If you own a deli, butchers, grocers or even a sweet shop, you’ll know that an EPOS system alone won’t make selling your products easier. An EPOS system and electronic EPOS scales can help to automate the sale of fruit, veg, fish, cheese and other products sold by weight. A system with integrated scales will calculate the price of the item selected on the scales based on its weight and add it to the order on the EPOS system. This is particularly useful for items such as fruit and veg which customers bag themselves. Barcode label printing scales are another...

We all know an EPOS system can make serving customers a much easier task, but for places like restaurants, takeaways and cafes the most chaotic place is also where the magic happens, the kitchen. In such a fast paced and potentially noisy environment, communicating customers’ orders can often be an ordeal. So how can an EPOS system help to bring some organisation to this very important area?   Kitchen printer A kitchen printer is one of the most common ways to communicate orders from your EPOS to the kitchen. The whole process can be automated through the EPOS system so...

Dallas key fobs are used by many retail and hospitality businesses as a login tool for EPOS systems. It allows the user to login to a system quickly and easily by simply placing their fob on a reader attached to the system. Each fob has a unique code that can be registered to individual users so that when the fob is used, that user is logged in automatically. There are no codes to remember or long, time-consuming passwords to input. There are two types of dallas key fobs, Magnetic and Non-magnetic. It is very important to know what type of...

EPOS systems have become a must have for all retail and hospitality businesses, but how did we get from simple pen and paper transactions to the sophisticated, feature rich electronic point of sales systems we use today? Let's look at some of the key turning points in point of sale history. 1879 James Ritty patented the first cash register named “Ritty’s Incorruptible Cashier”. James Ritty was a saloon owner who often had trouble with his employees pocketing money from customers. Working together with his mechanic brother John Ritty, it took them 3 attempts to successfully build the machine. 1884 John...