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Point of Sale: Systems and how it is changing the businesses?




Point of sale means that point where the potential customer turns to customer, where the product on display turns to sale and company earns profit. Point of sale is basically the counters where the employee checks out the customer with bill and customer pays for the item and products in any form of payment.

Businesses have gradually moved from the conventional cash registrars to the online Point of sale system. Point of sale system helps in gathering customer information such as phone numbers and email ids which can be further used for email and SMS marketing. Point of sale is also very efficient and fast and minimizes the human errors such as faulty calculations or sometimes bargaining.

Advantages of Point of sale systems –

Helps in keeping tracking of inventories as everything is online and cloud based therefore, businesses and firms can quickly check the inventory and stocks of their products.

It keeps a track of their customers and helps in developing loyalty cards for the customers who are fairly regular.

It help in easy data maintenance of the customer records and the sales done in a given point of time.

It becomes easy to track and check all the transactions done at the Point of sale and minimizes the need of checking and maintaining of accounts on daily basis with sometimes faulty or limited data.

Point of sale system also helps in adding credibility to the store. It gives the choice in payment options to the customers and they can pay which ever they wish to thus targeting wider audience.

With the acceptance of Point of sale system, a new technology for automated check outs and Point of sale has come into play. It basically enables customers to check out themselves at the grocery stores or shopping complexes. They themselves can scan the items and pay via card at Point of sale.

It is a great system for people who have social anxiety and are reluctant in talking to people. It gives people flexibility too.

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