What To Look For in Servers for POS Systems

5 Min Read By Steve Grady

Hospitality and retail companies face numerous hardware challenges in their highly competitive and ever-changing environments. They need highly-configurable and cost-effective point-of-sale (POS) systems that are secure and reliable.

In selecting the right server for their POS system, they should look for platforms with three key characteristics: consistency, long server life, and the ability to handle multiple needs simultaneously to drive down costs.

Server as POS Backbone A point-of-sale (POS) system means different things to different people – there is no one definitive POS configuration. Many technologies roll up into a typical solution, including networking, in-store Internet access, multi-function POS devices, customer kiosks, digital signage, hand held devices, as well as back office servers connected to a data center in cloud.

The back end server remains the backbone of the POS solution.

POS configurations and hardware tend to vary among three general application…