We take our impartial research and analysis seriously, so you can have complete confidence that we’re giving you the clearest, most useful recommendations. After conducting an initial exploration to identify the most relevant, popular, and established POS platforms on the market, we put them through their paces with hands-on testing to gain a detailed overview of their real strengths and weaknesses.
In this case, we focused our investigation on six criteria that matter the most to our audience: hardware, software, help & support, customer satisfaction, pricing, and usability. Then, to assess their suitability for stores, we considered a range of retail-specific factors, including the presence and quality of hardware features like barcode scanners and receipt printers, and software features like gift cards and vouchers, multi-store management tools, and stock handling capabilities.
We then awarded each retail POS an overall score out of five, to give our readers a clear overview of their potential, and scored them for each subcategory, to demonstrate how they compared side by side.
After hundreds of hours, our process is complete, and the results should ensure you can find the best solution for your needs. You can learn more about our research and testing process here.
