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2025 retail POS system | 6 best retail POS systems + Free system recommendation
KPay
23 January 2025
POS|Retail POS system can solve the pain points of insufficient manpower, fierce competition, a wide range of products, and the need to manage a large amount of inventory, etc. There are many choices of POS system, this time we select the top 6 retail POS system, recommended to retail shop owners or want to expand your sales network.
Introduction

POS|Retail POS system can solve the pain points of insufficient manpower, fierce competition, a wide range of products, and the need to manage a large amount of inventory, etc. There are many choices of POS system, this time we select the top 6 retail POS system, recommended to retail shop owners or want to expand your sales network. 

What is retail POS system?

Retail POS system can help retailers better manage their business processes, ranging from import/export, merchandise management, inventory control, order management, online shop, customer and member management, to promotional discounts, all major retail operation needs. Retail POS systems can also generate a variety of analytical reports to help retailers understand their business operations and make immediate adjustments to their marketing strategies.

A POS system usually consists of both software and hardware components, including hardware devices such as POS terminals, printers, scanners and cash drawers, as well as a POS software management system.

4 Advantages of retail POS system

1. Improve work efficiency and reduce manual operations and errors 
Use barcode and 2D code to quickly identify product information for convenient payment collection. At the same time, it is easy to manage automated promotions such as discounts and gift offers, making the payment process smoother, reducing manual operations and errors in calculating discounts, and improving work efficiency.

2. Improve inventory management and accurately arrange the quantity of goods 
Real-time inventory monitoring, automatic updating of inventory quantity, stocktaking and movement, avoiding over-selling and out-of-stock problems, helping to speed up and more accurately inventory counting and movement of inventory.

3. Record member transactions and calculate rewards automatically 
Some retail POS systems are able to track customers' spending records through the membership management function. When a customer reaches a certain spending amount, discount coupons or gifts will be sent automatically during the payment process. This not only improves customer satisfaction, but also helps you to cope with payment and membership management at the same time, reducing the workload of store staff.

4. Real-time update of performance report  and keep up with the latest data 
By collecting and analysing data, it helps you to understand the situation of sales, members and inventory. At the same time, it provides operational data analysis and reports to help you formulate better sales strategies. 5.Synchronisation of Online and Offline Records With online and physical shop management, some POS systems can synchronise the management of online and physical business to ensure consistency of product information and inventory quantities, and to reduce the number of times merchants have to manually update their product and inventory information.

OmniWe Retail

OmniWe provides an omni-channel retail management system covering online and offline, equipped with different software and hardware products to accelerate the integration of virtual and real, and enhance the digital service of stores, covering retail, food and beverage, logistics and other areas. It is suitable for retailers who need a lot of social media digital promotion.
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Products:
✅ POS terminal
✅ Self-service terminal
✅ One-stop smart cash register
✅ Printer
✅ E-labels & RFID tags

Features: 
✅ Sales management
✅ Sales management: Set up your own product selling period and promotion period, products will be uploaded and downloaded automatically.
✅ Inventory management: Up to 10 warehouses can be managed at the same time.
✅ Membership system: Membership level and points system, customer labelling function; effective management of different levels of membership benefits and records.
✅ Payment management: Support online payment + e-payment in physical shops, simple bill split display.
✅ Staff management: Up to 10 management accounts can be opened.
✅ Report analysis
✅ Simultaneous management of online and physical shops.
✅ Other features: customised offers, social media connection.

Advantages:
✅ Various hardware options: e.g. POS terminals, self-service kiosks, e-price tags, RFID tags, etc. to cater to the needs of merchants in different industries.
✅ Unique features: Unique features compared to other POS systems, such as automated member sorting, product upload/download at regular intervals, and so on.
✅ Support social platform management: Connect with social platform management, suitable for merchants who need a lot of social media digital promotion.
✅ Multiple account management support: Split store and online shop accounts to record the store staff responsible for billing, which is convenient for the boss to calculate the commission.
✅ Various automation functions: For example, you can set the selling period, promotional period and upload/download time of the products, which can avoid the manual operation errors and improve the working efficiency.
✅ Customer categorisation support: Automatically categorise customers with labels to analyse the purchasing patterns of different customer segments for adjusting marketing decisions.

Charges:
1. Start-Up Solution (1 Account + Warehouse): Approx. HKD 500/month; HKD 6,000/year
2. SME OMO Solution (3 outlets with linked accounts + 3 warehouses): HKD 633/month for each branch; HKD 22,800/year
3. Enterprise Solution (10 outlets with linked accounts + 10 warehouses): HK$415/month per branch; HKD 49,800/year

**Currently, KPay merchants can enjoy an exclusive discounted rate to enjoy the service at a more favourable price. For more details, click ‘Get Started’ below to contact KPay's digital transformation experts! 

