Documentation

Everything you need to run 6till

From first launch to your first sale — and every offline feature in between. No internet required at any step.

Getting started

Download 6till from the Download page and run the installer. The browser engine is bundled, so it works on a fresh Windows PC with no internet.

On first launch, sign in and a quick walkthrough points out the essentials. Your 14-day free trial starts automatically — no card, no account.

6till — First launch
First launch

Add your products

Three ways to build your catalogue — use whichever fits the shop:

Import a spreadsheet. In Settings → Import Products, drop an Excel or CSV file, preview exactly what will change, and load hundreds of items in one click. Anything without a barcode gets a scannable internal SKU (like 6T000123) automatically.

Quick Add. Use a barcode gun: scan, type the name and price, press Enter, repeat — the cursor jumps back to the scanner for the next item.

Snap a photo. Tap Scan from phototo read a product's name and barcode straight off the packaging — fully offline, on the device.

6till — Import — preview
128 new46 auto-SKU3 duplicate1 error
NameBarcodePriceStockStatus
Milo 400g600106860050438.0032New
Voltic Water 750mlauto-SKU2.00240Auto-SKU
Indomie Chicken 70g60095108000142.50180Duplicate
Local Gari (per kg)auto-SKU12.0055Auto-SKU
Key Soap Bar60055106000995.0096New
Import 174 products
6till — Quick Add
Category (sticks to the next items)
Beverages
Barcode
5449000000996
Name
Coca-Cola 350ml
Price
3.50
Stock
48
Added this session · 3
Coca-Cola 350ml54490000009963.50added
Pure Water (sachet)6T0001180.30added
Tasty Tom 70g61811003100141.80added

Make a sale

Open Sales and it fills the screen with no admin menus — so a customer-facing second display only ever shows the sale, never your back office.

Scan or search items, then take payment by cash, card or Mobile Money(MTN, Telecel, AirtelTigo). Split a payment across methods and 6till works out the change. Receipts print straight to your thermal printer with no dialog, and there's always an on-screen copy as a fallback.

6till — Sales
Scan or search a product…
Milo 400g
Indomie
Voltic
Ideal Milk
Gino Tom
Key Soap
Current sale
1× Milo 400g38.00
6× Indomie Chicken 70g15.00
2× Voltic Water 750ml4.00
Total57.00
Cash MoMo Card

Inventory & low stock

Inventory lists everything you stock with live quantities and quick search by name or barcode.

The Low Stock view flags anything at or below its reorder level — out-of-stock first — so you never get caught short.

6till — Low Stock
Out of stock
1
Running low
9
Total flagged
10
ProductCategoryStockReorderStatus
Ideal Milk 160gProvisions012Out
Milo 400gBeverages310Low
Key Soap BarToiletries615Low
Gino Tomato 210gProvisions812Low

Insights

Insights turns your sales history into decisions — all computed on the PC, offline. No other offline till does this.

It forecasts which items will run out and how much to reorder, flags dead stock tying up cash, shows your true margins and best sellers, and reveals your busiest hours of the day.

6till — Insights
Revenue
₵24,180
Gross profit
₵7,640
Avg margin
31.6%
Units sold
3,912
Reorder soon
Pure Water (sachet)12 left9.2/dayOut noworder 129
Milo 400g3 left1.4/day~2dorder 20
Coca-Cola 350ml18 left4.1/day~4dorder 58
Busiest hours

Suppliers & purchasing

Keep supplier records, raise purchase orders, and receive stock — full or partial. Receiving updates quantities and writes to the stock-movement ledger, so every change is traceable.

6till — Receiving
PO-0042 · Kasapreko Ltd
Receiving stock
Partial
ItemOrderedReceiving
Milo 400g2424
Ideal Milk 160g4836
Key Soap Bar6060
Receive into stock

Customers & credit

Track customers and run a credit book: sell on credit, watch each customer's balance, and record repayments as they pay down what they owe.

6till — Credit book
CustomerPhoneOwes
Auntie Akua Store024 555 0142320.00
Kwame Provisions020 555 884185.50
Maa Adwoa055 555 2390Settled

Users & roles

Give each staff member their own login. Roles — Administrator, Manager, Cashier and User — control what each person can see and do, and you can fine-tune the exact permissions in the Roles screen.

Cashiers get a locked-down till; managers get inventory and reports without touching settings or user management.

6till — Roles & permissions
PermissionAdminManagerCashierUser
Create sales
Process refunds
Edit inventory
View reports
Manage users
Edit settings

Activate your licence

6till is yours for a one-time price — no monthly fee. Buy a licence on this site (Mobile Money via Paystack in Ghana, or card internationally) and you'll get a licence key.

Paste it into the app's Activatescreen and it's unlocked forever, offline. The 14-day trial needs no key at all.

6till — Activate
Licence activated

Imagined Ware · Mall edition — offline, forever.

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Activated ✓

Offline & backups

Everything runs on the shop's own PC against a local database — no internet, no cloud, no monthly bill.

Export a backup any time, and the day-close routine snapshots your data automatically. And with the 6till Cloud edition, the same data syncs across multiple tills and shops in real time.

6till — Day close
Z-Report · Today
Backed up
Opening float₵200.00
Cash sales₵1,640.00
Expected in drawer₵1,840.00
Counted₵1,835.00
Variance-₵5.00

6till Cloud — for multiple shops

Running more than one shop? 6till Cloud adds an online owner dashboard on top of the desktop till, so you can see and manage every shop from one place — on any device, nothing to install.

How it fits together: each shop keeps its own 6till desktop till, which still works fully offline. As the owner you sign in to the web dashboard to set up shops, tills and staff, and watch live sales and stock across the whole business.

  • Owner dashboard — today's revenue and stock for every shop, combined and one by one.
  • Shops & tills — add each shop and the tills it runs.
  • Staff logins — create a username and password for each cashier or manager; they sign in on their shop's till.
  • Strict per-shop separation — a shop's stock, sales and staff are its own. Only you, the owner, see across shops.
  • Offline-first sync — tills keep selling with no internet and sync up automatically when they reconnect, with no double-counting.

Get started at 6till-cloud.imaginedware.com — create your business, add your shops, and connect each till. See pricing for the Cloud plan.