Mini Till questions, answered

Open the till, then:

1. Go to the Products tab and add each product with a name, price and optional category.
2. Back on the Till tab, tap products to build the sale.
3. Press Review order, check it over, then Take payment.
4. Choose card, cash or split, and Complete sale.

Everything is saved automatically in your browser, so you can close the page and pick up where you left off.

The till is free, with no fees, subscriptions or trial periods: the site is supported by a little advertising. The optional multi-location stock system, Mini Till Pro, is a paid extra at £10 a month or £100 a year for a team of up to 5. Teams of more than 5 need Mini Till Teams at £100 a month or £1,000 a year. Both start with a 14-day free trial.

Any modern browser (Chrome, Safari, Firefox or Edge) on a phone, tablet or computer. The till is built to be used one-handed on a phone at a stall, and there's a focused till mode that fills the whole screen while you're serving.

On the Products tab, fill in a name and price (category is optional) and press Add product. Each product in the list has Edit and Delete buttons, and arrows to reorder: the till buttons follow the same order, so put your fastest sellers first. Changes appear on the till immediately.

Categories (food, drink, retail and other) are optional labels to keep a longer product list organised. They're shown against each product in the products table; the till buttons themselves stay the same clean style whatever the category.

Yes. Use Share product & price list under Settings & sharing in the Products tab. It creates a link; open it on the other device and the same products and prices import there. Keep a copy of the link: it doubles as a backup of your product list.

Tap product buttons to add items: tap again for another of the same. Adjust quantities with the + and − controls, then move through Review order and Take payment. Pick card, cash or split, and Complete sale. The cart clears and the sale is added to your history.

Turn on Enable discounts on the till under Settings & sharing in the Products tab. At the Review step you can then apply a percentage discount (say, 10% off) or a fixed amount (say, £5 off), and the total updates as you type. The discount comes off the subtotal before the VAT portion is worked out.

Prices are treated as VAT-inclusive at the standard UK rate of 20%, the way prices are displayed at almost every counter. Each sale shows the VAT portion already contained in the price, and the same figure appears in the sales history and CSV export, which is what you need for HMRC records. If you're not VAT-registered, ignore that line.

Yes. For cash and split payments, enter what the customer hands over (the quick buttons add £5, £10 or £20, or press Exact) and the change due is shown in large text. The till won't complete a sale while the amount received is short of the total.

Before you take payment, press Clear sale. After a sale is complete, press Void on its row in Sales history. The sale stays in the list, marked Voided, and is left out of your totals and your VAT figure. To refund part of a sale, void it and ring up what the customer is keeping. In Team Mode, sales already sent to the team cannot be voided on the till: a manager corrects those in the stock console.

You can record a sale as card, cash or split between the two. This is record-keeping only: Mini Till doesn't process payments or connect to terminals. Pair it with a card reader such as SumUp, Square or Zettle, and the end-of-day card and cash totals will make reconciling both simple.

Yes. Find the sale in Sales history and press Receipt: Mini Till lays it out as a receipt with your business name, the items, the total, the VAT contained in it and how it was paid, then hands it to your browser's print dialogue. Set your business name in settings first, or it goes out headed simply "Receipt". What it won't do is email or text a receipt, or drive a till-roll printer wired to a cash drawer.

Products, sales history and settings are stored locally in your browser using localStorage. That means:

• Your products, prices and sales never leave your device
• There's no server upload, no cloud copy, no account
• The till sends us anonymous usage counts, such as how many sales were rung up, with no amounts, product names or anything that identifies you. You can turn them off in Settings on the till's Products tab, and the privacy policy lists exactly what is counted

The flip side: clearing your browser data deletes everything, so use the one-click backup on the till's Products tab now and then: it saves the lot (products, sales and settings) to a file you can restore on any device.

Press Export CSV in the Sales history section to download every transaction. For products, keep a copy of your share link: opening it restores the same list. A good habit is one export at the end of each trading day, saved to a cloud folder or emailed to yourself.

Clearing browser data (cache, cookies, site data) deletes your products and sales history. Products can be restored from a saved share link; sales history can only be recovered from CSV files you exported earlier, which is why regular exports matter.

Yes. On an iPhone or iPad, open the till in Safari, press Share, then Add to Home Screen. On Android, open it in Chrome, open the menu, then choose Install app or Add to Home screen. The till then opens full screen from an icon, like any other app. It matters because browsers can clear the stored data of sites you have not used for a while, and an installed app is kept. Download a backup from the till now and then as well. More in the free till app for iPad, Android and phone.

Each device keeps its own data. The share link puts the same products on every device, but sales stay separate per device: export from each and combine the CSVs. If you want every till selling against one shared stock with combined reporting, that's exactly what the Pro stock system does.

Yes. The Today's sales panel under the till shows:

• Total revenue and number of transactions
• Average sale value and items sold
• The card, cash and split breakdown: handy when cashing up

The sales history below it lists every completed sale with a timestamp.

Press Export CSV in the Sales history section. The file includes date, time, items, payment method, subtotal, discount, VAT and total for every sale: ready for Excel, Google Sheets or your accounting software. In the Pro stock console, every report table exports to CSV as well.

On the free till, export your history to CSV and a quick pivot table will show top sellers. The Pro stock system has best-seller, margin and takings reports built in, across all your locations.

Pro is for teams running more than one counter: one central stock across locations, deliveries, transfers, stocktakes and waste, team logins with five roles, sales synced from every till (offline-safe), and takings, margin and variance reports. It costs £10 a month or £100 a year for a team of up to 5, and £100 a month (£1,000 a year) for larger teams: details on the pricing page.

Yes, in two ways. The stock console has a full demo with four days of trade across three locations and a team of six: nothing is saved and there's no sign-up, so you can explore every screen as any role. And when you are ready to use it for real, both paid plans start with a 14-day free trial.

You get full access for 14 days. Stripe takes your card details at checkout, but nothing is charged until day 14. Cancel from Team settings before then and you pay nothing.

Pro covers up to 5 active team members, you included. People you have deactivated do not count, and their history is kept. Adding a sixth means moving to Mini Till Teams, which has no limit: it is one button in Team settings, and the difference is charged pro rata for the rest of the period.

Yes. In the stock console, go to Team settings and choose Manage subscription, which opens Stripe's customer portal. There are no phone calls and no notice period.

Nothing is deleted. The stock system becomes read-only: you can still sign in, see everything and export every table to CSV. Subscribe again and it picks up where it left off. The free till is not affected either way.

Mini Till suits counters with straightforward sales:

• Market stalls and pop-up shops
• Coffee and food vans
• Small cafés
• Craft fairs and artisan markets
• Village halls, clubs and charity shops
• Seasonal businesses and anyone just starting out

With Pro added, it stretches to small multi-location operations: a shop with a van, a caterer running several bars. If you need integrated accounting, loyalty schemes or kitchen displays, a heavier system will serve you better.

Just a device with a browser: the phone in your pocket counts. Most traders add a card reader (SumUp, Square or Zettle) for card payments, and perhaps a cash tin. There's no printer support, no dongles and nothing to install.