Storeberry

An omni-channel e-commerce platform designed for retail SMEs, providing a simple and sophisticated system to manage all sales channels in one place, whether it's a physical shop, online shop or social e-commerce.
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Hardware:
✅ Thermal printer
✅ Barcode scanner
✅ Label printer
✅ Card reader

Features:
✅ Sales management: QR code / barcode to manage product information, add product notes and print on thermal paper receipts.
✅ Inventory management: Batch and finite date management, moving average costing tool.
✅ Membership system: Membership Level and Points System, Membership Referral Programme
✅ Employee management: Unlimited administrator account, automatic staff sales record collation
✅ Report analysis
✅ Payment management
✅ Synchronised management of online and physical shops
✅ Other functions: Connection with logistics platform, customer-defined logistics options, online booking system, marketing and promotional functions, chatbot 24/7 reply to enquiries.

Advantages:
✅ Functionality + Design: More functionality and design templates than other POS-based online shops.
✅ Support account privilege setting: Provide unlimited administrator account privileges, set up different privileges at any time to ensure that staff can't access important internal information, and automatically collate staff's sales records to easily handle bonuses and profits.
✅ Unified management of online + offline transactions: Real-time integration of online and offline sales records in one POS retail system, allowing you to manage your business anytime, anywhere on your computer, tablet or smartphone, with a simple and easy-to-use interface that enhances the efficiency of daily operations.
✅ Support advanced inventory and membership management functions: such as product average cost tracking, product batch and expiry date management, accumulation points for Cash Dollar and member e-purse, etc., which are convenient for tracking goods and formulating marketing strategies.
✅ Ideal for short-term pop up shop + bazaar: Ideal for online shop owners who plan to open a physical shop, or for those who already have a physical shop or online shop and regularly open a pop up shop and attend bazaars.

Charges:
1. Basic Online Shop Plan (suitable for newbie e-commerce entrepreneurs): HK$388/month
2. Advanced Online Shop Programme (suitable for advanced e-commerce business): HK$788/month
3. Omni-Channel Sales Programme (suitable for SME/shop owners to do business online and offline): HK$1,388/month
4. Enterprise Plan (suitable for chain shop owners/enterprise expansion): HK$2,388/month

** Currently, KPay merchants can enjoy the exclusive discounted rate immediately to enjoy the service at a more favourable price. For more details, click ‘Get Started’ below to contact KPay's digital transformation experts!

HIPPOS

HIPPOS aims to provide retailers with flexible retail solutions that enable them to grow their business together from different generations, different departments and different locations. Helps retailers to transform their business in a variety of ways - mobile, omni-channel (online and offline), shop opening or franchising. Ideal for smaller businesses, or for those who regularly attend trade fairs and markets.
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Hardware: need to enquire for details by yourself

Features:
✅ Sales management: Instant shop switching function
✅ Inventory management: Low inventory alerts
✅ Membership system: 3-tier membership discount setting, different spending rewards and bonus point setting.
✅ Staff management: Staff shift and attendance record
✅ Report analysis: Inventory order, monthly statement report
✅ Other functions: Online booking system
✅ Payment management
✅ Synchronised management of online and physical shops

Advantages:
✅ iPad management system support: Whether it's an exhibition, market or flash mob, you can easily manage your system and transactions with your iPad.
✅ Intelligent sales management: alerts when inventory is low, and you can instantly switch shops to view records.
✅ Multi-functional membership system: automatically add points according to members' purchases and set up three levels of member discounts.
✅ OMO synchronised management: One backend to set up online shop at the same time, unlimited goods on the shelves, to achieve OMO synchronised warehouse membership management

Charges:
1. POS Retail System: HK$200/month
2. For other modules, you could enquire separately.

** Currently, KPay merchants can enjoy the exclusive discounted rate immediately to enjoy the service at a more favourable price. For more details, click ‘Get Started’ below to contact KPay Digital Transformation Specialist! 

eRun

eRun is designed to streamline business processes and provide automated task management to enhance overall productivity across all business models, including retail, food and beverage, and hybrid business models combining retail and food and beverage services. It can be used by both small and large multi-brand groups.
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Hardware: need to enquire for details by yourself

Features: 
✅ Sales management: Store staff can send replenishment requests in real time using their mobile phones.
✅ Inventory management: Measurement Unit Conversion Tool, seamless weighing scale connection, cost calculation
✅ Membership system: service package, cash coupon system, consumer behaviour data analysis.
✅ Employee management: Setting up permission levels for different employees.
✅ Report analysis: Provide data on sales volume, inventory, cost analysis, member dynamics, etc.
✅ Payment management: Support online + physical payment tools, customised receipts.
✅ Other functions: API to third party membership system, ERP system or accounting system.

