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 a BAS summary ready to lodge. You raise the purchase order for a delivery of stock in OneBookPlus. The goods land, you convert the PO to a bill, and the supplier bill drops into expenses with the 10% GST already split. You add the stock to each product with Adjust stock or a stocktake. 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 Daily Sales page shows yesterday's takings, the dashboard flags two SKUs as low stock, and a supplier bill is due Monday. The shop opens at 9am and the first sale is a regular who is a loyalty member: you find her by phone number at the till, the sale earns her points, and her receipt goes by email. By lunchtime, eight sales are through the till and the dashboard shows today's takings so far and how this week compares with last week. At 1pm a pallet of new stock lands from your supplier. You count it in with a stocktake, scanning each bar code to find its line (or import new lines from the CSV the supplier sent), convert the PO to a bill, and the new stock is 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, both sell from one stock count per size and colour. There are no separate counts per location yet, so what you pack for the stall still shows as on hand until it sells. 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 about 90 seconds. 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 jobs, one-off bookings and sales, your products and stock, supplier bills and the books, so you can trial the platform on a real Saturday before you commit. When you're ready for unlimited invoices, email campaigns, a website, advanced reporting 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.