Everything a Business Needs to Run and Grow, Free on Pata Deals
A national retail chain has a point of sale, its own delivery fleet, a customer database, a loyalty programme, an online storefront, direct lines to its suppliers, and reports on its desk every morning. Building that used to take capital most businesses here will never raise. On Pata Deals, it is one free app.
Here is everything that comes with it, at no cost:
- A real point of sale. Sell on a laptop, a Windows PC, a phone, or straight from a browser. It keeps working when the internet drops, sales and stock catch up the moment you are back online, and nothing is held back for a paid tier.
- Stock that counts itself. Every sale draws down your shelf count automatically, with low-stock warnings before you actually run out.
- Direct access to manufacturers and distributors. Restock at trade prices from brands and wholesalers in the same app, delivered to your shelf, no calling a rep or waiting on a route.
- Your own delivery team. Bring on your own riders and sales staff, approved by you, no waiting on anyone. When they run your deliveries they keep the whole fee, and on a quiet day they can still pick up jobs from other businesses, so their income never depends on you alone.
- A real customer book. Add a customer by their phone number and keep an actual record: their name, notes, what they owe you. They become a Pata Deals customer too, so you can reach them again long after they leave your counter.
- Loyalty that costs you nothing. Reward regulars with points at your own counter, the way a supermarket chain does, and give them a reason to come back.
- Chat with your customers. Answer questions, confirm orders and keep a relationship going, in the same app they bought from.
- A storefront as well as a counter. Online orders arrive at the same queue as your walk-ins. No second system to watch.
- Parcels on the side. Take in and hand out parcels for the neighbourhood and earn on every one.
- Bookings, if you are a service business. Salons, clinics and workshops can list their services, take bookings, and manage their own booking and sales agents the same way a retailer manages a shop.
- Reports that make sense. Daily takings, best sellers and what is sitting on the shelf, without hiring anyone to work it out.
- Your team, your rules. Staff get their own logins, and you see exactly who sold what.
- Money on your terms. Settle to your own M-Pesa, Airtel Money, bank account or till, on your own schedule.
- Compliance handled once. Verify your identity a single time and it covers every outlet you run; licensing for controlled goods is built in rather than bolted on.
None of this is a bundle of add-ons charged separately, and none of it expires. It is what a well-connected, technology-capable business looks like, available to a shop with one counter the same way it is available to a shop with fifty. In places a conventional point-of-sale system charges a licence fee just to open the till, Pata Deals keeps that money in your pocket, so you sell more and keep more of what you sell.
If you run a business of any kind, in retail, wholesale or services, open the app and switch on retailer mode. Everything above is already there.