Windows

Nolira Desk

Desk is where the business actually runs. It is dense, keyboard-first and built for a receptionist who has a client in front of her and a phone ringing. It also keeps working when the connection does not.

For Receptionists, cashiers, branch managers and HQ operations

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Flat illustration representing Nolira Desk on Windows.
Nolira Desk overview screen showing revenue, appointments, utilisation and package liability for the day, a staff schedule grid and a list of items needing attention.
The branch dashboard. Package liability sits next to revenue on purpose: one is money you have, the other is work you still owe.
Resource calendar with a lane for each staff member and room, showing appointments placed across the working day.
Every staff member, room, chair and machine gets its own lane. A slot is only offered when all of them are genuinely free.
Point of sale cart with services and retail products, staff attribution on each line and a running total.
Every line carries who performed it, which is where the commission statement gets its numbers.
Walk-in queue board with columns for waiting, called, in service and ready for checkout.
The walk-in board. Wait estimates come from the live queue rather than a guess at the counter.
Offline state screen showing which operations continue locally, which are held, and a local outbox of pending changes.
What the front desk sees when the line drops. Bookings and checkout carry on, and the risky actions are the ones held back.
01

Built for the counter, not the boardroom

Front desk work is repetitive and time-critical. Desk is optimised for speed rather than for looking impressive in a screenshot.

  • Keyboard-complete for every critical flow, so hands stay off the mouse
  • Resource timeline with lanes for staff, rooms, chairs and machines
  • Drag to reschedule with a conflict preview before anything commits
  • Global search across clients, bookings and receipts
  • Right-click menus and a command bar for power users
02

Money handled properly

Checkout is the moment where errors become expensive. Desk treats a finalized sale as a permanent record and handles corrections as compensating transactions.

  • Cash, card, QR, bank transfer, deposit and package redemption on one sale
  • Split payment across any combination of methods
  • Discounts with reason codes, permission limits and approval requests
  • Cash session with opening float, blind count and variance approval
  • Receipt printing through standard Windows printing, with manual fallback
03

Keeps running when the line drops

Desk holds a local database at the branch. Offline is a defined operating mode with explicit limits, not a partial copy of the cloud.

  • Bookings, walk-ins, service completion and normal checkout continue offline
  • Every change enters a local outbox with a stable identifier
  • Sync uploads in dependency order with duplicate protection
  • Conflicts are surfaced for a human rather than resolved silently
  • High-risk actions stay online-only on purpose

Specifications

Platform
Windows, native WPF application
Distribution
Microsoft Store, signed MSIX
Minimum display
1366 × 768, optimised for 1920 × 1080
Local storage
Encrypted local database for offline mode
Peripherals
Receipt printer, barcode scanner, cash drawer
Accessibility
Keyboard complete, screen reader labels, high contrast

What it deliberately is not

Scope is a design decision. Knowing what a product refuses to do is usually more useful than another feature list.

  • It is not a general accounting or payroll system
  • It does not store medical diagnoses or clinical records
  • It is not a customer-facing application

The rest of the system

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Web

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Customer self-service booking

See Nolira Desk on your own data.

A demo takes about 30 minutes and uses your bookings, packages and commission rules rather than a canned dataset.

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