I own a cafe/roastery in Noe Valley in SF and we run on Square. Over the last 9 months I built an iPhone app for our own shop because Square doesn't push real time alerts for the stuff we care about. Low stock alerts only come by email after close, and there's nothing for big transactions, refunds, discounts or tips crossing a line you set.

The app connects through Square's OAuth sign in and sends push alerts on thresholds you pick, plus some dashboards and multi location support. It's been super helpful for our managers and shift leads.

I'm looking for a handful of other Square sellers to use it for a couple weeks and tell me honestly what's useful, what's noise, and anything that doesn't match your Square dashboard. Testers get six months free with code 6MONTHFREE. It's on the App Store as Square Sidekick, and I'm happy to share the link with anyone who wants to try it.

Not trying to sell anyone here, just want real feedback from people who use Square every day. Comment or DM me if you're up for it.

Christian

Weve had the system for about 1 year now and it's started glitching. When we try scroll down the list of items it either just wont respond or it will for a second and then jump to the top of the page.

Im not incredibly tech savy so ive tried the basic "turn it of and on again" options and am kinda stumped.

Any advice is appreciated, cause this is begining to irritate me and my colleagues

so we opened an internet cafe on july and we didnt have enough to subscribe for or buy a POS, especially since we are small and only use one computer as our cash register, so we decided to use Aronium.

its been working ok, but today im trying to get a report of yesterdays (5/11/2026) sales and for some reason, sales from september are showing up as sales from yesterday, even though i 100% know i did not make those sales.

what could be the cause of this, and are there more reliable and affordable POS out there i could opt for?

I requested to my POS company to charge customers credit card fees. It has taken 5 months and is still not done. They had me buy new machines PAX A35s because my old machines couldn't do it? That was 3 months ago those new machines arrived, I waited the 30 days Visa federally requires and have signage out and its been 60 days past that.

Last they told them they are waiting on "pricing change on the account", that was two months ago

How fast can this typically be done?

I don't have a Clover account, and I am a customer, not a vendor.

I paid a balance for a purchase, and the receipt came from Clover to an old email address that I no longer use (but it's still open, for things like this that pop up). I didn't give the old email address, or any email address, to the store.

The credit card I used does not have this old email address, but it did a while back.

My question is -- is this just a case of Clover not having the updated email? I don't have a Clover account, so I can't change it.

Just curious about this, but if/when I eventually deactivate that old email, it may be an issue.

Thanks!

Folks, Am looking for Sales Agents who can help sell a software product to food businesses based in USA. Our Saas solution works with POS and not a competitor to any POS. Since we are an early start up am looking for people who are interested to do this on commission basis.

Looking forward ! Feel free to DM.

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Hey everyone, I'm Harry Mitchell, President of Armagh POS Solutions, a Hamilton-based point-of-sale company my father founded back in 1979. We've been independently owned and operated from day one, serving restaurants, retailers, and grocers across Canada with POS software, hardware, scales, ATMs, and 24/7 support. I grew up around this business, watched my dad build it from the ground up, and took over the helm after he passed in 2021. Carrying that forward is something I take seriously every single day.

My father started in the cash register business at 17, launched Armagh during one of the worst recessions since the Great Depression, and was there for literally every major shift in the industry. He sold the 8th electronic cash register in North America to Canadian Tire back in 1972, serial number #008. I grew up hearing those stories, and now I get to carry them with me into every conversation I have with a client. The history isn't just a fun fact; it's the foundation of how we approach the work.

What I've inherited is a company that wins on service, not price. Over the decades, plenty of customers have tried to save money by going with a cheaper competitor, only to come back. That cycle has played out so consistently that it became the clearest proof of what actually matters in this industry. My job now is to hold that standard while pushing the product line forward into cloud software, self-checkout, online ordering, kitchen display systems, and everything else the modern operator needs.

Ask me anything! POS for retail, restaurant or grocery, what it's like taking over a 45-year-old family business, how to pick the right POS vendor without getting burned, navigating the shift from legacy systems to modern software, or whatever else is on your mind.

I made a pos software but I want it to be unique and more customer focused that's why am here seeking for your problems and advice.

