Kounta Just Works. On Anything

Kounta will run on Macs and iOS devices, as well as PCs, Albert, Android and even legacy POS equipment. It also supports a wide array of printers, barcode scanners, credit card swipers, PIN pads, and cash drawers.

Online Or Off, Kounta Keeps You Selling.

If your internet connection goes down, Kounta keeps right on going without a hitch. You can keep selling, and when you’re back online your data’s synced back to the cloud.

All Your Data In One Place

Your inventory, menus, customers, employees, vendors, and purchases are all stored and tracked in Kounta. And because your data lives in the cloud, we take care of security and backups.

Lightning Fast

Kounta works fast, and is responsive to your input. Beyond its efficient code, Kounta’s intuitive design makes using it quick and efficient, minimizing “user latency.”

Access Anywhere, Anytime

With access to reporting, analytics, and, well, all your data in Kounta available from a web browser, shop owners will never be caught unaware again.

Point Of Sale

Responsive

Kounta is at attention and awaiting your command. It works and looks the same on any screen size, in portrait or landscape mode, responding to you in real time.

Sales Screen

Kounta’s sales screen is fully customisable, so you can organize it anyway you like. Organize items by category, or alphabetically if that’s what you’re into. Easily navigate through product variants and modifiers, and add customers and discounts.

Receipts

Customise your receipts, with the option to print and/or email them at the end of a sale.

Flexible Taxes

Kounta’s highly customisable tax settings give you complete control over setting your tax rates. Configure multiple tax zones for all your locations, or set taxes by the item.

Accept Orders While Offline

With or without internet access, Kounta keeps ringing up orders and saving transactions. When your connection comes back, the data is automatically synced back to the cloud.

Checkout

Fast Button – Fast Sales

One action finalises a sale, pops the cash drawer and prints receipts. Keep the line moving and your customers happy.

Discounts

Entering discounts—by percentage or dollar amount, per item or the entire order—is easy, intuitive, and quick.

Custom Sale

Create custom items on the fly and set the price and tax, right at the time of sale.

Order Notes

Attach notes to an item or entire order, making it easy to track item customisations or shipping instructions, or anything else that you need to communicate.

Shipping

Record a customer’s shipping address at the time of sale, and save it for future reference.

Extend Your Kounta

Don’t let Kounta be tied to your counter. Take it for a walk in the store—bring your tablet right to customers (even before they come in the store) and check them out if they’re ready.

Custom Email Or Printed Receipts

You can print or email—or print and email—customised receipts with your store name, URL, phone #, hours, and whatever else you want to put your unique stamp on it.

Taxes

Taxes are automatically calculated based on settings you configure—by location, by item, by group, or any combination thereof.

Custom Payment Types

You’re not just limited to cash and credit cards with Kounta. Set up custom payment types like cheques, gold coins, mobile payments, IOUs, or anything else of value.

Tipping

Add a Tip line to your receipt, or process tips right from Kounta’s screen before, during, or even after processing payments. Customers can select from predefined percentages or add their own custom amounts on-screen. The POS records tips separately and makes it easy to pull out the right amount of cash at the end of a shift.

Payments

Accept cash, card and mobile payments, including split payments, layby and account sales.

Fast Cash, Fast Payments

Keep your lines moving as Kounta guides you through the checkout process. Taking payments, whether cash or credit card or other, couldn’t be easier.

Card Payments

Kounta’s integrated credit card payments are fully EMV compliant, and have been for years. All transactions are “out of scope,” meaning that your customers’ sensitive data doesn’t pass through Kounta. It’s strictly between the card terminal and the processing bank, which is safer for everyone.

Mobile Payments

A 21st century POS ought to take 21st century payments. Integration with Mint payments lets Kounta do just that.

Non-Integrated Payments

Got a payment terminal that isn’t yet integrated with Kounta? You can still use Kounta and simply choose your own custom payment types each time you check-out.

Split Payments

Accept two or more payment types and easily accommodate couples on a Tinder date going splitsies.

Account Sales

Create customer accounts and keep a running balance. And Kounta plays real nice with popular account platforms like MYOB, Xero, Quickbooks and Saasu.

Part Payments And Lay-By/Lay-Away

Accept as much or as little as you choose as a deposit, set the terms—give it away for free if you really want. No matter which way you go, Kounta will help you manage the payments and keep a nice, tidy record.

