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# POS for bakeries

> Point of sale for bakeries in Mexico: concentrated morning sales, products by weight, shrinkage control for perishables and fast restock by batch.

A bakery operates differently than a café or a restaurant. 70% of sales concentrate in the morning, products are perishable (what does not sell today goes to shrinkage), many items sell by weight or by piece with volume discounts, and restock by batch is constant.

## What your POS needs to do if you run a bakery

| Feature                            | Why it matters                                         |
| ---------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------ |
| **Fast tap-to-sell**               | At peak hour you process one ticket every 30 seconds   |
| **Products by weight**             | Bulk sweet bread, cheeses, the POS weighs and charges  |
| **Daily shrinkage control**        | Record what went to waste and understand the real cost |
| **Restock by batch**               | Mark when a new oven batch comes out, no friction      |
| **Products of the day / sold out** | Hide products when they run out without editing them   |
| **Optional printed ticket**        | Send by WhatsApp for orders over \$100                 |

## How a typical bakery uses El Nido

Saturday 7 AM:

* Customer asks for 6 conchas, 4 bolillos, 1 cake to go.
* Cashier taps products on visual grid (no menu search).
* Total auto-computed, payment by card or cash in 15 seconds.
* 10 AM, a new batch of cuernitos comes out. Cashier marks "available" without editing anything.
* 2 PM, bolillos run out. Product hides itself or you send it to "sold out" until tomorrow.

## Shrinkage control that actually matters

What goes to waste is lost margin. With El Nido you record:

* Product that didn't sell today.
* Spoiled product.
* Product given away at end of day.

At month close you see: $30,000 in sales but $2,800 in shrinkage. Now you adjust tomorrow's production to bring shrinkage down.

## Products by weight (when applicable)

For bakeries that sell:

* Bulk bread (concha by weight vs by piece)
* Cheeses and deli by kilo
* Pasta and flour

The POS connects to a scale or you input the weight manually and it charges by configured kilo price.

## Points card for bakeries

Bakery customers are highly recurring (the same person buys every Saturday). With a digital card in Apple Wallet, they accumulate points without paper, redeem for free bread or a birthday cake discount.

Real case: Churrería Las Duyas (León) runs digital cards and reports regulars who stopped switching to nearby options because of accumulated points.

## When you do NOT need a POS for your bakery

* You sell fewer than 50 pieces a day.
* You have no employees (you sell yourself).
* You do not care about measuring shrinkage.
* No one ever asks for an invoice.

For that size, a register and a notebook work.

## What it costs at your size

* **Free:** \$0/month. Small bakery with limited catalog.
* **Lite:** MXN \$349/month. Larger catalog, fast sales, shrinkage tracking.
* **Business:** MXN \$999/month. Recipes with cost, multi-employee, shift reports, points card.

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