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Epos Now

3.5
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Secure electronic point of sale (POS) system

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Epos Now Features

Features Summary

Functionality

3.5

/5

324

Total features

106

18 categories

Epos Now features

API
Access Controls/Permissions
Accounting Integration
Activity Dashboard
Bar Tab Management
Barcode Printing
Barcode Recognition
Barcode/Ticket Scanning

Common features of Inventory Management software

API
Accounting Integration
Activity Dashboard
Alerts/Notifications
Barcode/Ticket Scanning
Cost Tracking
Customer Database
Customizable Reports

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Functionality

3.5

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324

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25

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Total Features

106

Unique features

  • Product Catalog

  • Purchasing & Receiving

  • Real Time Analytics

  • Payment Processing Services Integration

Functionality

4.6

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Total Features

39

Features in Common

34

Unique features

  • Compliance Management

  • Mobile Card Reader

  • Data Import/Export

  • Returns Tracking

Functionality

4.5

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1.2K

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Total Features

28

Features in Common

14

Unique features

  • Survey/Poll Management

  • Membership Management

  • Loyalty Cards

  • Referral Tracking

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Yvonne C.

Retail, 51-200 employees

Used daily for 6-12 months

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  • Likelihood to recommend7/10

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A few glitches

Reviewed 3 years ago

Inventory will be easier in future. Tracking daily sales and product sales is easier.

Pros

It is easy for the staff to use when doing cash in the store. Taking inventory is easy. It looks good - and is easily understood.

Cons

There are some small problems in reporting which need further work. A manual to go with the product would be useful. It doesn't link easily with Moneris credit card system with the Bank of Montreal.

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Iqbal K.

Food & Beverages, 1-10 employees

Used daily for 2+ years

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Bad customer experience

Reviewed 10 months ago

In the last 6 months Eposnow customer service has been terrible. The company does not know the first thing about contracts and keeping data safe. Never give them your credit card details or bank details. No respect for any agreements you have. I would never recommend Eposnow to anyone. Avoid doing any business with Eposnow.

Pros

Software is ok nothing special. I have used better software with higher level accuracy and data.

Cons

Difficult to set up promotions and biggest problem is not the software but constantly trying to add additional charges unlawfully. Avoid Eposnow

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Michelle O.

Retail,

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  • Likelihood to recommend9/10

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Good experience with Epos Now

Reviewed 7 years ago
Pros

Great looking product, beautiful interface. Back office component is easy to navigate and robust. Easy to find all of the reports and data I need. A component in the back office allows you to suggest improvements to the software. We are a resale shop and this software fit my needs of being able to assign store credit to my customers.

Cons

There are a few UI areas that could use improvement but nothing too critical. Getting a hold of customer support can be tricky, I believe they are based in the UK with support in the East Coast. I'm on the West Coast so occasionally I've had to play a bit of phone tag before getting a live person. Because I do own a resale/consignment shop, I'm adding a lot of various products to my stock list...

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Wayne, D.

Food & Beverages, 1-10 employees

Used daily for 6-12 months

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Total Lack of Support

Reviewed 7 months ago

We have had a case (#01116095) open since 1 Jul/22. I have made numerous follow up call and have been promised countless return calls. In over 2 months I have yet to receive a single call or given feedback or a status report on our problem. I have been told my issue has been forwarded up the Management chain and I have filled a formal complaint but again no action. They won’t give you the contact info of Management, but just more BS. Our business # is 0377022435, and look forward to hearing from anyone.

Pros

Not much, software support is non existent.

Cons

Crashes, locks up terminal, missing functions.

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Michelle G.

Retail, 1-10 employees

Used daily for 1-2 years

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Terrible customer service

Reviewed 5 years ago
Pros

The system is easy to use. I would love to have continued to use it....if they stood by what that tell you when you are purchasing the product and provide customer support, as they indicated.

