Accounting software for shops in Jordan: what the till works out for you, and what stays with your accountant

In short: Ghalleh is accounting software for shops in Jordan: simple bookkeeping that records everything at the counter: sales, purchases, cost, profit, debts and expenses, with tax on every invoice sent to JoFotara, and you see it on your phone. Financial statements, the income tax return and payroll stay with your accountant, whose work gets faster because the figures arrive complete.

Accounting software for a shop is the app that records your sales, purchases, expenses and debts, and works out your profit from them. When a shop owner searches for it, they rarely want a general ledger and a chart of accounts. They want three numbers: how much they sold, how much they made, and who owes whom. The counter produces those numbers every day, and a good cashier app works them out while you sell. Part of accounting, though, is not a till's job and stays with an accountant. This page draws the line clearly.

What a shop owner means by accounting software

In Jordan you hear the same phrase from a grocer in Zarqa and from the manager of a company in Amman, and they mean different things. The company needs journal entries, a trial balance and financial statements an auditor signs off. The shop first needs its daily numbers to be right: every sale recorded, every return tied to its invoice, every dinar that left the drawer accounted for.

So shop owners tend to make one of two mistakes. Either they buy accounting software built for companies, find its sales screen too slow for the counter, and the cashier goes back to paper while someone types the numbers in later. Or they stay with a notebook and a calculator, and at month end the accountant gets a bag of receipts and builds the books on guesswork.

The middle road is simpler: a cashier app that records every movement in the shop as it happens, and an accountant who turns those figures into books and returns. Each does the part they are good at.

Simple bookkeeping for a shop: what Ghalleh records every day

Many owners just want simple bookkeeping: an app that knows the numbers without them having to learn accounting. Ghalleh is built around the counter, and everything that crosses it becomes a stored figure with no second entry.

• Sales: every invoice with its items, prices, discounts and payment method, whether cash, card, CliQ or credit, or split across several.
• Tax on every invoice: each item's rate and the tax amount. Ghalleh then sends the invoice to JoFotara and the QR prints on the receipt.
• Returns and refunds, linked to the original invoice rather than quietly subtracted from sales.
• Purchases: supplier invoices that update your item costs, plus what you owe each supplier. Ghalleh reads a supplier invoice from a photo or a PDF instead of you typing it line by line.
• Cost and profit: sales minus the cost of goods sold, per item and per day, not just a sales total.
• Debts: each customer's balance with part payments and due dates, statements, and the total still unpaid.
• Expenses paid from the drawer with their reason and category, and cash differences when each shift closes.
• Stock: quantities, stock value at cost, stocktake by scanning, and item import and price updates from an Excel or CSV file.

Accounting software connected to JoFotara

In typical accounting software an invoice reaches JoFotara from the invoices screen, usually after someone has typed it in. In Ghalleh the invoice is issued with the sale itself: it goes to JoFotara, the QR code prints on the customer's receipt, and the amount and tax land in the day's figures.

If the internet drops, selling continues, and Ghalleh resends the invoices on its own when the connection returns; an invoice rejected for another reason is resent once you fix the cause. At month end your accountant gets Ghalleh's accountant file: a PDF with sales, tax and the JoFotara status of each invoice, so nothing has to be typed into their software again.

Accounting on your phone

Ghalleh is an app on your phone first. The owner sees sales, profit, expenses and debts from anywhere, gets a notification for every sale and a weekly PDF report. The cashier sells on an Android phone, a tablet, a POS terminal with Google Play, or a Windows PC at the counter, all on one account.

That is different from accounting software on an office PC: the numbers are with you at home or at the supplier's, and you know what you sold before the drawer is closed.