Advantages:
✅ Support for different platforms and devices:
✅ Support for different platforms and devices: It can run on mobile phones, tablets, laptops and other devices, as well as Windows, iOS or Android platforms, regardless of geographic or cable constraints, allowing flexible hardware deployment and convenient real-time monitoring.
✅ Customised receipt support: Provide different types of paper receipts or electronic receipts to meet the design requirements of different industries and enterprises.
✅ Simultaneous sharing of member benefits: All points of sale can enjoy the same member benefits, no need to re-enter member information, and the stored value or redeemed points can be updated in real time.
✅ Diversified discount rules: Over 300 discount rules can be generated to ensure merchants can plan unique marketing strategies and promotions according to their industries and business models.
✅ Real-time inventory monitoring: Set minimum stock level to automatically create replenishment orders to avoid out-of-stock or backlogged products affecting operations.

Charges: Please enquire for details.

** Currently, KPay merchants can enjoy exclusive promotional rates to enjoy the service at a more favourable price. For more details, click ‘Get Started’ below to contact KPay's digital transformation experts!

Frontier POS

Lead Out Technology's POS system can be used in conjunction with Lead Out's other innovative products and e-commerce consulting to help SME merchants transform or expand their markets. Ideal for retailers looking for a one-stop management system.
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Hardware products: need to enquire for details by yourself

Function:
✅ Sales management: Automatic calculation of bundled sales products
✅ Inventory management: Low inventory alerts
✅ Membership system: Membership coupon system
✅ Staff management: Reimbursement of expenses, input of customer comments.
✅ Payment management
✅ Other functions: Can connect with our own ERP system ERICA and online shop MERCURY.

Advantages:
✅ Data synchronisation
Sales data from different platforms such as POS, online shop and inventory can be synchronised to avoid inconsistency in data which may lead to unavailability to answer customer's questions immediately.
✅ Low inventory and bundled sales alerts.
Eliminate the need for manual checking of inventory and offer details, with automatic calculation for sales management to minimise errors.
✅ Save time on member record during collection.
Membership Management allows merchants to quickly add new members at checkout and save time in recording membership information by entering phone numbers to find membership details including membership records and bonus points.
✅ Effective communication between merchants and staffs
Frontline staff can input customer feedback into the system instantly, allowing management to make better business decisions.
✅ Supports ERP system + Online shop connection
It can be connected to our own ERP system, ERICA, and online shop, Mercury, to support different sales related functions and allow staff to reimburse expenses for management.

Charges: Please enquire for details.

 

Loyverse

An intuitive and easy-to-use cash register application for managing retail, restaurants and cafes, Loyverse offers free features for start-up restaurants. Loyverse is a free solution to help smaller merchants or SMEs to save costs and increase efficiency.
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Hardware:
✅ Printer
✅ Barcode scanner
✅ Cash drawer
✅ Card reader
✅ Tablet stand

Features:
✅ Sales management: Automatic calculation of bundled sales products
✅ Inventory management: Low inventory alerts, inventory receipt tracking
✅ Membership system: customer preference record, loyalty programme
✅ Employee management: Duty hour calculation, Tracking employee sales, setting different employee privileges
✅ Statement analysis: View revenue, average sales volume and profit.
✅ Payment management: Support different payment tools
✅ Other features: one account to manage multiple shops, API support for third-party services.

Benefits:
✅ Multi-language support
Choose from over 25 languages, recognised in over 170 countries on Android and iOS.
✅ One account for multiple shops
Transfer products between shops and set different prices for different shops to find the best pricing strategy.
✅ Synchronised sharing of member rewards records
Centralise the management of your integrated customer base across all outlets and use the same rewards system across all outlets, allowing staff at different outlets to view member rewards records in real-time.
✅ Effective employee management: You can check your staff's individual performance and reward them at the backend, and at the same time, it is convenient for management to control staff's working hours and pay them accurately according to the data.

Charges:
1. Loyverse POS system, dashboard, kitchen display system and customer display system are free of charge.
2. Other add-ons such as staff management, advanced inventory management, API to other applications, etc. are chargeable.

For more information, click ‘Get Started’ below to contact KPay's digital transformation experts! 

4 Unique advantages of KPay merchants

1. Connection with POS card machine to reduce collection errors and omissions: KPay intelligent POS cash register connects with the restaurant POS system to synchronise the billing information instantly, eliminating the need for repeated manual input. This improves collection efficiency and reduces input errors.

2. Simple procedure: KPay is familiar with your business needs and background, no need to re-submit business documents, your digital transformation consultant will take care of the ordering procedure for you.

3. Personalised recommendation: Our Digital Transformation Consultant will compare the functions of major restaurant POS systems and recommend the most suitable system for you according to your needs. All software platform interfacing and testing are handled by us to ensure data security and smooth operation. You don't need to bother to understand and compare different systems, so you can focus on your business management and quality of food and beverage.

4. Dedicated follow up: KPay will also arrange dedicated staff to guide merchants on how to operate the restaurant POS system and continuously follow up on users' experience to provide you with more personalised and comprehensive consultation and follow up services.

Click ‘Get Started’ below to get in touch with KPay's digital transformation experts to learn more!

 

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