ManuelPOS vs Tally: do you need both a till and Tally?

Many Ghanaian businesses keep their accounts in Tally. Accountants learn it, and it is trusted. A common question we hear is whether a business that uses Tally also needs a POS, or whether a POS can replace Tally.

The short answer: they do different jobs. Tally is for the accounts. A POS is for selling. ManuelPOS does the selling and keeps Tally-style books from every sale, so many small businesses no longer need a separate accounts program.

Facts about Tally below come from tallysolutions.com and, where noted, from Tally's Ghanaian reseller, checked on 14 October 2026.

What is Tally built for?

TallyPrime is Tally Solutions' business management software for accounting, invoicing, inventory, banking, tax and reports. It runs on a computer, with reports also viewable in a browser.

Tally.ERP 9 was the earlier version. Tally Solutions released TallyPrime in November 2020 as its successor. Tally says Tally.ERP 9 "will continue to work", but "from 16th August 2026, TSS renewal on Tally.ERP 9 will be discontinued for all customers". TSS is the yearly service that brings updates and connected features.

On Tally's Africa pricing page, TallyPrime Silver (one computer) is a one-time purchase quoted at about USD 405, and TallyPrime Gold (several users) costs more. Both include one year of TSS, which is renewed after that. Ghanaian prices are quoted by resellers.

What does ManuelPOS do?

ManuelPOS is the system at the counter. Staff sell from a phone, tablet or laptop. It keeps selling without internet, takes Mobile Money with the transaction ID, prints or shares receipts with the 2026 GRA taxes worked out, books appointments, and tracks stock per branch. The owner sees it all from anywhere.

Behind the till, ManuelPOS keeps the books the way Tally users expect:

• Masters: ledger groups and ledgers, including your cash, bank and MoMo accounts, customers and suppliers.
• Vouchers: money received (F6), money paid (F5), contra (F4), journal (F7), sales (F8), purchase (F9), and sales and purchase returns.
• Automatic posting: every till sale, return, purchase, expense and petty cash movement becomes a voucher by itself.
• Books: day book, ledger statements, cash and bank book, trial balance and group summaries.
• Reports: profit and loss for any period, with purchases, gross profit and indirect expenses.

Side by side

Which one do you need?

ManuelPOS alone suits most shops, chop bars, restaurants, salons and barbers. You get the till and the books in one place, with nothing to re-type at the end of the month.

Tally alone suits a business that does not sell over a counter, such as a distributor that invoices a few large customers, or a firm whose accountant does all the entries.

Both suit a business whose accountant already runs Tally, or that needs GRA E-VAT e-invoicing or full payroll today. ManuelPOS runs the counter, and the accountant takes the totals, the tax summary and the trial balance from ManuelPOS each month.

Moving from Tally.ERP 9

If you are on Tally.ERP 9 and wondering what to do before TSS renewals stop, you have two paths. You can upgrade to TallyPrime, which Tally offers free to customers whose TSS was active on or after 9 November 2020. Or, if Tally was mainly keeping your sales, stock and cash book, you can move that work to ManuelPOS and let the books build themselves from the till.

Start the free trial with your own products and run a week of sales. Then compare the day book and trial balance with what you would have entered in Tally.