Global solution
Rista Sales is an enterprise-grade mobile POS solution, available for download from app stores and for use by businesses located anywhere in the world. It supports international currencies (displays currency symbol where available) for your business.

Mobile platform
Currently, Rista Sales runs only on Google Android (4.2 and above) platform. It will be available for Apple iOS platform soon.

Only on mobile devices
Rista Sales is built based on mobile-first approach using latest mobile technologies and hence all functions and features of the app, including analytics and inventory, are optimized for use on mobile devices of sizes 4.5” or larger.

Retail enterprise management
Rista Sales is designed to manage a large number of branches or franchisees across a country with ease. A balanced approach with centralized control for managing an enterprise wide catalog, charges, discounts, taxes and other business setup, and with local control for managing a branch level inventory, analytics, payments and resources (users, devices, printers, etc.).

Quick setup
Download the app, purchase license, build catalog and start selling within minutes.

Global currency & local time-zone
Based on the business address provided at the time of registration, applicable currency and timezone is automatically applied. Thereafter, based on the address you provide for each branch setup, corresponding timezone is applied for all transactions performed at respective branch.

Upload products from a CSV file
Setup your product catalog in minutes by uploading it from a Comma Separated Values (CSV) standard file format, saved from Microsoft Excel spreadsheet or similar programs. Transitioning from your current POS system to Rista Sales is a breeze!

Requires no training
Rista Sales has a simple and intuitive user interface, and does not require training to use it.

Unlimited products
Rista Sales has no limit on the number of products or services you want to list on your catalog. Classify each item by a category and further organize multiple items into a menu for easy accessibility.

Products with images
Load product images into the catalog image gallery and attach images from the gallery to items in the catalog. As each image is brought into the gallery, you can crop the image to proper size before attaching to an item.

Discounts
Define discounts by a percentage of a product amount or a fixed amount. Further, set start and end dates for validity of a discount, and specify whether a predefined discount can be modified for an order by a salesperson. Rista Sales will offer only valid discounts at the time of sale.

Product Pricing
Sell a product at different prices at different locations or branches depending on the cost of doing your business or other criteria, for example, city or suburban locations. Depending on your branch where a sale takes place, Rista Sales will list the products at the respective prices defined for the branch.

Product options
Define various options for your products or services along with the respective add-on price. For example, small, medium or large options for drinks, or extra cheese or extra topping options for a pizza. One or more option sets could be attached to an item in the catalog, so that all the options will be available to choose from whenever the item is added to an order.

Charges
Define charges such as delivery charge or service charge by a percentage of the order amount or a fixed amount. Further, specify whether you would like a charge to be automatically included in every order and application of specific taxes to the amount charged.

Location based taxes
Different cities or states have different percentages for a given tax, for example, sales tax can be 5% in one state and 6% in another state. In Rista Sales, you can set up taxes for each area (state or city) and attach it to one or more branches located in the respective area. With this setup, all sales transactions performed for a branch are applied the tax percentages from the respective tax area.

Item level taxes
Items can have multiple taxes based on the type of item, for example, service tax and VAT for for restaurant items. Apply one or more taxes to an item while setting up catalog.

Tax payable by day or months
In Rista Sales, amounts payable by the business for each tax for one or more days or months is available real-time for view when you need it.

Option to apply tax on tax
You can customize a tax to have primary and secondary taxes, so that a set of secondary taxes could be applied on a primary tax.

Reverse taxes on returns
One big problem in retail business is to calculate the taxes collected on an item at the time of purchase, so that it can be accounted properly when an item is returned by a customer. For each item returned, Rist Apps calculates the taxes originally collected, and adds-back the items to the inventory.

Bring POS to customer
Create orders from anywhere in the store or even outside the store at a customer location. Orders created by a sales person on the field will be instantly available to the back office for further processing.

Share orders with customers
Share orders in real-time with customers either for their review before payment or to provide price quote before a deal could be made for B2B transactions. An order can be sent to a customer as a link via SMS or email, or a customer can access the order using the Rista Market app.

Charges
Select one or more predefined charges to apply to an order. The percentage or fixed amount as defined in the respective charge or as modified at the time of sale will be applied to the order.

Service and Delivery Labels
Label an order for service, for example, a table number in a restaurant for service purposes. Similarly, label an order for delivery with the customer name, address (picked conveniently from in-app Google Maps) and contact email or phone number. The labels will be visible on the order and receipts.

Open an order or a tab
Open and save orders as many times as you like, for example, to maintain a tab in a restaurant or bar.

Discounts
Select one or more predefined discounts to apply to an item at the time of sale. The percentage or fixed amount as defined in the respective discount will be applied to the item. If the definition of a discount allows for modification, you can modify the discount percentage or amount as you see fit for an item.

