Built for one shopkeeper first.
Abosto exists because of a specific person, in a specific shop, who couldn't afford software that fit him. Everything config-driven about this product traces back to that.
Why Abosto exists
Built for my father first
My father ran businesses that couldn't afford proper software or hardware. As a boy, I wished I could build something that made his life easier. So I learned to program and built POS systems, more than once. At university, my final-year POS CRM impressed the whole panel. It didn't impress me. I knew I'd built it wrong, and I knew what was missing: real experience. So after graduation I joined a consulting firm and spent years across many industries learning how good software is actually made: standards, security, architecture.
Then I started Abosto. Sleepless nights. Going back to the drawing board more often than I went to sleep. What came out the other side is config-driven and data-driven, so it can fit almost any business. The truth is, we can't build every business owner a dedicated interface. But we can give you one you can shape to your own business.
Ab_Kiros, Founder of Abosto
Still building what I wished for as a boy.
From sentence to system
The founder's sentence, turned into architecture
“We can't build every owner a dedicated interface, but we can give you one you can shape.” That isn't a slogan we wrote afterwards. It's the specification.
It's why the forms are assembled from configuration instead of hand-built. It's why a field you add is typed and indexed rather than dropped in a notes box. And it's why the fields you invent reach the till and your reports without anyone at Abosto shipping a release for you.
See what that means in practiceThree things we hold to
Say where the edges are
Every product has limits. Ours are written on the features page, in public, including what we haven't built yet. Find our edges from us, not from a bad afternoon in month three.
One source of truth per shop
We won't build a setup that lets two tills disagree about the last item on the shelf. Losing a sale is safer than corrupting a stock count.
Your data stays yours
Your own database, not a shared table with a filter. Cancel whenever you want, and export your data for 30 days after you leave.
Where we are
Early, and saying so
We're a young company. We do not hold SOC 2 or ISO 27001 certification, and we won't imply we do. There's no logo wall on this site because we haven't earned one yet.
What I will do is sit down with you or your IT person and go through exactly how it works, in as much detail as you want.
How we handle your dataFour surfaces, one system.
Not four products stitched together after the fact. One backend, one set of rules, four ways in.
The till
Where the selling happens. On the Windows app, Starter plan and above, it keeps trading through an outage and catches up with the cloud after.
The back office
Stock, products, customers, staff and reporting, and where you shape the forms.
The hardware agent
Runs on the till machine and talks to the receipt printer, scanner and cash drawer so the till doesn't have to.
Platform administration
Ours, not yours: how we provision and support businesses on the platform.
Every shop, one view.
Each shop keeps its own trade, its own prices and its own tax. One account reads all of them together, and head office sees the total without anyone exporting anything.
Get in touch
Tell us about your shop
Whether you're exploring options or ready to deploy, we'd love to hear from you. Fill out the form and we'll come back to you within one business day.