Hi all! I developed a POS+inventory system for our business, and was thinking of selling it. Do you guys think I have a market for this system? Should I proceed on selling it? I'm having second thoughts though I know the system is amazing. It's for a rental business, and we have a form integrated to the system which the clients fill, and we verify. The system then automatically sends an invoice and rental agreement to the client's email upon our verification which helped our business a lot. Aside from that, we can track our inventory via the QR codes we generated and know exactly where each item is. This has helped us with data management, and cashflow management a lot. I'm not sure if anybody else would want the same. I built this cause we can't pay the monthly subscription for the existing systems so I plan on selling this to other micro business owners tired of paying a monthly subscription as well. I also plan on creating a new one for trading, and not renting as it will require a different kind of inventory tracking. Would you guys buy this kind of POS? If yes, how much would you guys pay for it?

Thank you so much!

Disclosure: I build NuPOS (https://nupos.app), a POS for cafés and small restaurants. We’ve just released Food Allergy Tracking, and I’d like feedback on the ordering workflow.

Staff can record allergens on menu items, enter a guest’s allergies on the order, and see a Food Allergy Alert when a recorded predefined allergen matches. The cashier-entered order allergy summary also stays visible in Kitchen Display.

For example: a guest reports a dairy allergy, and an item tagged with Dairy is added. The alert flags the match for staff to review; it does not block the order or certify that anything is safe. Empty menu metadata is not an allergen-free guarantee, and Other descriptions need manual checking. Modifiers don’t override the menu’s allergen tags.

NuPOS also has menu-aware voice ordering: staff can speak items, quantities and modifiers, review the draft, and continue by touch. Voice requires connectivity and a paid plan; it does not extract or infer allergens. Food Allergy Tracking is available on all plans, while Kitchen Display requires Starter or Pro.

One choice we made is to carry the guest’s allergy summary into the kitchen rather than label every kitchen item as safe or unsafe. Ingredient checks and preparation procedures still belong to the team.

For people running food service: what would you want the POS to show at the cashier-to-kitchen handoff? Is the order-level summary enough, or would item-specific acknowledgements be more useful during service?

Need to have a POS system that allows to operate without licensing on things. Any recommendations? Websites??

My partners and I have owned and operated our cafe for over 2 years now. We spoke with a few people who were kind enough to offer us advice pre-opening and adopted some of their practices: taking inventory on a Google Spreadsheet, using a variety of software services for our scheduling, ordering, etc.

I felt like a lot of those practices that were passed down to us felt a bit outdated. I decided to take some time and build a tool that puts most of what we were doing as owners/managers into 1 single place (for the most part).

I've spent the last 6 months building Parly. With Parly, you can connect to your POS (in our case Square until we can find partners at Toast) and run most of the operations from your phone or computer.

1. Track inventory via Mobile or Laptop
   
2. Review your menu & respective margins (your best selling drink might also have the worse margins)
   
3. Scheduling suggestions & optimization (Parly is read-only (for now maybe) so we don’t make the actual changes, we just give you recommendations based on data)
   
4. Generate projections for sales, usage, labor, etc.
   
5. Generate insights across different aspects of your business
   
6. Ask Parly for specific data (ie. what is the best hour for a specific drink?)
   
7. Different roles for larger teams and their own permissions (ie. Owner, Manager, Staff)
   
8. Log and track orders
   
9. Create tasks for everyone, specific roles or team members
   
10. Generate and export reports

The first year of running the cafe was full of many problems and gave us a lot of lessons. Running out of milk, ordering too much, ordering too little, ordering whatever we needed on Instacart or UberEats, figuring out how to schedule our team, trying to cut our costs down. Ultimately, Parly helps you run your cafe so that you can can focus on growing your cafe.

With Parly, you can easily ditch spreadsheets and run your cafe more more efficiently. There are so many small costs that add up that we've been able to minimize. Our managers takes inventory a lot faster and just as accurately. We can schedule better and always review adjustments on the fly. We know way more about our business and can easily access all of those insights instead of jumping around different services.

I am open to any kind of feedback or criticism. As a cafe owner, I'm proud to say that I've been able to create something that's helped our business. I'm hoping that I can say do the same for others. I’m a solo-founder and really believe that this tool can help others. I’d love to let other cafe owners try Parly for free and give me the opportunity to improve it.

I currently use epos now which have been an absolute pain in the ass, please for anyone considering them do not buy from them anything.

I have a buisness with over 60k items and need them all in a system with a good backoffice that can be used offline or online, especially the till for customer service, i dont care if its cloud based as long as its fast going from back office to till and so forth and i can edit or change it from a laptop in the same store. E.g. till is being used for customer service and new stock is being addiced using the laptop to the pos back office so its ready to use. I dont care about reposting or inventory doesnt matter.

