Built for Australian Retailers
Close the sale, decrement the stock, and have BAS done before the markets pack up.
Ring up on the counter tablet, tap a card at the Rose Street stall, raise the PO to your wholesaler — stock, suppliers, GST and BAS all on the same record, no CSV export to the accountant. All-in-one for $0–$69/mo — replaces Square POS + Xero + a stock spreadsheet.





The average boutique saves $120+/mo replacing Lightspeed Retail + Xero + Mailchimp + a stock spreadsheet with OneBookPlus.
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8-step founder guide — ABN, GST, lease, POS, supplier terms, online channel, opening week.
Open →ComplianceSection 54 acceptable quality, section 55 fitness for purpose, refund vs replace decision tree, signage requirements.
Open →ReferenceFood-stall permits, casual trader licences, council fees, public-liability requirements for market vendors.
Open →Operator GuideSquare vs Lightspeed vs Vend vs Shopify POS vs Tyro — features, hardware costs, transaction fees, AU support.
Open →InteractiveInteractive — cost, markup % vs margin %, retail price, GST, break-even unit volume and dollars.
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5Everything You Need
Forget bolting a POS to an accounting package to a spreadsheet. OneBookPlus is the retail app designed for shop owners, boutique operators and weekend stallholders — POS, stock, supplier bills and GST in one place, all mobile-first.
Ring up a sale on the counter tablet, or tap a card straight on your iPhone with Tap to Pay (now rolling out) at a market stall or pop-up. Every sale lands in the same dashboard with takings, tax and the customer attached.
Track SKUs, variants and stock on hand. Low-stock alerts pop up on the dashboard before you run out of the best-seller, and the end-of-month stocktake is two taps instead of a Sunday afternoon.
Every sale, refund, layby and email lives on one customer record. Run a loyalty list, message your top 50 about a new drop, and remember the regular who buys the same candle every six weeks.
Raise a PO, mark it received, and the supplier bill flows into expenses with GST already split. Pay on terms, match the deposit on the bank feed, and see margin per supplier — not just per product.
10% GST sits on every sale and supplier bill automatically. The BAS quarterly summary exports as a single PDF — GST collected, GST paid, the net amount due — ready for the accountant or the portal.
At a market stall, on a pop-up trestle, or roaming the shop floor — tap contactless cards, Apple Pay or Google Pay right on your iPhone with Tap to Pay (now rolling out), or split with cash. The receipt arrives by SMS, no paper roll needed.
Stop guessing when to staff up. See sales-by-hour, sales-by-weekday and the busiest category — pulled live from every closed POS sale.
Get alerted before you sell out, and see which variants haven't moved in 30 days so you can mark them down, bundle them, or send them back.
Connect Google Business Profile and request a 5-star review 2 hours after each paid sale — the sweet spot for retail conversion.
Free plan available · No credit card · Cancel anytime
Free Website Included
Stop paying $30–80/mo to Wix or Squarespace — and skip the $1,500–3,000 up-front for a designer. Every OneBookPlus retailer gets a branded booking page on the free plan. Want it on your own domain like a proper business website? $15/mo and we host it for you.
your-business.onebookplus.com.auoronebookplus.com.au/book/your-businessyourbusiness.com.au— custom branded domain, we host the siteA customer reserves the last of a sold-out homewares run or books a click-and-collect at 10pm while the shop is shut. The order lands in your dashboard with the SKU and pickup time — ready to pull from the shelf at open.
Brand color picker in settings. Logo upload. Trade licence number shown on every page so customers know you're legit.
Soy candle $34. Linen throw $129. Customers see prices before booking — kills the price-shopping phone calls.
70%+ of retail searches happen on phones. Your booking page is built mobile-first; loads in under 2 seconds on 4G.
Already own yourbusiness.com.au? Add the Booking Website app ($15/mo) and point your domain at the booking page we host for you. We don't sell domains — keep yours wherever you registered it.
Schema.org markup for retail services + suburbs you cover. Google finds you for 'homewares store in [suburb]' searches.
