Sales, stock, invoicing. All from your phone.

If you run a boutique shop on a high street, a homewares store in a regional town, or a weekend market stall under a gazebo, you already know the stack: Square or Lightspeed for the till, Xero for the books, a spreadsheet for stock, and probably a notebook for the supplier orders. Each tool costs money, none of them talk to each other properly, and at the end of the quarter you still hand the accountant a USB stick of CSV exports and pray they line up. OneBookPlus replaces all of that with a single app built for how Australian retailers actually work: on the counter, on the floor, at the market, and on your phone in the car between deliveries.

The platform covers the full retail lifecycle from supplier purchase order to customer sale to BAS lodgement. A supplier sends an invoice for a delivery of stock and you raise the purchase order in OneBookPlus. The goods land, you mark the PO received, and the stock-on-hand for each SKU is updated automatically. The supplier bill drops into expenses with the 10% GST already split. A customer walks in, you ring up the sale on the counter tablet (or the phone in your apron pocket if you're at a pop-up). The card terminal or Apple Pay handles the payment, the SKU decrements, and a receipt is emailed to the customer if they want one. Their email goes onto the CRM record so next time there's a new drop, you can message them directly without paying Mailchimp.

Your Daily Workflow

Picture a typical Saturday. You open OneBookPlus at 7:30am over a coffee. The dashboard shows yesterday's takings, two SKUs flagged as low stock, one customer awaiting a layby follow-up, and a supplier bill due Monday. You confirm the layby with a tap. The shop opens at 9am and the first sale is a regular: the system recognises her phone number, applies the 10% loyalty discount, and emails her receipt. By lunchtime, eight sales are through the till and the dashboard's daily-takings ticker shows you're tracking 12% above the same Saturday last month. At 1pm a pallet of new stock lands from your supplier. You scan the bar codes (or import the CSV the supplier sent), mark the PO received, and the new SKUs are live on the till by 1:15pm. At 6pm you cash out: takings reconcile to the float, the GST tally for the day is sitting at $187, and end-of-day takes about 90 seconds.

Market Stalls & Pop-Ups

For weekend market traders and pop-up operators, OneBookPlus runs as a fully mobile POS. No counter and no fixed till, just the phone in your apron pocket. Take the card on the terminal you already carry, with the till recording the tender against the sale. Tapping the card on the phone itself is not live: Tap to Pay on iPhone is built but stays switched off in the public app until Apple grants the distribution entitlement. Customers tap, pay, you hand them the goods, and the receipt goes to their phone by email or SMS if they want one. Cash sales go through in two taps; the takings sit alongside the card sales in the same dashboard. At the end of the market day, you reconcile cash to the float and the GST is already tallied. If you trade both a shop and a weekend market, stock is tracked per location so the stall doesn't oversell what's already gone from the shop floor. Casual-trader permits, public-liability insurance and stallholder paperwork are referenced in our Market Stall Permits by State guide so you know what your council requires before you turn up.

Accounting & BAS

Supplier bills go in by photo or PDF and the scanner reads the supplier, date, GST and total off them, so you are not typing a stack of invoices at the end of the week. Payments you record are matched to the bill or invoice they belong to, so accounts payable and the overdue list both stay clean. GST collected on sales and GST paid on bills are both tallied as you trade. When BAS time rolls around, quarterly for most retailers, you export a clean summary covering GST, sales, expenses and net amount due, and hand it to your accountant or lodge it yourself through the ATO portal. No shoebox of receipts, no Sunday-night spreadsheet reconciliation.

Consumer Guarantees, Returns & Refunds

Australian retail is governed by the Australian Consumer Law (ACL), which makes consumer guarantees automatic on every sale. If a product has a major fault, the customer chooses the remedy (refund, replacement or repair) and a “no refunds” sign is unlawful in that context. OneBookPlus tracks the original sale, the refund, the restock and the GST adjustment in one record, so if a dispute lands in NSW Fair Trading, Consumer Affairs Victoria or VCAT, your evidence trail is intact. Our Consumer Guarantees (ACL) reference page walks through section 54 (acceptable quality), section 55 (fitness for purpose) and the refund-vs-replace decision tree.

Getting Started

Sign up in under a minute. No credit card required. Add your ABN, upload your logo, set your default GST treatment and your payment terms. Import existing products from a Square, Shopify or Lightspeed CSV export, or add SKUs as you go. Most retailers are running their first sale through the till within fifteen minutes of signing up. The free plan covers unlimited sales and up to a few hundred SKUs, so you can trial the platform on a real Saturday before you commit. When you're ready for multi-location stock, advanced CRM segmentation or a larger team, upgrade to a paid plan, still a fraction of what a Lightspeed Retail plus Xero plus Mailchimp stack costs each month.