A bakery POS that sells loaves, manages batches, and takes cake orders
Scale pricing, batch & expiry, custom-cake deposits — sorted.
NinoPOS handles the realities of running a bakery: bread sold by weight, batches with expiry dates, custom-cake orders with deposits, and a snack-bar counter that needs to move fast at lunchtime.
Running a bakery / snack bar today
- Loaves and pastries priced by guesswork at the till
- Custom-cake orders forgotten because they live in WhatsApp
- Yesterday’s stock sold as fresh — and customers notice
- No idea which products actually pay for themselves
Running a bakery / snack bar on NinoPOS
- Weight-priced bread integrated with a digital scale
- Cake orders captured with deposit, pickup date, customer notes
- Batch & expiry tracked; FEFO ensures fresh-first selling
- Margin per product live — kill the loss-leaders, push the winners
Everything your bakery / snack bar actually needs
Purpose-built tools — not a generic POS with the wrong defaults.
Scale-priced & whole-piece items
Sell bread by gram with a connected scale, or by piece for pastries and snacks. Mixed in one ticket.
- Scale integration
- Weight or piece
- Bulk discounts
- Daily price changes
Custom cake & event orders
Capture order details, pickup date, customer notes, and a deposit. Daily diary so nothing is missed.
- Custom order form
- Deposit + balance
- Pickup-date diary
- Customer notes & photos
Batch & expiry tracking
Each bake batch tagged with expiry. FEFO selling ensures freshest goes last; stale auto-flagged.
- Batch IDs
- Expiry alerts
- FEFO selling
- Waste log
Production & ingredient stock
Recipes drive flour, sugar, yeast deduction. Production sheet shows what to bake from forecasted sales.
- Recipe-driven stock
- Production sheet
- Ingredient POs
- Waste / spoilage
M-Pesa, card, cash
Daraja STK push, card, cash; deposits and balances on cake orders, all reconciled.
- M-Pesa Daraja
- Card support
- Deposit + balance
- Mixed-tender splits
Morning bake & margin reports
What sold yesterday, what to bake this morning, margin per item, top customers — emailed at 5am.
- Daily bake forecast
- Margin per item
- Top items / customers
- Z-reports
How a bakery / snack bar runs on NinoPOS
From the first order of the day to the closing report — one workflow, one screen.
1. Bake & batch
Production sheet says what to bake. Tag each batch with expiry.
2. Stock the counter
Items go to the counter at full freshness; FEFO selling enforced.
3. Take orders
Counter sales, weighed bread, snack tickets — all flow through one POS.
4. Cake orders
Capture pickup date, deposit, notes; reminders fire ahead of pickup.
5. Pay
M-Pesa, card, cash; deposits and balances on cakes split correctly.
6. Reports
Margin per item, waste, tomorrow’s production sheet — daily.
Local payments, currencies, and connectivity — sorted out of the box
Every bakery / snack bar on NinoPOS gets M-Pesa Daraja, multi-currency, full offline mode, and WhatsApp customer messaging without a single plugin or add-on.
- M-Pesa Daraja STK push for instant payments
- TZS, KES, UGX, RWF, USD — multi-currency invoicing
- Offline mode for areas with unstable internet
- WhatsApp for receipts, reminders, and orders
- Local tax (VAT) reporting baked in
Frequently asked questions
Specific to bakery & snack bar operations.
Can I price bread by weight using a scale?
Yes — connect a digital scale and price-by-weight is automatic on the ticket. Whole-piece items work in the same basket.
How are custom cake orders managed?
Capture customer details, pickup date, notes / photos, deposit and balance. The pickup diary reminds you ahead of every collection.
Does NinoPOS track batch and expiry?
Yes. Each batch is tagged with an expiry date, and FEFO (first-expiry-first-out) selling is enforced so customers always get fresh.
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Modules every bakery / snack bar uses heavily.
Ready to run your bakery / snack bar on NinoPOS?
Free to start, no credit card required. Be selling within an hour.