POSWizard

Don’t trust the web when selecting your Point Of Sale! You might already have found out that it is very difficult to obtain objective details about POS systems, since the high rankings in the search engines are filled by spamvertised ‘blogs’.

Today I found out that ‘normal’ looking site cannot be trusted either. I came across a site made to help customers in selecting POS softawre. It was a good-looking site, with reviews of several applications. Since our own product can always use a little bit of exposure, I sent a message to the site owner, telling him that if he wanted he could receive a demo copy of our software for review. This was his answer:

You can submit a sealed bid along with your own review for the month of July. The highest bidder gets the highest rating.

And such a site claims to help the customer?! Do not trust the web, find a good POS specialist instead!

When I started this site, I wrote that the POS market is interesting because it is different from the regular IT market. So what are those differences then? Isn’t a Point Of Sale simply a PC with a database and some software on it?

Seen from that point of view, the POS market is indeed just like any other market. But if you look more closely, there are differences.

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