Cash register software in Tangier: La Caisse Retail for trade on the Strait

Where Tangier shops

The 2024 census counted nearly 1.28 million inhabitants in Tangier, up from around 950,000 ten years earlier. That growth has spread south and east of the city, and the retail map has followed: alongside the medina and the historic centre, new hubs have formed around the malls, the working-class districts and the business zones.

Grand Socco, Petit Socco and the medina

Handicrafts, delicatessens, souvenir shops and neighbourhood stores, among the visitors arriving at the Tanger Ville port. Small floor areas and a mix of tourists and regulars.

Boulevard Pasteur, Boulevard Mohammed V and the new town

Fashion, footwear, opticians, phones, perfumery: the historic shopping heart, where sales seasons and new collections play out.

The shopping centres

Ibn Batouta Mall near the port, Tanger City Mall next to the railway station, Socco Alto on the heights: national chains, franchises and hypermarkets, with per-store reporting requirements.

Casabarata and Beni Makada

Casabarata, the vast popular market south of the centre, sells everything — second-hand clothing, electronics, textiles, household goods — at tight prices and in volume. Its traders work fast, often in cash and by cheque, and an upgrade programme for the market has been announced.

Free zone and industrial zones

Around the airport and towards Tanger Med, the automotive, wiring and logistics industries support a whole network of distributors: hardware, industrial supplies, protective equipment, consumables.

Summer on the Strait: a season to prepare for

Every summer, Tangier changes scale. Moroccan families settled in Europe cross via Tanger Med or the Tanger Ville port, holidaymakers arrive, and shops see a surge of customers in town for just a few days. La Caisse Retail lets you plan for this peak rather than be caught out by it.

Ahead of time, sell-through reports from previous summers and min / max replenishment tell you which items to order. Price lists and seasons set up your summer prices. Campaigns can target a department, a brand or a time slot, and coupons or gifts with purchase apply automatically at the till.

During the peak, the touch screen — barcode, quick grid or departments — keeps queues short, baskets can be put on hold while a customer tries another size, and multi-payment accepts cash, card, cheque, gift card or credit note on a single receipt. If the connection is saturated on a busy day, the till keeps selling and printing locally, then automatically fails over to the in-store gateway box installed in the shop, without losing the basket in progress.

For a chain with a store on Boulevard Pasteur and a concession in a mall, stock can be read store by store and transferred from one to the other as soon as a size runs out. And after the season, customers who have gone back to Europe can keep buying from the Shopify or WooCommerce shop, which shares the same stock.

Selling to manufacturers at Tanger Med and in the free zone

A large share of Tangier's trade goes through an invoice rather than a till receipt. The distributor supplying gloves, tools or consumables to factories in the free zone also sells over the counter to local tradespeople. It needs both in the same software.

From quote to invoice

Quote, order, delivery note, then PDF invoice with VAT calculated automatically, and credit notes when needed. A quote or order can also be entered directly from the till, at the counter.

Receivables tracking

Business customers pay on terms: receivables and their age are tracked in the reports, and credit sales are managed on the customer record.

Purchasing and imported goods

Supplier purchase orders, 3-way matching against the supplier invoice, goods receipts with landed costs and scan checks: useful for goods that pass through the port before reaching the shelf.

Typical Tangier businesses

The three situations below are illustrative examples, created to show how the software is used in Tangier; they are not customer testimonials.

A fashion chain, city centre and mall

Two stores, hundreds of items in size × colour with one EAN13 per variant. The cashier can see at the till whether a missing size is available in the other shop, the transfer goes out the same day, and every evening the manager checks a dashboard with targets per store.

An industrial supplies distributor near the free zone

Delivery notes for the factories in the morning; counter sales in the afternoon. Sales reps have their commissions calculated, access rights separate what a salesperson sees from what the accountant sees, and the invoice goes out with the correct VAT.

A household appliance shop in Casabarata

A till in simplified mode, a cheque wallet tracked day by day, editable prices with an alert when selling below cost, and serial numbers for warranty. In the evening, the cash count and the PDF Z report close out the day.

Why La Caisse is the best choice for a business in Tangier

Moroccan software, not an adaptation

La Caisse is published by ALINEA Consulting in Casablanca and designed from the outset for Moroccan businesses. Foreign software such as Square, Lightspeed or Cegid has to be adapted to the market.

Counter and B2B in one tool

The till, purchasing, stock and trade invoicing share the same product records and the same customers: no double entry between the shop floor and the office.

Robust on peak days

Local selling, printing and closing, an in-store gateway box, and the day sealed in the cloud when the network returns.

Ready for multiple stores and banners

Multi-site, multi-store, multi-banner, with rights by role, site and banner, two-factor authentication and a full audit log.

Support in Arabic and French

A team based in Casablanca, remote assistance, support tickets and a video help centre. More than 50 companies in Morocco already use ALINEA software.

Data that stays yours

Exportable at any time, with an API ready to talk to your other software.

Corniche cafés and restaurants, then getting started

From the historic cafés of the centre to the terraces of the corniche and Malabata, Tangier also lives a great deal at the table. La Caisse Restaurant, ALINEA's app dedicated to food service, manages the floor plan, table ordering and split bills, sends tickets to a kitchen display (KDS) per station, and brings eat-in, takeaway and delivery together through the channel manager.

For a shop as for a restaurant, the starting point is an on-demand demo, arranged on WhatsApp and built around your business. The quote depends on the number of tills, points of sale and hardware. ALINEA then delivers a turnkey solution — software, hardware and staff training — and remains reachable on WhatsApp, by email or by phone.

Questions from businesses in Tangier