Janta POS for kirana shops

Everything your counter needs, in one app

Quick bills, stock and expiry, khata, expenses, day close, GST bills and online orders. Made for a busy kirana, in your language, and it keeps working offline.

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Built for the real day of a kirana

From opening the cash box in the morning to the last bill at night, Janta POS keeps the counter fast and the books clean. Use it on an Android phone or tablet, or in a browser.

Fast counter billing

Make a bill in a few taps. Search by name, scan a barcode with the camera, or type the code. The app does the maths for you.

Cash bills with the change worked out and round-off to the nearest rupee
A big UPI QR on screen with the exact amount and the bill number
Split one bill across cash, UPI and khata
Discounts and price changes, with a limit you set for staff
Selling price can never go above the MRP
Shows the customer how much they save against MRP
Add the customer's name or phone to any bill

Works offline, syncs on its own

No internet? Keep billing. Bills are saved safely on the phone and sent to the server as soon as you are back online.

A clear strip shows when you are offline and how many bills are waiting
Sync retries on its own, with no button to remember
If a bill cannot be saved, fix it, record it anyway or discard it with a reason
Signing out warns you if bills have not synced yet
Bills waiting to sync stay on the device even if you are signed out

Barcode, scale labels and voice search

Find any item the way that suits you: scan it, weigh it or say it.

Camera barcode scanning that adds the item straight to the bill
Works with hardware barcode scanners, including long and lettered codes
Reads weighing-scale labels and adds the item with its weight or price
An unknown barcode? Tap "Add it now" and keep billing
Voice search: say an item in your language
Search understands local words and spellings, like "doodh" for milk

Loose items by weight

Sell rice, dal, sugar or oil loose. Set a price per kg or per litre and bill any amount.

Sell by piece, kg, gram, litre or ml
Quick picks like 250 g, 500 g and 1 kg
Bills and receipts show the rate, for example 0.25 kg x ₹60/kg
Shoppers can order loose items by weight in the app too

Stock, batches and expiry

Know what you have, what is running low and what is about to expire.

Record stock received with quantity, cost, batch number, expiry and supplier
Older batches sell first, by expiry date
See what expires in 7 or 30 days, and write off expired stock
Correct counts with a reason: wastage, damage, expiry, theft or recount
A full stock history for every item
Your own reorder level per item, with a daily low-stock notice
Stock value at selling price, always up to date

Insights that help you reorder

Janta POS looks at your sales and tells you what to buy next.

Reorder soon: days of stock left and how much to buy, from your own sales
Trending in your categories that you don't stock yet
Customers asked: things shoppers searched for and didn't find in your shop
Low stock and expiring stock in one place

Add your items in minutes

Start from Janta's shared catalogue of packaged groceries with photos, or bring your list from a spreadsheet.

Search or scan to add from the shared catalogue
Starter pack: pick your categories and add the popular items in one go
Add your own items for loose goods and local brands, and sell them at once
Import from Excel (.xlsx) or CSV, with a full preview before anything is saved
Recognises item exports from Vyapar and myBillBook
Matches your rows to Janta's catalogue and its photos
Export items, stock, bills and stock history as CSV any time

Khata for udhaar

Replace the paper khata book. Every rupee your customers owe is in one place, and it adds up every time.

Put a whole bill or part of it on a customer's khata
Take payments in cash or UPI; extra becomes an advance
Bring in old balances from your paper book
Set a credit limit; only the owner can go past it
Share a statement on WhatsApp or print it
Send a WhatsApp reminder with a UPI link for the exact amount
See who is overdue for more than 30 days
Works offline, like your bills

Know your customers

Your shop's own customer list builds itself as you bill.

Type a phone on a bill and the customer is added
See visits, total spend, last visit and khata balance
Filter by who owes you, who is overdue and who paid ahead
Pick a customer right on the bill screen, even offline
Save a business customer's GSTIN for B2B bills
Erase a customer's personal details on request, while your books stay correct

Expenses, cash drawer and day close

Close every day knowing exactly where the money went.

Record expenses: rent, wages, electricity, transport, bags, tea and more
Open the cash drawer with a count, and close it with a count
The app works out the cash that should be there and shows if you are over or short
Put cash in or take it out, with a reason
A day-close summary to print or share: sales by cash, UPI, khata and online, expenses and purchases

Reports for any dates

See how your shop is doing, today, this week, this month or any range you choose.

Sales by day, payment method, item, category and staff member
Average bill value
Gross margin for items with a cost price
Discounts, voids, refunds, returns, khata, expenses and purchases
Download any report as CSV for Excel or Google Sheets

GST invoices, done right

Janta POS prints the right document for your GST status, with every required field.

Regular GST: tax invoices with CGST and SGST, or IGST for other states
Composition or not registered: bills of supply with no tax lines
Consecutive invoice numbers for each financial year, with your own prefix
B2B invoices with the buyer's GSTIN, name and state
A GST summary per rate on every receipt
Set GST rates and HSN codes for many items at once
Old bills never change on a reprint, even if you edit the item later
Your FSSAI licence number on your bills

Returns, exchanges and credit notes

Take goods back the proper way, with a credit note and the stock back on the shelf.

Return some or all items of a bill
Give money back by cash, UPI or khata
Put items back in stock, or leave damaged goods out
Credit notes get their own number series
Exchange: return items, then bill the new ones with the credit shown

GST reports for your CA

Monthly GSTR-1 and GSTR-3B figures, worked out from your own bills.

B2B, B2C, credit notes, nil-rated, HSN summary and document summary
A GSTR-3B summary
Download CSV files in the GST offline tool's column order, or everything as JSON
Warnings for bill lines without an HSN code
Always marked "check with your CA before filing": Janta never files anything for you

Suppliers and purchase bills

Record what you buy, and always know what you owe each supplier.

