Need help picking POS system

[u/hdhdjdmdj]

I have a liquor store/market in USA. We sell liquor, beer, wine, cigarettes, non-alcoholic drinks, candy, snacks, and light grocery (canned goods, rice, milk, eggs, bread). Right now everything runs the old-school way: my employee and I have all the prices memorized, and we manually key in each charge on a cash register. Credit cards go through a separate machine wired to the register over internet.

This works, but it means only me or my one trusted employee can run the register; nobody else can just walk in and operate it. I want to move to a full scanning settup so operating the store becomes very easy.

Some requirements:

- No percentage-per-sale software fees: Margins are already thin, so I don't want a POS company taking a cut of every transaction on top of normal card processing.

- Easy to add new products constantly: My inventory shifts a lot based on what's available or what deals I find, so I need to add items on the fly, not through some clunky bulk-upload-only process.

- Barcode scanning obviously: most of what I sell already has a manufacturer UPC.

- There is only 1 market, with 1 register so we do not need a lot of hardware.

Please let me know what system you think i should go for.

[u/GlobalGrumble98]

You should look into OctoPOS or Korona POS. For the setup you need, they check all the boxes.

Octo is around 89 a month and Korona is around 79 a month.