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Point of Sale: Retail & Restaurant

How POS handles fast, in-person selling for both retail counters and restaurant tables.

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Point of Sale (POS) is built for fast, in-person selling — whether that's a retail counter or a restaurant table, on the same underlying system.

What POS does here

POS handles selling face-to-face, in real time. A retail shop ringing up items at a counter and a restaurant taking orders at a table are different workflows, but they run on the same system underneath.

Shifts

Before taking any sales, a cashier opens a shift with a starting cash amount — the float they're starting with. At the end of the shift, it's closed with a reconciliation: what should be in the till, checked against what was actually taken.

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A shift reconciliation showing the starting float against actual takings

Transactions

Ringing up a sale is straightforward: add the items, accept payment, and the transaction is done. Multiple payment methods are supported, and every sale produces a receipt — printed or emailed.

Restaurant-specific: tables & orders

In a restaurant, an order is assigned to a table. From there, it's sent to a kitchen display screen, so kitchen staff can see exactly what needs to be prepared.

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An order sent to a kitchen display screen

Restaurant-specific: splitting a bill

One table's order doesn't have to be paid as a single bill. It can be split into separately payable parts — for example, one per guest — so each person can pay for just their share.

Restaurant-specific: modifiers, tips, holding an order

Menu items can carry modifiers — priced options like size or extra toppings — added on top of the base price. An order can also carry a tip, kept separate from the bill total. And if a table isn't ready to pay yet, their order can be held or parked aside and recalled later without losing anything that's already been entered.

Where to go deeper

Every POS sale connects to the rest of VroduxERP automatically: stock for the items sold is deducted in Inventory, and the sale is reflected in Finance reporting.