EPOS

Business & Finance abbreviation · E-commerce & Retail

EPOS
Stands forElectronic point of sale
CategoriesBusiness & Finance

EPOS stands for Electronic point of sale, an e-commerce & retail abbreviation.

British and European term for a computerized checkout system that scans items, processes card payments, prints receipts and records sales and stock movements in real time.

Example: Every branch runs the same EPOS, so head office sees sales by the hour.

Usage notes

The "electronic" distinguished these systems from mechanical cash registers when they spread in the 1980s. In the US the same systems are simply called POS.

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