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Retail POS
A fast, forgiving sales screen: scan or search, discounts and offers applied by rule, returns and exchanges, held bills and shift open and close, usable after ten minutes of training.
02Operations & finance · POS
POS software development.
A point-of-sale system is the till: it rings up the sale, takes the payment, and tells the rest of the business what was just sold.
We build it to order, around the way you work, or extend and connect the one you already have.
01What it is
In plain words.
A point-of-sale system is the till: it rings up the sale, takes the payment, and tells the rest of the business what was just sold.
A till that only takes money leaves the owner guessing. What sold today, what is running low, which store is doing well and who the regular customers are all exist, in receipts nobody reads.
A proper POS records every sale against stock and customer as it happens, keeps working when the internet does not, and gives head office one view of every counter in every store.
02What it includes
Every part, explained.
7 parts. Each can be built by itself; together they are one system.
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Billing
Tax-correct invoices and receipts, printed or sent to the customer's phone, with credit notes, part payments and customer accounts where the business gives credit.
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Payment integration
Cards, wallets, bank transfers, QR payments, gift cards and cash, reconciled against the bank automatically so the day closes without a hunt for a missing amount.
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Store inventory
Stock by store, reduced as each item is sold, with receiving, transfers between stores, counts and reorder suggestions.
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Customer profiles
Purchase history, loyalty points, preferences and contact consent, recognised at the till by phone number or card.
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Multi-location management
Prices, offers, products and staff permissions set centrally and pushed to every store, with each store able to trade on its own if the link goes down.
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POS analytics
Sales by hour, item, category, store and cashier, margins, basket size and shrinkage, on a dashboard the owner can read on a phone.
Buy, extend or build?
Buy a POS product if you run a standard shop or restaurant; they are inexpensive and good. Build when you have many stores with central rules, a format of your own, a need for the till to work tightly with your ERP and loyalty scheme, or a mix of counter, online and wholesale sales no product handles.
Where intelligence fits
Models in retail are built to suggest reorder quantities by store, spot unusual refunds and voids, and recommend what tends to be bought together. They are suggestions for a manager, and they need a few months of clean sales history to be worth having.
03What it works with
Never on an island.
A system is worth most when it shares its records with the ones beside it.
- Order management systemAn order management system takes every order from every channel and sees it through to delivery, and back again if it is returned.
- Warehouse management systemA warehouse management system knows where every item in the building is, and tells people the best way to put it away, pick it and send it.
- Enterprise resource planningAn ERP is the one system that records what a company owns, owes, buys, makes and sells, so every department works from the same numbers.
- Customer data platformA customer data platform gathers what every system knows about a customer into one profile, and makes that profile available to all of them.
- Accounting and financial management systemsFinancial management software records every amount that comes in and goes out, and turns the record into reports a business can be run on.
Part of a family
Operations, supply and finance: From purchase order to delivered order to closed books, in one flow.
04How we build it
Five steps, in the open.
- 01
Listen
You describe the work and where it hurts. We look at the systems and the data you have now.
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Specify
A written specification: what the system does, what it does not, what it connects to and how we will know it works. A clear quote before any work starts.
- 03
Build in stages
A working piece at each stage, on real data, so you steer early. The part that matters most comes first.
- 04
Move the data
Existing records mapped, cleaned of duplicates and reconciled against the old system before anything is switched off.
- 05
Hand over
Training, documentation and the keys. Your team can run it, and we keep it working for as long as you want us to.
One set of records underneath
Customers, products, suppliers, people and stock are each defined once. A second system joins the first; it does not start a competing copy.
Runs where you decide
Your own servers, a private cloud or a cloud account that belongs to you. Customer, employee and financial data stays on infrastructure you control.
Yours to keep
You own the code, the data, the configuration and the documentation. There is no licence fee to us and nothing stopping another team from taking it on.
05Questions
Before you ask.
Questions about POS
Does a custom POS work offline?
Yes. It is built to keep selling without a connection and to sync sales and stock when the link returns, without creating duplicates.
Which payment methods can it accept?
Whichever your payment providers support in your country. Integration is done through the provider's certified interfaces; we do not handle card data ourselves.
Can it run several stores from one place?
Yes. Products, prices, offers and permissions are managed centrally, and reporting covers every location together or one at a time.
Guides
Plain-language guides on the problems this work solves.
- CRM, ERP, HRMS, CDP, PIM, WMS and the rest: thirty business systems explained in plain wordsBusiness systems · 8 min
- Custom software or off-the-shelf: how to decide whether to build, buy or extendBuild or buy · 3 min
- Custom CRM or off-the-shelf CRM: which does your sales team need?CRM · 3 min
- When does a company need a custom ERP?ERP · 3 min
- All 16 guides on this →
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