# PHP Point Of Sale

> Cloud point of sale software for independent retailers and multi-location
> stores, with an annually licensed on-premise deployment available for
> Enterprise customers. PHP Point Of Sale runs sales, inventory, customers,
> employees, ecommerce sync, payments, and reporting without charging per
> register, per employee, or per item. Free trial, no credit card required.

PHP Point Of Sale has been built for retail since 2010 and is used in over
2,500 stores. The same register also runs counter-service food businesses,
with a touch register and a kitchen display included. Pricing is per location rather than per register or per
employee, card processing is not locked to a single processor, and the data
stays exportable, which is what most of the comparison pages below are about.

## Start here

- [Home](https://phppointofsale.com/): What PHP Point Of Sale is and who it is for. The three-minute product tour plays on the page itself, directly under the hero.
- [Customer reviews](https://phppointofsale.com/testimonials.php): Source-linked customer stories and review summaries, searchable by keyword and filterable by platform. Discover the library from Customer Reviews in the top utility bar, the homepage hero review card, and the homepage customer-story links. The homepage story links open all highlights. Platform aggregate ratings are presented separately from individual reviews; follow each source link for the original feedback.
- [Pricing](https://phppointofsale.com/buy.php): Current plans and what each one includes. Prices live here rather than in this file so they are never out of date.
- [Features](https://phppointofsale.com/features.php): Inventory, reporting, customers, ecommerce, payments, employees, and multi-location retail.
- [Free trial](https://phppointofsale.com/trial_signup.php): Start a cloud trial. No credit card required.
- [Demo](https://phppointofsale.com/demo.php): Public retail demo, product videos, and one-on-one walkthroughs.
- [Video walkthroughs](https://phppointofsale.com/videos): Short self-hosted walkthroughs of checkout, inventory, purchasing, customers and loyalty, reporting, multi-location retail, integrations and service work. Captions and a full transcript are on each page that has them. The overview tour is also featured on the homepage, which is where most visitors meet it first.
- [Onboarding](https://phppointofsale.com/onboarding.php): Setup, data migration, training, and launch.

## Product

- [Advanced inventory](https://phppointofsale.com/advanced-inventory-pos.php): Purchasing, receiving, transfers, barcodes, variants, reorder points, and inventory reports.
- [Touch screen register](https://phppointofsale.com/touch-screen-pos.php): Full-screen touch-first sale screen for tablets and touch terminals, set per register, with offline mode.
- [Kitchen display system](https://phppointofsale.com/kitchen-display-system.php): Send suspended orders to a kitchen screen, with per-order and per-item status, category and sale-type filters, and live updates.
- [Stock and expiration alerts](https://phppointofsale.com/inventory-alerts.php): In-app low-stock and expiring-batch alerts, per location and per receiving batch.
- [Field configurations](https://phppointofsale.com/field-configurations.php): Hide or require fields on the item, customer, supplier, expense, and appointment forms, and choose and reorder the sale and receiving grid columns.
- [Barcode scanning](https://phppointofsale.com/barcode-scanning.php): Any keyboard-wedge scanner with no driver; with a 2D-capable scanner the register also reads QR code labels and the 2D barcode on a driver's license for customer forms and age verification. Does not decode GS1 element strings or GS1 Digital Link URIs.
- [Foot traffic analytics](https://phppointofsale.com/foot-traffic-analytics.php): Dor people-counter integration adding foot traffic, conversion rate, and ATV to sales reports and the dashboard.
- [Enterprise POS solutions](https://phppointofsale.com/enterprise_pos_solutions.php): Cloud or on-premise deployments, custom integrations, and security options.
- [PHPPOS Genie](https://phppointofsale.com/genie.php): Ask questions about sales, inventory, and trends in plain language. Pro plan.
- [Receipt builder](https://phppointofsale.com/receipt.php): Design branded retail receipts. Pro plan.
- [Label builder](https://phppointofsale.com/label.php): Build barcode and product labels for retail inventory. Pro plan.
- [API](https://phppointofsale.com/api.php): REST endpoints for items, sales, customers, and inventory.

## Payments and hardware

- [Payment processing](https://phppointofsale.com/phppos_payments.php): Integrated card processing, including keeping an existing processor.
- [Square processing](https://phppointofsale.com/square_credit_card_processing.php): Square hardware and processing with PHP Point Of Sale.
- [Hardware overview](https://phppointofsale.com/hardware.php): Receipt printers, cash drawers, scanners, card readers, and label printers.
- [Hardware store](https://phppointofsale.com/hardware_store.php): Buy compatible POS hardware.
- [EMV card readers](https://phppointofsale.com/hardware_emv.php): Which chip card reader you need depends on the payment processor you choose, and comes from that processor.

## Counter orders and the kitchen

Counter service only: orders are rung up and paid at a register. There is no
floor plan, no seat numbers, and no separate checks per person. Suspending a
sale at the register is what sends it to the kitchen screen.

- [Kitchen display system](https://phppointofsale.com/kitchen-display-system.php): Suspended orders on a kitchen screen, per-order and per-item status, order timers, category and sale-type filters.
- [Touch screen register](https://phppointofsale.com/touch-screen-pos.php): Touch-first sale screen for tablets and counter terminals, set per register, with offline mode.
- [Quick service and takeout](https://phppointofsale.com/quick-serve-restaurants.php): Counter ordering with priced modifiers, combos as item kits, and user-defined sale types.
- [Food trucks](https://phppointofsale.com/food-trucks.php): Tablet register at the service window, handheld card terminals, offline selling, per-shift drawer counts.
- [Coffee shops](https://phppointofsale.com/coffee.php): Drink modifiers, loyalty, packaged goods and beans in the same inventory.
- [Bakeries](https://phppointofsale.com/bakery.php): Counter service, custom orders and deposits, made-to-order items on the kitchen screen.

