The offline-first POS
platform for South African retail

Yes — on the Professional plan and above, Abosto POS is offline-first. Transactions are processed and stored locally on your device, then synced to the cloud automatically when connectivity returns, so load-shedding or a dropped connection never stops a sale.

It depends on your setup — store count, POS devices, and transaction volumes. Abosto has a genuinely free plan you can start on today, and paid plans are quoted for your specific business. Request a quote and we’ll price it for your stores.

Not to get started — skip the install entirely and any browser on a PC, laptop or tablet becomes a till in minutes. Selling through outages is the one thing that needs an install: add the Abosto Desktop app on a single till, or once as a hub that powers every till in the store over your local network, and sales are captured on the device and synced when you’re back online.

Yes — Abosto rings up the sale and records the payment type, while your card machine processes the payment on its own network, exactly as it does today. No integration or new hardware is needed, and Abosto is not affiliated with these providers.

Any modern PC, laptop or tablet works. Abosto supports standard ESC/POS receipt printers, barcode scanners, label printers and payment terminals through the open-source Abosto device proxy — no proprietary hardware required.

Your data is encrypted in transit and at rest, hosted on enterprise-grade cloud infrastructure, and each business runs in its own isolated tenant. See our Privacy Policy for details on how we handle personal information under POPIA.

Yes. Products can be imported in bulk from CSV, and our guided onboarding walks you through stores, staff and hardware setup step by step.