{"id":4640,"date":"2026-10-30T08:44:43","date_gmt":"2026-10-30T08:44:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vega.co.ke\/blog\/?p=4640"},"modified":"2026-10-30T08:44:43","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T08:44:43","slug":"pos-setup-checklist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vega.co.ke\/blog\/pos-setup-checklist\/","title":{"rendered":"POS Setup Checklist: Open Your Shop Right"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A POS setup checklist<\/a> turns launch week from a scramble into a plan. Shops that skip it spend their first Saturday firefighting logins, prices and printers. One ordered list prevents all of that.<\/p>\n

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Most failed launches are not software failures; they are preparation failures. Wrong stock counts, untested payment rails and untrained staff cause more day-one chaos than any bug. Following a POS setup checklist<\/a> removes those failures before they happen.<\/p>\n

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This guide walks the setup in order: accounts, products, stock, staff, payments, receipts, testing, hardware, backups, training, reports, security and cut-over. Each step ends with checks you can tick in a single afternoon.<\/p>\n

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Work through it and your go-live feels boring \u2014 which is exactly the goal. Owners who run a POS setup checklist<\/a> open calm, trade fully and sleep that night.<\/p>\n

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