Practical guides for shop owners in Iraq.
How to choose a cashier, how to track debts without a notebook, what double-entry means for your shop, and what is happening in Iraq's retail-software market — articles with sourced numbers, not ads.
- guide
An accounts program for a shop: what you need, and what is sold to you
What an accounts program must do for a shop in Iraq: real profit, debts by name and age, the drawer, books the accountant can open. And what is sold to you, unneeded.
The Dashing team · · 6 min
- Guide
Accepting Zain Cash, Qi Card and FIB at the counter: fees and booking
Accepting e-payments in an Iraqi shop: the merchant fees Zain Cash publishes, what Qi Card, FIB, SuperQi and AsiaHawala do not, and how each payment is booked in Dashing.
The Dashing team · · 5 min
- Guide
Barcodes for a shop: EAN-13, in-store numbers and carton barcodes
What a shop owner in Iraq needs to know about barcodes: what the EAN-13 digits mean, why the prefix is not the country of origin, in-store numbers, and carton vs piece.
The Dashing team · · 4 min
- Comparison
The 8 best accounting systems for shops in Iraq (2026)
Eight accounting systems shops in Iraq use: Dashing, RA8M, Al-Ameen, Daftra, Wafeq, Zoho Books, QuickBooks, Odoo, with vendor-page prices and who each one fits.
The Dashing team · · 7 min
- Comparison
The 8 best cashier systems in Iraq (2026): an honest comparison
Eight POS systems used in Iraq: Almas, RA8M, Kashir, Dashing, Al-Ameen, Daftra, Odoo, Loyverse, with vendor-page prices, who each fits, and what each lacks.
The Dashing team · · 7 min
- Pricing
What cashier software costs in Iraq (September 2026 prices)
Dated, sourced yearly costs for a one-branch shop: Dashing, Daftra, Odoo, QuickBooks Online, Loyverse, and the fees hiding in per-user, per-sale and dollar pricing.
The Dashing team · · 4 min
- Guide
Cashier software in Kurdish (Sorani): what exists and what to check
For shops in Erbil, Sulaymaniyah and Duhok: what 'Kurdish support' really means in cashier software, which systems say they have Kurdish, and what to test before you pay.
The Dashing team · · 3 min
- Guide
Cashier software in Iraq: the complete guide for shops (2026)
What cashier software must do in Iraq: hardware, working offline, dinar and dollar, debts on WhatsApp, Zain Cash and Qi, real prices, how to choose, with dated sources.
The Dashing team · · 13 min
- Guide
How to choose cashier software for a shop in Iraq (2026 guide)
Ten questions to ask before buying a cashier system in Iraq: offline, Arabic and Kurdish, whole dinars, real accounting, debts on WhatsApp, branches, export, price.
The Dashing team · · 6 min
- Guide
Closing the drawer every day: shifts, blind counts, honest variances
Running a shop's cash drawer in shifts: an opening float, cash movements, a blind count at close, a variance booked with a reason, and the end-of-shift report.
The Dashing team · · 4 min
- Guide
Customer debts: collecting them over WhatsApp without awkwardness
Running credit sales in a shop in Iraq: a credit limit per customer, debt aging, a statement that reaches the customer on WhatsApp, and the overdue card every morning.
The Dashing team · · 4 min
- Guide
Dollars on the shelf, dinars in the drawer: how to price and book
Why an Iraqi shop's books stay in dinars even when the shelf is priced in dollars, how to handle the daily rate and the gap between sale and collection.
The Dashing team · · 4 min
- How it works
How Dash answers a question about your shop without inventing a number
What happens between 'how much did I sell yesterday?' and the answer: masking, tools that read your data with your permissions, an approval card for any change, the caps.
The Dashing team · · 3 min
- Market
Retail software in Iraq, 2026: the market, the options, what to expect
A sourced overview of POS and accounting software for shops in Iraq: the market in numbers, five kinds of product on offer, what makes Iraq different, where Dashing fits.
The Dashing team · · 5 min
- Market
Iraq retail & payments in numbers (2026): statistics shops should know
Sourced, dated figures on Iraq's people, internet, platforms, payments and connectivity, with charts and a downloadable CSV, for anyone running or selling to Iraqi shops.
The Dashing team · · 4 min
- Market
Why there is no e-invoicing in Iraq, and what a shop should do instead
Taxes on a shop's sales in Iraq as of September 2026: no VAT, a selective sales tax, no e-invoicing, and what a cashier system should give you when the rules change.
The Dashing team · · 4 min
- Guide
From the notebook and Excel to a cashier system in a week
A day-by-day plan for moving a shop in Iraq from the notebook and Excel to Dashing: products, customers, old debts, first sale, shift and report, and what stays behind.
The Dashing team · · 5 min
- How it works
A cashier that works without internet: how it actually works
What 'offline' really means in cashier software, how Dashing saves sales on the device and uploads them exactly once, and what does not work offline: said plainly.
The Dashing team · · 5 min
- Guide
Running two branches or more: stock, drawer and profit per branch
What changes when a shop in Iraq opens a second branch: stock per branch, suggested transfers, a drawer per branch, profit for all or per branch: no per-branch fee.
The Dashing team · · 3 min
- Guide
Setting up a till in Iraq: device, scanner and printer, no terminal
What you actually need to run a cashier in an Iraqi shop: a device with a browser, a keyboard-wedge scanner, an 80 mm thermal printer, and WhatsApp, with rough prices.
The Dashing team · · 4 min
- How it works
Where your shop's data lives, who sees it, and how you get it back
Data safety in Dashing, plainly: storage on the device during an outage, encryption in transit, every shop isolated in the database, backups, and who sees your data.
The Dashing team · · 3 min