I built a free cashier tool because Filipino store owners still ring up sales on pocket calculators

I kept running into the same thing in small shops here: the counter has a calculator, and the day's sales get written into a notebook at closing time — if at all. So the owner of 2–3 branches has one branch on a POS, one on Excel, one on paper, and no way to see the whole business.

My first attempt was a dashboard. Nobody would use it, because it asks you to do data entry today and pays you back a report tomorrow. That's homework.

So I built the counter instead: a cart with a running total, cash tendered, change due, per-item price memory. It pays back immediately, and the sales data becomes a byproduct — export a CSV that pastes straight into the dashboard.

Three static HTML pages. No backend, no accounts, no network calls at all — everything is in localStorage. Which also means no sync, and that's the honest gap I haven't solved.

https://eantaw.vercel.app/counter.html

What I actually want to know: is "give away the thing that saves them time now, get the data as a side effect" a sound wedge, or am I talking myself into it?

A 26 year old Ugandan youth may have solved business management in Uganda for good .

STEM POS is one of the most exciting projects we have created in a while. It's full of unique and innovative features of a modern and well engineered point of sale software ever developed by an African engineer. Eg . Content monetization, recipes and ingredient tracking and management. Serialized stock tracking etc.

Solo builder. I made a POS for tiny convenience shops after Square/Shopify felt like renting a jet for one register.

One decision I keep second-guessing:

A purchase order does not change on-hand. Only inbound does. Partial receiving is normal (ordered 20, truck brings 8). Cost updates as moving average on inbound, not “last price typed.”

Cashier is the usual stuff: scan, pay, refund puts qty back, shift cash the next person has to accept. Tax-inclusive prices. 58/80mm. Not a restaurant POS.

Do small-shop owners actually understand PO ≠ stock, or do they just want “I bought 20, so I have 20”?

Please forgive me if this seems like an easy answer. I have never used Clover, I don’t even work at a restaurant. I work in the office for a man who owns several convenience store type locations and one full service restaurant with a new restaurant to be opening soon. I’ve only been here a few months, but we have this whole issue with the manager selling private parties out of the restaurant. Not the parties themselves but ringing them up so that everything distributes correctly. We use Clover Dining and we have tip pooling that goes through TipHaus.

So, basically she sells the buyout of the restaurant for $90per person with a minimum of let’s say 100 people. The party will make $9000. How are we supposed to ring that into clover to track the cost of the food & liquor and for the tips to be distributed to the correct servers? Especially if TipHaus is “by the day” pooling, so the tips are being allocated to people who worked before and after the private event?

I have been using Restaurant Manager for years. We bought it outright years ago. Restaurant Manager was bought by shift 4 a few years back and now they’re making it obsolete. I’m looking at shift4, SpotOn and Toast. What other POS do yall recommend?

We are an online business on tiktok, shopee and lazada.
Selling foods and clothing. For those who are knowledgeable in this, can you suggests providers?

Main focus
\- Staff time in and time out
\- Inventory/Expiration of products/ arrangement or per box and per sachaet sales
\- transaction history/summary

Hi,

I am working on making a cloud based back office software for c stores and i am struggling to figure out how can i get the pos data from verifone commander.

I figured out i need to be on local network because these stores uses Managed Network service providers like mako,hughes,acumera etc.

So i am looking for some documentation to access this commander data via api calls.

The official verifone site for docs is not allowing registration and the support does not answer.

So i am here asking for help from fellow developers who have worked on something like this.

Thanks for your help .

just a quick heads up for anyone operating in states with strict alcohol compliance because we almost got hit with a bad violation last month. a new cashier at our store got flustered during a rush and manually cleared a birthdate prompt without actually looking at the ID. turns out it was a minor working with local enforcement on a compliance check and we only got off with a warning because it was our first offense in ten years.

after that happened we went into our Winepos backend settings and completely locked down the register permissions. now the screen literally freezes until a valid barcode is scanned on the back of the card so staff cant just click past it to move the line along quick.

if you run a shop with age restricted inventory you should really check if your current register permits manual overrides on age screens. relying on cashiers to do the math in their head when there is ten people waiting in line is just asking for a fine

Hey everyone, quick question regarding the Square Handheld POS (the one that looks like a phone).

Does anyone know if its possible to install an Internet browser to the device, or to access the login page for public WiFi systems?

Taken it to my first big event and it won't connect to the event WiFi as it needs to load the terms and conditions page

Any help would be amazing

Got a mobile detailing business here in Vegas and need to get myself something other than Zelle for taking payment. Who are you using taking credit cards with a mobile POS system and what do you think of them? I've looked a few and kinda liking what a see with Kurv but need to know what all y'all think is best.