Cons

Do yourself a favor....DO NOT PURCHASE AN EPOS SYSTEM. They DO NOT stand by what they tell you, when you are purchasing their equipment. Their support after one year is HORIBLE. If you refuse to buy their customer support plan, they tell you that they provide email support, which is a lie. They told me desktops have a 3 yr warranty on all equipment. Now, they are saying it only had a 1 yr warranty...

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Nicola F.

Restaurants, 1-10 employees

Used daily for 2+ years

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  • Likelihood to recommend10/10

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I've been using EposNow for 2 years, I would greatly recommend!

Reviewed 5 years ago

I literally do not know what I would do without EposNow, I would recommend them to anyone and have done in the past! We had a problem with our cashdrawer and it was replaced the following day. I've recently got very involved with going deeper into stock levels and master products and am very impressed with everything I can do!

Pros

Insights into sales, stock, customer loyalty all on dashboard and easy to read. There is so much I can do in the back office, I'm still learning new things 2 years on and am still very impressed with what I am able to do! Support are brilliant, always very friendly and helpful. There is a feature vote where you can submit any suggestions for the system and users vote on features they would like to see. The apps that integrate are very useful and there is something for everything you could think of! I can access the back office from anywhere, I love this, it means I can work from home and keep up to date with sales.

Cons

Support do take a while to answer your call, although I have only noticed this recently. Their stationary (till rolls etc can seem a little pricey) but you aren't bound to buy from them.

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Bronwyn v.

Retail, 1-10 employees

Used daily for less than 6 months

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Avoid at all costs!

Reviewed 2 years ago

From what I was told this was a great system however in reality it could do only a small percentage of things on my list - such as remote access, custom templates and access to packing slips etc from another location. Then the costs started adding up... there was an additional $25 charged each month for who knows what (I was told support - but that was a joke), another $50 a month just to connect...

Pros

Seemed at first glance to be value for money, great support and was told would do everything on my list.

Cons

Things we were told it could do we were unable to find, would on occasion log me out and not allow myself or anybody else back in thereafter.

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Jess P.

Wholesale, 1-10 employees

Used daily for less than 6 months

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The most horrible customer service I had experience

Reviewed a year ago

The experience is bad bad. We paid system to help and to make our live easier but in this case is not, we are losing money too. Take so much longer to get things fix within epos. I still can't believe how people rate this system 4.0 star. I think they only deserve 2 at best because of: - customer service experience (When you call them, the staff also need to read the same documentation as you so you...

Pros

Nothing. It's hard to like the product when the staff of the support team doesn't know what they are doing.

Cons

Customer Support is horrible! I think the word horrible is under statement. It's beyond horrible. It's so hard to get them, they never call back when they said they would.

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Accounting, 11-50 employees

Used daily for 6-12 months

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  • Likelihood to recommend2/10

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Poor Inventory Management System

Reviewed 4 years ago

Not so simple to implement, the Quickbooks connect apps does un-acceptable updates. So we have to reverse the process and disconnect.

Pros

Technical support staff is great. They are alway happy to helop and solve your problems with the implementation.

Cons

Inventory Mangement and costing system. It does not support different methods of costing in compliance with GAAP (FIFO , average.. ect. ) what it does is -it cost your inventory base on your latest cost input. Can't do average or compute for cost like we use to do in every purchase where we need to add unit price plus shipping and other incidental costs. It takes the PO unit price.

Vendor response

Hello. Thank you for taking the time to leave us feedback, I'm sorry to hear that you would not recommend Eposnow and have experienced problems. It's difficult to provide accurate responses without knowing further information, however regarding issues such as app updating unfortunately this is out of our control as these are third party apps. If you would like to further discuss the issues you have faced please do contact us. Kind regards James

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Andrew B.

Recreational Facilities and Services, 11-50 employees

Used daily for 2+ years

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Not Impressed

Reviewed a year ago

I now use a different software. That says it all.

