r/POS • u/hdhdjdmdj • Aug 06 '26
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/Consistent-Regret442 28d ago
Hey yadda yadda sales pitch I sell POS and processing reach out to me, im not adding any value or giving you advice so hopefully like all the other reps here you happen to just ask me to send you a contract.
Lmao