5 Best POS Systems for Small Businesses 2023

Our methodology

With so many POS systems now available on the market, we’ve spent months ranking and researching the options available to cut through the noise and create a definitive list of the top choices for SMEs.

The above choices are guaranteed to make your business transaction process efficient and customer-centric, thanks to our specific research categories chosen because of their importance to our readers.

To reach our results, we looked at five key categories, including pricing, help and support, business development, business management, and till features.

Pricing encompasses upfront costs as well as hidden fees and hardware charges. As inflation rises and overheads increase, we know many SMEs have had to reduce their technology budgets, which makes this research area more important than ever before.

New technology can be difficult for small business owners to get to grips with while also running a business. We analysed hundreds of online reviews to reach a conclusion on the help and support available, including the average speed of the customer response team, and the options available to ask for advice.

In terms of features, we separated these under till (checking stock and payment integrations) and business (managing staff and rotas). We looked at the amount of tools available on each payment tier to judge how generous these were.

Finally, we looked at business development as an area to conclude how well a platform could grow alongside the user. If, during a period of growth, the POS system is not able to cope, this could be disastrous and set the business back, ultimately affecting value for money.