Our rating Lightspeed Retail is an advanced EPOS system for businesses with lots of products. Lightspeed Retail EPOS is an advanced POS system for iPad and desktop. The many inventory features make it a strong choice for serious SME retail shops, with room to grow online [...]
Shopify leads the inventory-rich ecommerce field, and Vend is the leading EPOS for inventory-rich brick-and-mortar shops. What does Vend offer face-to-face merchants that Shopify does not? And is Shopify the best choice for online sales when you're also selling in-store? Do they work well together? We analyse the things [...]
Forget about the bulky till - cloud-based point-of-sale systems have come to stay. Any new or existing business with an outdated system: now is a good time for EPOS. The UK has several decent options in 2019. Let's compare five of the best POS software systems with monthly subscription [...]
Our rating iZettle Go is a free POS app, Go Plus has extra tools. Is it enough for your business? iZettle Go is a mobile app with enough features to function as a complete POS system. Connect it with iZettle Reader to accept card payments face [...]
POS, EPoS, ePOS, or is it EPOS with a capital 'e'? You've probably seen the terms thrown around as you're trying to look for the best system to take face-to-face payments at a till point. But what does EPOS stand for? EPOS stands for Electronic Point Of Sale [...]
The iPad has proven itself a perfect platform for web-based point of sale (POS) systems. It's smart-looking, reliable and offers great battery life. Web-based POS systems enable simple and economical shop management and payment handling for businesses of all sizes, with minimal need for any upfront investment. No doubt [...]
Solid and usable - Vend has a lot to offer retail stores. It offers a wide range of features, and starting at £69 a month, you get a lot for your money.
Our rating Clover offers minimalist-looking, multifunctional payment terminals - and myriads of fees to consider. Clover is an out-of-the-box EPOS solution for small businesses wanting a complete package of integrated card machines, POS interface and software. The multi-functional card terminals are stylish and can be customised [...]
In simple terms, a point of sale (POS) system can be defined as "a computerised network in which checkout terminals are connected and operated by a main computer". With cloud-based POS software, the main computer can be an iPad connected to the internet. See also: What is a cloud-based POS [...]
Any business selling in person will have a ‘point of sale’, commonly abbreviated ‘POS’. In essence: POS is the setup you have in place for processing face-to-face payments from customers. POS is not a standalone machine or process - it’s a constellation of things that together enable [...]