Run a shop on EloERP
Follow these steps in order to set up a shop and run its first week: products, opening stock, the till, the end of the day, purchases and the reports at month end. Each step opens an article with the screens and buttons.
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Sign up and choose your business type
Create your company's account in a few steps, choose the product and industry that fit your business, and start your free trial.
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Set up your company profile
Add your logo, contact details, tax number, address and regional settings on day one, before you enter any invoice.
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Add branches and warehouses
Add each shop, office or location as a branch, and the stores inside it as warehouses, so stock and documents are kept in the right place.
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Add users and give them roles
Give each member of staff their own login, put them in the right branch and give them a role that opens only the screens they need.
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Add your products
The order to set up categories, brands and units, then add products one by one or import them from a file.
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Enter opening stock
Record the stock you already have on the day you start, per warehouse, at cost, typed in or imported from a file.
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Set up price lists
Set up price tiers such as Wholesale or Distribution, enter a tier price per product, import prices from CSV and add quantity breaks.
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Set up payment methods
Link cash, card, bank transfer and other ways of being paid to the right cash or bank account, and add your real bank accounts.
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Take a cash sale at the till
Scan or tap the items, give a discount, take cash or card (or split it), complete the sale and print the receipt on the POS Terminal.
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Open and close a shift
Start the cashier's shift with the opening float, count the drawer at the end, close the shift and hand it to the manager for the Z-Report.
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Sell when the internet is down: the offline till
What the offline till (the POS app on a counter PC) does, how it differs from the online POS Terminal, what it can and cannot do without internet, and when your shop needs one.
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Record your first purchase
Enter a supplier's bill as a purchase invoice so the stock comes in and the amount you owe is recorded.
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Take a payment and pay a supplier
Record money a customer pays you with a receipt voucher, and money you pay a supplier with a payment voucher, settling their invoices.
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Read your sales reports
Sales totals for a period, broken down by day, month or year, with your top 10 customers and top 10 products.
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Your first month end
A checklist for the end of the month: match the bank, count stock, check who owes what, then read the trial balance, profit and loss and balance sheet.
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Let the AI help you run the business
A tour of the AI in EloERP - asking about your books, voice entries, reading supplier bills, suggested orders, the WhatsApp briefing and connecting your own Claude or ChatGPT - and the rule that nothing posts until a person approves it.