Purchase bills with quantity, rate, GST, batch and expiry go straight into stock
Your cost price updates from each bill, including GST and discounts
Update MRP and selling price as new stock arrives
Send goods back to a supplier and owe less
Pay by cash, UPI, bank transfer or cheque
A running account for every supplier, and a list of everyone you owe
Send a statement, or an order for low-stock items, on WhatsApp

Online orders, with an alarm you can't miss

Shoppers near you order from your shop in the Janta Kirana app. You decide what to accept.

A full-screen "New order!" alert with a chime and vibration while Janta POS is open
Order alerts in your browser when you use the web app
A timer to accept; orders not accepted in time are cancelled and the customer is told
Reject with a reason the customer sees
Lower a quantity or mark an item unavailable; the customer is told and pays less
Pack and print a slip, then send out or hand over
See the customer's note and whether a similar item is OK
Decide cancellation requests after you accept

Delivery your way

Deliver with your own staff, offer pickup, or both. You set the rules.

Set your delivery radius, delivery charge, free delivery above an amount, minimum order and delivery time
Choose who delivers each order and see each person's open deliveries and cash collected
The customer's 4-digit code confirms every handover
Collect cash or UPI on delivery and record how it was paid
Cash from deliveries counts in your cash drawer
Pause online orders any time; customers see "shop closed"

Get paid, straight to you

Online shoppers pay cash on delivery or at pickup, or pay your own UPI ID. The money comes to you directly.

Add your UPI ID once and UPI turns on for your customers
Shoppers can share their UPI reference; you confirm when the money arrives
Choose which payment ways your shop offers
Record refunds you give back in cash or UPI, so the customer sees them
Online payments through Janta are coming soon

Print and send bills

Print on a Bluetooth thermal printer, or send the bill to the customer's phone.

Bluetooth and Bluetooth LE thermal printers (ESC/POS), 58 mm or 80 mm paper
Print automatically after each bill, with a UPI QR on UPI bills
"Print in every language" prints Hindi and other scripts and the ₹ sign
Print from the browser on the web version
Send a bill on WhatsApp, by SMS from your phone, or through any app
A bill page the customer can open, print or save as PDF, and you can switch it off

Staff and permissions

Everyone signs in with their own phone and PIN. You decide what each role can do.

Roles for owner, manager, counter and delivery
Turn each permission on or off per role: discounts, voids, prices, khata, reports and more
Add staff with a one-time activation code; nobody shares a PIN
Switch cashier on a shared till with a PIN; each cashier's bill in progress is kept
Cost prices are visible only to people you allow
The founding owner can't be removed or demoted by a co-owner
Deactivating a staff member signs them out on every device

Practice mode

Learn the billing screen before your first real customer. Practice bills are clearly marked and never count anywhere.

Every bill is marked PRACTICE and is not a real bill
Stock does not change, and practice bills never appear in sales, reports or tax figures
No payment QR is shown, so nobody pays for a practice bill
Clear all practice bills with one tap

A checklist to get ready

A simple checklist on your Home screen walks you through setup. Most steps tick themselves.

Shop details, logo and opening hours
Delivery area, or pickup only
Your first 20 items
Staff sign-ins and your UPI ID
Print a test bill and share your shop link

Ads for your shop

Want more orders? Book an ad yourself from the app and see exactly how it did.

Featured shop, banners, featured products, search ads and push offers
Pick products, keywords or a banner, choose dates and see a preview
Optional targeting that reaches only customers who allowed it
Results: views, clicks, orders, sales, new customers and cost per order
A fixed weekly price with no bidding; nothing renews by itself
Clear cancellation and refund rules before you book

Your plan and Janta bills

Everything about your Janta plan, bills and fees is in the app, in plain words.

See your plan, monthly bills and any fees, line by line
Fee increases are always announced in advance
Pause your plan for whole months, or end it, from the app
Notices from Janta about your shop in one place
Plans: talk to us

In your language

Janta POS works in 15 Indian languages. Each staff member can pick their own.

Hindi, Bengali, Marathi, Telugu, Tamil, Gujarati, Urdu, Kannada, Odia, Malayalam, Punjabi, Assamese, Maithili, Konkani and English
Urdu reads right to left
Khata reminders and day-close summaries are shared in your language
Voice search understands everyday grocery words

Safe and secure

Your shop's data is protected at every step.

Personal PINs, locked after too many wrong tries
Sign out of a device from the server: a reset PIN or removed staff member is signed out everywhere
Every void, refund and stock change records who did it and why
Sensitive changes like the UPI ID are logged, and the founding owner is told
Automatic backups, every hour and every night

Mobile POS for staff on the move

A phone-sized web app for your staff, using the same sign-in: the online order queue, stock, your Janta bills and support.

Works in the phone's browser, no install needed
Same accounts and permissions as Janta POS

Help when you need it

Raise a request from the app about orders, payments, bills, ads or anything else. Replies come back in the app.

Attach photos to explain the problem
Link a request to a specific order
Keep the whole conversation in one thread

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Download the apps

Both apps are free to download. Use the Android apps on a phone or tablet, or open the web apps in Chrome, Edge or any modern browser.

Janta POS

For shop owners and staff

Counter billing, stock, khata, expenses, day close, GST bills and online orders for your kirana. Works offline.

Download for Android Open in browser

You need an activation code from your shop owner or from Janta to sign in.

Janta Kirana

For shoppers

Order from kirana shops near you, for delivery or pickup. Search in your language, pay cash or UPI to the shop, and track your order.