Getting started with Numa POS
Numa POS needs no account. Open it, answer a couple of questions, and you can start selling in a few minutes.
Set up your store
- Open Numa POS. The first screen is Set up your store.
- Type your store’s name in Store name. It is printed on your receipts.
- Currency starts as the peso and Timezone as your phone’s, so most stores can leave both as they are.
- Tap Get started.
All three can be changed later in Settings.
Moving from another phone? Tap Already using Numa? Restore a backup instead, and see Backups, and moving to a new phone.
Add what you sell
- On Home, tap Catalog, then tap the + button.
- Fill in Name, Selling price and Stock on hand.
- Enter the Cost, meaning what you paid for one, so Numa can work out your profit.
- Pick a Unit. For anything not listed, tap + Custom unit, and switch on Allow fractions if you sell it in parts, like 0.5.
- Pick a Category if you like, or make one with + New category. Categories become filters on the Sell screen.
- If the product has a barcode, tap Scan beside Barcode (optional) and point the camera at it.
- Set Low-stock alert at to the count you want to be warned at.
- Tap Save.
To change a price or a stock count later, tap the product in Catalog.
Ring up a sale
- Tap Sell at the bottom of the screen, or New sale on Home.
- Tap an item to add it, and tap it again to add another. Items you sell in parts ask how much.
- To find items faster, use Search products, tap a category, or tap Scan barcode at the top and scan the item.
- For something that isn’t in your catalog, like a service fee, tap Custom item.
- Tap Charge.
- Type what the customer handed you into Cash received, or tap Exact. Numa shows the Change to give back.
- Tap Complete sale.
To give a discount, tap Add discount before completing the sale.
Send or print the receipt
After every sale, Numa shows Sale complete.
- Tap Share to send the receipt as an image through any app on your phone, such as a messaging app.
- Or tap Print to print it on a Bluetooth receipt printer. Connect one first in Settings, under Receipt printer.
- Tap Done to start the next sale.