A Loyverse alternative in Jordan: the same phone ease, plus JoFotara

What Loyverse does well

Loyverse is one of the most widely used free POS apps, so we start with what it gets right. You install it on a phone or tablet and sell within minutes, it works offline, and it has a simple loyalty programme and a web dashboard for sales and items. For a small shop where basic selling is enough, it is a reasonable start that costs nothing.

The POS itself really is free. What you pay for are the add-ons: full sales history, employee management and advanced inventory. Each add-on can be tried free for 14 days before you pay.

Where it stops in Jordan

JoFotara is the biggest difference. As of 2 October 2026, Loyverse's official website does not mention any connection to Jordan's national e-invoicing system. A third-party connector lists Loyverse among the systems it supports, but that is a separate subscription and setup we have not tested, and it is on you to check that every invoice arrives and the QR prints on the receipt. If your shop uses JoFotara, ask about this before anything else.

The price also grows with the shop. Take a shop with three employees that wants full sales history and advanced inventory: at the published yearly prices it pays $50 for history, $150 for the three employees and $250 for inventory, $450 a year, or about 319 JOD. That is not a flaw in Loyverse, but it is a number to know before you compare it with a plan in dinars.

Looking for a POS on your PC?

If you want to sell on the counter PC, Ghalleh runs on Windows 10 and 11 as an installed app, on the same shop account you use on your phone. You sell with the keyboard and a barcode scanner, print on a USB printer, and everything you sell on the PC shows on your phone instantly. The download and install steps are in the Windows section of the download page.

Before you switch: get these ready

• A recent stock count, or at least one for your best sellers, so you start in Ghalleh with real quantities.
• A quiet day for the move. Keep Loyverse running until your first full day of selling on Ghalleh is done.
• A list of customers with open debts and their current balances.
• A computer with Excel or a Google Sheets account if you want to tidy the file before the move. If the file is tidy, you do not need one.

Step by step: from a Loyverse file to Ghalleh

Loyverse exports items as a CSV file, and Ghalleh reads CSV directly, as well as Excel files in xlsx or xls format, up to 20,000 rows a file. No template, and no copying columns from one file to another.

• In Loyverse, open the Back Office in your browser, go to Items, then Item list, and press Export. A CSV file with all your items downloads, without images.
• If you like, open the file in Excel or Google Sheets and tidy it: remove discontinued items and check the name, barcode, price and quantity columns. If it is tidy, move it as it is.
• In Ghalleh, open Import items and pick the file from your phone or your PC.
• Ghalleh matches the columns from their titles: name, category, barcode, cost, price and quantity. Check them before you continue, and fix any column it read the wrong way.
• A preview shows three lists: new items, items you already have, and rows with problems, each with its reason. You add the new ones and choose whether to update the prices or quantities of the existing ones.
• Save, then scan five random items with the camera to check the barcode and price are right.

Common mistakes when moving, and how to avoid them

• An empty quantity column: always fill it, because an item imported without a quantity does not reflect your real stock. If you re-import later to update prices, remember that the file's quantity replaces the current one for existing items you choose to update.
• Barcodes turning into numbers like 6.21E+12 in Excel: if you open the file in Excel, set the barcode column to text before saving, or the last digits are lost.
• Prices with a currency symbol or a comma: enter the number only, with a decimal point, like 1.250.
• Items with variants, such as size or colour, can appear on several lines in the Loyverse file: check them one by one after the import.
• Images do not move because Loyverse does not export them: add photos for your best sellers from the phone after the switch.

What about customers and sales history?

Ghalleh's import is for items. Export your customer list from Loyverse and keep it, then add the customers with open debts to Ghalleh first, with their current balances, since they matter in week one. The rest get added the next time they buy.

Old sales history does not move between the two apps. Before you stop using Loyverse, export the reports you need and keep them for your accountant, or to compare this year with last year.