Do you know what a pos machine is? Divided into which category?

POS (Point Of Sales) of the Chinese meaning "point of sale", known as the point of sale information management system, is equipped with a bar code or OCR code (Optical Character Recognition optical character code recognition) terminal reader, cash or barter credits. Cashier function. There are two kinds of wired and wireless or both wired and wireless.POS machine is connected with the settlement system of the advertising barter trading platform, and its main task is to provide data service and management function for the commodity and media trading, and non-cash settlement. It is difficult to obtain the basic business intelligence in the bulk transaction, and the introduction of POS system is mainly to solve the blind spot of information management in the retail industry. Is an important part of the chain store management information system.

I. Types of POS: Financial POS and non-financial POS

(1) Financial POS is mainly used in the UnionPay business system, commercial banks, credit unions around the world and other banking systems.

(2) Non-financial POS can be widely used in various sizes and types of membership, chain and franchise stores; catering and entertainment enterprises, automobile maintenance centers, cosmetics stores, tourist attractions and other fields.

Two, POS machine according to its use of membership card performance can be divided into:

1, brush the magnetic card POS machine. Magnetic card cost is low, easy to use, easy to manage,

2, brush contact IC card POS. Prolonged contact, easy to cause poor contact IC card, not easy to read data.

3, brush non-contact IC card POS machine. IC card and magnetic card is the difference between the data storage media, IC card storage capacity, high security and confidentiality, CPU card with data processing capabilities and long service life.

Three, according to its transmission mode can be divided into:

①Wireless GPRSPOS machine. Through the China Mobile SIM card inside the GPRS function running data, the advantages are: wireless operation, payment location form of freedom, small size;

② wired POS machine. Through the phone line or the Internet running data, the advantages are: lower cost than wireless POS;

Four, according to its model can be divided into:

① Handheld POS. Smaller, easy to move, can be quickly operated with a single key, do not have to remember and key in multiple numbers,

② desktop POS. The volume is larger than the handheld POS machine, the function is more complete than the handheld POS machine.