Retailers website cost — typical
Website builder
Wix, Squarespace or similar
Web hosting + SSL
Bundled in builders; separate if custom site
Designer (one-off)
Only if you want a custom-built site
Bookings on Calendly
Separate from your website
Typical recurring total
~$60–100/mo
+ $1,500–3,000 up-front if you hire a designer
With OneBookPlus
Your total
$0–15/mo
See it in action
Not mockups — the real product screens for a trading Saturday on the shop floor and at the market stall.
Type the first letters of a candle, scan a barcode, or tap a Square reader for tap-and-go. GST splits automatically, the SKU decrements, and the receipt SMSes to the customer. The same till runs on the shop iPad and on the phone in your apron at a Rose Street or Salamanca market stall.

Every variant — size, colour, scent — carries its supplier cost, retail price and stock on hand. Low-stock alerts flag the best-seller trending to zero; dead-stock surfaces the variants that haven't moved in 30 days so you can mark them down before next season's order.

Sales-by-hour and sales-by-weekday tell you when to roster the casual; the daily-takings ticker shows you're tracking ahead of the same Saturday last year. Raise a PO to your wholesaler, mark it received, and the supplier bill lands in expenses with 10% GST split — ready for the one-click BAS export.

Simple Workflow
From shelf to receipt to BAS — four simple steps that match how an Australian retail business actually runs week to week.
Upload your SKUs (or import from a spreadsheet), set GST-inclusive prices, and load product photos. Variants like size and colour are handled out of the box.
Ring up in-store on the counter, take a market-stall sale on the phone, or fulfil an online order. Stock decrements once, in one place — no double-handling.
Low-stock alerts surface on the dashboard. Raise purchase orders, mark them received, and the supplier bill drops into expenses with GST split automatically.
GST collected and paid is tallied as you trade. Export the quarterly BAS summary, the P&L, and the stock-on-hand report in one click for your accountant.
Most retailers run a sale through the till within 15 minutes of signup
$0
Free plan — no monthly fees, perfect for market stalls
1 app
Replaces POS + accounting + CRM + inventory
10%
GST handled automatically on every sale and bill
BAS-ready
Quarterly summary export in a single click
Built-in AI
You're serving the counter — the phone rings for stock, orders and hours you can't get to.
OneBookPlus
AI Receptionist · incoming call
“Do you have the blue one in stock to pick up?”
If you don't answer, the AI books it — Click & collect · ready today 3pm — and texts a confirmation.
Built in Melbourne, AU
ATO-ready from day one
256-bit encryption
No credit card needed
Common questions about POS, inventory and accounting software for Australian retailers.
For an independent Australian shop the best setup usually combines POS, inventory, customer CRM and accounting in one place rather than running a card terminal plus a separate accounting tool plus a stock spreadsheet. OneBookPlus does that from $0/month — counter sales on a phone or tablet, SKU and variant inventory, supplier bills, layby and gift cards, and BAS-ready GST reporting — with no per-transaction software fee beyond standard payment processing. It's a practical Xero or MYOB alternative for retailers who want their sales and accounts on the same data instead of exporting between two products.
Yes. OneBookPlus runs as a tablet or phone POS at the counter and also handles inventory, supplier billing, customer CRM and BAS-ready reporting in the same product. You can connect a Square card reader for tap-and-go, or use Apple Pay and Google Pay directly through the phone. Where most retailers run Square POS plus Xero plus a spreadsheet for stock, OneBookPlus replaces the lot.
Square is strong on the card terminal but light on inventory and accounting — most Square users still bolt on Xero. Lightspeed Retail is feature-rich but starts around AU$89/month and adds a transaction fee on top. Vend was rolled into Lightspeed in 2021 and is being sunset. OneBookPlus bundles POS, inventory, CRM, supplier bills, GST and BAS reporting from $0/month, with no per-transaction software fee beyond standard payment processing.