Pros

Reporting was okay and not too difficult to use

Cons

The support that this company offers in North America might be the worst I have experienced interacting with any company. If you are fortunate enough to get through to the UK it is usually okay. If you end up talking to the US support you will get nothing but a headache and waste several hours of your life.

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Miguel C.

Retail, 51-200 employees

Used daily for 2+ years

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Not meant for middle to large businesses

Reviewed a year ago

I am the shipping and receiving manager for my company. A few of my daily tasks is to post and receive 200+ invoices weekly. Inventory management, market retail adjustments, sales reports, purchase orders, etc. It'd a very busy job. When we first got this EPOS NOW system we started having issues and they informed us the application at the time was unstable and so they switched us over to a web browser...

Pros

Easy to navigate menu. Seems pretty straight forward.

Cons

The constant "hang". Unable to connect. They keep adding features to the system without fixing the instability of current features and service connection.

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Catherine J.

Retail, 1-10 employees

Used daily for 6-12 months

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  • Likelihood to recommend10/10

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Modifiable POS System that is easy to use, quick update availability, and economically friendly

Reviewed 6 years ago

When researching POS systems, I ran across a plethora of them out there. I set up online displays where I could interact with different systems. The problem I encountered is that we are a hardware, tool, and lumberyard retail store. With this means thousands upon thousands of products, skus, and etc. In addition, lumber prices fluctuate weekly. As a result, we have to have the capability of easily...

Pros

What I like most about the product is the simplistic layout, the fact that the system is economical, the ease of learning the system, the quick access to help when it is needed. If your POS system fails, you have to have access to help and Epos Now is there when you need it-you don’t have to wait days to hear back. Another feature that I love is the tracking and reports. I love that I can track what customers order and be able to send emails when customers make payments on their credit accounts is phenomenal. Our customers love this feature.

Cons

I wish the measurement was in standard measurements instead of metric. For example, we sell nails and screws by the pound, but in the system we don't have the option to choose pound, but it isn't the end of the world instead we set it up as l (liter) but when you establish the cost it doesn't matter if it is showing as l or lb because you set it up as cost per 1 unit-whatever unit you choose to use. This is the same issue with measurement instead of foot, there is a meter, but it is still manageable without the standard measurement. The only option currently with Epos Now is metric, but it is my understanding that standard measurement is coming soon.

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Sam C.

Retail, 1-10 employees

Used daily for 2+ years

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Be careful when you choose an epos system

Reviewed 2 months ago

Terrible.

Pros

The equipment looks modern and smart, the software was ook, easy read and accessible.

Cons

Payment! You cannot control it. Despite closing the account, you still get billed.There is no debit order you can control, they cleverly use the same account ordering Transport for London use, they have access and take money from your account as they please and all you can do is close your whole account and block it against normal merchant use. Bank fraud departments take too long to investigate and don't stop the impending fraud in time. This is a terrible extortion. BE VERY CAREFUL, DO NOT GIVE YOUR BUSINESS CARD AND ACCOUNT DETAILS TO EPOSNOW.Every email you receive from EPOSNOW is DO NOT REPLY! They don't make it easy to get hold of them.

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Hospitality, 11-50 employees

Used daily for 1-2 years

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If in Australia and in hospitality - do not buy this system

Reviewed 2 years ago

Although the Australian Eposnow team try to help and are friendly, they are inexperienced and short staffed. It seems they are working business hours of 9-5pm on Queensland time, which does not suit Australian hospitality where the time zones are different for at least 6 months of the year; and businesses are open 6am until 9pm.

Pros

Ease of implementation Inexpensive Reporting Apparent integration to existing banking systems

Cons

The support is only in QLD business hours. The integration with banking systems is not with Australian banks only Tyro. This software is only for retail businesses, and would be good; is not for hospitality venues - receipts are restrictive and are not set out for hospitality and the kitchen dockets are complicated and difficult to read.

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Nicole M.

