Syria
A cashier system for shops in Damascus, Aleppo, Latakia, and Homs that assumes the day it will actually have: intermittent power, intermittent internet, and two currencies on the same counter.
Sandooq is a bilingual point-of-sale system for retailers in Syria. The cashier interface is Arabic-first with an English fallback, and staff switch language per session without restarting the terminal. It is built around two conditions that define Syrian retail rather than around a feature list: unreliable power and a counter that handles more than one currency. The terminal records Syrian pounds alongside US dollars and euros at a daily rate you set centrally, and that rate is frozen onto each transaction — so a sale from last Tuesday reports at last Tuesday's rate rather than today's, which is the difference between a margin figure you can trust and one you cannot. As of August 2026 Syria has no value-added tax; indirect taxes vary by category and locality, and there is no mandatory e-invoicing framework — confirm your own position with the Ministry of Finance. Checkout keeps selling through a connectivity drop and the queue replays in order when the network returns, so queued sales aren't lost. Inventory moves between Damascus, Aleppo, Latakia, and Homs branches with an audit trail. The hardware policy assumes the basic Android tablets and older laptops actually available in Syrian trade — no proprietary terminal.
Syria
Payment, tax, and operating needs vary by market, so Sandooq highlights capabilities that matter in this country.
Handle Syrian pounds alongside USD and EUR with a daily exchange rate you set in the dashboard, frozen on every transaction. Receipts show both the SYP total and the tendered currency clearly, and the daily Z-report breaks revenue out per currency so the bookkeeping handoff to the accountant takes minutes, not hours.
Built for Syria's network and power realities: checkout can continue through weak connectivity, work is stored locally, and the back office syncs when service returns. Damascus and Aleppo retailers can plan around outages without turning the public site into a certification claim.
Arabic-first interface tuned to Syrian retail terminology, with English fallback for staff serving expat and aid-worker customers. Receipts can be prepared in Arabic with English secondary lines, in Arabic alone, or in English alone depending on the counter workflow.
Works on basic Android tablets, low-spec laptops, and older desktops — the kind of hardware actually available in Damascus and Aleppo retail. Connects to standard ESC/POS receipt printers, HID-mode barcode scanners, and basic cash drawers. No proprietary equipment requirement, no need to import expensive Western terminals.
Manage Damascus, Aleppo, Latakia, and Homs stores from one back office with per-store inventory and inter-branch transfers. Consolidated reporting rolls up the chain while per-store user permissions keep branch cashiers scoped to their own daily report and stock. One back-office login, full picture for the owner.
Syrian retail and F&B operate in dual-currency SYP/USD with cash dominance, daily FX volatility, no mandatory e-invoicing, and category-variable indirect tax. The operating environment shapes which POS choices actually hold up.
Always confirm current rates and regulatory status with the relevant authority before acting on this guidance.
In January 2026 the Syrian pound was redenominated at 100 to 1 — two zeros removed — with a dual-circulation period during which both note series were legal tender. As of August 2026 that transition is behind most counters, but its consequences are not, and the schedule and current status are worth confirming with the Ministry of Finance rather than with a vendor.
We are writing about it because nobody else selling POS software in Syria has, and because a redenomination is one of the few events that breaks a point-of-sale system in ways the sales demo never shows. Four things go wrong, and they are worth naming before you buy anything:
Where Sandooq's design happens to help, stated narrowly because the redenomination is not a feature we built for: the counter is multi-currency by design rather than by workaround, so more than one tender scale at a single till is the normal case rather than the broken one.
Every transaction stores the rate that applied at the time of sale, so a reporting period spanning a scale change reports each sale against what it was actually worth. Bulk price editing runs from the back office across every branch at once rather than terminal by terminal. And receipts print the total and the tendered amount separately, which is what makes a mixed-note transaction legible to a customer standing at the counter.
What we do not claim: there is no automatic redenomination migration, no button that rewrites your history, and no conversion service. If you are carrying old-scale data, that is a data question to work through during onboarding, and we would rather scope it honestly with you than sell it as a checkbox.
Rationing schedules of roughly two hours on and four hours off have been the widely reported pattern in Syrian cities, varying by area and by season. Every retailer reading this already knows their own local rhythm better than any vendor does. What matters here is what a POS system does with it — and the honest version is more useful than the marketing version, so here is exactly what keeps working and what does not.
That is a narrower promise than "works completely offline", which is what most of this category claims. It is the one we can actually stand behind, and it covers the case that costs you money — a customer standing at the counter with cash in hand. The longer version of the reasoning:
Cash dominates Syrian retail, bank transfer is used, and card acceptance is limited. That is the starting condition, and it means the interesting problem is not payment integration — it is running a counter where the pound and the dollar are both in play and the rate between them can move inside a single business day.
For the operational side of running a dual-currency till:
Our comprehensive POS system includes all the tools you need to run your business efficiently.
Keep selling without internet. POS stays fast and reliable, then syncs automatically when you're back online.
Track stock, cost layers, transfers, and approvals. Create purchase orders, receive GRNs, and reorder with confidence.
Know your customers with profiles, purchase history, credit limits, and on-account (AR) payments.
Accept payments in multiple currencies with daily rates you control, frozen on every transaction.
Understand sales, inventory, returns, and cash flow with dashboards, P&L, and multi-store reporting.
Optimized for speed with instant checkout, quick product search, and responsive interface.
Encrypted data, role-based access, and audit trails to keep transactions safe.
Works on any device - tablets, phones, or desktop. Take your POS anywhere you go.
Role-based access control, audit logs, and enterprise-grade security for your peace of mind.
Launch a faster checkout and a smarter back office in days, not months.