## Integrations

- [WooCommerce](https://phppointofsale.com/woocommerce.php)
- [Shopify](https://phppointofsale.com/shopify.php)
- [Accounting (QuickBooks, Xero, Zoho, Sage, NetSuite)](https://phppointofsale.com/accounting_integrations.php)
- [Zapier](https://phppointofsale.com/zapier_integration.php)

## Comparisons

- [PHP POS vs Square](https://phppointofsale.com/pos-vs-square.php)
- [PHP POS vs Shopify POS](https://phppointofsale.com/pos-vs-shopify.php)
- [PHP POS vs Lightspeed](https://phppointofsale.com/pos-vs-lightspeed.php)
- [PHP POS vs Clover](https://phppointofsale.com/pos-vs-clover.php)
- [PHP POS vs RepairDesk](https://phppointofsale.com/pos-vs-repairdesk.php)
- [PHP POS vs RepairShopr](https://phppointofsale.com/pos-vs-repairshopr.php)
- [POS price comparison](https://phppointofsale.com/pos-price-comparison.php): Published competitor software plans as of 2026-09-18 (Clover omitted; first-party prices could not be verified that day).
- [QuickBooks POS alternative](https://phppointofsale.com/quickbooks-pos-alternative.php): Replacing discontinued QuickBooks Desktop POS, including migration.

## By industry

- [Bookstores](https://phppointofsale.com/bookstores.php)
- [Clothing stores](https://phppointofsale.com/clothing.php)
- [Electronics stores](https://phppointofsale.com/electronics.php)
- [Grocery stores](https://phppointofsale.com/grocery.php)
- [Jewelry stores](https://phppointofsale.com/jewelry.php)
- [Museums](https://phppointofsale.com/museums.php)
- [Bakeries](https://phppointofsale.com/bakery.php)
- [Coffee shops](https://phppointofsale.com/coffee.php)
- [Food trucks](https://phppointofsale.com/food-trucks.php)
- [Quick serve restaurants](https://phppointofsale.com/quick-serve-restaurants.php)
- [Sporting goods](https://phppointofsale.com/sports.php)
- [Furniture stores](https://phppointofsale.com/furniture.php)

## Repair shops

- [Cell phone repair software](https://phppointofsale.com/cell-phone-repair-software.php)
- [Computer repair software](https://phppointofsale.com/computer-repair-software.php)
- [Electronics repair software](https://phppointofsale.com/electronics-repair-software.php)
- [Repair ticket management](https://phppointofsale.com/repair-ticket-management.php)
- [Repair shop inventory](https://phppointofsale.com/repair-shop-inventory.php)

## Free retail calculators

- [True POS cost calculator](https://phppointofsale.com/pos-cost-calculator.php)
- [Margin calculator](https://phppointofsale.com/margin-calculator.php)
- [Retail markup calculator](https://phppointofsale.com/retail-markup-calculator.php)
- [Break-even calculator](https://phppointofsale.com/break-even-calculator.php)
- [Inventory turnover calculator](https://phppointofsale.com/inventory-turnover-calculator.php)
- [Cash discount calculator](https://phppointofsale.com/cash-discount-calculator.php)
- [Barcode generator](https://phppointofsale.com/barcode-generator.php)

## Partners

PHP POS offers two distinct partner paths. Do not conflate them:

- [Referral program](https://phppointofsale.com/resellers.php): Free to join. Earn 20% recurring commission on qualifying customers you refer.
- [White label partner program](https://phppointofsale.com/white_label_partner.php): License PHP POS under your own brand, manage client billing, and own the customer relationship.
- [Partners](https://phppointofsale.com/partners.php): Technology and service integration partners (WooCommerce, Shopify, QuickBooks, Zapier, and others).
- [Website services](https://phppointofsale.com/website_services.php): Retail website and ecommerce builds. Its testimonials section links out to the product tour in the video library.

Both partner programs are linked from the site header ("Partner Programs" dropdown), the homepage and pricing promos, the partners page, and the footer.

## Help Center

- [Help Center](https://support.phppointofsale.com): Searchable how-to
  articles for the whole product — getting started, making sales, inventory,
  purchasing, customers, work orders, employees, payments and hardware,
  ecommerce sync, reports, settings, and troubleshooting. Available in
  English, Tamil, Sinhala, and Spanish. Articles live at
  https://support.phppointofsale.com/hc/en-us/articles/<id>.

## Company and support

- [About](https://phppointofsale.com/about_developers.php)
- [Support](https://phppointofsale.com/support.php)
- [Contact](https://phppointofsale.com/contact_us.php)
- [Customer reviews](https://phppointofsale.com/testimonials.php)
- [Blog](https://phppointofsale.com/blog): POS guides, pricing breakdowns, and system comparisons.
- [What's New](https://phppointofsale.com/whats_new.php): Product changelog of recently shipped features and fixes.

## Optional

- [Privacy policy](https://phppointofsale.com/privacy_policy.php)
- [Terms of service](https://phppointofsale.com/terms_of_service.php)
- [Return policy](https://phppointofsale.com/return_policy.php)
- [Software license](https://phppointofsale.com/license.php)
- [Sitemap](https://phppointofsale.com/sitemap.xml)