POS software for your Windows PC, while you follow along on your phone

In short: Ghalleh is POS software for PC, for Windows 10 and 11, that you download from ghalleh.com and link to your shop with a code from your phone: keyboard, barcode scanner, printer and cash drawer, and selling that continues offline. The owner sees every sale on their phone the same second, and the trial is 14 days free.

Ghalleh is POS software for Windows PCs that you download straight from ghalleh.com and link to your shop from your phone, so the cashier sells on the PC and you see every sale on your phone. Plenty of shops in Jordan have had a PC on the counter for years, running an old program, an Excel sheet, or nothing at all. A PC is a comfortable place to sell: big screen, real keyboard, a scanner plugged in. Here is how Ghalleh works on a PC, what hardware you need, and how to start step by step.

Why a PC on the counter

A phone makes an excellent till for a small shop. In a supermarket, building materials store or auto parts shop, where a customer brings ten items or more, a PC is faster: the screen shows the whole invoice, searching by name is easier on a keyboard, and a wired scanner reads without anyone holding a device.

A PC also suits the typing-heavy jobs: adding new products, changing prices, entering a supplier invoice with fifty lines. That is tiring on a phone screen and quick on a PC.

You do not have to choose, though. The PC and the phone share one Ghalleh account, so the cashier sells on the PC, you sell from the phone when you need to, and every sale lands in the same place.

Download POS software for a Windows PC, with a 14-day free trial

The PC version of Ghalleh is an app you install on Windows 10 (version 1809 or newer) or Windows 11, 64-bit. You download the installer directly from the Windows section of the download page on ghalleh.com, and the download is free.

The free trial starts when you create your shop from your phone: 14 days with every feature and no card, and the PC is part of it. The blue Windows protection window may show once during install, because the installer is not code-signed yet, and the download page explains how to get past it. Next to the file, Ghalleh publishes its SHA-256 fingerprint, so you can check that the file you downloaded is ours, unchanged.

How to start on a PC: the phone comes first

1. Get Ghalleh on your phone from Google Play
   The owner starts on the phone, because the shop is created from the phone, not from the PC.
2. Sign in with your mobile number
   A code arrives by SMS, with no password.
3. Create your shop
   Name, type and city, and your 14-day free trial starts.
4. Install Ghalleh on the PC
   Download the installer from the Windows section of the download page, open it and finish the steps.
5. Link the PC to your shop
   On your phone open Devices, then Link a PC, and a code starting with GH appears. Type it on the PC with the owner's PIN.
6. Add your items
   Import them from an Excel or CSV file of up to 20,000 rows, scan them in, or pick from about 388 ready packaged supermarket items.
7. Make a test sale
   Connect the scanner and printer, sell one item for a small amount, and check that the receipt printed and the sale showed on your phone.

What the PC brings to the counter

• Keyboard shortcuts: search, quantity, hold and pay on the F keys, and you choose which key does what from F1 to F12.
• An on-screen number pad for the amount paid and quantities, alongside the keyboard's own number keys.
• A USB or Bluetooth barcode scanner adds the item to the sale from anywhere on the selling screen, with no need to click the search box first.
• Printing on USB receipt printers and Windows printers, and opening a cash drawer connected to the printer on cash sales.
• Updates reach the PC on their own, and each new version is checked against its fingerprint before it installs.
• Linking with a GH code from the owner's phone, and the PC stays linked until you sign it out from Devices on your phone.

Selling from the keyboard

On a PC, Ghalleh has keyboard shortcuts, so the cashier moves between product search, quantity, discount and payment without reaching for the mouse at every step. A cashier who gets used to them becomes much faster, especially at peak hour with five people in the queue.

Search works by name or part of a name: type the first letters and pick from the results. That matters for items with no barcode, such as loose vegetables, pastries by the piece, or a spare part the cashier knows by name.

What you need at the till is on the PC too: item or invoice discounts, split payments across cash, card, CliQ and credit, held sales, returns, and printing the receipt.

A USB barcode scanner

A USB scanner is the simplest and most useful add-on for a PC. You plug it into the PC, pass the item in front of it, and it goes straight into the invoice. Ghalleh works with USB and Bluetooth barcode scanners.

Before buying, ask the seller whether it reads barcodes on curved bags and shiny packaging, and whether it works on Windows without a special driver. Most standard scanners act like a keyboard: they type the barcode number and press Enter, which is exactly what a till needs.

No scanner yet? Sell by searching names, or with the camera of your phone or tablet for the first few days, until you know which scanner suits your counter.

Printer and cash drawer

The thermal receipt is what the customer takes away, with the JoFotara QR on it. On a PC, Ghalleh prints on USB receipt printers and Windows printers; on phones and tablets, on a Bluetooth thermal printer (58 or 80 mm) or the built-in printer of an Android POS terminal such as Sunmi or iMin. If you have a printer attached to your PC, or plan to buy one, print the test page from Ghalleh's settings before relying on it, because connection methods vary from printer to printer.

Pick the paper width that suits you: 80 mm gives a clearer receipt for long invoices, 58 mm is smaller and cheaper on paper. A cash drawer connects to the printer and opens with it on cash sales, so test it with your printer before buying.

You on your phone, the cashier on the PC

This is what an old till installed on one machine cannot give you. Every sale on the counter PC shows up on your phone the same second, wherever you are. You choose the notifications: every sale, sales above an amount, or progress toward today's target.

You also get the alerts that need your attention: an item running low, a big discount given by an employee, a refund, a cash difference when a shift closes.

From the phone you see what the PC sees: sales, invoices, stock, profit and debts, because both are on one account. Staff accounts with their own permissions mean the cashier sells at the counter but does not see profit or change prices unless you allow it. Your subscription is managed from your phone, not the PC.

A second counter, or a PC in the back office

As the shop grows, add another device to the same account: a tablet on a second counter for peak hours, or a PC in the office where you enter purchase invoices and change prices while the cashier sells. Every device sees the same products, and a sale on any of them comes off the same stock.

Reports show how much each employee sold, so the two counters never get mixed up. Every feature is in every plan, and the difference is the number of devices: Start covers two selling devices, and Pro up to 5.

When the internet drops

On the PC, the cashier keeps selling and printing receipts when the internet goes down, just as Ghalleh does on phones and tablets. Invoices are saved on the device, and once the connection is back they sync and go to JoFotara automatically.

Just note that your phone will not see the PC's sales during the outage, because they have not arrived yet. They all appear once the shop is back online, along with the notifications you missed.

Free POS software for a PC?

Downloading Ghalleh for the PC is free, and the trial is 14 days free with every feature and no card, once per mobile number. Then you choose a plan in dinar inside the app on your phone: Start is 5 JOD a month, 35 JOD a year or 79 JOD once for three years, for two selling devices, and the PC counts as a selling device. If you do not subscribe, the shop becomes read only and your data stays saved. Ghalleh has no permanent free plan.

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