If you run a shop or a restaurant in Nepal and you are choosing billing software, Saauzi and Hamro SAN will both come up — and they charge in two completely different ways. One charges per outlet. The other charges per user, and gives one app away free forever. That single difference decides which one is cheaper for you, and it flips depending on how many people stand at your counter.
Prices below were read from each company’s own public pricing page on 22 July 2026. Prices change — confirm the current figure with the vendor before you sign anything.
The short answer
Hamro SAN charges one price per outlet and lets a set number of staff use it. Saauzi charges per user, but your first app costs nothing at all, for as long as you like, with unlimited staff on it.
So if you only need a till, Saauzi is free and Hamro SAN is not. If you need several modules and you have a big team, Hamro SAN’s flat outlet price will usually work out cheaper. And if you want to sell online as well as in the shop, only one of the two can do it.
What each one actually costs
Hamro SAN
Three plans, all priced per outlet, all with a 7-day free trial:
- Silver — Rs 599 a month, or Rs 7,199 a year. No registration fee. Supports 1 user, 10 tables, 500 items, 500 parties and 10,000 invoices a year.
- Gold — Rs 999 a month, or Rs 9,999 a year, plus a one-time registration fee of Rs 7,500. Supports 6 users.
- Platinum — Rs 1,299 a month, or Rs 11,999 a year, plus a one-time registration fee of Rs 14,500. Unlimited users.
The registration fee is easy to miss and it matters in year one. Gold is really Rs 17,499 in the first year and Rs 9,999 after that. Platinum is Rs 26,499 first year, Rs 11,999 after.
Saauzi
Also three tiers, but priced per user:
- Free forever — Rs 0. Any one app, free for as long as you want it. Unlimited users. Unlimited orders and entries. A store at yourname.saauzi.com. No commission on your sales.
- All apps — Rs 12,000 per user per year (Rs 1,500 per user per month if you pay monthly). Unlocks every app — POS, Cashbook, Online Store, CRM and the rest — with no per-app fee.
- Enterprise — Rs 30,000 per user per year, minimum three users. Isolated database, API access and multi-company controls.
There is no registration fee and no commission on sales on any plan.
Three shops, three different answers
A kirana with one counter and one owner
You need billing and stock, nothing else. Saauzi’s POS on the free plan costs Rs 0 and does not cap your items or your invoices. Hamro SAN Silver is Rs 7,199 a year and stops at 500 items and 10,000 invoices. For this shop, free wins, and it is not close.
A restaurant with five people on shift
Still one need: a till that several staff can log into. Saauzi’s free plan already includes unlimited users on that one app, so five staff on the POS is still Rs 0. Hamro SAN needs Gold for six users — Rs 17,499 in year one, Rs 9,999 after.
A shop that wants billing, accounts and an online store
Now Saauzi’s per-user price bites. Three staff on All apps is Rs 36,000 a year. Hamro SAN’s Platinum gives unlimited users several modules for Rs 26,499 in year one and Rs 11,999 after — cheaper on paper.
Except Hamro SAN does not list an online store. Its own site describes it as restaurant and retail ERP: POS, stock, accounting, receivables and payables, recipes, QR menus, purchase orders. There is no web shop in the feature list or in the plan comparison. So for this shop the two products are not doing the same job, and price alone will not answer the question.
Where Hamro SAN is genuinely the better buy
Be honest about this before you pick. Hamro SAN is stronger when:
- You have a large team and need more than one module. A flat outlet price beats a per-head price the moment you put eight or ten people on the system.
- You are a restaurant with deep kitchen needs. Table management, recipe costing, production, QR menus and KOT-style workflows are what the product is built around.
- You want a single ERP for stock, purchase orders, imports and fixed assets and have no interest in selling online.
Where Saauzi is the better buy
- You want to start at zero risk. One app, free forever, unlimited staff, no registration fee, no card. If it does not suit you, you have lost nothing.
- Your team is small. Under about four users, per-user pricing is cheaper than a per-outlet plan plus its registration fee.
- You sell, or want to sell, online. The online store is the real difference between the two. A shop that takes orders on Instagram and messages a khalti QR back is running a store already — just a manual one.
- You do not want caps. No item limit, no invoice limit, no commission on your sales.
The questions worth asking before you sign
- Is the registration fee one-time or per outlet? If you plan a second branch, ask whether you pay it again.
- What happens to my data if I leave? Ask for an export in a normal file, and ask before you pay, not after.
- Who counts as a user? On per-user pricing, ask whether a part-time cashier on the evening shift needs their own paid seat.
- Does it work when the internet drops? Load-shedding and patchy links are real. Ask what the till does offline.
- Is VAT billing built in and IRD-shaped? If you are VAT registered, this is not a nice-to-have.
If you are already on one and thinking of moving
Switching billing software mid-year feels risky, and the risk is real but smaller than most owners expect. Three things decide how painful it is.
Your item list. This is the bulk of the work. Export your products with name, unit, purchase price, selling price and opening stock into a spreadsheet, and check the new system accepts a file in that shape. If it does not, you are typing 500 rows by hand, and that is the real cost of the move, not the subscription.
Your opening balances. Whatever you are owed and whatever you owe on switching day has to be entered once, cleanly. Pick a date — the start of a month is easiest — and close the old books to that date rather than running two systems in parallel for weeks.
Your staff. A till that the evening cashier cannot use is worse than the one you have. Put one person on the new system for a week on the quiet shift before you move everybody. If they can bill a customer without asking you a question, you are ready.
Do the move at the start of a month, keep the old system readable for ninety days, and do not delete anything until you have filed a full month of returns from the new one.
How to decide in ten minutes
Write down two numbers: how many people will log in, and how many separate jobs you need the software to do. If it is one job, take the free option and stop paying for a till. If it is several jobs and a large team, price both out over two years, registration fee included, and pick the lower one. If selling online is anywhere in your plan for the next year, that decision is already made for you.
The trap is picking on the monthly headline. Rs 599 a month and Rs 999 a month both sound small next to a per-user figure, until you add the registration fee, the item cap and the second branch. Run the two-year number instead.
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