Retail Express · Square · Lightspeed · Shopify POS · RMS · Counterpoint · and more

Your stock data is stuck behind the counter. Your floor shouldn't be.

Old till or cloud till, PosBridge reads the data your system already produces and puts it in your pocket — scan any item, see price, cost and stock on the spot, and know exactly what to pull from the back room before the shelf runs dry.

PosBridge mobile app showing a scanned barcode, product details, cost, price, and stock level
Works with what you already have

Legacy, established or cloud — all of them get mobile

PosBridge doesn't replace your point of sale — it reads the reports it already produces. Whether that's a 2005 back-office server, Retail Express, Square or Shopify POS: if it can export a file, print a report, share a sheet or write a nightly backup, it fits.

Legacy & discontinued

Still running the shop, no longer getting updates.

Microsoft Dynamics RMSMicrosoft Dynamics POS 2009QuickBooks Desktop POSMYOB RetailManagerAldelo POSPOSIMCash Register ExpressAmberPOSQuicksilver POSUniwell

Established retail systems

Modern enough, but the reporting lives on a back-office PC.

NCR CounterpointRetail ProEpicor EagleTower SystemsIdealposSwiftPOSBepozSurefire (Triquestra)Retail DirectionsInfinity POS

Cloud & current tills

Great at selling, thin on warehouse picking and ordering.

Retail Express (Maropost)Square POSShopify POSLightspeed Retail (X & R)VendKountaCloverNeto / MaropostCin7ErplyLoyverseTyro-connected tills

+ any system that exports a CSV, Excel file or backup

The real cost of data stuck at the counter

Your system isn't broken. It's just stuck behind a counter.

Till systems — the twenty-year-old ones and the shiny cloud ones — are very good at what they do: taking money and keeping a ledger. What they don't do is follow you onto the floor, into the stockroom, or into a supplier meeting. Every gap between “the data exists” and “the data is in your hand” is paid for in walking, guessing, and stock that never gets sold.

An old beige POS terminal and receipt printer on a cluttered retail back-office counter

“What’s the price on this?”

A walk to the back office, every single time — and the customer waiting while you do it.

→Scan it where you stand. Price, cost, margin and stock on one screen, where you stand.

The shelf is empty but the stockroom isn’t

Stock sitting in the back and selling none, because nobody knew it was there. In a short season, that stock never sells at full price.

→A rolling pick list built from yesterday’s actual sales tells staff exactly what to bring out.

Ordering by gut feel

Too many of the slow line, not enough of the one that sold out in week two — and the reorder arrives after the season ends.

→A 30-day AI forecast that reads your own sales history and seasonal curve, and resets reorder points automatically.

Stocktake means closing the shop

Paper sheets and numbers that are wrong by Monday.

→Scan-as-you-go counts with live variance, done in aisles while you trade.

What we see in seasonal retail

The money is rarely lost at the till. It's lost in the gaps.

Independent shops don't fail on price — they leak margin through invisible stock, missed reorders and unanswered customer requests. Here's where it goes, and what PosBridge does about each one.

Slow movers quietly tie up your cash

In seasonal shops the tail is long — novelty lines bought once and never repeated. PosBridge flags dead stock by days-since-last-sale, so you can discount it while people are still in a buying mood, not in February.

Customer requests get lost on sticky notes

“We’ll call you when it’s back in” usually means a note that never gets read again. The Asks list records who wanted what, and when the stock lands it drafts the WhatsApp or SMS message for you — one tap, sale recovered.

A seasonal line has one short window

There is no second chance at a seasonal reorder. The planning calendar counts you down from twelve weeks out and the forecast tells you what to commit to before the supplier cut-off, not after.

Paper counts turn into untraceable variance

Every count, adjustment and pick in PosBridge is scanned and attributed — who touched it, when, and what changed. Variance stops being a mystery and becomes a list you can act on.

These are the patterns we built the app around. We don't quote figures we haven't measured — the app measures yours and shows them in Reports.

How it connects

Four ways in. Pick the one your shop can actually do.

Every connection lives in one Connect tab with its own schedule, run-now button, live logs, test-file preview and retry-failed-rows action. Nothing is written back to your POS — the bridge only reads.

