Fixed-Price Store POS: One Price, Big Tiles, One Tap Per Item

A fixed-price store — everything at Rs 100, Rs 200, or whatever the shop's number is — has an unusual advantage: there is no pricing decision at the counter. Most POS software cannot use that advantage, because it is built around asking what something costs.

The Dollar / Fixed-price store preset is the one place GOF POS changes the till itself rather than just the fields on a form.

What the fixed-price preset switches on

• One price for everything — the shop price is set once and every item takes it.

Nothing else. No weights, no batches, no serials, no variants. The till is a grid of big tiles, and credit is off — a fixed-price counter is a cash counter.

What the mode actually does

You set the shop's price once in settings. From then on:

• Tapping an item adds it at the shop price. The till neither shows nor asks for a price.
• A banner on the till states the price, so a new staff member is never in doubt and a customer looking over the counter can see it.
• Variable-price prompts are skipped entirely — one price for everything is the whole point of the mode.

If you set the flag but have not entered an amount yet, items fall back to their own sale price rather than going in at zero.

Why the tiles matter

In a fixed-price shop the cashier is not looking up a price, they are identifying an item — so the fastest till is the one where the item is visible. The grid layout gives large tiles with images, and you choose how many columns to show. Your best sellers can be pinned as favourites so they are always in the first screen.

Category placement is yours: a left column, a row of pills across the top, or nothing at all if your catalogue is short enough to fit.

Counting a shop where everything looks alike

Fixed-price stock is high-volume and low-value, which makes shrinkage easy to miss. Two things help. Barcode labels can be printed for anything that arrives without one, and the label carries the product's own barcode so what is on the packet matches what is in the system.

The stock take runs on a phone, so you count the shelves walking around rather than carrying paper back to a desk, and the count reconciles against the system with the differences listed.

Reporting when every line is the same money

With one selling price, the interesting number is cost — the spread between what you paid and the shop price is your entire margin, and it differs wildly line to line. GOF POS values stock on a weighted average cost that only a goods receipt can move, and includes freight allocated across the lines by value.

That means the profit report tells you which items at Rs 100 are actually making money and which are there to fill a shelf — the single most useful thing a fixed-price buyer can know.

It is a preset, not a cage

If you keep a small counter of higher-priced items alongside the main shop, turn the fixed-price flag off and those products go back to their own prices. Or leave the mode on and use a second device. Every switch is yours.

Getting started

Setup takes about ten minutes. When you sign up you pick Dollar / Fixed-price store as your business type, and GOF POS switches on the features above for you — no configuration screens to hunt through, no consultant. If something in the preset does not suit you, every switch is yours to change afterwards in Settings → Business type.

The app runs on Windows, macOS and Linux for the counter, and on Android and iOS for stock checks and quick sales on the move. The desktop till keeps working when the internet does not, and syncs when it comes back.

See pricing or download GOF POS and try it on a real day's trading.