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PHP POS is a hybrid point of sale (POS) solution that helps small and startup retail businesses across various industries to manage their day to day business operations, interact with customers and process financial transactions. ...
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- Industry: Information Technology & Services
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Daily for 6-12 months
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Best Online POS (Point Of Sale System)
The best implementation of a POS system that make retail business easy to manage and profit from.
Pros
Inventory control and transfer is a wow factor and its implementation makes PHP Point of Sale adaptable for use in Pharmacy Retail and Wholesale.
Cons
lack of inbuilt deep invoice and receipt customization.
Reasons for Choosing PHP Point of Sale
Easy to use and easy licensing for retail and small businesses.Reasons for Switching to PHP Point of Sale
Easy inventory control and multi store management.Response from PHP Point Of Sale
Thank you so much!
- Industry: Retail
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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The Unicorn of POS'es
I'm an active PHPPointofSale user for 3+ years now and I can say with confidence that this by far is one of the best POS systems I've used. I waited this long to write a review to ensure that PHPPointofSale live up to my expectation, and it does! I've implemented it in all 3 of my businesses with 3 different segments and use cases. Prior to discovering PHPPointofSale, I was using Heartland and Square. When evaluating the right POS, I take into consideration of licensing, merchants, how often it is updated, whether can it be hosted locally, user interface, the flexibility of data input, customer support, being able to use any gift cards, loyalty program, hardware flexibility, and any additional fees. There is no perfect system for every business but PHPPointofSale is the best system that I've tried after looking at a handful of other systems including the big-name Quickbook, Clover, Toast, Revel, and NCR. The software is constantly innovating and improving. I don't see it slowing down. I thought it was too good to be true but I'm happy and glad that I've found the hidden gem that not too many people know about.
Pros
* Can be self-hosted using your own web hosting provider or locally (off-cloud), and pay a one-time fee if no update is required. They have a cloud-hosted version for a slightly higher price but you'll save on the web hosting fee.* 1 license is all that is required per location even if you have 50 computers running POS.* Total control (Advance User) - Aside from making batch changes by importing and exporting, I could write my own program or script and utilize their API for even faster updates.* If bugs are discovered, it will be fixed within hours to a few days instead of weeks or months.* They have a good collection of credit card processors that allow the end user can choose the cheaper rate among them.* Customer is extremely responsive. There are no hold music or keys to press.* System downtime is almost non-existent unless your internet has an issue.* Provide the customer with a Demo site to test prior to purchasing license. An added benefit is to use the platform to test before applying changes production system.* Gift cards aren't locked to the POS. Meaning you can buy any gift card from any provider and it will work. Certain POS locks the gift card to their own which makes it harder to transfer and costs more.* Hardware flexibility - can be used with iPad, Android Tablet, or PC resulting better redundancy for your business.* Software flexibility - While developing takes time, the software allows for detours instead of dead ends.
Cons
* Offline mode could use some improvements. Users cannot look up items without barcodes nor credit cards can be saved for processing when back online.* Customer-facing display could be better integrated instead of relying on a separate tablet.* Cash drawers can't be opened without wasting a bit of receipt paper. Cash transactions required manual clicking to open.* Closing register report could be improved with more concise details.
Reasons for Choosing PHP Point of Sale
The Heartland interface seemed outdated and is slow to update or fix any buggy issues. As far as I can remember, they don't take feedback or request improvements directly from users but rather through a 3rd party reseller. Fees are high and you're stuck with their credit card processor.As for Square, every new feature is an add-on subscription and they have their own eco-system. As an example, if the Square stand malfunctions, it will be $800 for a replacement. Fees from Square aren't cheap either and it's not suited for retail or large inventory businesses. What you see is what you get. There is no flexibility with their system.Reasons for Switching to PHP Point of Sale
When evaluating the right POS, I take into consideration of licensing, merchants, how often it is updated, whether can it be hosted locally, user interface, the flexibility of data input, customer support, being able to use any gift cards, loyalty program, hardware flexibility, and any additional fees.Response from PHP Point Of Sale
Thank you so much!
- Industry: Retail
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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Ricks Picks Review
Chris is great to work with! Without chris I could not deal with this Service. His help is valued
The best possible value for what you get - thats for sure
I see this cloud service in this infancy. It needs a lot of upgrades.