Absolutely — market stalls and pop-ups are a first-class workflow. You can run a casual-trader stall entirely from the phone, accept card via a Square reader paired over Bluetooth, log cash sales in two taps, and reconcile takings at the end of the day. Daily takings and GST are tracked the same as an in-store sale, so when BAS is due, market days and shop days roll into one report.
Yes. Each product can carry variants (size, colour, flavour), supplier cost, retail price, and stock on hand. Low-stock alerts flag the SKUs trending toward zero before you actually sell out. If you trade from a shop plus a weekend market, stock can be tracked per location with transfers between them, so you don't oversell what's actually in the van.
The Australian Consumer Law (ACL) requires retailers to offer refunds, replacements or repairs for major faults — and acceptable-quality, fit-for-purpose goods regardless of any 'no refunds' sign. OneBookPlus tracks the original sale, the refund, the restock, and the GST adjustment in one record so your evidence trail is intact if a dispute lands in NSW Fair Trading or VCAT. Our Consumer Guarantees (ACL) reference page covers section 54, section 55 and the refund vs replace decision tree.
Yes. Layby is a first-class workflow — take the deposit, the system holds the stock against the customer, and the balance can be paid in instalments via the customer's link or in-store. Gift cards generate a unique code at the till and redeem in part or whole on a future sale. Loyalty is a simple percentage or dollar discount tied to a customer tag, applied automatically when the customer is recognised at checkout.
Stock is the single source of truth across all three channels. A sale at the shop till decrements the same SKU that's listed on your online store and the same SKU sitting in the market-stall tub. Channels can be tagged per sale so you can see at a glance what proportion of revenue comes from each — typical mature retailers run 60-70% in-store, 20-30% online, 5-15% market days. The dashboard breaks it out so you can make decisions about where to put your time.
Not necessarily. Many OneBookPlus retailers run paperless: receipts emailed or SMS'd, no cash drawer (cash sales reconciled at end of day), and product lookup by typing the first few letters of the name instead of scanning. For shops with high transaction volume, OneBookPlus pairs over Bluetooth with most receipt printers (Star, Epson TM-T20), USB cash drawers (Vasario, APG), and Bluetooth barcode scanners (Socket Mobile, Honeywell Voyager). The Square card reader works for tap-and-go.
About the author
Founder & CEO, OneBookPlus
Bishal has over a decade of experience in digital marketing, web development, and small business consulting across Australia. He has worked directly with dozens of Australian retail businesses — boutique shops, homewares stores, weekend market traders and food stalls — helping them consolidate POS, inventory, supplier billing and BAS reporting onto a single mobile-first platform.
If you run a boutique shop on a high street, a homewares store in a regional town, or a weekend market stall under a gazebo, you already know the stack: Square or Lightspeed for the till, Xero for the books, a spreadsheet for stock, and probably a notebook for the supplier orders. Each tool costs money, none of them talk to each other properly, and at the end of the quarter you still hand the accountant a USB stick of CSV exports and pray they line up. OneBookPlus replaces all of that with a single app built for how Australian retailers actually work — on the counter, on the floor, at the market, and on your phone in the car between deliveries.
The platform covers the full retail lifecycle from supplier purchase order to customer sale to BAS lodgement. A supplier sends an invoice for a delivery of stock and you raise the purchase order in OneBookPlus — the goods land, you mark the PO received, and the stock-on-hand for each SKU is updated automatically. The supplier bill drops into expenses with the 10% GST already split. A customer walks in, you ring up the sale on the counter tablet (or the phone in your apron pocket if you're at a pop-up). The card terminal or Apple Pay handles the payment, the SKU decrements, and a receipt is emailed to the customer if they want one. Their email goes onto the CRM record so next time there's a new drop, you can message them directly without paying Mailchimp.
