Courtney Reilly-Larke is the deputy editor of Forbes Advisor Canada. Previously, she was the associate editor of personal finance at MoneySense. She was also managing editor of Best Health Magazine ...

Modern technology has completely revolutionized the way business is done. One of the most significant technological advancements for small businesses today is the mobile point-of-sale, or POS system, ...

Point of sale (POS) systems streamline customer checkouts at retail shops and restaurants. They also help small business owners manage day-to-day operations, from inventory to orders. But retailers ...

The best retail POS systems are easy to use, reliable, and simplify managing inventory, customer, and employee data. Retail businesses need a POS system that goes beyond ringing up sales and accepting ...

Many successful retail stores still use old, bare-bones checkout systems. Although these work well enough for basic transactions, they don’t offer much insight into how your business could be ...

Those of us of a certain age who worked in retail or food service may remember the days before modern point of sale (POS) systems. We manually added the cost of items at a cash register — if we were ...

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Thanks to mobile point-of-sale (POS) systems, small business owners don’t have to be limited to a physical location or online store. You can use a POS app on any mobile device, whether it’s a ...

Mobile point-of-sale is a hot topic in retail, especially now that it is not just Apple stores that have effective tools enabling them to complete transactions on the shop floor. Ever since Apple ...

In some industries, vendors work entirely from purchase orders or from detailed purchasing contracts, but most businesses need to ring up transactions individually. Depending on your industry, you ...