EPOS System and Its Working

By Jenny Kal

EPOS systems are a short form of Electronic Point of Sales. In earlier days, paper was considered very important in terms of any business i.e. all the records were written manually on the paper and these papers were then filed and at the end of the year of 6 months they were reviewed to check to total loss or profit gained in the business. In modern Business, EPOS systems is

the answer for these stack of papers collected and writing each and every transaction manually on paper, you just need to keep EPOS systems installed at your place for the automatic updating of each transactions and sales/ purchase done in the business.

In advanced EPOS systems you may find Touch screen monitor as a part of display unit which you normally find in systems. For more convenience you can also include additional hardware devices such as barcode scanners, printers euld be attached to your computer. You can include these devices as per your requirements in the business. These are the additional resources which you may or may not include doesn't make any difference in your business. Besides these you can also include weighing scales, mobile PDA which is also referred to as Personal Digital Assistance, tablets, customer displays, cash draws and chip and pin. So the people manufacturing systems make them as per the customer's requirements. With these additional devices attached to your EPOS-system you can make use of them in multipurpose ways.

EPOS systems are differentiated in two different types namely Modular system and Integrated system. The major difference in both of these EPOS-systems is that your display unit and computer come together in integrated systems. Additional devices if required are attached to this single unit. Whereas in Modular EPOS systems, a computer and display system are two different components and other devices are connected to display unit which gives you more flexibility in the working. Also these systems come with particular software which will guide you in handling your business departments more accurately. This software used in the working systems is much more advanced than the one used in any pharmacy or retail stores.

Depending on the systems for the type of industries, this software are manufactured such as software for handling hotel reservations, making bills for medical purpose or any software required for a restaurant. You just have to give the input through keyboard, touch screen monitor or even through barcode scanners and the desired output will be provided through display unit and printers. The main reason that people are using EPOS systems is because its working is very fast and also they are much more easy to use and maintain.