When one counter stops being enough
Peak season is the test. Urea arrives, the shop fills, and one man at one screen becomes the whole queue. Most dealers solve it by putting a second computer on the counter — and then discover the two do not know about each other.
Two separate copies of the software means two stock counts, two khatas and two sets of bill numbers. The bag sold at the second counter is still on the first counter's shelf. The farmer who paid at one till still owes money at the other. At day close, nothing adds up, and the only fix is to do the evening's reconciliation by hand.
AgroPOS Multi-Counter is the single-counter software with that problem solved: one set of records, several tills reading and writing it at the same time.
How it works in the shop
One PC is the main counter. It holds the data and stays on while the shop is open — usually the machine that was already the till. The other counters connect to it over your own network cable or router.
Every PC runs the same AgroPOS, installed from the same setup file as a single-counter shop's. The first time it opens, it asks how this PC will be used: choose Main counter on the PC that keeps the data, and Till / counter PC on each of the others, which then pairs with the main counter using a code it shows.
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- Every counter bills at the same time. A bag sold at counter two leaves the stock counter one can see, immediately. No syncing step, no waiting.
- One customer khata. A farmer's udhaar is the same figure at every till. Recovery taken at one counter shows at all of them.
- One bill sequence for the whole shop. Every counter takes the next number from the main counter — INV-00041 at one till, INV-00042 at the next — so the shop's bills run in one unbroken series and two counters never get the same number. On AgroPOS Cloud each PC has its own series instead, because each PC bills without the internet.
- One cash drawer for the shop, or one per counter. You choose under Settings → Counters on the main counter. With one drawer, the day book is counted and closed once for the whole shop. With a drawer per counter, each counter opens, counts and closes its own cash, counting only the money it took in or paid out, and the shop's day still adds them up. The choice can change only while no day is open.
- Each counter signs in as its own user, with its own role. A cashier at counter two has exactly the permissions you gave that role.
The network is your own — a cable to a switch, or the shop's router. Nothing goes through the cloud to reach the till beside you, and a dead internet line does not stop billing. Cloud backup still runs when a connection is there.
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Backup runs from the main counter
Backup and restore are available on the main counter only. That is deliberate: one machine owns the records, so a restore cannot be started from two places at once and leave the shop with two versions of its own history. Every counter's billing is in that one backup.
What it costs
Two editions, as for a single counter. Offline is paid once and never expires:
- Two counters — Rs 75,000, paid once.
- Three counters — Rs 105,000, paid once.
- Each counter after that — Rs 30,000, added to the licence you already hold.
For comparison, the single-counter licence is Rs 45,000. Cloud backup is free for the first year on either, then Rs 8,000 a year and optional — the software keeps working without it.
AgroPOS Cloud includes three PCs in every plan: Basic is Rs 3,000 a month or Rs 30,000 a year, and each PC after that is Rs 1,000 a month (Rs 10,000 a year). Cloud sync, the web panel and cloud backup are included; the plans for several branches are coming soon. If a payment stops, everything keeps working for 7 days, then AgroPOS stops until you renew; your data is never deleted.
Already running AgroPOS on one counter?
Your shop stays where it is. Multi-Counter is a choice inside the same AgroPOS, so there is nothing to reinstall and no data to move on the PC you bill from now. Once you have the Multi-Counter licence, enter its key on that PC under Settings → About → Licence → Change licence key: it becomes the main counter, with the products, stock, customer khata, bills, suppliers and day book it already holds. Then run the same setup file on each extra counter, choose Till / counter PC on its first screen, and pair it with the code the main counter shows under Settings → Counters → Add a till.
Shops on the older AgroPOS Multi-Counter (1.x) are moved to the new AgroPOS by Innobrains, main counter first; their data and their Multi-Counter licence carry on as they are.
The setup guide has the steps, in English and Urdu.
Move the shop with a backup made on the PC you use now, restored on the new main counter. From then on, bill only on the main counter and its tills, or set the old PC up as a till: a bill made on the old PC's own copy after the move will not appear on the main counter, its stock will not come off, and nobody notices until the godown count does not match.
Everything the single-counter edition does
Multi-Counter is not a cut-down or a bolt-on. It is the same software with the counters added, so all of it is there: batch-wise stock with expiry and FEFO, the udhaar khata and recovery, parchoon selling by the kilo, bookings, wholesale billing at trade rates, wallets and bank accounts, the Agriculture Department registers, thermal and A4 invoices, reports and Excel export.
Questions
How many counters can I run?
Two or three on the standard plans, and more by adding counters at Rs 30,000 each to a licence you already own. There is no practical limit beyond what your shop network can carry.
Do the counters need the internet to talk to each other?
No. They talk over your own shop network — a cable to a switch, or your router. The internet is only used for cloud backup and for checking updates, and billing continues without either.
What happens if the main counter is switched off?
The other counters cannot bill while it is off, because it holds the data. Keep it on through shop hours. It is usually the counter that was already the till, so this is what most shops do anyway.
Can I add a counter later?
Yes. Buy an Extra Counter at Rs 30,000 and it is added to your existing licence — same key, same shop, one more till.
I already use AgroPOS on one PC. Do I lose my data?
No. Multi-Counter is a choice inside the same AgroPOS: enter your Multi-Counter licence key on the PC you use now and it becomes the main counter, keeping its stock, khata, bills, suppliers and day book. Making a different PC the main counter is a backup on the old one and a restore on the new one.
Is there a free trial?
Yes, 14 days of the complete software with nothing switched off. Sign up on agropos.pk and your trial key comes once we approve your shop. That key runs one counter; to try tills as well, ask us for a Multi-Counter trial key.