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How-to guides

Short, step-by-step guides for running your business on CheckThis.

• How to scan stock with your phone, without a barcode scanner

  Count, receive and sell stock with your phone's camera instead of a barcode scanner. Step by step in CheckThis stock management and APOPS POS.

• How to choose and print barcodes for your stock

  Which barcodes matter (EAN-13 with the 616 Kenya prefix, UPC, Code 128, QR), how to save existing barcodes and print labels for items without one.

• How to set up APOPS POS, the CheckThis point of sale

  Set up APOPS POS step by step: selling prices, a till for your store, cashier rights, receipt printer and cash drawer, and the app that works offline.

• How to keep selling when the internet is down

  APOPS POS keeps selling when the internet is down and uploads the sales later. How to prepare the device, sell offline and bring the reports up to date.

• How to add a customer screen and self-service

  Show customers their items and total on a second screen, let them type their M-Pesa number, and run self-service for buffets with APOPS POS.

• How to customise your menu and show staff only their pages

  Customise your own menu and decide what each role or person sees in CheckThis: a cashier only APOPS POS, a storekeeper only stock, HR only people.

• How to choose modules that work together

  Which CheckThis modules always come as a pair, which work alone and connect later, and how to choose for a shop, a service company or a fleet.