Retail, 1-10 employees

Used daily for 2+ years

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  • Likelihood to recommend2/10

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Unhappy retailer

Reviewed 4 years ago

If it were easy to switch services, I would in a heartbeat. But I'm hopeful with time, they will listen to feedback and improve the product.

Pros

The back office is fairly easy to navigate for basic needs

Cons

The help/tutorial aspect of this software is greatly lacking. There are a lot of features to utilize but it's near impossible to get proper training on using them. Which leads me to my next con - The support team is incredibly unreliable. IF you are lucky and get a good support rep, your issues may be resolved quickly. However that is a rare occurrence. I typically have to call back a few times to...

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Denise Z.

Retail, 1-10 employees

Used daily for 1-2 years

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  • Likelihood to recommend9/10

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Works for our store!

Reviewed 3 years ago

Overall, the flexibility and customization is the best feature and the reason we stay. In addition, Epos is always updating and improving! Very helpful customer service group!

Pros

Flexibility and customization of the software.

Cons

Integrations - We have a few integrations - Shopify, Mail Chimp (which was discontinued), Postal options, etc. The integration we're least pleased with is Shopify. Everything is an add on which makes it hard for small startups.

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Anna M.

Hospital & Health Care, 1-10 employees

Used daily for 1-2 years

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  • Likelihood to recommend10/10

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Amazing

Reviewed 3 years ago

Great customer support, very easy to use brilliant for accountancy and amazing software

Pros

To be honest is pretty much nothing I consult with this software it is absolutely amazing I love the statistics on it the graphs all the financial information that you can gain and the simplicity of it all the amount of information you can extract about your business is Colossal.

Cons

Only downfall was the free tanning app. Not in-depth enough to move with the speed of our company growth. Tanning App was extremely basic. I approached them on many occasions to try and develop it further but it was not possible. There was no tanning applications that were able to integrate with it either. So I had to look for alternative software. Such a shame I really didn’t want to move from Epos now.

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Zehra D.

Retail, 1-10 employees

Used daily for 6-12 months

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WORST SYSTEM AND CUSTOMER SERVICE

Reviewed 2 years ago

My overall experience is below 0 with this company, they cannot solve anything and puts even more challenges in front of their customers.

Pros

I made the decision to purchase this software because it looked user-friendly and the support team sounded great. It was also in top 10 for retail software in UK.

Cons

Since, the beginning I had many technical problems and problems with the support team. Once accidentally, they've deleted all my sales and product data during trading! After a while, I lost connection with the support team, waiting for a day or 2 for them to get back to me, screen freezes in front of the customers in the store and there's nobody to reach, the system doesn't sync, no solution there....

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Piyush S.

Consumer Goods, 1-10 employees

Used daily for 1-2 years

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By far the worst company I dealt with nomorals/ unethical selling

Reviewed 4 months ago

EPOS NOW is by no doubt the worst company I have ever dealt with Worse POS/ No support/ unethical selling/ hidden terms in contract/ hidden charges/ worst customer bombarding EPOS NOW unethically sold their P400 counter top terminal to me. I was rushed to make the payment for the proforma as the sales rep said the black.friday deal will be out if I don't sign up today. I never asked for Merchat services,...

Pros

I did not like anything in particular nothing special, same as any other POS service in terms of system.

Cons

No support Dishonest people who do not careToo slow

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Giulia C.

Computer Hardware, 1-10 employees

Used daily for 1-2 years

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Avoid this company!!!

Reviewed a year ago
Pros

None I don't have anything positive to day about my experience with epos Please read cons

Cons

I worked with epos now for over 12 months and they made me waste so much time and money. I been having issues integrating my shopify account with my epos account for over 12 months, stock level was incorrect and also the app wasnt syncing properly. I have been having the same issue for 12 months and spoke to over 20 different staff members but still the issue hasn't been solved till today. Every phone...

