POS Systems To Consider For Your Business

Choosing a POS system for your business is important but choosing the right one can be hard. First it is prudent to understand your needs. Are you going to be using the POS system to track employee time? how many employees? will you need an inventory function? what unique needs does your business have? is it iPad based or do you need to buy new hardware?  do you need multi-currency? There is lots to consider.

A good place to start is looking at POS systems that are designed for your industry. Retail and Restaurant businesses might be similar in many ways, but very different in others. Having a POS system built for your industry will be very important so that you can get the most from tool.

The team over at Lightspeed POS wrote about what to consider when choosing a restaurant POS, and the Software Advice group has created a comparison list of retail POS systems.

Here are a few of the POS systems that come up in our conversations with small business owners;

Lightspeed – www.lightspeedhq.com (Canadian company)

Square – www.squareup.com/ca

Shopify – www.shopify.ca (Canadian company)

What POS system do you prefer?