What makes a traditional POS-terminal?
- Central processing device (usually bases on 80486+ processors)
- Power supply to plug-in various peripherals
- Failproof cash register
- Cash till, cashier display and customer display
- Different interfaces to connect customized programmable keyboards, bar-code scanners, magnetic stripe readers and other peripherals
Why use programmable POS-keyboards?
Using programmable POS keyboard together with special software allows you to assign every single key a special function, which makes operator’s work much easier. POSUA produces keyboards in different designs to help you fit POS terminal in the best usable way.
Why use specialized hardware?
Normally business operations of a specific merchant are uniform. POS-hardware, normally, may be set up to maintain specific tasks. And so, when you set up a set of uniform operations on a software and hardware levels you make sales operations go faster and minimize human factor effect. As a result business turnover goes up and profits increase.
May regular PC and PC keyboards be used for POS automation?
Yes, sure. Efficiency of such “non-specialized” POS terminals gets downgraded, however.
What is POS automation?
POS-automation is used to be a term that describes automation of sales and discounting processes. Sales automation in most cases is a system of software and hardware tools that allow managing registering and accounting processes. POS automation saves time and money because of automation of routine manual operations.
What is POS?
Point of sale (POS) or checkout is the location where a transaction occurs. A "checkout" refers to a POS terminal or more generally to the hardware and software used for checkouts, the equivalent of an electronic cash register. A POS terminal manages the selling process by a salesperson accessible interface.