Picture a typical Saturday. You open OneBookPlus at 7:30am over a coffee — the dashboard shows yesterday's takings, two SKUs flagged as low stock, one customer awaiting a layby follow-up, and a supplier bill due Monday. You confirm the layby with a tap. The shop opens at 9am and the first sale is a regular — the system recognises her phone number, applies the 10% loyalty discount, and emails her receipt. By lunchtime, eight sales are through the till and the dashboard's daily-takings ticker shows you're tracking 12% above the same Saturday last month. At 1pm a pallet of new stock lands from your supplier. You scan the bar codes (or import the CSV the supplier sent), mark the PO received, and the new SKUs are live on the till by 1:15pm. At 6pm you cash out: takings reconcile to the float, the GST tally for the day is sitting at $187, and end-of-day takes about 90 seconds.
For weekend market traders and pop-up operators, OneBookPlus runs as a fully mobile POS. No counter, no fixed terminal — just the phone in your apron pocket and a Square card reader paired over Bluetooth. Customers tap, pay, you hand them the goods. Cash sales go through in two taps; the takings sit alongside the card sales in the same dashboard. At the end of the market day, you reconcile cash to the float and the GST is already tallied. If you trade both a shop and a weekend market, stock is tracked per location so the stall doesn't oversell what's already gone from the shop floor. Casual-trader permits, public-liability insurance and stallholder paperwork are referenced in our Market Stall Permits by State guide so you know what your council requires before you turn up.
OneBookPlus connects to your business bank account and pulls in transactions automatically. When a card-terminal settlement lands, the system matches it to the day's sales for you — no manual reconciliation. Supplier bills you've entered are matched to the outgoing payment on the bank feed, so accounts payable stays clean. GST collected on sales and GST paid on bills are both tallied as you trade. When BAS time rolls around — quarterly for most retailers — you export a clean summary covering GST, sales, expenses and net amount due, and hand it to your accountant or lodge it yourself through the ATO portal. No shoebox of receipts, no Sunday-night spreadsheet reconciliation.
Australian retail is governed by the Australian Consumer Law (ACL), which makes consumer guarantees automatic on every sale. If a product has a major fault, the customer chooses the remedy — refund, replacement or repair — and a “no refunds” sign is unlawful in that context. OneBookPlus tracks the original sale, the refund, the restock and the GST adjustment in one record, so if a dispute lands in NSW Fair Trading, Consumer Affairs Victoria or VCAT, your evidence trail is intact. Our Consumer Guarantees (ACL) reference page walks through section 54 (acceptable quality), section 55 (fitness for purpose) and the refund-vs-replace decision tree.
Sign up in under a minute — no credit card required. Add your ABN, upload your logo, set your default GST treatment and your payment terms. Import existing products from a Square, Shopify or Lightspeed CSV export, or add SKUs as you go. Most retailers are running their first sale through the till within fifteen minutes of signing up. The free plan covers unlimited sales and up to a few hundred SKUs, so you can trial the platform on a real Saturday before you commit. When you're ready for bank feeds, multi-location stock, advanced CRM segmentation or a larger team, upgrade to a paid plan — still a fraction of what a Lightspeed Retail plus Xero plus Mailchimp stack costs each month.
Industry Context
Australian retail turns over roughly $430 billion a year according to ABS Retail Trade data, with around 150,000 small-business retail operators (under 20 staff) making up the long tail. The discretionary categories — clothing & footwear, homewares, books, gifts, beauty — trade on 30-40% gross margins where every percentage point of stockholding cost matters. Food and grocery sit at 15-25% margins with much higher inventory velocity. In both cases, the operators who stay in business are the ones who understand stock turn, not the ones who chase headline sales.
Three forces have reshaped the sector in the last five years: (1) the post-COVID normalisation of online channels means even the smallest boutique now expects a click-and-collect or local-delivery option; (2) the rise of weekend markets, pop-ups and Sunday-trading laneways has created a new tier of casual-trader retail that doesn't fit the legacy POS systems built for fixed stores; and (3) payment behaviour has shifted decisively to tap-and-go — according to RBA Payments data, cash now accounts for under 10% of in-person retail transactions, down from over 30% pre-2020. Software built for the era of cash drawers and Friday-night banking is a poor fit for how retail is actually trading.