Store Management

Orders

View past, current, and future orders made in any of your stores or online. Search by customer, date, product, or order number.

Refunds

Refund past orders as gift cards, or the customer’s original payment method and record the reasons for these refunds to understand better why sales are being reversed.

Cash In / Cash Out

Enter your float and manage cash adjustments throughout the day and stay on top of what’s in your cash drawer.

Daily Totals

Achieve balance by easily tracking your daily totals for every payment type.

Staff Accounts

With multiple user accounts, each with a secure PIN, you’ll be able to see who’s doing what in your store.

Price Lists

Kounta supports multiple price lists, and each one can be activated automatically using rule-based logic. Happy hour from 4 – 6PM? Set Kounta to knock the price of beer back to $3 a pint at 4PM, and to go back to regular pricing at 6.

Multi-Site Management

Central Product Catalog

With Kounta, all items, descriptions, and barcodes are managed centrally, with pricing, tax, and availability set on a per-site basis.

Allocate Staff

Staff accounts are controlled centrally and can be applied to a site in seconds, with their permissions automatically following to the new location.

Multi Site Reporting

See consolidated reporting in real time, down to the product, employees & customers. Run reports on a group of locations, a specific site, or a single register. And do all of this from anywhere in the world.

Simple Site Creation

Spin up a new location in minutes, complete with staff, products, inventory levels, pricing and taxes.

Products

Easy Product Management From Anywhere.

Easily add, edit, and remove products. Assign images, colours, and item-specific taxes and stock level. Kounta’s flexible pricing options make it easy to discount and create promotional campaigns, as well as automatic price adjustments based on store locations or even customers.

Unlimited Products

With Kounta, there’s no limit on the number of items in your inventory.

Modifiers

Make on-the-fly changes to what your customers want easily. No pickles? No problem.

Components

Perfect for foodservice, Components allow you to track items by ingredient and quantify it, like a glass of wine, or even a recipe for Nachos. Make product bundles/gift baskets and track each item individually. Monitor your liquor sales down to the milliliter. Kounta’s fine degree of detail over your inventory gives you all the info you need to stay on top of your ingredients.

Variants

Define multiple sizes, colours, or any other variation of your products, with support for unlimited types of variants per product. This is equally useful for hospitality, as well: a bar could set up Small, Medium, and Large drinks, and Kounta will automatically deduct the appropriate amount—10, 16, or 20 ounces—from your inventory.

Option Sets

Option Sets let you group your products in various ways to form new products, like modifiers, upsells, deals and gift packs. Coming soon.

Bulk Import And Export

Use our product import template to build your product catalogue in one broad stroke. Migrate from your existing point-of-sale, the one that’s got you so fed up you’re here looking for a change. If you have a Retail Manager, Retail Hospitality, or Retail Basics store, Kounta can automatically import your products in a few easy steps.

Barcodes

Import existing barcodes or quickly create your own. Support for handheld and Bluetooth scanners simplifies adding products to sales and doing stock-takes.

Tags

Add an unlimited amount of tags to products and customers to create flexible, powerful search and reporting options. This helps to make Kounta as much a product of your creation as ours.

Inventory

Stock Management

Powerful and cloud based inventory management keeps you on top of your stock room where ever you may be. Stay current with stock levels, purchase orders, and wastage.

Real Time Data

Stock on-hand and product level sales reports are fed real-time data. You’ll make better informed and more timely decisions to build a better business.

Painless Stock-Takes

You can quickly generate full or partial stock-takes and use Kounta’s search tool to find the product you’re looking for.

Wastage/Shrinkage

Kounta helps you easily understand what items are doing more harm than good. Track what’s not being sold, and find the real cost of damaged COGS to your costs and revenue.

CRM

Manage Customer Relationships

Build and manage customer lists, track the complete purchase history of any customer and send targeted offers. Export your customer lists with account balances to your accounting software, email addresses to your marketing.

Create And Sync Customers

Bulk import from CSV or add new customers right at the point-of-sale. Add tags, email addresses, social media accounts, phone numbers, and more to enhance your reporting and understanding of each person’s buying habits. Send email receipts automatically, and sync your customers with any Kounta add-ons you may use.