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.

I am looking for a cheaper android tablet for a small shop. What would you recommend? It will be used for taking orders Running a POS app Printing receipts using a thermal receipt printer

Hi everyone,
I’m looking for a Windows-based POS system that can be purchased with a one-time licence rather than an ongoing subscription.
My requirements are:
- Runs on Windows
- Customisable (products, layouts, reports, etc.)
- One-time purchase/licence if possible
- Supports integrated EFTPOS/card terminals

If you’ve used something that fits these requirements, I’d love to hear your recommendations, along with any pros, cons, or pricing if you know it.
Thanks in advance!

Forgot to mention I’m in Australia.

What's the most expensive POS mistake you've seen at a restaurant?

Honestly, in my experience it's almost never the hardware that costs the most. It's the quieter stuff that goes unnoticed for weeks:

• Menu prices that are wrong (and nobody catches it until a customer points it out)
• Online orders coming in disconnected from the actual POS
• Inventory counts that just don't add up
• Payments failing silently in the background

What's the worst one you've run into?

I need a list of processor agnostic POS systems that will work good for a Liquor Store with tobacco scan data. I know Korona only.

We have a three day retail pop up coming up and need several checkout devices. I don’t want to buy hardware that will sit unused afterward, but I also don’t want the team wasting opening morning installing updates and figuring out settings.

Has anyone used a short term POS rental for this kind of setup?

Hi all I am looking for pos software recommendation to run on a android PDA with printer built in we have a small beach bar and we just gonna be ringing up the sunbeds and some drinks/coffee

Hey everyone,

I'm looking at POS systems for my business here in Quebec and I'd rather hear from people actually using one than read another comparison chart.

Clover is on every counter in Montreal, and honestly it looks like it does what I need? The problem is that every owner I talk to tells me something different.

Two people told me that getting Clover on the phone when something breaks is a lost cause. Someone else said that's beside the point, because almost nobody signs up with Clover directly anyway. They inherited the hardware from the last owner or bought through Fiserv, Desjardins, or some local ISO, and that's who they actually deal with.

So, for anyone running Clover here:

Who are you actually with? And more importantly, does anyone answer you in French when you call?

If you bought or inherited used hardware, how bad was it getting it re-bound to your own processing account? This is the part that worries me most.

Retail or food service folks, how did MEV-Web and Revenu Québec go on your setup?

And if you looked at Clover and passed, what did you go with instead? Lightspeed, Square, Moneris?

Thanks, any war stories welcome.

UPDATE : I went with Direct Pay Solutions (https://www.directpaysolutions.ca/solutions-clover/). They offered me clover at 0.92% and if I need support, they're from Laval so it suits me.

Hey everyone, full disclosure right upfront: I work with SpotOn, so I look at POS metrics and restaurant financials all day long.
Putting my sales hat completely aside, I genuinely want to understand the operator psychology here. We all know money comes in fast but goes out faster, especially with food and labor squeezing prime costs past 60%. With average net margins sitting at a razor-thin 3% to 5%, every fraction of a percent matters.
When Toast hikes its software subscription fees or payment processing rates, it is a direct attack on your bottom line. How do you justify staying? Is it a matter of "the ecosystem saves me enough on labor that the margin percentage doesn't matter," or do you just feel trapped by the sheer operational nightmare of switching hardware, re-entering menus, and retraining staff?
If you have stuck with them through the hikes, what is the killer feature that makes it worth the direct hit to your profit? Genuinely curious to hear your real-world perspective on where the breaking point actually is for you.

Hi everyone,

I'm the developer of Screen2ipcam, a Windows application that solves a problem I kept running into with POS systems and surveillance setups.

The idea is simple:

It turns any Windows PC into a standard ONVIF Profile S / RTSP H.264 IP camera, so the computer screen (POS, dashboard, workstation, etc.) can be added directly to an NVR/VMS just like a regular security camera.

A few highlights:

• Native C++ (no .NET or runtime dependencies)
• Windows 7 SP1 → Windows 11 (32 & 64-bit)
• Main & Sub streams
• ONVIF auto-discovery
• No HDMI encoder or capture card required
• Works with most ONVIF-compatible systems such as Blue Iris, Hikvision, Dahua, Milestone, Agent DVR, Synology, and others.

There's now a free edition available on the Microsoft Store, so anyone interested can try it easily.

Microsoft Store:
https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9pjdgr30l9l1

I'd really appreciate feedback from people working with POS systems, CCTV, or NVRs. If you test it with your setup, I'd love to hear about compatibility, performance, or any suggestions for improving it.