Run your entire business—even when the internet goes down.

Setting up Mechia takes less than 5 minutes. Download Mechia from Google Play onto any Android phone, tablet or POS terminal. Sign up, choose your primary industry workspace, add your initial items or import an existing product list via CSV, and you are immediately ready to ring up sales. No IT consultant or technical training is required.

Mechia shapes its interface around your business type. Restaurants get table layouts, split bills, recipe ingredient deduction and Kitchen Display Systems (KDS). Hotels manage room calendars, housekeeping status and guest folios. Salons and service businesses manage booking calendars, client job cards and staff commission payouts.

Every scan, sale and till operation runs locally on an embedded SQLite engine on your device. Your cashier can ring up items, print receipts and calculate change with zero internet delay. When connectivity returns, Mechia’s background sync queue automatically reconciles all transactions to your cloud dashboard without interrupting sales.

Mechia connects seamlessly to standard 58mm and 80mm ESC/POS thermal printers via Bluetooth, USB or network LAN, as well as electronic cash drawers and handheld barcode scanners. The software runs smoothly on any Android phone, tablet or dedicated smart POS terminal with no costly proprietary hardware lock-in.

Mechia enforces strict role-based permissions with individual 4-digit PIN access. Cashiers cannot delete past sales or inspect overall business profits. Every sensitive action—including price overrides, cart voids, discounts and cash drawer openings—is permanently recorded in an append-only, tamper-proof audit trail with timestamps and employee IDs.

Only authorized owners and designated managers have access to cost prices, gross profit margins and business financial statements. Cashiers and till operators work in a restricted counter mode that only shows item prices, discounts and their own shift reconciliation, keeping your profits private.

Yes. With Pro and Enterprise plans, you can connect multiple shop locations, central warehouses and mobile terminals under one organization. Owners monitor live sales across all branches from anywhere, while staff initiate and confirm inter-branch stock transfers with built-in dispatch and reception tracking.

Every completed sale automatically deducts raw stock and variants (size, color, batch). When items reach their reorder threshold, Mechia sends low-stock warnings and drafts purchase orders. For pharmacies and grocery retailers, batch tracking flags expiring products well in advance to prevent stock loss.

Yes. Mechia provides flexible multi-tender payment splitting. A customer can pay part in cash and the remainder via Mobile Money (Orange Money, MTN MoMo, Wave, M-Pesa) or bank card. Every tender type is separately tallied so your evening cash drawer reconciliation and Z-report match down to the cent.

With a single tap at checkout, Mechia sends an itemized, branded digital receipt straight to the customer’s WhatsApp with zero paper waste. For trusted customers who buy on credit, Mechia records the balance in an automated customer debt ledger and allows you to send gentle payment reminders via WhatsApp in one click.

You maintain complete ownership of your data at all times. All transactions, customer contacts and inventory records are mirrored in encrypted cloud backups and can be exported to Excel or CSV at any moment. When upgrading to a new phone or tablet, simply log in to restore your entire business configuration in seconds.

No. Mechia charges 0% transaction fees on all sales. You keep 100% of your counter revenue. Plans are billed on a simple flat subscription with no lock-in contracts, and you can upgrade, downgrade or cancel at any time directly from the app.