Why is the supermarket cash register and restaurant cash register software not interoperable?

With the rapid development of the commercial field, the demand for commercial POS cash registers has gradually increased, such as POS cash registers for supermarkets (referred to as supermarket cash registers), POS cash registers for food and beverage stores, and POS cash registers for clothing stores. Machines, etc., each industry has a dedicated POS cash register, of which POS cash register software is also very important. So why are supermarket cash registers and restaurant cashier software not interoperable?

If it is from a simple cashier, it is indeed universal. However, in the long run, the industry-specific catering industry-specific cash register is more suitable for the catering industry. The professional supermarket cash register professional software is more suitable for use in the supermarket industry. The following small series gives you a brief analysis of the differences between the two cash registers:

Product setting
There are many products in the supermarket, and many barcodes are used to identify the products. There is not much setting on a single item.

There are few products in the catering industry, but there are many settings, such as a cup of milk tea, a cup, a small cup, and a big cup. You can also add coconut and add pearls. Divided, hot, cold, etc., some stores in order to promote their new tea shop, will choose the double-sided cash register of the touch screen, but the supermarket is not, because a lot of work every day, the touch screen will easily appear lock screen state.

Functionally speaking
The supermarket cash register is relatively simple in promotion, single, most of the promotion is controlled by people, and the functional management requires relatively mode.

For the food and beverage cash register, take the food and beverage cash register software as an example, and there are fewer fast food and beverage products. Therefore, the promotion is more diversified, such as buying five get one free, selling 50 yuan for 10 yuan, buying 10 yuan plus one yuan for a certain product. Setup control can be done through the system, and these are not possible with the supermarket cash register.

In terms of hardware configuration

The supermarket cash register is mostly button-type, and the hardware is equipped with a cash register, a small ticket machine, a scanner, and a UnionPay card machine.

The catering cash register is mostly a touch screen, there is a label machine, a small ticket machine, and if necessary, a kitchen printer is also required.

In terms of price

The price of the supermarket super cash register will be much cheaper, mostly hundreds. Higher three or four thousand yuan.

The food and beverage cash register will be subdivided into software and hardware. According to different configurations, the price is as low as four or five thousand, and the high is 20,000 yuan. In terms of appearance and color, the requirements of the restaurant will be higher than that of the supermarket cash register.