Almendro has three pieces a business usually needs together: electronic invoicing, the point of sale and the online store. They are not three programs to reconcile: they are one account, one inventory and one invoicing system, and it helps to know where each lives and what it takes to get in.
1. Electronic invoicing, at fe.almendro.cr
This is the base, and it is already in production issuing version 4.4 documents to the Costa Rican tax authority. It can be used in two ways:
- From the web portal, with no programming: log in, fill in, issue.
- By connecting your own system (POS, e-commerce, ERP or CRM) through the API, if you already have software you want to keep.
You start at fe.almendro.cr by creating an account. There is a free plan with three documents a month for real testing, and from there plans are billed yearly: Pyme at USD 96 (75 documents a month), Profesional at USD 194 (500), Empresa at USD 398 (2,000, including API access, sandbox and webhooks), and Integrador or Contadores at USD 758 (10,000). All of them publish their overage price, so nobody is surprised in a month with heavy invoicing.
2. Point of sale, at pos.almendro.cr
It is not billed separately. With an electronic invoicing plan, the point of sale is included and its scope is that of the plan: the same limits you already contracted. A small business starts on the plan that fits and grows by changing plans, not by buying another program.
What it solves, in the order a counter business uses it:
- Charging with a barcode scanner, and cash, card and SINPE on a single receipt, with till closings per shift and per cashier.
- Inventory and warehouses: real stock per warehouse, transfers, costs and reorder alerts. Whatever is sold at the till is deducted automatically.
- Purchasing and suppliers: purchase orders, warehouse receipts and costing.
Two things a counter appreciates: it keeps charging without internet and catches up on its own when the connection returns, and it runs on a tablet, computer or phone with just a browser, with nothing to install on each till.
And invoicing is not an add-on: the receipt is signed at the moment of the sale, as the regulation requires, against the same platform. No two services to contract, no two systems to reconcile.
3. Online store
The e-commerce channel is integrated on the same base: the catalogue and the stock are the ones from the point of sale, and an online sale is invoiced just like a counter sale. It is integrated for USD 500 of setup, with no separate monthly fee.
At ecommerce.almendro.cr there is a sample store to see it working before deciding.
Why one account matters
When the point of sale, the store and the invoicing come from different vendors, somebody in the company ends up being the bridge: downloading a report, uploading it somewhere else, reconciling stock that does not match, and explaining why the website inventory says one thing and the till another. That work never shows on an invoice, but it is paid every month.
With the three pieces on the same base:
- The product is created once.
- Stock goes down the same way whether the sale happened at the counter or on the web.
- The document comes from the same platform, with the same numbering and the same backup.
Where to start
With the invoicing account at fe.almendro.cr, which is free to try and is the one that opens the rest. With it you enter the point of sale at pos.almendro.cr, and the online store is added when the business needs it.
If you are not sure what suits you, write to info@almendro.cr or on WhatsApp at 8862-0662. The normal answer starts by asking how much you sell and how you charge today, not by recommending the most expensive plan.