Loyalty

Reward your customers’ loyalty and win their repeat business when you integrate with a loyalty add-on like Collect Rewards. It’s flexible, easy for customers to join, completely managed by you and works seamlessly with Kounta. Read more about starting a customer loyalty program that adds value.

Price Lists

Set up promotions and pre-defined price adjustments or create sale price lists and activate them based on date and time triggers.

Email Marketing

Use customer email addresses with services like Mailchimp or Campaign Monitor to stay in touch with your customers or run promotions.

REPORTING

See The Bigger Picture

Get instant snapshots of what’s going on in any one of your stores, or see all stores aggregated into a single report. Real time views of your sales history, customers, and popular products, accessible anytime and from anywhere.

All The Numbers You Need.

Kounta comes preloaded with contextual reports to make sense of all your sales totals, costs, customers—any facet of your business. You can also export your sales history, right down to items and payments types and generate complex reporting Excel, or import into other software.

Sales Targets.

Use Kounta to set goals for your staff and then track their progress right from your dashboard.

Kounta Insights

Go beyond simple reporting with our real-time analytics platform, powered by industry specific reports and ad-hoc queries alike. Kounta Insights lets you dive deep in to your data, helps you make more informed business decisions.  

Export Reports

We included a tool that exports your reports to share with your bookkeeper or accountant. You can also export into spreadsheets and other reporting tools to get the Business Intelligence that’s right for you.

Mobile

Take Your Store With You

Manage your store remotely, with access to real-time sales data, reports, staff management, and inventory. Or, if you own a food truck or mobile business, you can literally take your store with you and Kounta happily follows.

Mobile Dashboard

Get quick access to all the vital stats you need, see what needs your attention and what can wait till Monday.

Manage Products And Inventory

Update pricing and stock counts, get alerts on low stock and add products right from your phone.

Interact With Your People

Manage staff through the Kounta interface. You can add and invite new users (staff) and contacts (like customers or suppliers) on the go.

Report On The Go

So long as you’ve got a smartphone and internet connection, all of Kounta’s mobile pos reports and data are always at your fingertips.

Table Layouts

Tables Status Colours

Your tables will dynamically change colours telling you and your staff if a table is in need of attention, has just requested the bill, has just arrived and more.

Dynamic List View

Sort your tables in a list view by spend, covers, time since approached and more, giving your guest relations manager and floor staff the information they need to be most effective.

Cover Tracking

Track how many guest you serve and report on your findings.

Beautiful Layout Options

Use trees, floor colours and textures, chairs, walls, windows and more to make your Kounta as beautiful as your restaurant. You can even build and name multiple layouts for different floors or different function layouts.

Drag-And-Drop Layout Creation

Easily replicate your dining room layout with swipes of your finger. A custom table number for each location keeps everyone on the same page.

Sync Across All Your Registers

Create the layout just once, and then push it out to all your devices. All orders in the system are attached to a table, which everyone can see, eliminating confusion and errors.

Register Specific Workflow

Set the table layout as the POS default screen, a logical place for your servers to start each transaction

Recipe Creation

Simplify Inventory Management

Your menu items can be stored as a list of ingredients at specific quantities. Ordering triggers each of these ingredients to be deducted from existing inventory in the appropriate quantities.

Know What You’re Spending

Kounta also calculates the precise cost of goods sold for each item according to quantity, generating detailed and informative reports, and helping you to understand what you should be charging.

Purchasing Formats

You may sell a bottle of wine, but you usually buy it in cases of 12. Define this at the purchase level, and Kounta does the math for the costs on each bottle you sell.

Works With Item Variants, Too

Define the difference between small, medium, and large and easily compare costs and profits between each.

Modifiers And Option Sets

Popup Modifiers

Prevent your staff from forgetting to ask the right questions. When they have to choose between Rare, Medium, or Well Done before moving on to the next item, they’re going to have to ask “How would you like that cooked?”

Preset Modifiers

Make ringing up the most common requests easy. One tap is all it takes to add extra cheese, avocado, and $2 to the cost of the item.

Option Sets

Take presets modifiers to the next level, by labeling multiple options into a single group. Create a group called Burger Mods, for example, and rather than add in the same 10 options each time you add a burger to the menu, select the one set and be done.

Custom Modifiers

Leave you prepared for your pickiest customers. Type in any modification, along with an associated cost, at the time of the order for the on-the-spot changes.