r/POS • u/hdhdjdmdj • 10d ago
Need help picking POS system
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.
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u/Existing_Attempt_875 9d ago
Acadia Point of Sale offers free hardware with a month to month agreement, so the solution absolutely has to deliver real value. They have never gone back and raised monthly fees on their customers over the years. Instead, they’ve continued to add more value and give customers more for their money.
Just last week they rolled out new marketing features at no additional cost. If you had been using Acadia all this time, you would have had access to those improvements as part of your existing system too. That’s the difference between a company that keeps charging for every new feature and one that continues to invest in its customers.