My biggest issue is that it is not a system designed for a fast pace retail store - with a line of customers.
What I do like is that ti is very easy to edit sales and fix them after the fact
The reporting got better but stilll needs work
The Layaway/special order function works but not perfect.
The way the financial numbers are handled needs to get updated a bit. For example - if you do not put a cost in for an item immediately then statr selling the items, the system does not look back in history to calcukate the true profit, it assumes it was zero until the cost was put in, sometimes you have to sell something before you know what the cost is...
Pros
I already wrote it before
Cons
Already wrote it
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- Industry: Medical Practice
- Company size: 51–200 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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PHP point of Sale review in Dermatology Practice with multiple locations.
The customer service response is impeccable.
[SENSITIVE CONTENT] is a "straight shooter" and replies to all my techy questions and needs promptly. Even though in some instances there is no optimal resolution he always has a reply and suggestion.
Pros
Cloud platform, so as long as you have an internet connection you are good to go. The price is the lowest I've seen, you pay a yearly subscription per store/location not per user.
Cons
As mentioned before I would like to see more versatility with the sales reports. Interactive drop down reposts with customizable columns with options to export to PDF, csv, xls, HTML, XML.
- Industry: Retail
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Daily for 1-5 months
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I don't know how we dit it without PHP Point of Sale
As a small business owner of a dog store and groomer, a web shop and store took up so much of my time. Especially the syncing of the products in the shop and the store, because sometimes I would forget to do that, so people would buy a product online that was sold out in the store.
After many comparisons I chose PHP Point of Sale and from day 1 that it was up and running I felt a lot calmer.
Pros
There is little not to like about this product. It is easy to set up. Has a ton of features, not even all of which we use. And offers so much more compared to other POS systems, truly value for money.
What I especially love is the fact that I don't have to spend extra time on inventory and synchronization between store and web shop. And what I also love is that every new product I create in PHP POS is immediately available in the webshop.
The possibilities are great, the support is great and fast and the program is very easy to use even for people who have never worked with a POS system before.
Cons
Our only problem was with syncing the products. I wasn't aware that all the products were re-entering my webshop, so suddenly there were a lot of duplicates and I had to spend some extra time on them. But that could also have been a stupid mistake on my part.
Reasons for Switching to PHP Point of Sale
I have installed and tried a few other options before finding this hidden gem. From the moment I installed the trial version, my hands started itching to get started with it. The extensive settings, options and support are just fantastic. With others I would have spent double for all these options.- Industry: Retail
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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A lot of value for the price
We used a fairly old, desktop-based POS for years. When web-based POS's started coming out, it seemed that they offered some significant advantages - though our first try with one (Hike POS) was an utter failure, based on what was promised with it. PHP POS worked great right from the start. The features they promoted all worked great - in fact, the biggest challenge was in determining how to utilize it's full potential. We've used both the downloaded and hosted version of it, which are virtually identical. We've used it on Windows pc's, ipads, and android devices. As mentioned, they offer exceptional support, including a robust feature request/implementation feature. They don't seem to pursue the same level of marketing as other POS systems, which I'm guessing would account for why they charge only about half the price of similar setups. We're all extremely happy with it.
Pros
There are an incredible number of ways to customize the software, and the range of capabilities is equal to POS software that's far more expensive. On top of that, there's support that surpasses pretty much any other software I've ever used.
Cons
I'd kind of like to see certain reports that aren't readily available, but that's an awfully minor issue.
Reasons for Choosing PHP Point of Sale
They promoted "seamless integration" with financial software, which never ended up working. There were features that were apparently little used - so flaws that had been overlooked. Reports were inconsistent in accuracy. Support was available, but only with staff that had only a general knowledge of operation - issues had to be thoroughly documented and repeatedly brought up for anything to get to tech-level staff. We had to abandon it about half-way through a one-year subscriptionsReasons for Switching to PHP Point of Sale
I wanted one that could be used on a pc as well as ipad, one that had specific functions (e.g., inventory control), and one that was reasonably priced. Square and Shopify have certain advantages in that they also offer e-commerce, but they price one or the other (POS or e-commerce site) unreasonably - at least for us. PHP POS was by far the most feature-rich for the price.- Industry: Retail
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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All over a great, easy to use, no fuss POS
Pros
Easy to use. Hardly ever any technical problems occurred during my 4 years of using it.