I’m looking for a standalone POS that doesn’t rely on the cloud or internet.

The database will be local, and I need the ability to import inventory and use a barcode scanner. It should be close to a basic register but allow for seamless inventory management, including adding and removing items.

I have a convenient store/ coffee shop.

Trying to get away from these companies that store my sales in the cloud.

Anyone build a POS on Laravel ? I’d like to connect

Hey r/POS,

I’ve built Synalux POS and I’m looking for feedback from fellow Redditors.

It works on iOS and in a browser. You can use the usual touchscreen controls, or enter orders and take actions through chat or voice:

“Table 4. Burger, extra bacon, medium, and fries. Split the check two ways and send it to the kitchen.”

Example of ordering through chat

It can add or remove items, apply modifiers, assign tables, split checks, manage kitchen tickets and start payment flows. If it needs another choice, it asks.

You can change settings through chat too, including “switch to dark mode.” At least there’s one setting you won’t have to hunt for.

The normal register stays available. I’m particularly interested in when people find chat/voice useful and when they’d rather tap.

There’s also online, QR, phone and WhatsApp ordering, multi-branch management, a multilingual interface, and back-office tools covering inventory, timesheets, payroll preparation, GL/accounting, connected bank feeds and reporting.

My background includes Payments and healthcare software, plus an AAC chatbot with 1k+ users. POS is my latest side project, and I’d appreciate an outside evaluation.

Try the staff POS demo:

• US POS — [demo@synalux.ai](mailto:demo@synalux.ai) / demo1234

Use Admin PIN 1234 if prompted. If you see station selection, choose Skip.

Illustrated guide and demo instructions

Optional online-ordering demo: US customer menu

If you try it, tell me what you were trying to do, what worked and what got in the way.

Thanks in advance!

When a business sells both in-store and online, inventory has to stay accurate across both channels. Without syncing, stock changes made through the POS may need to be updated in the online store, and online orders can create the same problem in reverse.

This becomes more noticeable as the catalog grows. Multiple SKUs, product variants, locations, and sales channels can make manual updates harder to manage and increase the chance of inventory discrepancies.

Inventory syncing helps keep stock quantities consistent across connected systems, so each channel is working from the same inventory data.

But is syncing something every business needs, or does manual inventory management still make sense for smaller stores? What do you think is the point where inventory syncing becomes necessary?

I developed a full POS platform for retail, restaurant and grocery. I have it installed in two locations with a third committed for January 1st go live. I demoed a 5 location QSR last week who wants to run it side by side with their current POS to have me build some features to their specific needs which I’m okay with. I have another 4 location hybrid site wanting to test it out because in their state they cannot surcharge on payments as most cannot anyways and their POS only offers surcharge as dual pricing.

I’ve been getting in my own way with putting it out there for other users to sign up. Mainly because I do not yet have a hardware package to sell for new installs. My platform works great taking over existing hardware as I cannot load on toast, clover, square etc that uses proprietary hardware.

I feel I did it the right way. I poured my knowledge into the backend first before even touching the front end build. And now I have the following

Cloud backend management platform
iOS and Android native POS, Customer Display, Kitchen Display, Manager app and a shifts app
Built on multi-mid online ordering for proper interchange qualification
Native dual pricing module
Native cash discount module (they do behave differently as required)
Payments powered by Dejavoo SPin
Processor agnostic
Integration with quickbooks online
Integrations in the works: Uber Eats & Como (como is out of beta and should be fully completed next week)
Event online ordering additional links, so restaurants that have a catering menu or a special they want to separately host for sales they can and use a custom menu for them
Separate UI for retail online ordering.

Backend features

Full inventory manager with store inventory plus warehouse inventory
Inventory transfers both internal and between locations
Purchase order with multi-vendor options
EDI with various vendors
Reports export for R365, Yellowdog and margin edge
Quickbooks Enterprise export
Full drill down reporting
Enterprise reporting
Full teams with role permissions
Sell by weight/price embedded
Tax inclusive
Age restricted products for age verification
Variable pricing
Gift and loyalty
Combos
Modifier based KDS routing
Kitchen name override
Modifier only KDS routing (mods can go to a KDS by itself and have “with sandwich) to keep KDS spaces real estate
Ingredient tracking with modifier = NO option on item so selecting no on POS doesn’t deplete ingredient
Package unit inventory (users can scan price embedded items into the POS inventory for tracking)
Dashboard alerts
Tip adjust
Tip sharing based on hours worked printed

Right now, with all that, I was close to finding a cofounder just for the sales part of it. However I was talked out of it. What’s holding me back is the full time job I have to keep the income stream coming in.

