Helping you choose the right system

A basic electronic cash register will meet the needs of many small startup businesses with small product lines and low turnover. However, few purchases can have as dramatic an effect on your retail or hospitality business as a carefully selected EPOS System in Brighton (Electronic Point Of Sale). These are also often referred to as Point Of Sale systems, Tills, EPOS Tills and POS Systems.

An EPOS system chosen to suit your business needs will offer a new dimension and level of control over day to day operations, allowing you to react quickly to competitors and changes in customers buying habits. It will bring a host of business benefits, boosting profitability, controlling costs, increasing efficiency, and helping you fine tune your business model and processes.

Choosing to upgrade from a basic cash register to an EPOS system can be time consuming and there are many decisions to be made, however the benefits of an EPOS system and potential ROI (return on investment) will make it time well spent.

To help you understand the differences we have broken down the different types of products into three broad categories:

All of the solutions mentioned below are scaleable and can be used stand-alone, networked locally, linked to back office software or centrally managed. A Cash Register, EPOS System or PC POS solution can be installed on a stand-alone basis meaning that even the smallest of businesses can take advantage of powerful features such as Multibuy Discounts, Time & Attendance and even Customer Loyalty.


 

Cash Registers

Apart from the most basic cash registers, modern cash registers like the Uniwell LX5600 and EX570, now come network ready and allow you to connect the cash registers together so data and customer bills can be moved or shared between machines. They also support devices like barcode scanners or kitchen printers and you can even link them to a PC-based back office software package such as EPOS Sales or EPOS Office to form a basic low cost EPOS System with stock control.
 


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