Diagram showing a legacy POS server sending data through a bridge module to a smartphone
[ 01 ]First step

Upload what you already have

A backup file, a stock export, or last month's supplier invoices. PosBridge reads Excel and CSV, merges repeat lines, pulls product photos out of the invoice, and builds your catalogue.

[ 02 ]Hands-off

Drop a folder watcher on the shop PC

A tiny script you download from the app. Point your POS's scheduled report at a folder and the watcher uploads it automatically — no one has to remember to export anything again.

[ 03 ]No change needed

Or keep your daily Google Sheet

Already emailing yourself a daily sales tab? Point PosBridge at the sheet. It compares today against yesterday, works out what actually sold, and updates stock overnight.

[ 04 ]Advanced

Direct database link when you're ready

If you have a read-only database login for your till system, connect direct for near-live numbers. Same app, same screens — just a fresher feed.

No SQL password? No problem. Most shops that bought a business second-hand never got the database login. Options 01–03 need nothing more than a file your POS can already print or export.
Core capabilities

Built for the floor, not the boardroom.

[ 01 ]

Answer any customer where you stand

Scan the barcode or type three letters of the description. Price, cost, margin, on-hand and back-room stock appear on one screen — on the floor, not at the terminal.

[ 02 ]

A pick list that writes itself

Overnight, PosBridge compares today's stock against yesterday's and works out what sold. In the morning your team gets a swipe-to-action list of exactly what to bring out.

[ 03 ]

Reorder rules that match real shelves

Standard hooks hold six, so reorder at three. Bulky or expensive lines reorder after one or two sales. Set the rule once and stop counting hooks by eye.

[ 04 ]

Stocktake without closing

Scan aisle by aisle while you trade. Live variance against expected, a printable sheet, and a CSV you can hand to the accountant.

[ 05 ]

Never lose a customer request

Log who asked for what. When stock arrives, one tap drafts the WhatsApp or SMS message — with the item name and your shop's wording already in it.

[ 06 ]

Photos pulled from your invoices

Supplier order forms usually have the picture embedded. PosBridge extracts it, matches it to the item code, and fills your catalogue with real images automatically.

[ 07 ]

Season planning built in

Halloween and Christmas checklists start 12 weeks out. Countdown, tasks, notes, and low-stock reminders all land on one shared calendar the whole team can see.

[ 08 ]

Works when the Wi-Fi doesn't

The stockroom dead-spot won't stop you. Recent catalogue is cached on the phone and any adjustment you make queues up and syncs the moment signal returns.

A day on the floor

What changes from Monday morning.

  1. 07:40

    Overnight sync has already run

    Yesterday's sales are in, stock is adjusted, and the morning brief says what moved and what's about to run out.

  2. 08:15

    Pick list, not guesswork

    Staff open the Pick tab, scan and swipe as they fill the shelves. Every action is logged against their name.

  3. 11:30

    Price check on the floor

    A customer holds up an unlabelled box. Scan, answer, sell — without leaving them standing there.

  4. 14:00

    Invoice lands, catalogue updates

    Drop the supplier's spreadsheet in. New lines added, changed costs updated, repeat lines merged, photos extracted.

  5. 17:45

    Tomorrow's order, already drafted

    The AI forecast reads 30 days ahead and tells you what to buy first, how many, and why.

Shop worker scanning a boxed Christmas ornament with a phone in a seasonal stockroom
AI where it actually earns its keep

Not a chatbot. A buyer who never forgets last season.

Every AI feature here answers a question you already ask out loud in the stockroom — using your sales, your costs and your season, not generic advice.

30-day demand forecast

Weighted recent sales plus a seasonal curve, per item. It resets your low-stock points automatically instead of leaving them at whatever you typed in March.

Ask your stock, in plain English

“What sold best last week?” “What haven’t we sold since June?” Type the question, get the answer from your own numbers — no report builder.

Automatic keyword tagging

Staff search for “red baubles”, the system named it “XMAS BALL 8CM AST”. AI adds the words people actually use so search stops failing.

Setup advice that reads your setup

If a sync fails or a column doesn't map, the Connect tab explains what went wrong in normal language and what to change.

The maths

Work it out on your own numbers, not ours.