Cons
If you want to use credit card machine that will automatically “connected” to the POS (the final amount charged to buyer will automatically appear on CC machine) you can only choose from a few providers.
Reasons for Switching to PHP Point of Sale
Better price. Easy to use. No fuss features. It’s not an overkill; it serves my needs.- Industry: Food & Beverages
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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We loved it until we developed our own
Great. We loved the easy to use, easy to deploy and syncing features. It syncs to your woocommerce store.
Pros
It is easy to use. It is easy to understand for people who are not used to POS systems. We were able to train new employees on how to use it very quickly. The fact that you can connect several stores online was great.
Cons
Out of nowhere the team behind it decided to make it close source and forcing you to switch to their online SAS option. That didn't work well for us since we have poor internet connection in some of our stores. Therefore we had to develop our own software. The team behind PHP point of sale have since retracted their efforts to make it close source, but it was too late for us; we moved on.
Reasons for Switching to PHP Point of Sale
Opensource nature. It's syncing capabilities.Response from PHP Point Of Sale
Hi,
Thank you for the review. You are correct that we removed download version and brought it back. We still recommend cloud for most people now that we have offline mode.
We are sorry to lose you as a customer but we still have download and offline mode
- Industry: Computer Software
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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PHP Point of Sale - Review
Great 👍 Service! Excellent customer Support Service. Always providing Solutions when needed! Highly recommended!
Pros
Ease of use.
Excellent customer service
Simple deployment
Cons
Restaurant Table management features not integrated yet!
Response from PHP Point Of Sale
Thanks so much!
- Industry: Architecture & Planning
- Company size: 201–500 Employees
- Used Daily for 1-5 months
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A complete solution for a point of sale: being a helper of a PHP programmer for Point of Sale...
As an architecture student intern at a construction company, although I was initially overwhelmed by web development, PHP Point of Sale's intuitive interface allowed me to learn quickly and perform tasks efficiently, yet I didn't take care of the rest of the development. . In addition, the rest of the team was able to generate invoices, manage customer orders and track inventory without problems, among that and more features. Although my main focus remains architecture, PHP Point of Sale has provided me with valuable experience in back office management and contributed to my professional growth.
Pros
From the little experience I had with PHP Point of Sale, it has been extremely positive despite the fact that it is not something in my area of study, and what I liked the most was its ability to manage inventories and generate detailed reports for the operational efficiency of the area. programming of the construction company and its incredible flexibility of the system has allowed us to customize it according to our specific needs, adapting it to the price structure and discounts of our company.
Cons
Although I was generally satisfied with PHP Point of Sale, I found some aspects that could be improved as the integration with other systems and tools was a bit complicated and requires additional technical knowledge.
- Industry: Retail
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Daily for 1-5 months
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Supreme Point of Sale
I'm picky when it come to my Point of Sale. This PHP POS is a work of art. It has all the features I wanted plus tons more. Best part, I can turn off the ones I don't need and turn them back on later when I do. Also, the support team is remarkable! They are very quick with their response and answered every inquiry, even the small questions. Overall, great product with a great team behind it. Keep up the great work!
Pros
Best part, I can turn off the ones I don't need and turn them back on later when I do.
Cons
It has tons of features. Some I didn't need... but I can turn off the ones I don't need, so that's not a problem.
Response from PHP Point Of Sale
Thank you so much!
- Industry: Hospital & Health Care
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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Excellent php browser based pos
It is serving the purpose as a point of sale for our pharmacy quite well and it has been a pleasant experience using it.
Pros
PHP Point of Sale is a secure browser based POS that has a s. I like the price management with is various options and inventory management that make it easy to do inventory counts from a decentralized aspect on the store floor instead of one office based location.
Cons
Nothing comes to mind that was not to like. There is room for improvement in the user interface of the android app but not really something I need.
- Industry: Retail
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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The most easy POS system for SMB-businesses
Pros
What I like the most in PHP POS is the easiness usage. The UI is super intuitive, an optimized for touch screens. Also the deployment is really straight forward.
