EPOS
EPOS stands for electronic point of sale. In practice people use it to mean the whole counter setup - touchscreen, card reader, cash drawer and printer - together with the software that records every sale and reports on it afterwards. The difference between a till and an EPOS system is the reporting: a till takes money, an EPOS system tells you which items make most of your takings and whether the drawer balanced at close.
In practice
EPOS stands for electronic point of sale. In practice people use it to mean the whole counter setup: the touchscreen, the card reader, the cash drawer and the printer, together with the software that records every sale and reports on it afterwards.
The difference between a till and an EPOS system is the reporting. A till takes money; an EPOS system tells you which twenty items make most of your takings, which hour of which day is busiest, how much was voided and by whom, and whether the drawer balanced at close.
The thing to judge is not the feature list but how many taps your busiest order takes, and what the system does when the internet drops. Both are easy to test before you buy, and both are where fitted systems most often disappoint.
Also called: electronic point of sale, till system.