Right off the bat I’m going to admit this article will get very definitional. It’s important that we understand the difference between de jure and de facto. De jure is what the law says, whereas de facto is what society has adopted in reality. Let me give you an example: de jure law says jay walking is illegal. In de facto reality, everybody walks across the street when convenient. Got it?
Now: what is cloud point of sale (POS)?
Firstly please lets not confuse Cloud POS with any specific device or OS. Cloud POS should not be reliant on any particular device, it should be at home on an IPad running iOS but also then be able to transfer the sale to a standard Windows POS terminal seamlessly. This is what Cybertill has been doing for 15 years albeit in the general retail sector and yes we do run to a browser and yes the terminal still operates without a connection if there is a failure. What larger chains really like is true multi-channel integration, imagine a sale started on line and then collected from store utilizing the store inventory in real time, imagine easy updates and a single view of all customers and stock across all stores and channels again in real time. Oh and of course we have many retailers with not 10 or 20 stores but 50, 100 and even 600+ branches. Cloud POS is the future.
What happens if the browser window crashes?
The Browser is not a pre-requisite for Cloud POS. The App is a better approach for a such mission critical function.
Here I try to explain why http://akite.net/en/news/cloud-pos-app-vs-browser
Firstly please lets not confuse Cloud POS with any specific device or OS. Cloud POS should not be reliant on any particular device. Thanks for the information.
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