Cons
The expenses module is not usefull. Can´t get when I would use it.
- Industry: Religious Institutions
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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Business Automation
The previous management system was coded by me in dBASE 4.0 which is desktop based. There was no remote access to the database.
In my search to migrate to another platform; my requirements are;
1. Cloud based, remote access via the internet
2. Opensource where I can access the database directly.
3. Easy to customise
I tried and tested many scripts and finally discovered OSPOS and a paid version PHPPOS in 2015. So happy when I discovered the script meets 80% of our needs. I run this against our system for a year before migrating 100% on PHPPOS.
Pros
It is written in PHP with MySql as its database. The core code fits 80% of our business demands. Cloud based allows remote access. With a direct access to the database, I am able to create scripts & reports that help to cover the 20% of our needs.
Cons
1. We need more custom fields in the Expenses module where we can upload pdf, jpg files.
2. The warehouse inventory module is missing. I had to write additional scripts to fill in the missing gap.
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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Reliability and Awesome User Interface
This software allows to control and manage an entire retail store, it's cloud based so you can access it anywhere with internet. It comes with different functionalities you can control the access to employees, cash, receivings, expenditures, create your own bar codes and it has different type of reports to see the behavior of your business. It's super intuitive so that reduces by a lot the time to train the people in charge of it
Pros
Beautiful User Interface and Responsive to be used in tablets, cell phones, pc's
Lots of functionalities through different modules
Lots of Reports to suit different needs
Cons
Needs Improvement to cater service companies like restaurants
Doesn't have the option to be linked with scales
- Industry: Consumer Electronics
- Company size: Self Employed
- Used Daily for 6-12 months
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PHPPOS Saves Time and Money
Experience has been great, I have saved a lot of time and money for the business in using this software.
Pros
The ease of use, the great customer support. The software works without all the bloat and high prices
Cons
Haven't found anything I don't like yet, few things I don't use but not in the way
- Industry: Food & Beverages
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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Great piece of POS software!
We have used this software since Day 1 of our company InfinityMeals. I'm a PHP techy but my associates who are not so IT inclined were also able to use it easily.
We use it in our restaurant to punch in orders and track our inventory and generates sales reports for analysis of products purchased.
We wish there are extra features like further customization to the receipt to reduce the length of receipt printed. Printing out a kitchen copy. Store a sale, associate it to a table number to be retrieved later for final payment.
Another huge feature would be to calculate the sales for the date and equate it to the amount of raw ingredients that has been used for proper inventory. Wishful thinking.
Another feature would be to customize an order like. Order combo 1 with a sandwich and a salad with a particular drink and it would automatically list it on the receipt and the deduct it from the inventory.
Other features for centralized server.
Having a central server that retrieves sales information from multiple branches and consolidates it into once server.
Having an offline mode then reconcile the sales to the central server for general reporting.
An API so we can develop our own interfaces and use premade functions in PHPPOS
Once those features are incorporated then I would totally pay for the extra features and mark it a straight 5/5.
Thank you so much for the software and looking forward to grow with it as much as possible.
Pros
Simplicity
Ease of use
Great User Interface
Straight forward functionality
Cons
Rapid updates. :)
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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It does all I need to run my store. Great value for a very good price
Ease of use and access on any platform...
Pros
I like this software because it is a web-based software and I can use it on any device I have at hand at anytime.
Cons
The only con I have is that it doesn't work with my merchant provider "Square". I have to go outside of this software to process payments. I used another merchant that was supported by PHP POS but I couldn't use them anymore because most of my transactions are over the phone.
- Industry: Retail
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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After 3 years this POS software still makes my life so much easier.
I started with PHPPOS about 3 years ago when I opened an art supply store. With thousands of sku's to track I needed an easy platform to use. I found PHPPOS online and gave it a try. It is incredibly easy to use both in function and design. I haven't needed help often but when I have the support has been lightspeed fast. I chose to download and use the software on a local server as I do not want to be at the whim of my internet connection. The cost of upgrading to a newer version is so small that it is worth it. The latest version has so much more that you can do with stats. which I am really getting a lot out of. There could always be more but I am super happy with how much value and ease this has brought to my business.
