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Retail & fuel

Litres in, litres out, and the difference explained

Wet stock, shift and credit control for petrol stations and fuel depots.

What it does

Petrol Station Management

A fuel station loses money in litres, not shillings, and litres are invisible without reconciliation. Between the delivery, the tank, the pump and the till there are four places a discrepancy can hide. Reconciling all four every shift is what turns a suspicion into a number you can act on.

  • Pump meter opening and closing readings per shift, per nozzle
  • Tank dips before and after every delivery, with water level check
  • Wet stock reconciliation: book stock against dip stock, variance in litres
  • Delivery receipt against the loading document, with short-delivery flagged
  • Shift cash reconciliation — sales, cash, mobile money, card and credit
  • Attendant accountability per pump per shift
  • Credit customers with limits, statements and fleet card control
  • Lubricants, LPG and shop items on the same point of sale
  • Price change control with effective time, and stock revaluation
  • Dry stock for the mini-mart with reorder levels
  • Daily margin by product, after actual purchase cost

Tanzania

Fuel retailing under Tanzanian rules

  • EWURA records — stock, delivery and sales records kept in the form a licensed fuel retailer is inspected against.
  • Fuel marking — delivery documentation and marking checks recorded against each consignment.
  • TRA fiscal receipts — issued at the pump island and at the shop till.
  • Variance thresholds — acceptable loss set per product, so anything beyond it is escalated rather than absorbed.
  • Price change discipline — cap price changes applied at a recorded time, with stock revalued and the margin effect visible.

How we work

Scoped first, built in phases

We look at the process

Not a sales meeting. We sit with the people who do the work now and find where the time and money actually go.

You get a written scope

What will be built, what it costs, how long it takes, and what is explicitly out of scope. In writing, before anything starts.

Built in phases

The part that hurts most is delivered first and put into real use, so value arrives before the whole project is finished.

Trained and supported

Your staff are trained on the real system with real data, and support continues after go-live.

Runs on your own server if you want it to. Internet in Tanzania is not guaranteed. Systems can be installed on a machine at your premises so the business keeps working during an outage, syncing when the connection returns.

Frequently asked

Petrol Station Management — questions we get

Do we need automatic tank gauges?

No. The system works from manual dips and pump readings, which is how most Tanzanian stations operate. Where automatic gauges are fitted, they can be read directly and the manual dip becomes a cross-check.

How does it detect fuel losses?

By reconciling four independent figures each shift — delivery, dip, pump reading and till. A loss that would be invisible in any single one shows up as a litre variance against a threshold you set.

Can it handle credit customers with fleets?

Yes, with credit limits, vehicle lists, per-vehicle consumption and monthly statements, so a fleet client is billed from what their vehicles actually drew.

Can one system run several stations?

Yes, each station reconciling independently, with a consolidated view of stock, variance and margin across all of them.

Related systems

Often deployed alongside

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Talk to us

Tell us what your business actually needs

Describe the process that is costing you time or money. We will tell you honestly whether software is the right answer, and what it would take.

Phone+255 781 115 402
Emailinfo@pitech.co.tz
LocatedDar es Salaam
ServingTanzania
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