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A barista in a café holds a BAG card terminal across the counter while a customer pays with their phone. The terminal screen shows a green tick and R 86.50.

Helping businesses secure the BAG.

The commerce and payments platform that helps businesses sell, get paid securely, run operations and grow.

One location free forever · No contract · Cancel any time

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One location, free for as long as you like
R449
Per location, per month — everything included
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Of your turnover. We never take a cut of a sale
Always
Sell, refund and export — on any plan, in any state

More than a POS.
A complete commerce ecosystem.

Till, stock, staff, orders, reports and an online shop — one product, one login, one set of numbers. Nothing to reconcile between systems at the end of the day.

See how it works
A BAG Terminal Go handheld card machine showing R 86.50 and a green tap-to-pay prompt, with a receipt printer across the top.

This is the actual BAG Till

Recorded from the real till: a sale rung up and paid in cash, start to finish. Large touch targets, one thumb, no hunting — on a counter screen or a phone.

Screens from the BAG app, recorded with a demo business's data.

What that looks like on the day.

One product, two modes. A shop does not need a table map cluttering the screen, and a restaurant does not need a barcode field where the seat numbers should be.

Shops and retail

Scan a barcode or tap a favourite, take cash or card, send the receipt on WhatsApp and know what is on the shelf. Variants for size and colour count as their own products, so stock is right.

  • Barcode, SKU and name search
  • Variants with their own stock
  • Counts, wastage and movement history
  • Cash-up with variance

Restaurants and bars

Lay out your floor, move tables through seated, ordered, ready and bill asked, and settle a bill across as many payments as the table needs.

  • Floor plan and table states
  • Several payments on one bill
  • Tips kept out of turnover
  • Recipes that deplete stock

Cafés and takeaways

Built for queues. A sale is a few taps, the next one starts immediately, and the day's takings are reconciled before you lock up.

  • Fast counter mode
  • Tips with presets you choose
  • Discounts with a reason on record
  • Receipts on WhatsApp

Five steps, in order

From sign-up to first sale in half an hour

Twenty-six minutes of actual work, adding products as you go. Load two thousand lines up front and step three takes the afternoon instead — that one scales with your catalogue and the others do not. None of it needs an installer, a site visit or a phone call.

  1. 1

    Sign in

    With Google, or an email address and a passphrase. We ask Google only for your name and email — never access to your mail.

    under a minute

  2. 2

    Set up the business

    Business type, your first location, tax settings and receipt branding. You can stop halfway and pick it up later; nothing is lost.

    about ten minutes

  3. 3

    Load your products

    Add them as you go, photographing each one straight from the device. Categories and brands are managed in one place, so the list stays clean rather than becoming Drinks, drinks and Drink within a week.

    an hour for a hundred lines

  4. 4

    Register tills, invite staff

    Name the tills you use and invite your staff, each with their own role and permissions. Staff switch in with a PIN. Locking a till to one particular device is not built yet.

    ten minutes

  5. 5

    Ring up a test sale

    A guided check walks you through a sale, a receipt and a cash-up before you open the doors — so the first real customer is not the first time anyone has used it.

    five minutes

BAG Terminal

A powerful POS device, with your brand on every receipt.

One device that takes the order and takes the money. BAG Till on the screen, BagPay underneath, and your own shop name and logo on the receipt.

Cards, tap and wallets
Contactless, chip and PIN, swipe and phone wallets, taken on the device and settled through BagPay.
The whole till, on the device
BAG Till runs on the terminal itself. Products, discounts, tips, split payments and receipts — not a card reader bolted onto a separate tablet.
Prints where it matters
Built-in receipt printing, so a customer who wants paper gets paper without a second machine on the counter.
Keeps going
Mobile data and Wi-Fi, and a battery sized for a full trading day. Ring up a sale on the floor, at a table, or at a market stall.

Device images are branded concept renders, not photographs of production hardware. The device you receive matches the specification below.

Two plans, no upsell above them

Priced per location, in rand

Monthly billing. The figure you see is the figure you pay, and we never take a percentage of what you sell.

How many trading locations?

Priced per active location, per month. A location you close stops being billed at your next renewal.

Starter

Free

One location, no time limit, no card to sign up

A real till, free for as long as you like. Ring up sales, take cash, record card and EFT payments, print or WhatsApp a receipt from your own phone, keep stock counts, and cash up at the end of the day.

