It bases such decisions on data collected with a point-of-sale system connected to every cash register.

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Square Register serves as a full point-of-sale system for businesses to accept payments, track inventory, and share menu and location information.

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Square Register serves as a free full point-of-sale system for businesses to accept payments, track inventory, and monitor daily reports, empowering them to make smart decisions for their business.

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That first computerized register, known as a point-of-sale, or POS, system, wasn't hooked into the Internet.

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Apparently not whoever was programming the point of sale system for K-Mart.

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Medical devices, ATM machines, point-of-sale registers, airplanes, televisions, automobiles, this is the operating system that is running in those devices.

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The mobile payment system allows the use of any smartphone or iPad as a point-of-sale terminal and is aimed at small businesses.

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Customers use Euronet's software and payment system to buy airtime on the phone itself, at ATMs, or at point-of-sale locations in places like grocery stores.

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