A complete retail point of sale system includes both back and front-end management tools.
In addition to completing sales and processing payments, your retail POS should include inventory management, purchase orders, stock transfer between locations, built-in reports, customer profiles, and special order and work order management.
While not all retail POS software are cloud-based, the majority of retailers are switching to cloud solutions to modernize their business and keep up with the increasingly demanding reality of entrepreneurship. Opting for a system on the cloud frees you to work from anywhere and is a much more convenient option for busy retailers that don't have time to maintain big, complex data servers.