What to look for in a retail POS

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Looking for recommendations:

We need something that handles retail operations well

Budget is around $66/month. What would you suggest?

Karen Lewis 👑 Master

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Melissa Murphy

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Aug 13, 2025

We had the same issue. What worked for us was restarting the terminal

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Susan Wallace

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Aug 17, 2025

Training took about 2 days for our staff.

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Laura Jackson

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Aug 23, 2025

+1 to this. We've seen similar results.

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Scott Patterson

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Sep 18, 2025

I've been using SpotOn for 5 months and it has been working well for us

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Susan Collins

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Sep 19, 2025

Training took about 2 days for our staff.

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Ann Harris

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Oct 3, 2025

Cost us about $50/month all in. Worth it.

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Frances Russell

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Oct 20, 2025

I've been using Oracle MICROS for 22 months and it has been working well for us

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Brenda Park

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Oct 20, 2025

Cost us about $141/month all in. Worth it.

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Adam Flores

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Oct 22, 2025

Just went through this. Here's what I learned: take your time with the setup

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Samantha Perry

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Oct 28, 2025

Training took about 2 days for our staff.

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Susan Wallace

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Oct 29, 2025

+1 to this. We've seen similar results.

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Raymond Sullivan

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Nov 1, 2025

Just went through this. Here's what I learned: take your time with the setup

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Kenneth Ramos

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Nov 6, 2025

We had the same issue. What worked for us was updating the firmware

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Joyce Ross

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Nov 6, 2025

Cost us about $163/month all in. Worth it.

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Kevin Rogers

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Nov 10, 2025

This is why we switched to Aloha POS. No regrets.

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Amanda Wright

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Nov 10, 2025

This is why we switched to Speedline. No regrets.

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Donna Washington

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Nov 20, 2025

We had the same issue. What worked for us was reconfiguring the network settings

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Heather Kelly

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184 posts

Nov 21, 2025

Agreed with the above. Also worth mentioning you should also check the settings

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Susan Johnson

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Nov 28, 2025

Make sure you're on the latest version. That fixed it for us.

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