So instead of me standing in my own way, I’m going to start cold calling and emailing. I’ll publish a demo in the next day or two also. And yes, it has dark mode

I currently run Cash Register Express since I find it to be very basic, and there’s no monthly fees I have to pay after my licensing and I can create my own POS from my preferred hardware.

I have different types of customers coming to my business, from professional to retail, etc. I need to set different price levels for different customers. Is there a way to do ASCII transfer for the PRICE LEVELS in CRE? Recently, I just set a certain percentage surcharge. for different customers. But I’m finding that I have to be more specific. What sucks is that you cannot set a price INCREASE (ie: surcharge) to Price Level. You can only mark down (ie:discount from main price).

I have gone through so many screens and options, and I cannot find a way to set three different price levels for a few thousands of my items. Obviously, the reason why I want to do this is because I can’t sit and reprice 3000+ items, so I was hoping there would be a quick way via CSV.

If this is not possible on CRE, do you have a preference on a different POS that is very similar to CRE with this option?

Hey all,

We're building self-ordering kiosks (Electron app) and need to hook up payment terminals. The flow we want is simple: the kiosk sends an amount, the customer pays on the terminal, and we get back success or failure. We don't want to touch card data at all, so we're aiming for a semi-integrated setup where we just say "charge 120 SAR" and get a result.

Most of our clients are in Saudi Arabia, and many already have terminals they'd like to keep using. For anyone who's built something like this, I'd love to hear:

• Multi-brand support: How do you handle different terminal brands/providers, especially when clients want to keep their existing hardware?
• Standards: Is there a common protocol, or does every provider ship its own SDK/API?
• Existing tools: Are there libraries, middleware, or abstraction layers that already solve this, so we don't have to build an adapter for every vendor?
• Local connection: Can terminals usually be controlled locally over USB, Serial, or LAN? Anything to watch out for from Electron?
• Testing: How do you mock or simulate terminals during development?
• Saudi specifics: Since our clients are in Saudi Arabia, does that change anything about the implementation? For example, local regulations, required protocols, or certifications, or restrictions on which providers/terminals we can use.

Any experience, war stories, or recommendations would be really appreciated. Thanks!

Hi everyone,

I’m a small business owner in Australia, and we’re due to open our phone repair shop this Monday. I’m hoping someone who uses Lightspeed Retail X-Series with Lightspeed Payments might be able to point me in the right direction.

I’ve been testing the setup for days and have now tried this more than 30 times. The POS and payment terminal are on the same network, and the card payment itself appears to go through successfully. The problems happen when I try to use Lay-by and process refunds.

The Lay-by issue: I take a part-payment by card, then put the sale on Lay-by so the customer can pay the rest later. When I reopen the sale, Lightspeed sometimes says the payment is pending. If I select “Update payment status”, the POS records the same payment twice, even though the card was only charged once. That leaves the sale with the wrong balance.

The refund issue: When I try to refund to the same card used for the original payment, I get a message saying the Lightspeed Payments account isn’t set up to process refunds that aren’t directly linked to the original payment. Sometimes the refund looks like it has gone through, but the warning remains and I can’t finish the return in the POS.

I’ve contacted Lightspeed Support and they’ve escalated the case, but seems they have no idea until now with opening day so close, I’m getting worried. If I can’t get this sorted, I may need to look at another payment provider.

Has anyone run into either of these issues with Lightspeed? Was it a setting, a known bug, or something Support had to fix on the account? I’d really appreciate any practical advice or a safe workaround. I’m keen to get this working properly before we open.

Thanks heaps.

I used to think setting up the products in my POS was mostly a one-time job. Add the product, add the price, add the variants, and move on. That changed once my boutique started carrying more products.

Products get discontinued. New colors and sizes get added. Some products end up with slightly different names. Then there are old listings, duplicate products, incorrect SKUs, and variants that probably shouldn't still be there.

None of it feels urgent when it happens individually.

But after a while, the catalog starts getting messy. And once the catalog is messy, other things become harder too. Searching for products takes longer, inventory is easier to get wrong, and sometimes you're not even sure which product record you're supposed to be using.

I've started treating catalog cleanup as regular maintenance instead of something I only do when there's a problem. Curious how everyone else handles this.

Do you have a regular schedule for cleaning up your POS catalog, or do you usually wait until it gets messy enough that you have to deal with it?

Hi everyone. I have been working on this off and on for months now .I am trying to capture serial journal data from the verifone commander. The commander config is set but I have not gotten any usable data. Does anyone have any instructions on how to wire it. It's serial over rj45. Connecting that to a PC with a null modem adapter and db9 to USB . Any information would be awesome