The compliance backdrop matters too. The Australian Consumer Law (ACL) sits over every retail sale — consumer guarantees are automatic, “no refunds” signs are unlawful where a major fault exists, and disputes that aren't resolved in-store land at NSW Fair Trading, Consumer Affairs Victoria or VCAT. GST at 10% applies to most goods (with notable exceptions for basic food, education, health and some financial services), reported quarterly via BAS for most retailers. And for stallholders, the casual-trader permit landscape varies by council and state, with food handling adding an extra layer of state-health-authority requirements. OneBookPlus is designed against this entire compliance surface, not retro-fitted from a US or UK retail product.
Scroll through the day from morning to 5pm: the AI receptionist answers and books a missed call, the work runs from the app, the GST invoice is sent on the spot, payment lands and the books balance themselves, a five-star review is requested automatically, and the day closes with the ledger already written.
9:30am
While you're at the counter
An interior stylist needs six linen throws for a Friday shoot. She calls the first homewares shop on Google — yours. You're mid-sale.
AI Receptionist
The AI answers in two rings, checks live stock, reserves six throws for pickup and texts her a confirmation.
Between customers
The order card lists the SKUs, sizes and shelf spots. You pick and wrap between counter sales — stock decrements as you go.
From the counter
One tap turns the reserved order into a GST invoice with a pay link. No till-roll arithmetic tonight.
While you're serving
The $748 order is paid by card at pickup, the books update themselves and $68.00 GST is set aside for BAS.
Reputation on autopilot
Two hours after pickup the AI asks for a review. The stylist posts five stars — and tags the shop.
The till closes itself
Takings reconciled to the float in seconds. The book did the rest.
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collected
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admin tasks done by AI
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evenings lost
Retail pricing
Free for solo market traders and brand-new boutiques. Paid plans only kick in when you're ready for bank feeds, multi-location stock, or a bigger team. No contracts, no per-till tax. Cancel any time.
Free
$0/forever
Ring up your first market-day sale today — no credit card.
Starter
$29/mo
Replaces Square POS + Xero + Mailchimp + your stock spreadsheet.
No card · Drops to Free if you don't upgrade
Growth
$69/mo
For multi-store retailers running shop, online and market days side by side.
Prices in AUD inc. GST. Payment-processing fees sit on top and pass through at cost (Square 1.6%, Stripe 1.7% + 30¢ AU cards). Full plan comparison →
Already on another POS?
Most shops move across in a single evening after close. Export your products and customers as CSV from your current POS, import them into OneBookPlus with the bulk importer, and you're ringing up sales before the shutter goes up tomorrow.
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Who It's For
From the single-stallholder weekend trader to the multi-location homewares group, OneBookPlus shapes itself to how your retail business actually runs.
One shop, one owner-operator, maybe a casual on Saturdays. Needs fast POS, lightweight stock tracking, an email list of regulars, and GST handled automatically. Free or Starter plan covers it.
Two to five shops, central buying, transfer stock between stores. Needs per-location stock counts, role-based access so each shop manager sees their own dashboard, and consolidated BAS reporting at head office.
A high-street shop with a Shopify or Squarespace site. Needs one stock count across both channels, so an online sale doesn't oversell what was already sold in-store ten minutes earlier.
Weekend markets, festival stalls, or seasonal pop-ups. Needs a fully mobile POS, casual-trader-friendly card terminal, daily takings reconciliation, and the option to step up to a permanent shop when ready.
Compared To
The three platforms most Australian retailers actually compare. Headline pricing as of early 2026 — transaction fees, hardware and add-ons sit on top in every case.
| Feature | OneBookPlus | Square POS | Lightspeed Retail | Shopify POS |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Software cost from | $0/mo | $0/mo | AU$89/mo | US$89/mo + plan |
| POS terminal & mobile till | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Inventory & SKU tracking | Yes | Limited (free) / paid add-on | Yes | Yes |
| Accounting & BAS reporting | Yes | No (needs Xero) | No (needs Xero) | No (needs Xero) |
| Customer CRM & loyalty | Yes | Paid add-on | Paid add-on | Yes (Shopify side) |
| Supplier bills & purchase orders | Yes | No | Yes | Limited |
| Market-stall / casual-trader friendly | Yes | Yes | Heavy for stalls | Heavy for stalls |
| GST 10% & ABN built-in | Yes | Yes | Yes | Configurable |
| ACL refund & return tracking | Yes | Manual | Yes | Manual |
| Free plan available | Yes | Yes (POS only) | No (free trial only) | No |
Pricing accurate as of May 2026 from the vendor websites; payment-processing fees (Square 1.6%, Lightspeed payments, Shopify Payments) and hardware sit on top.
