The unified POS and back office for multi-location retail

Point of Sale built by the operators who run on it.

Multi-company. Multi-location. Cloud-based with full offline mode. The point-of-sale and back-office platform we built ourselves because nothing on the market actually fit how a real retail operation runs day to day.

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MainStreetBistroCorner CoPlazaAll brands
Today
$8,420
+12%
This week
$54,290
+4%
This month
$214K
+9%
Sales · last 7 daysby store
Live activity
Sale· Henderson · $142.50just now
Clock-in · M. Reyes· Sahara2m
Refund approved· Strip · $38.005m
Why we built our own

We tried what was on the market. None of it actually fit.

On the market today

Half a day every payroll

Export from the Point of Sale. Reformat in Excel. Upload to the payroll service. Fix errors. Re-upload. Now do it for the other company. Now do it again next week.

On the market today

Five logins. Five bills. Five teams to call.

Your POS, your payroll, your scheduler, your inventory, your reporting: five different vendors, five subscriptions, five places to file a ticket when something breaks at the seam between them.

On the market today

“That's an Enterprise feature.”

Want a custom report? Per-store pricing? A schedule that builds itself? Move stock between locations? Add another zero to your bill. Or hear “not on the roadmap.”

We waited years for someone to ship the right tool. They never did. So we built one system where every part comes from the same team, ships on the same release, and shares the same database.

What it does

Built for how a real store actually runs.

All your brands. One login.

Run every company you own from the same back office. Switch with one click. Permissions stay where they belong, payroll runs separately, taxes file correctly.

Payroll that finishes itself

Hours, sales, commission, deductions: all calculated from the data your registers already capture. Exports straight to ADP, Gusto, or your provider. No more Payroll Tuesday.

A schedule that builds itself

Auto-fill from employee preferences and last week's pattern. Conflict warnings before you publish. Employees see it on their phone, request swaps, get push notifications.

Sales that don't stop with the Wi-Fi

Every register works fully offline. Take payment, print receipts, look up customers, all without internet. Everything syncs the moment the network returns.

Live visibility into every store

See sales, hours, and cash for every location as they happen. Alerts the moment something needs your attention: short drawer, missing closeout, a refund waiting on you.

Cash you can actually trace

From drawer count to bank deposit, every dollar has a trail. Who counted what, when, from which register. End cash shortages without playing detective.

Landlord reports done for you

Lease terms drive the math. Percent-rent calculated from live sales. Reports auto-generate and send on your schedule. Stop spending Saturday on the rent spreadsheet.

An app for every employee

Schedules, paystubs, time off, swap requests, announcements, all on every employee's phone. They stop texting you about Saturday's shift. You stop being the answer service.

Bring your own processor

No payment-processor lock-in. The hardware doesn't care which provider you use. Switch when the rate's wrong. Keep your tablets when you do.

How it fits together

From the register to the back office. Built as one system.

Most “all-in-one” offerings are five separate products acquired over the years and stitched together with nightly imports. Kapara is a single product designed end to end. The sale you ring up is the same record your manager sees on the dashboard, the same record payroll uses for commission, the same record your landlord report pulls from at month end.

One sale, ten things handled

  1. 1Cashier rings up the sale
  2. 2Inventory updates instantly
  3. 3Manager sees it on the live dashboard
  4. 4Commission counts toward the right employee
  5. 5Cash drawer expectation updates
  6. 6Sales tax accrues for the right jurisdiction
  7. 7Percent-rent total updates if applicable
  8. 8Payroll picks it up automatically

One day, one closeout

  1. 1Schedule sets clock-in windows
  2. 2Time clock feeds payroll & labor cost
  3. 3Cash adjustments roll into the closeout
  4. 4Drawer reconciles to expected automatically
  5. 5Variances route to the right manager
  6. 6Bank deposit auto-reconciles to office cash
  7. 7Anything off shows up in the alert bell

One lease, one report

  1. 1Set up the lease once, with your terms
  2. 2Monthly rent payments auto-generate
  3. 3Sales for the period total themselves
  4. 4Percent-rent calculates from live data
  5. 5Tax credits applied where they apply
  6. 6Landlord report generates with one click
  7. 7Sent to the right inbox on the right day
Who's behind it

Decades shipping software in Silicon Valley. Then we became retail operators.

We spent careers building tools at some of the largest tech companies in the world. When we moved into retail and tried to run our own stores on what was on the market, we couldn't believe the gap between what's possible and what every owner is forced to put up with.

Most Point of Sale software is built by engineers who've never run a register, or by retailers who learned just enough code to ship something. Kapara comes from the rare overlap. Every shortcut, every report, every weird edge case is in there because someone on our floor needed it on a Tuesday afternoon.

The Kapara team
Engineers, operators, and the same people you'll talk to.

See if Kapara fits your operation.

We're early in opening Kapara to operators outside our own stores. If yours sounds like the kind we built this for, reach out. We'd love to hear what you're working around today.