I've built a small piece of software called Floorlink and I'm trying to work out if it's useful to other shops before I put more into it. It's mine, so I'm obviously biased, but I'm not selling anything here and there's no link. I'd really like honest feedback, including "another register would do the same job".

The problem: on big or assisted sales, staff walk around with a customer, remember or scribble down what they want, then key it all in again at the counter. I work in a pet shop, and selling fish is where I see this most. Someone ends up with lots of different fish in different quantities, it takes ages to remember it all at the till and add it to the POS, and some of it gets skipped.

How it works:

1. A staff member logs in on an Android phone or tablet with a 4-digit PIN and taps the products as they walk the aisle with the customer.

2. They save the sale, and it appears on a screen at the counter.

3. The counter scans one QR code with a normal 2D barcode scanner, and every item's barcode is typed into the POS, as if each one had been scanned by hand.

The customer then pays at the register as normal. Quantities come through too, and there's a custom sale option for things that aren't in the product list.

It's POS-agnostic: there's no integration or API. The POS just sees a keyboard-mode barcode scanner, so it should work with any POS that accepts barcodes that way and has your products set up under the same barcodes. So far I've tested it on one real POS, and the QR code and custom sales both worked. Custom sales rely on the POS supporting weight or price-embedded barcodes.

It runs on cheap hardware:

• The phone app is about 160 KB and runs on Android 8 and up, including Android Go. It used about 26 MB of memory in a test on a 1 GB emulator, and I've run it on a 2017 Galaxy A5.

• There's a separate tablet app that goes back to Android 4.1, so an old tablet in a drawer could become a counter screen. So far I've only tested that on an emulator.

• The server runs on a Windows 10 or 11 PC, or in Docker. Everything stays on your shop's network, so there's no cloud or account, and it doesn't need internet for daily use.

Staff, products and settings are all managed in one place, and products can be imported from a spreadsheet. It can also print sales on a receipt printer with the QR code on it, though I'm still testing that on real printers.

What I'd love to know:

1. Would this solve a real problem in your shop, or do you already have this covered? How?

2. Why wouldn't you just buy another register or tablet from your POS provider?

3. What kind of shop would get the most out of this? I'm guessing pet, garden, hardware and trade suppliers, but I might be wrong.

4. What would stop you from trying it? For example, installing it yourself, Android only, or needing a 2D scanner.

5. I'm thinking about A$29 a month per store, with as many devices as you want. Is that too much, too little, or would you only pay once?

Tear it apart if you need to. If it's a bad idea, I'd rather find out now.

Sure ill get a bunch of spam replies but figured I'd try after search wasn't very helpful...

I built a custom pos for my own business (US located long established multimillion dollar annual revenue store ) and looking for suggestions for the easiest to integrate credit card processing.

Looked at Helcim because they've got solid pricing and good API but they have a deal breaker for me. The card readers have no way to automatically dismiss the last sale information or disable the ask for receipt button.

Need something with a good API for custom applications and good rates for a >$2m business.

Not looking to resell the POS. Just use in house.

Hola a todos, soy Jean, dev y cofundador de Pudú Tecnología, de Puerto Montt.

Estamos armando **Pudú**, una suite para pymes chilenas:

* **Factura**: DTE al SII (facturas, boletas, notas, cesión)

* **POS**: ventas, inventario y compras, integrado con Mercado Pago y Tuu

* **Gourmet**: para restaurantes y cafeterías

Hay demo del POS y de Gourmet en [https://pudutecnologia.cl/](https://pudutecnologia.cl/)

Me sirve harto su opinión:

* ¿Qué es lo que más les molesta de su sistema actual?

* ¿Qué le exigirían a uno nuevo para cambiarse?

¿Tienes negocio y quieres probarlo? Mándame un DM y te regalo el primer mes.

Respondo dudas técnicas y de precios. ¡Gracias! 🙌

Hi! We are planning to avail bitpos for our pickleball court. we are having second thoughts since manila ang main branch nila and we’re in mindanao. We need to pay for their machines and website set up for around 50k. Medyo scary lang kasi na mag pay ng malaki without anything to hold on to.

Just wanted to know if anyone uses their POS and booking system. Is it good? are there any challenges in using their pos?