  • One location, two people, one till
  • 100 active products
  • Unlimited sales, cash-up and daily reports
  • Export your own records
Start free
Everything included

Business

R 449.00/ month

R 449.00 × 1 location, billed monthly in rand

Everything BAG has built. Unlimited locations, staff and tills; tables and recipe-level food cost; the full report set including margin and exception reporting; stock counts, movements and wastage; loyalty, promotions, WhatsApp receipts and messaging; API access; and support from a person — within published fair-use limits. Integrated card acceptance is included as soon as it goes live, at no extra cost.

  • Unlimited locations, staff and tills
  • Tables, recipes, loyalty and WhatsApp receipts
  • Profitability and exception reports
  • Card machine integration when it goes live
Start on Business

What “everything” does and does not mean

Business includes every capability we have built. It is not unlimited infrastructure, and we would rather publish the ceilings than surprise you with them: up to 100 locations, 200 000 API calls a month, 25 GB of images and attachments, and 25 scheduled reports. These are technical limits that keep the service quick for everybody, not sales limits — if you need more, it is a conversation, not an upgrade.

Card machines, merchant transaction fees, connectivity and any provider charges are separate and billed by those providers. WhatsApp messages are billed to you by Meta, because the WhatsApp Business Account is yours and your own business name is the sender.

We never cap the number of sales you ring up, on either plan. Your records and your exports are always available, whatever you pay us.

Compare every capability side by side

Questions worth asking

You do not take a percentage of my sales. What does that actually save me?

A card machine provider that bundles free POS software pays for it out of your transaction rate. At 2.95% per card sale, R100,000 of monthly card turnover costs R2,950 a month in fees. With BAG you keep your own merchant deal — at 2.20% that same turnover costs R2,200, plus R449 to us, so R2,649. The crossover is around R60,000 of monthly card turnover: below it the bundled-software route is cheaper, above it we are, and the gap widens the more you sell. Your own rate is the number to check — ask your acquirer what you are actually paying.

Is the free plan really free?

Yes. One trading location, the owner plus one staff member, one till and 100 active products, for as long as you like. No card needed to sign up. We do not cap how many sales you ring up, and you can export your own records at any time — including from the free plan.

What exactly does R449 cover?

Everything we have built, for one active trading location, per month, billed monthly in rand. If you run three locations, that is three times R449. There is no annual contract, no setup fee, and no higher tier to be upsold to later — Business is the top of the product.

Is VAT added to that?

R449 is the total you pay. Whether your invoice shows a VAT line depends on our own VAT registration status at the time, and it is stated plainly on every invoice. We do not add VAT on top of the advertised price.

Can I keep the card machine I already have?

Yes, alongside BAG, though not yet connected to it. Any standalone machine works next to the till: the cashier reads the total off the screen, enters it on the machine, and records on the till that the payment was by card. Those sales are clearly marked as manually confirmed until you match them, and are never shown as approved by a bank. FNB, for example, does not publish a way for a till system to talk to a Speedpoint, so a connected integration there is not something we can offer.

How do card payments work?

Through BagPay, the payments engine inside BAG. A sale rung up on BAG Till hands the amount to the payment device, the device returns the authoritative result, and the sale is only marked paid on that result — never on a hopeful screen. Every payment carries an idempotency key, so a double-tapped Pay button or a retried request replays the original outcome instead of charging twice. Refunds, reversals and settlement are recorded against the same payment.

What happens if my payment fails?

Nothing, at first. We retry automatically over about a week and tell you what is happening. After that there is a further week of grace in which you can still trade and everything you have set up keeps working. Even after that, you can always sell, cash up, refund an earlier sale, read your full history and export every record you have.

What if I downgrade?

You never lose access to your history, your exports or your ability to refund an earlier sale. If your setup is bigger than the smaller plan allows, we show you exactly what to resolve — and the change takes effect at your next renewal, not mid-month.

Whose branding is on the card machine?

BAG Terminal carries the BAG finish, and your own shop name and logo appear on the receipt, in the till and across the back office. The device artwork on this site shows the intended finish; the hardware you receive matches the certified device we ship.

Does it work if the internet drops?

Not yet — the till needs a connection, and we would rather say so than have you find out during a service. Offline selling is being built; nothing on this site will claim it until it works. Card payments will always need a connection regardless, because a card cannot be authorised without one.

A bartender at an outdoor evening event takes a tap payment on a BAG terminal.

Start on one location, free.

No card, no contract. Add locations and staff when the business needs them.