A till, a storefront and every school list in your town

Your bookshop, selling in four minutes

The catalogue is already there, so the first sale comes before the setup does. Nothing to install, nothing to pay, and nothing to undo if you change your mind.

Start free See the till

No card. Nothing to pay until you have sold through it.

Today · Akwa
141 600
✓settled The drawer agrees closed 20:14, to the franc
The till

It works on the phone in your pocket, and it works when the network does not

Scan the label or type the title. Cash, MTN, Orange, store credit and points can settle one basket between them, and the receipt goes to the parent on WhatsApp before she has left the counter.

  • Sell offline. MoMo still works, because she dials it on her own phone — the sale queues and syncs when you are back.
  • Two people, one drawer: an assistant builds the cart, the cashier takes the money. Nobody is asked to do both.
  • Every sale carries a name, so when a figure is wrong there is somebody to ask rather than a shop to suspect.
  • A packet of ten scans as a packet, and takes ten off the shelf. Not ten scans.
A basket, mid-sale
Maths 4e — CIEP 5 200
Français 4e — Le Robert 4 900
Cahier 200 pages × 5 3 500
Cash 10 000 · Orange 3 600 13 600

Split however she pays. The receipt names Rose, because somebody served her.

The unfair advantage

Every school list in your town, on the day you join

One shop sends a school the template. The bursar fills it in. Every Folio shop in that town can sell against it the same day — and next July starts from this year's list rather than an empty sheet.

29
Class lists in one town
Across six schools, before you have added a single title of your own.
20 min
Of one bursar's time
That is the whole cost of a confirmed list, and every shop in the town inherits it.
0
Of your prices shared
The list says which books. What you charge, what you paid and who your customers are never leave your shop.
What it costs

Free until it is worth paying for

Prices in FCFA, monthly, paid by MTN or Orange. Change or stop whenever you like — your data is exportable on any plan, including Free.

Free
0 forever
A one-person shop finding out whether this helps
  • ✓ 2 people
  • ✓ 200 titles
  • ✓ 200 QR labels
  • × No WhatsApp messages
  • × Loyalty, points and store credit
  • × Your own branding
  • × Your own domain
  • × Reports and exports
Start free
Pro most shops
10 000 a month
A shop with staff, a real catalogue and customers who come back
  • ✓ Unlimited people
  • ✓ Unlimited titles
  • ✓ Unlimited QR labels
  • ✓ 3 000 WhatsApp messages a month
  • ✓ Loyalty, points and store credit
  • ✓ Your own branding
  • ✓ Your own domain
  • ✓ Reports and exports
Start free, upgrade later
In every plan
  • The till, offline selling, stock and QR labels
  • Every school list in your town
  • The storefront, and your own address
  • Your data, exportable on any plan

Every plan includes the till, offline selling, stock, QR labels, the school lists and the storefront. Paying adds people, scale and the things that only matter once the shop is busy.

Honestly

What Folio will not do for you

Software that promises everything is software nobody checks. These are the limits, stated before you sign up rather than discovered in September.

It will not count your stock for you
Somebody has to walk the shelves once. Until they do, Folio says "not counted" rather than inventing a figure.
It will not stop theft
It will show you that 46 000 left without being sold last month, and where. What happens next is a conversation, not a feature.
It will not answer your customers
WhatsApp messages come to you. Folio adds receipts and alerts to the thread; the selling is still yours.
It will not correct a figure quietly
If two tills sell the last copy, the shelf goes negative and stays there until somebody counts. A wrong number that looks right is worse than no number.
Questions

The ones people actually ask

What happens to my data if I stop paying?

Nothing is deleted. The shop is suspended — tills stop and the storefront says closed — and everything is exactly as you left it when you renew. You can export the lot at any time, on any plan including Free, and it is yours to keep.

Do I need a printer, a scanner or a computer?

None of them. A phone is the till, its camera is the scanner, and QR labels print on ordinary sticker paper at any print shop. A thermal printer is optional and Folio will not pretend to print to one you do not have.

Does Folio hold my money?

Never. Your MoMo and bank accounts are yours, and customers pay you directly through your own gateway credentials. Folio charges you a subscription and touches nothing else — a branch's takings never pass through another branch, let alone through us.

My shop has no network half the day.

The till works offline and syncs when you are back. MoMo still works because the customer dials it on her own phone. What Folio will not do offline is guess a stock figure — it says "unknown" rather than a number that might be wrong.

Why would I share my school lists with other shops?

Because a school list is not a secret — it is on the school's noticeboard and in every parent's hand. You compete on stock, price and whether you answer WhatsApp, and none of those is shared. What you get back is every list in your town.

Can I use it in French?

The whole product, in French or English, chosen per person. Your customers get their receipts and messages in whichever language they wrote to you in.

Your shop can be selling in four minutes

The catalogue is already there, so the first sale comes before the setup does. Nothing to install, nothing to pay, and nothing to undo if you change your mind.

Create your bookshop

Free plan, no card, exportable data.