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Everything we would want to know before buying one.
Six guides on how EPOS actually works in a UK shop, written to be useful whether or not you end up buying from us. None of them requires an email address.
Guides to buying and running an EPOS system
The rest of this site argues our case. These pages do not. They are the explanations we end up giving on the phone, written down once so that anyone can read them — including people who go on to buy from someone else.
What is an EPOS system?
How EPOS differs from a cash register or a card reader, the three parts of a working system, and what a small shop actually needs.
Read the guide →What does an EPOS system cost?
Hardware, software, card processing and the contract, with the charges that only appear once you have signed something.
Read the guide →How to choose an EPOS system
Twenty questions to ask before the demo, four things to do during it, and the red flags worth walking away from.
Read the guide →Challenge 25 at the till
What the law actually requires, what a refusals record needs to contain, and where a till helps rather than hinders.
Read the guide →Card processing rates explained
Blended, interchange plus and flat pricing, the fees beside the rate, and how to work out what you really pay.
Read the guide →EPOS contracts and lock-in
Term length, auto-renewal, who owns your product file, and what leaving actually costs.
Read the guide →Related
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