Floor time recovered instead of walking to the back officeYour call
Seasonal lines reordered in time instead of selling outYour call
Shelf gaps caught before the weekendYour call
PosBridge Pro$69/mo

We don't publish a payback figure, because we haven't measured one across real shops yet. Put your own margin against the rows above — and the app measures the real version for you in Reports.

From the floor

No customer stories here yet.

PosBridge is new. Rather than invent quotes, we've left this space empty until real shops have run the product through a full Halloween and Christmas season. When they have, their words and their numbers go here — named, and with their permission.

If you'd like to be one of those first stores, start with your own data and judge it on what it does in your shop.

Pricing

Operational Tiers

No POS overhaul. No enterprise contract. Month-to-month, cancel any time.

Starter

1 user · 1 shop floor

$29/mo

Stop walking to the back office.

  • Barcode scan, item-code & description live search
  • Price, cost, margin and stock on one screen
  • Manual stock adjustments with full history
  • CSV / spreadsheet import of your catalogue
  • Works offline on the phone
  • AI keyword tagging so staff find things by any word
Start with Starter
Most popular

Pro

Up to 5 users · 1 location

$69/mo

The whole team, replenishing daily.

  • Everything in Starter
  • Nightly sync — sheet, folder watcher or agent
  • Rolling pick list for warehouse replenishment
  • Low-stock and hook-capacity reorder rules
  • Planning calendar with season countdowns
  • Customer asks with WhatsApp / SMS follow-up
  • "Ask your stock" — plain-English answers from your own numbers
Go Pro

Command

Unlimited users · multi-location

$99/mo

Run several stores like one.

  • Everything in Pro
  • Unlimited staff with owner / manager / staff roles
  • Pick audit trail — who picked what, when
  • Stock counts with variance sheets
  • Reports: best sellers, dead stock, days of cover
  • Supplier invoice import and priority support
  • AI 30-day forecast and ordering plan
Take Command
What you getStarter$29/moPro$69/moCommand$99/mo
Users included15Unlimited
Locations11Unlimited
Scan, search, price & cost checkYesYesYes
Nightly automatic sync—YesYes
Folder watcher / desktop agent—YesYes
Warehouse pick list—YesYes
Customer asks & WhatsApp follow-up—YesYes
Planning calendar—YesYes
Roles & pick audit trail——Yes
Stock counts & variance——Yes
Reports & dead stockBasicBasicFull
Products2,00025,000Unlimited
AI keyword taggingYesYesYes
AI "ask your stock" answers—YesYes
AI 30-day forecast & ordering plan——Yes
SupportEmailEmailPriority
Straight answers

Common objections. No hedging.

It only ever reads. Your data reaches us as a file your system already produces — a scheduled report, a stock export, a backup, or a daily Google Sheet — picked up either by you or by a small folder-watcher script on the shop PC. Nothing is written back into the POS database, so the till keeps behaving exactly as it does today.

Yes — that's a common position after buying an existing business. You only need something you can export or print: a CSV, an Excel report, or a backup file. Direct database access is an optional upgrade for people who happen to have it, never a requirement.

The first upload is one step — drop in an export or a few supplier invoices and your catalogue is live. Automating it is a short job: download the folder-watcher script from the Connect tab, run it once, and point your POS's scheduled report at that folder. Every connection has a test-file preview so you can see exactly how your columns map before anything is saved.

You see it, in plain language. Each connection has a run-now button, a progress bar, live logs and a next-scheduled time. Rows that can't be read are listed individually with the reason, and one Retry failed button re-processes only those rows once you've fixed them. There's also a global pause switch so you can stop every automatic job without losing your settings.

That's what it was built for. The catalogue is cached on each phone so scanning keeps working in stockroom dead-spots, and any change you make queues and syncs when signal returns. Syncs run in parallel with batched writes, so a big overnight file doesn't slow the morning down.

Roles are owner, manager and staff. Staff can scan, pick and adjust; managers can approve and report; owners control access and can revoke a person instantly. Every pick, count and adjustment is stamped with a name and time, so variance is traceable rather than argued about.

A full POS migration is a large one-off cost and pulls your team off the floor for weeks — during which you're relearning the till in the middle of a season. PosBridge changes nothing about how you take money, and you can cancel month to month if it isn't earning its keep.