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Information Technology and Services, 1-10 employees

Used daily for less than 6 months

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Dreadful support of a non functioning system

Reviewed 2 years ago

Dreadful and extremely costly. Possibly the worst in over 30 years of working in Epos. As a consultant advising on Epos / Accounting selections for retailers of a single store through to significant multiple site/till configurations i could never recommend such a product confidently when it fails at its its most basic level. In very short space of time became apparent that the product did not meet its claimed functionality and was creating significant challenge for the client and a decision to halt the project at significant cost and resort to its former system.

Pros

Not Much to define it above anything else in a crowded marketplace of average solutions.

Cons

With over 30 years in the Epos industry, both supply and executive user, Brought in to effect the conversion and integration of accounting systems for existing Eposnow solution. On representation of links to Xero and with other systems integrated elsewhere to the platform in the business all attempts to link were painful. !st line support were unable to fix and any higher support was not accessible....

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Kevin M.

Construction, 1-10 employees

Used daily for 1-2 years

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Stay away

Reviewed 6 days ago
Pros

Software layout for the terminal is not terrible. This may work okay for some small retail businesses that do not have high volume and are running everything inside of ePOS Now with no integrations.

Cons

I normally don't go out of my way to write a review, but if I can spare one person from buying this, I feel it is worth the time. We were promised a lot of things for integration with Quickbooks Online. We soon found out that the integration was not as robust as they claimed. The monthly subscription to ePOS Now, itself, is not terribly expensive, but you soon learn that you need an add on connector program for everything. Then they want to add an additional $69/month for support. The next issue is getting out. Expect to pay a steep early termination fee. We tried hard to make this work and finally decided that we were better off to just pay the fees and bail. We are still fighting that battle and still getting monthly charges.

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Kevin B.

Retail, 1-10 employees

Used daily for 6-12 months

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  • Likelihood to recommend3/10

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Beware of what your told and what you get

Reviewed 4 years ago

not really happy. thinking of at least dumping support because i see no value. i paid for the system outright so just going to grin and bear it for now. If my industry continues beyond 2020 would probably switch to clover

Pros

Not hard to setup not hard to use The till is OK

Cons

this a United Kingdom based software. The reporting when exporting to excel use VAT taxes and you have to change headings because a lot of them don't make any sense when using an outside loyalty program platform the system is incredibly slow The system uses nearly all the storage available and I find myself constantly having to try to delete windows update failures, downloads, and other items . I...

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Hospitality, 11-50 employees

Used daily for 6-12 months

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Appalling Company - AVOID at all costs. 6 Months of Hell

Reviewed 9 months ago

Literal hell for 6 months. We couldn't wait to move to a new supplier who was actually competent. Research this company very carefully and ask to see their community forum before joining.

Pros

It's pretty. That's about it. Apart from looking nice the functionality is poor.

Cons

Everything. Sales reports are incorrect all the time, cash up was wrong on a daily basis (not due to human error). Support is practically non existant. Whatsapp support might reply in 3-4 weeks if you're lucky. Phone support aren't trained so can't help solve issues. Higher management try to blame your equipment rather than their system. Slow and Laggy, took over 5 minutes to log in some times and button presses wouldn't register half of the time. Just generally and awful system.

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Kevin R.

Food Production, 1-10 employees

Used daily for 1-2 years

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  • Likelihood to recommend9/10

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Almost there

Reviewed 3 years ago

It has been extremely useful to be able to access sales in real time from abroad. When I am working remotely I can still access the day's sales.

Pros

The ease of use of Epos Now is undeniable. They have made the software user-friendly and intuitive. Where it is not intuitive, customer support is standing by and responsive. I would recommend this particularly to new businesses to establish a POS system and track their business's success.

Cons

I had no problems with the software, however we operate under the Imperial system and the add-on that was available then (and to my knowledge until now) is in metrics only. This was a major problem for us and one we still deal with. Although the software was said on more than one occasion to be in development (and later told ready) I have yet to see it and customer service did not reach out to me when it was available. Some improvements are needed there in both developing software for the world market and in customer service follow-up.