The Difference Between Electronic Cash Register And POS

The electronic cash register is a kind of multi-functional cashier equipment. Mainly used for retail enterprises, the restaurant. Its function is to store goods unit price, sales reports, inventory information, print, and its interface with the magnetic card reader, barcode, label printer, and other external equipment connection. It is an essential tool for managing cash income, it is the combination of electronic technology and modern management ideas and technology, modernization and automation of business management is one of the indispensable basic electronic devices. 

The function of electronic cash registers are: support the sales, commodity management, support personnel management support, support sales of simple statistical analysis. 

POS machine reads the bank card cardholders information by magnetic stripe card reader , POS operator inputs the transaction amount, the cardholder enter personal identification information (password), POS machine transfer these information through union pay center, create a hairpin bank system, complete a deal and send out the information of success, and print the corresponding receipt. The implementation of POS achieves the credit card and debit card online consumption, guarantees the safety of transaction, quick and accurate, and avoid the manual query blacklist and pressure single and complex labor, improve work efficiency.

The POS is mainly used in large and medium-sized supermarkets, chain stores, large and medium-sized hotels, large shopping malls and all high-level management of retail enterprises. It can be connected to a variety of peripheral devices such as scanning gun, printer and so on.