Willow Friday
Iron Oxide Art Supplies
Nanaimo Canada
www.ironoxideartsupplies.com
Pros
It is easy to use, reliable, aesthetic and intuitive.
Cons
There are a few things that could allow me to be more efficient when using it for example, if I could choose what line the screen landed on after adding a product. Or if I could choose which lines were mandatory or not to fill out when adding products.
- Industry: Health, Wellness & Fitness
- Company size: 1,001–5,000 Employees
- Used Daily for 6-12 months
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The all inclusive POS you'll ever need.
Very affordable for a small business like the one I am currently managing. Varying capabilities for different users and the simple layout makes it very easy to learn (Very intuitive). We learned that it was a single location license and needed to purchase a second one.
Pros
Multiple location POS functionality, intuitive, and powerful!!
Great customer service, easy to install and very functional.
Simple and efficient inventory managing. Two options for the POS; Download or cloud-based (Prices vary)
You do get a 14 -day free-trial which we took advantage of a few months ago and signed up for the annual. Compatible with Square for Credit card processing.
Cons
Not compatible with items that need to be weighed/ Scale systems.
- Industry: Wholesale
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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Works amazing, Easy and convenient
Pros
I like the responsiveness of the product and the flexibility, from small to mid-size businesses, suitable for all retail industry.
Cons
I don't think there is a least likely for this software, works perfect for me.
- Industry: Retail
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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Hard to beat PHPPOS
Trying to convey away from the traditional Point of Sale system, we decided to test PHP Point of Sale. We were very impressed from the moment we started using it. Compared to the many different software we tried, we found PHP POS to have the best user interface. It is perfectly laid out, making the workflow very easy to understand. We also found PHP POS to be the fastest most responsive out there. Carrying out transfers and sales was very easy and logically delivered in the system. PHP POS also gave us the necessary reports for our staff. One of the things we liked the most about PHP POS was the ability to have it installed on our servers. None of the web-based software we tried allowed us to do that. When it came to customer support, PHP POS would answer our questions in a matter of minutes. The developers are also always on top of customers recommendations as we posted a few requests and they were added in the subsequent version. The only thing that PHP POS fell short for us was in its ability to add GL accounts to complement with a Financial software. Other than that, PHP POS is the best one out there. It can quite well adapt to many different applications in the retail industry.
Pros
Everything. It is very well built software.
Cons
It does not have the ability to add GL accounts
- Industry: Retail
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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Excellent Customer Service
We use the software for costing and inventory management since we are an online shop. While changing hardware, I couldn't figure out how to bring over the data. The customer service I received was unbelievably great going above and beyond.
Using the software is fairly straight forward. There are a couple of annoying bugs but the next version promises to fix that. Comparing the value for the price, this is a good buy.
I recommend this product.
Pros
Ease of use. Customer service.
Cons
Days to expiry: Having to manually count the number of days leading to the expiry date. I would like to be able to enter the expiry date stated on products and have the software calculate the number of days so that we can run a report listing products expiring in x days.
Kits: When creating a kit, the individual product cost appear, but afterwards when looking at a kit, the product costs are hidden making modifying a kit time consuming.
- Industry: Consumer Goods
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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Easy to use
It has helped us track all sales transactions, maintain inventory records and generate reports easily and quickly.
Pros
This is one of the most simple softwares for small organizations. The customer support team is so friendly and quick. it is also very affordable and effective .
Cons
No major problem so far. it just simple and straightforward but majorly useful for start up businesses.
- Industry: Information Technology & Services
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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A Happy user of 4 Years of using PHP Point Of Sales
Start using PHP Point Of Sales in my on computer repairs business, been a happy user for most of the time due to the software functionality, stable and easy to use. Also it is on the affordable pricing; as a small business , software pricing is very important. Along these year had been introduce PHPPOS to client, they purchased it and we deploy it for them. Can see PHPPOS is growing into a mature software, our repair business had been grow together with different version of PHPPOS although we are not actively in the forum.
Pros
simple, easy; straight to the point. that is the beauty for a small business usage no fancy not necessary function
Cons
no function of click/drag an item into to create a bundle and just display a final price instead of pre-create a package first then start sell it.
Quotation/ Estimate never show as Quotation, it still show as Sales Receipt
