Questions and answers

An app for Android smartphones and data collection terminals (TSD), plus an extension for 1C:Retail for Kazakhstan. Staff scan products, build documents, create products from the National Catalogue of Goods and view reports — all directly in your 1C.

1C:Retail for Kazakhstan, editions 2.2 and 2.3, on platform 8.3.27 or newer. 1C:Retail 3.0 is in progress; 1C:Small Business (UNF) and 1C:Accounting are planned.

No. Any Android 8+ smartphone will do — the camera does the scanning. A terminal or Bluetooth scanner helps if you scan a lot.

Yes, with no time limit: the employee stays signed in. The catalogue, prices, stock and 6 months of report data are on the phone; documents and new products wait in a queue and reach 1C on their own.

Download the installer, choose the 1C database and enter the administrator login and password — it sets up the extension and publishes the database on your local network. Then run the setup wizard in 1C and scan a QR code with the phone.

The new product wizard and the product card have a «Заполнить по НКТ» (Fill from catalogue) button: the app searches nct.gov.kz and nationalcatalog.kz by barcode or name and fills in the code, name, brand and description.

You pay for licenses: one license per device (phone or terminal). 14 days free; a year costs the same as 10 months. Prices and a calculator are on the Pricing page.

No. TSD Expert installs as an extension — the configuration stays standard.

Your data stays in your 1C; the phone works with it over the local network. 1C passwords never reach the phone; staff sign in with a PIN, and access can be revoked in 1C.

Not yet. Marking (Tañba) and stock of marked goods are planned.

Not yet, Android only. iOS is planned.

Not yet. Price tag and label printing is planned. Invoices and quotes are already available in PDF.

Run the TSD Expert installer on the computer with 1C, choose the database and enter the 1C administrator login. The setup wizard in 1C then shows a QR code — scan it with the app on the terminal.

Any Android 8+ terminal with a built-in scanner in keyboard mode. A regular smartphone works too — the camera does the scanning.

An NTIN is a permanent product code in Kazakhstan’s National Catalogue of Goods. TSD Expert finds the card in the catalogue by barcode or name and transfers the code to 1C.

In the new product wizard or the product card, tap «Заполнить по НКТ» (Fill from catalogue), choose a card and tick the fields — the code, name, brand and description go to 1C.

Yes. In TSD Expert, the “Stock count” document is filled by scanning and goes to 1C as a “Goods recount”. Several employees can count in parallel, each in their own zone.

Yes: you see stock for each warehouse, choose the warehouse in documents, and the access profile sets which warehouses each employee sees.

As many as you need: one license per device. If no licenses are free, a new device will connect but won’t start working until an administrator frees a license in 1C or adds licenses to the plan.

The website is in Russian, Kazakh and English. The app interface is in Russian for now; Kazakh is planned.

One license per device — a phone or a terminal. Several employees sharing one device use one license. A new device picks up a free license automatically when you connect it by QR code. You can add licenses to your plan in your account.

In your account: choose a plan, get an invoice, pay by bank transfer.

Choose a plan in your account — your settings and your data in 1C stay as they are.

An administrator removes the license from the device in 1C, in the «Устройства» (Devices) section — the license is free right away. Signing out, turning the phone off or working offline does not free a license. If no licenses are free, an extra device will connect but won’t start working until a license is freed or you add licenses to your plan.

No. Any Android 8+ smartphone will do — the camera does the scanning. A terminal or Bluetooth scanner speeds things up if you scan a lot.

EAN-13, EAN-8, UPC, Code128, Code39, ITF-14 and DataMatrix. QR codes are used to connect the phone to 1C.

No. Prices come from 1C with their history and are set in 1C as usual.

In your 1C, in the product card. Offline, the photo waits in the queue and goes out on its own.

From the public portals of Kazakhstan’s National Catalogue of Goods: nct.gov.kz and nationalcatalog.kz. The phone queries them directly.

The app shows every card it finds with its status (active or deactivated), and you pick the right one.

It’s up to your 1C settings: manually by an administrator, straight into the source document, or “create and post” in one go. By default, the document waits to be loaded.

Warehouse documents work and have been tested on test databases; the label stays until checks with our first customers are complete.

The invoice is built from a customer order, and the order goes to 1C as a “Customer order”. The PDF is generated on the phone.

Not yet: invoices and quotes come without a logo, stamp or signature.

Not for the exchange: the phone and 1C talk over your local network. Internet is needed for the license check and catalogue search.

Out of the box, only within the local network. Your administrator can set up external access separately.

Only employees whose access profile includes the reports permission.

From your 1C: sales, cost, stock and prices. The phone keeps a 6-month copy for offline work.

No. The phone connects by QR code, and employees sign in with their own PIN.

Yes: price types and price permissions are set in the access profile.