Orders or Bills History
Search for an order or a bill based on select attributes and retrieve it instantaneously in seconds no matter how long ago a transaction was performed. It is like retrieving a message from Gmail!

Custom payment modes
Define your own custom payment modes to record checks, vouchers or others. For each such payment, optionally include a note with reference information, for example, check number when a payment via check is accepted.

Use your own payment terminal
Record and track all modes of payments, including credit or debit card payments, made using the electronic payment terminals you are already using.

Store Credit
Option to issue store credit instead of refunding the amount collected at the time of purchase, or for change due on receiving payment more than the sale amount.

Split payments
For a single sale or return transaction, you can record multiple payment modes. For example, you can accept two or more credit cards, or a combination of credit, cash or other payment modes.

Partial payments
Accept payment for a sale transaction with an initial deposit and balance on delivery, or in multiple installments to support layaway purchases.

Mobile Optimized
Digital receipts sent by SMS or email are viewed by consumers conveniently on mobile devices using a browser without requiring any custom software.

Rista Receipts
The receipts sent by Rista account are viewed by customer using the free Rista Market app and all changes to the order being processed are viewed real-time in the Rista Market app.

Receipts for returned items
Receipts can also be generated for specific item(s) returned by customers with details including taxes returned.

Custom receipts
Customize your receipt to include business logo, brand or business name, branch address, contact phone number, website URL. In addition, include a custom message or other terms in the receipt header or footer.

Print paper receipts wirelessly
Rista Sales supports wireless printing on any ethernet receipt printers that supports ESC/P, an industry standard printer control language developed by Epson to control receipt printers, including Epson, Star and TVS. Just connect your printer and mobile device to the same wireless router, and make sure to set an IP address for the printer that is within the range recognized by the wireless router.

Low stock indicator
The low stock indicator flagged by Rista Sales will reduce inventory cost by helping you avoid overstock or running out-of-stock. It flags based on the number of days-of-sale in inventory you would like to maintain, recent average daily sale and balance stock available for each item in your inventory.

Days-of-sales in inventory
Inventory is shown in number of units in stock for each item and also in days-of-sale terms, which means how many days the balance inventory would last based on the recent sale trend.

Item activity
All activities including sales, purchases, returns and audits can be viewed for any given item in inventory.

Audit
Option is available to conduct an audit of an item for actual quantity in stock and record in the system to update inventory.

Purchase activity
Records each purchase from your supplier, including quantity, unit cost, and supplier information for each item added to the inventory.

Supplier Activity
The purchase history from a particular supplier can be viewed at any time so you know exactly what and how much have you bought from a particular supplier.

Average unit cost
Average unit cost of an item in inventory is calculated based on first-in-first-out (FIFO) basis and can be viewed at anytime, so you can make informed decision on selling price, issuing discounts and promotions.

Record return items
Inventory will be automatically updated when an item is returned by a customer.

Real-time sales activity
Actionable analytics of your sales are available on daily or monthly basis and across multiple branches to help you make smart business decisions.

Consolidated sales for multiple branches
You view consolidated sales analytics for one or more of your branches, so that you can evaluate the overall health of your business or performance.

Cumulative sales for multiple days or months
You can view cumulative sales analytics of selected days or months and for one or more branches of your business.

Sales by category or item
Sales analytics can be viewed at a category or at an item level to bring granularity to the sales data.

Sales by staff member
Every transaction run on Rista Sales is automatically recorded with the person who conducted it, so that star performers can be identified and rewarded appropriately.

Staff accounts
Create and register as many staff accounts as you need each with a secured PIN, so that every transaction performed by a registered user is tracked by the system, including sales made and payments collected.

User Role
Assign User Role to an individual whose function in your business is to perform only sales transactions and record payments. Further, you can restrict the account to access only specific branches and licenses.

Manager Role
Assign Manager Role to an individual whose function in your business is to manage one or more branches. In addition to User role access, a manager will have access to a branch level inventory, analytics and administer the resources (users, devices and printers). Further, you can restrict the account to access only specific branches and licenses.

Admin Role
Assign Admin Role to an individual whose function is to administer the business and all its branches. An Admin will have access to all functions in the system, including managing catalog, discounts, charges and taxes for all branches of your business.

Mobile Devices
Rista Sales platform can be accessed by registered users only from registered mobile devices of your business. To register a mobile device to a specific branch, you would need a Device Registration Key, which can be generated by a Manger or Admin from the Access module.

In-app purchase or renew licenses
All purchase and renewal of licenses, and other account management tasks are performed on your mobile within Rista Sales.

Immediate license issue
Purchased licenses are automatically added to your account and immediately available for use.

Shared licenses
Licenses are shared across branches, users or mobile devices for a business for optimum usage, so you buy only the number of licenses you actually use.