What stays with your accountant

Some ads promise the software replaces your accountant. Ghalleh does not. These jobs stay with your accountant, or with the accounting software they use:

• Financial statements: income statement, balance sheet and cash flow, in the format a bank, the Companies Control Department or an auditor expects.
• The annual income tax return, and the judgement on which expenses are allowed.
• Sales tax returns if your shop is registered. Ghalleh supplies the sales and tax figures; the accountant checks them and files.
• Payroll accounting: salaries, social security and income tax deductions. Ghalleh records attendance hours and salary advances, but it does not run payroll or calculate deductions.
• Journal entries, the chart of accounts, depreciation of fridges or shelving, and bank reconciliation.
• Professional advice: whether to register for sales tax, which invoice type fits you, how to treat a partner's drawings.

Who does what, at a glance

Here is how the work splits between the cashier app and your accountant.

The simple rule: whatever happens at the counter belongs in the till; whatever needs professional judgement or a signature belongs with the accountant.

Example: a small supermarket in Irbid

A supermarket issuing around 150 invoices a day, two cashiers on two shifts, and an outside accountant who comes once a month. Before an electronic till, the accountant spent days collecting receipts and supplier invoices, then estimated profit with a rough margin because nobody knew the real cost of what was sold.

With a cashier app that records everything, month end looks different. Sales and tax are split and ready, purchase invoices are in and item costs are current, profit after cost is known, total customer debt is visible, stock value is calculated. The accountant reviews, posts and files, and the owner knows the month's profit before the accountant's report arrives.

The accountant is still there, but the job has become checking rather than gathering. That can mean fewer billable hours, and more importantly fewer errors, because the numbers came from the source.

Accounting software in Jordan compared: when you need a full suite too

The cloud accounting products known in Jordan, such as Daftra, Qoyod, Tadkek and Mothooq, offer a chart of accounts, journal entries and financial statements, and some include a sales screen. We put Qoyod, Daftra and Mothooq with Odoo and Ghalleh in one table on the Qoyod vs Daftra vs Mothooq page, with the price each vendor publishes and how each describes its JoFotara link. You will want one of them, alongside the till or with your accountant, when:

• You are a registered company that needs audited statements every year and an in-house accountant.
• You sell a lot on credit to businesses, with contracts, payment terms and guarantees.
• You import goods and need customs duties and freight spread across items.
• You run several companies or have partners with shares that each need separate accounts.
• You run long projects or contracts with profit recognised in stages.

QuickBooks, Zoho Books and JoFotara

Some companies in Jordan use international accounting software such as QuickBooks and Zoho Books. These do not connect to JoFotara directly: the site of QuickBooks' Jordan reseller (quickbooksjordan.com) mentions linking through middleware, Zoho's marketplace lists third-party extensions for Jordanian e-invoicing, and the Jordan Connector tool (jordan-connector.avtax.net) says it sends QuickBooks and Zoho Books invoices to JoFotara, at a price its page does not show. We checked these pages in October 2026.

If your company runs on one of them and it suits you, a paid connector is a workable route; test it on real invoices before relying on it. If your business is a shop selling at a counter, a POS connected to JoFotara that sends every sale on its own does away with the connector, and your accountant carries on in the software they know.

Three questions for your accountant before you choose

The accountant who will work on your numbers is the one who decides what they need. Spend fifteen minutes with them before buying anything and ask:

• Which figures do you need from me each month, and in how much detail?
• Do you use your own accounting software, and is a monthly file from the till enough, or do you need a technical integration?
• Which invoice type fits my shop and which tax rates apply to my items, so we set them up correctly from day one?

How to start with Ghalleh

Download Ghalleh from Google Play on your phone, sign in with your mobile number and a code sent by SMS, and create your shop in minutes. Add items by barcode, import them from an Excel file, or pick from about 388 ready packaged supermarket items. If there is a Windows PC at the counter, the PC version is on the download page. Sell for a full week as usual, then go through the figures with your accountant: sales, tax, returns, expenses, profit and debts.

The trial is 14 days free with every feature and no card. Then you choose a plan in dinar inside the app through Google Play: Start is 5 JOD a month or 35 JOD a year, and Pro is 12 JOD a month or 99 JOD a year. If you do not subscribe, the shop becomes read only and your data stays saved.

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