Tanzania
One counter, every Tanzanian payment rail
Tanzania has no single dominant wallet. M-Pesa, Mixx by Yas, Airtel Money and HaloPesa all have real share, and your customer uses whichever one they are on.
That means four statements to reconcile against one cash drawer — and four chances for the day's takings to disagree with what the shelves say you sold.
TRA expects a fiscal receipt for the sale regardless of which of them paid for it.
What you get
How Tanzania pays
M-Pesa (Vodacom)
The rail most Tanzanian retail still runs on. Logged against the sale, so the statement and the day's takings agree.
Mixx by Yas
The former Tigo Pesa, and a large share of urban trade. Same flow, same reconciliation, no second book.
Airtel Money and HaloPesa
The remaining share you cannot afford to turn away. All four rails settle into one day's takings.
Cash and card
Cash with a change calculator; card for the hotel, tour and corporate trade that expects it.
TRA fiscal receipts, and what sell.ke holds
Tanzanian law requires registered traders to issue fiscal receipts, and TRA enforces it with real appetite — the receipt is the thing an inspector asks for. Whether you issue through an EFD or a virtual fiscal device, the receipt has to reflect the actual sale.
sell.ke is the record behind it. Every sale carries its line items, quantities, unit prices and tax treatment, in shillings, against a stock count that moves at the same moment. That is the detail a fiscal receipt has to agree with, and the detail an audit works backwards from.
sell.ke does not itself act as a TRA-certified fiscal device. It holds and exports the transaction record; the fiscal issuance stays with your EFD or VFD arrangement.
- Line-level sale detail in TZS, matched to a live stock movement
- Per-branch and per-cashier totals for the period
- Exportable sales and tax reports that reconcile to the drawer
- An audit trail showing who sold what, when, and at what price
What you get
What that means for your shop in Tanzania
Four rails, one day-end number
The reconciliation problem Tanzania creates is the one this solves: every wallet lands against the same sale and the same stock count.
Runs in Tanzanian shillings
Prices, stock valuation, margins and reports all in TZS — no conversion step and no second spreadsheet.
Offline-first for the coast and upcountry
Keeps taking sales through a network gap and syncs the backlog on reconnect.
Dar stock and regional stock in one view
Per-branch stock, transfers between shops, and takings you can compare branch to branch.
Your trade in Tanzania
The same platform, written for how your trade actually works here.
Supermarket POS (Tanzania)
Four wallets at every till and a fiscal receipt that has to describe real goods.
Pharmacy POS (Tanzania)
Batch and expiry for a TMDA-regulated shelf, dispensing by unit, fiscal receipt at the counter.
Restaurant POS (Tanzania)
A fiscal receipt per bill, recipes that deduct real stock, and a table paying on four wallets.
Wholesale POS (Tanzania)
Cartons in, pieces out, retailers on credit, and prices that move with every container.
The two things that decide it
The revenue authority and the rail your customers actually pay on, each at the depth they deserve.
The features this leans on
Each one goes deeper than this page does — start with the first.
Selling at the counter
Split payments, held orders, manager-gated discounts and a drawer count that reconciles.
Stock you can trust
Batch and expiry, serial numbers, reorder levels, stock takes and the formulas behind them.
Reports and real accounting
Double-entry books — trial balance, P&L, balance sheet — not a CSV export to somebody else's software.
Branches, staff and control
Shared catalogue, separate stock, transfers that are movements, and permissions per branch.
Questions
Questions from Tanzania
Which Tanzanian mobile money does sell.ke handle?
M-Pesa, Mixx by Yas, Airtel Money and HaloPesa are all recorded against the sale at the counter. The point is the reconciliation: four rails, one set of day-end takings, one stock count — rather than four statements you match by hand.
Does sell.ke issue TRA fiscal receipts?
sell.ke is not itself a TRA-certified fiscal device. It holds every sale at the line-item detail a fiscal receipt has to agree with, in shillings, and exports it for the period — so your EFD or VFD issuance and your books reconcile instead of drifting.
Does it work in Tanzanian shillings?
Yes — your shop runs entirely in TZS: prices, stock values, margins and reports. Subscription billing is quoted in KES; ask the team about settlement in shillings.
Can I run shops in Dar and upcountry from one account?
Yes. Each branch keeps its own stock and takings, you can transfer stock between them, and the owner sees every branch in one dashboard.
Can I use it for more than one shop?
Yes. Branches share one product catalogue but hold their own stock, so a transfer between them is a recorded movement rather than a re-count. Reports run per branch or across all of them, and staff permissions are set per branch — a Kisumu supervisor does not need to see Nairobi's margins.
Do I need internet?
Not to keep selling. Offline mode lets the till take sales, print receipts and reserve stock while the connection is down, then syncs everything when it returns. You do need connectivity for the parts that are inherently online: an M-Pesa STK push, an eTIMS submission and the online shop all need a live link.
What does it cost?
Plans run from USD 12/month for a single-location till to USD 115/month for unlimited scale, with the online store on your own domain included from USD 23/month. In Kenya the same plans are KES 1,499 to KES 14,999/month, billed in shillings. Every plan starts with a 14-day trial and no card, and there is no per-terminal licence and no commission on your sales. There is no hardware to buy either — sell.ke runs on a phone, tablet or laptop you already own.
Try it in your Tanzania shop
Fourteen days, no card, no hardware to buy. Your prices, stock and reports all run in TZS.