Register · Scan data · Invoicing · Ordering
Tillfront scans the license, holds the price floor, runs your deals — and turns every week of sales into the scan-data files Altria and Reynolds pay stores for. Built inside a working smoke shop and a working distributorship.
14 days free · $0 today · cancel with a phone call
Not a demo lab
Tillfront runs a working retail store and a working wholesale distributorship in Minnesota. When you call, you get someone who counted a drawer this week.
Which one are you?
ID-scan age verification
Every restricted sale stops until an ID passes — scanned off the license barcode or typed. Under 21 blocks with no override. Expired blocks. And every pass rides the sale as an audit stamp: who verified, how, and when.
Works with the barcode gun you already own — most 2D scanners read license PDF417 out of the box.
Tobacco scan data — money most registers leave on the table
Altria and R.J. Reynolds pay participating stores for weekly transaction data — per-carton incentives plus funded multipack promos. Tillfront generates both manufacturers' files to spec, ready for their certification, every Saturday. Drag the sliders — this is your store.
Customer-facing display
Deals rotate automatically from your live promos. Upload your logo and it opens the show. While a sale rings, the customer watches their order build — and sees “Hi Sam — you have 120 points.” Every word of it is controlled per store from the main app.
The rest of the counter
Set the floor once. The register refuses any override or promo below it — Minnesota's minimum-price law as a system guarantee, not a training memo.
Sell a carton, ten packs come off the shelf count — at the register, on invoices, on returns, on PO receiving. One stock number that's always true.
Receipt printers, shelf labels with dual pricing room, and a clerk day slip so cash-outs take four minutes instead of forty.
You set the list from the office. The crew checks it off at the register. Skipping requires a written reason with a name on it.
Supplies, change for the drawer, time-off asks, “a customer wants us to carry X” — raised at the register, answered from the main app. Sticky notes retire.
Points by phone number, mix-and-match multipacks, BOGOs, quick coupons — and the time clock with clerk-stamped sales, because every ring should have a name on it.
The wholesale side
Customer-specific pricing and credit limits. Quotes that become invoices. A/R aging and dunning. State excise computed by ship-to. Routes for the truck. And your shops order themselves: the customer portal is a brand-tile storefront with their pricing, their invoices, their tracking.
The supplier network
Shops find distributors with an invite code. Licenses travel as a verified passport, so accounts open in minutes, not fax machines. Click through a first order:
Card processing
Chip-and-tap PAX terminals that talk natively to the register through an EMV integration we built and certified ourselves. Refunds go back to the original card with nothing to insert. A real human at Humble quotes your rates.
Already have a merchant account you like? Keep it. Manual mode works beside any terminal on the counter and never routes a dollar through us.
Against the big-box register
| Tillfront | Typical c-store POS | |
|---|---|---|
| Tobacco scan data — both Altria & Reynolds files | generated weekly, to spec | their processor, their terms |
| ID-scan age verification with audit trail | on every restricted sale | varies |
| Wholesale invoicing + customer ordering portal | same login | — |
| Supplier network with license passports | order from the register | — |
| Card processing | Humble on certified terminals — or bring your own | bundled — they're the processor |
| Customer display with your branding | head-office controlled | ads for their network |
| Contract | month to month | read the fine print |
Compatible with the counter you actually run
Fourteen days. Your catalog.
Import the pricebook, plug in a scanner, and most shops are ringing before close. $0 today. Cancel with a phone call.
Pricing
14 days free · month to month · your data exports any time — catalog in by CSV, catalog out by CSV, nobody's data held hostage.
Straight answers
Technically, all three are the same kind of thing — cloud software in a browser. The difference is weight and shape. QuickBooks and Zoho are enormous platforms built for every business on earth, so your trade's realities get bolted on. Tillfront is operational software for the counter: the scan, the invoice, the route, the register, the time clock. Most customers keep QuickBooks for the books and run Tillfront in front of it.
Two ways, your choice. Integrated chip-and-tap PAX terminals through Humble Payments — the terminal and the register act as one machine. Or keep the merchant account and terminal you already have; manual card mode works beside it. Nobody is ever forced to switch.
Fourteen days, full software, your real data. A card goes on file when you sign up but $0 is charged today — the first monthly charge happens when the trial ends. Cancel before day 14 and you pay nothing. Wholesale from $199/mo, ordering portal +$50, retail sites +$50 each, or a standalone store at $79/mo.
All 50 states are configurable — per-mL, per-unit, percent-of-cost, or percent-of-wholesale-price. You enter your rates, flag taxable products once, and every invoice computes excise from the customer's ship-to state and freezes it on the line. Rate changes never rewrite history.
Your data lives in a professionally-run cloud database, encrypted in transit, with access enforced in the database itself per login. A store login sees its store, a portal customer sees only their own account and never your costs. You can download a complete backup any time.
Honest answer: Tillfront is cloud software, so it needs a connection — same as QuickBooks or your card processor. A dead register costs you a device, not your data. Sign in on any other screen and keep working. Most shops run fine on a phone hotspot in a pinch.
Yes — that's the ordering portal. Each customer gets a login, sees your catalog at their prices with their order history and invoices, and sends orders that land in your Orders tab as drafts you review and turn into invoices.
A wholesale distributor and shop owner who got tired of running the trade on software that wasn't built for it. Tillfront runs a real wholesale operation and real retail stores every day — the features exist because the business needed them.
More on the FAQ page.
Talk to a human
Call (612) 963-3533 or leave a note. A real person reads these — usually within a business day.