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Authoritative sources
Australian retailers trade under the Australian Consumer Law, the GST and BAS regime, the General Retail Industry Award, and council/state casual-trader rules. We cite the primary bodies for the claims on this page so you can verify directly.
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Free for market stalls & boutiques
60-sec sign-up · No card · GST & BAS ready
Who it's for
From a single-stallholder at Rose Street Artists' Market to a three-store homewares group, OneBookPlus shapes itself to how you trade.
One shop, one owner, a casual on Saturdays. Needs fast counter POS, lightweight SKU tracking, an email list of regulars and 10% GST handled automatically. Free or Starter covers it.
Weekend Salamanca, Bondi or Queen Vic Market stalls. Needs a phone-only POS, a Square reader over Bluetooth, two-tap cash sales and daily takings reconciled to the float.
A high-street shop with a Shopify or Squarespace site. Needs one stock count across both channels so an online order never oversells what sold in-store ten minutes ago.
Two to five stores, central buying, transfers between shops. Needs per-location stock, role-based access so each manager sees their own till, and consolidated BAS at head office.
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Real-world scenario
How a Brunswick Street boutique owner runs a trading Saturday on OneBookPlus
7:30am. Priya opens OneBookPlus over a coffee on Brunswick Street. The dashboard shows yesterday's takings, two SKUs flagged low (the $34 soy candles and the $129 linen throws), one layby balance due, and a supplier bill from her ceramics wholesaler due Monday. She confirms the layby with a tap.
9am, doors open. The first sale is a regular — the system recognises her phone number, applies her 10% loyalty discount on a $129 throw, and SMSes the receipt. By 11am, twelve sales are through the counter iPad and the daily-takings ticker shows she's tracking 14% above the same Saturday last year.
1pm. A pallet of new stock lands from her wholesaler. Priya marks the purchase order received, the new SKUs go live on the till by 1:15pm, and the supplier bill drops into expenses with the 10% GST already split.
2pm. Her casual takes the eftpos at the counter while Priya runs a pop-up table out the front for the Fitzroy street festival — same OneBookPlus, now on her phone with a Square reader, tapping contactless cards and logging cash in two taps. Stock decrements from the one shared count, so the festival table never oversells what's on the shelf inside.
4pm. A customer returns a faulty lamp. Priya processes the refund, the restock and the GST adjustment in one record — her evidence trail intact if it ever reached Consumer Affairs Victoria.
End of day: 38 sales, $2,940 in takings, cash reconciled to the float in 90 seconds, the day's GST tally sitting at $267. Come BAS time, market days and shop days roll into one quarterly export.
How we compare
How we compare to the tools Australian retailers actually run.
| Feature | OneBookPlus | Square POS | Lightspeed Retail | Shopify POS |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| POS terminal + mobile till | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Inventory & SKU/variant tracking | Yes | No |
| Yes |
| Yes |
| Accounting & BAS reporting | Yes | No | No | No |
| Supplier bills & purchase orders | Yes | No | Yes | No |
| Customer CRM & loyalty | Yes | No | No | Yes |
| Layby & gift cards | Yes | No | Yes | No |
| Market-stall / casual-trader friendly | Yes | Yes | No | No |
| ACL refund & return tracking | Yes | No | Yes | No |
| GST 10% & ABN built-in | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
| Free plan available | Yes | Yes | No | No |
| Price | From $0/mo | $0/mo (POS only) | AU$89+/mo | US$89+/mo |