EPOS Glossary
- Cash Register
- A device which records sales with a secure cash drawer.
- Customer Display
- Customer-facing display showing product information such as price or a brief description of the product when scanned.
Also known as Line Display.
- E-Commerce
- Retailing goods and services over an electronic medium, usually the Internet.
- ECR
- Acronym standing for Electronic Cash Register
- EPOS
- Acronym standing for Electronic Point Of Sale.
- Line Display
- Customer-facing display showing product information such as price or a brief description of the product when scanned.
Also known as Customer Display.
- MSR
- Acronym standing for Magnetic Stripe Reader.
Used for reading magnetic stripes on credit, debit, loyalty and other cards.
- POS
- Acronym standing for Point Of Sale
- Self Checkout
- Automated point of sale system enabling customers to pay for goods without interacting with a cashier. Increasingly common in supermarkets such as Tesco and Asda.
- USB
- Acronym standing for Universal Serial Bus.
An interface allowing peripherals to be attached to computer systems. USB interfaces are typically phasing out old-style serial interfaces.
