What is Cloud POS?
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The traditional point of sale systems often referred to as “legacy systems” and “on-premise” POS store data and conduct business on local servers, running on a closed, internal network.
For example, a restaurant running on POS system Australia would have terminals at server stations and host stands that are connected and wired up toa server on-site that is responsible for storing and transmitting data. An acloud-based point of sale system (also referred to as a web-based system software as a service, SaaS) is web-hosted and stores and transmits data on remote servers at large data centres AKA storage in the cloud.
To give you a real-world example, a legacy system is like storing all of your work documents on a desktop computer at your home, where they’re only accessible on that one and only device. Whereas using the cloud would be like storing your work documents in Gmail or Google (even Amazon) and having those documents accessible from anywhere and any device (with the use of a secure password, of course).
Compared to the traditional point of sale systems that retailers and restaurants have used for decades, cloud POS offers many benefits that help business owners work smarter.
