What is a Point-of-Sale? (POS)

The Point-of-Sale (POS) in a store is the place that you pay for your purchases. It is usually where the till (cash register) is located.
A typical POS will have...
• A system to accept electronic payments - EFTPOS (see below)
• A method of inputting the codes of goods purchased - usually a bar-code scanner. The codes are then used        to find more information about the goods, such as price, from a database
• A system to update the stock-level of goods whenever they are sold, and possibly to automatically re-order goods that have low stock-levels (see below)
• A method of producing a receipt for purchases - usually a small
dot-matrix printer