next month. Drill from total revenue to a single SKU sold at a single counter.
Cashiers who count
Every shift opens with a counted float and closes with a denomination count. Variance is trailed per cashier with patterns over time.
Stock per store, transfers posted
Each store has its own quantity and cost per product. Moving stock between stores is a posted transfer, not a note on WhatsApp.
The second store is where the books stop tying.
With one store, a separate POS and an accounting tool can coexist: someone keys the daily total in at night and the numbers roughly agree. With two or more, the questions change. Which store made the money? Whose drawer was short? Where did the stock go when Store B ran out and Store A "sent some over"? General-purpose accounting software has one answer to all of it — a class or location tag on the transaction — and a tag is not a set of books. It cannot hold stock, it cannot close a drawer, and it cannot tell you the margin of one store on one day.
The usual workaround is a QuickBooks or Xero file per store, which multiplies subscriptions and makes the consolidated view a spreadsheet exercise. Nonari is one company, many branches: every sale, every purchase, every transfer carries the branch, and the per-store P&L, balance sheet and cash book fall out of the ledger without extra files.
- A POS that posts each sale to the general ledger atomically — revenue, cost of goods and tender together
- Cashier shifts with counted floats, denomination counts and per-person variance
- Stock per store with posted transfers and reorder points per store per SKU
- Returns accepted at any store, with the credit note carrying both branches
- Per-store and consolidated profit and loss, balance sheet and cash book on demand
One day at one store, as the ledger sees it.
Store A rings 214 sales on a Saturday: $4,200 in cash, $3,100 on cards. Each sale posted the moment the receipt printed — revenue to the store’s sales account, the weighted-average cost of the items sold to cost of goods, the tender to the drawer or the card clearing account. At close the cashier counts the drawer; the count is compared with the ledger’s expected cash, and the difference, if any, is posted as a variance against that cashier and that shift.
The card clearing balance is cleared when the processor pays out on Monday, matched by the bank feed. The store’s gross margin for Saturday — $2,920 on $7,300 — is on the dashboard Saturday night, and the company-wide figure is the sum of the stores, not a reconstruction.
Five steps from the barcode to the store P&L.
Nothing in this chain is a batch job or an import. The shift close is a count, not a spreadsheet, and the store profit and loss is a report on the ledger, not a month-end exercise.
A weekend for one store, a week for a chain.
Products import with barcodes, prices and per-store opening stock at cost. Customers import for loyalty and credit. Each store becomes a branch with its own drawers and staff. Opening balances load until the trial balance foots, then the tills go live on a Monday morning. Chains typically run one store first and roll the rest out over the following week.
- Products with barcode, price, and per-store quantity and cost (CSV)
- Stores as branches; counters as shifts; staff invited with roles (unlimited users)
- Opening balances loaded and footed; card processors mapped to clearing accounts
- Loyalty rules and return policy configured once, applied at every store
What the retail edition includes.
Multi-cashier POS
Barcode scanning, split tender, hold and resume, layaway, discounts with reasons. Every sale posts to the ledger atomically.
Per-store books
Every transaction carries a branch. P&L, balance sheet and cash book per store or consolidated, in one click.
Cashier shifts and cash counts
Counted floats, denomination counts at close, variance per cashier, and shift hand-over that makes the shortage visible.
Stock transfers and reorder points
Move stock between stores with a posted transfer; set reorder points per store per SKU; count stock without closing the shop.
Loyalty, receipts, returns
Tiered loyalty with point expiry, receipts by WhatsApp or SMS, and returns at any store with the credit note carrying both branches.
Bank feeds and processor payouts
Card clearing accounts cleared by the bank feed when the processor pays out, so the bank reconciles without a spreadsheet.
Nonari vs generic accounting software for a retail chain
Two plans. Every feature on both.
One location, one company
Up to 3 locations, +$32 each after
Unlimited users on both. 15-day free trial, no card. See the full pricing page.
Frequently asked.
What is the best accounting software for a retail store with multiple locations?
One that treats each store as a set of books rather than a tag on a transaction, and whose POS posts to that ledger directly. Check for per-store profit and loss without a separate file per store, cashier shifts with cash counts, stock per store with posted transfers, and pricing by location rather than by user. Nonari is built on exactly that model for chains of one to twenty stores.
Do I need a separate QuickBooks or Xero file for each store?
In those tools, real per-store books mean either a file per store (a subscription each, and a spreadsheet to consolidate) or a location tag that cannot hold stock or close a drawer. In Nonari a store is a branch inside one company: its own P&L, stock and drawers, consolidated automatically.
How does the POS post to the ledger?
Each sale is one atomic posting: revenue to the store’s sales account, the weighted-average cost of the items to cost of goods sold and out of that store’s inventory, and the tender to the drawer or a card clearing account. The receipt, the journal entry and the stock movement share one audit-log line with the cashier and shift.
How do you stop cashier shortages and shrinkage?
By counting. Every shift opens with a counted float and closes with a denomination count compared with what the ledger expects, and the variance is recorded against the cashier. Stock counts run without closing the shop, and the shrinkage report shows the gap per store per SKU. Leakage survives on not being measured; this measures it every shift.
Can a customer return at a different store?
Yes. A return is accepted at any store regardless of where the sale happened. The credit note carries both branches on the audit trail, the refund posts at the returning store, and the stock restocks there.
How much does retail accounting software cost for a chain?
Nonari is $29 a month for one store and $70 a month for up to three, with each further store $32 a month — POS, inventory, accounting and unlimited users included. A five-store chain on separate QuickBooks Plus files plus a POS and an inventory app typically pays several times that.
Ring one sale and watch it post.
15-day free trial, no card. Import your products, open a shift, ring a sale, close the drawer — and read the store’s P&L before you go home.