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Should your Windows POS Software be on the Cloud or on your own PC?

The most objective answer on whether or not Windows POS Software on the cloud is OK for you: It depends on a few factors and also it depends on what kind of a person you are and your personality. Do you like to own or rent ? - It depends on whether you are the type of person that likes to Lease or Own their own car. It is well known that the math is against you leasing a car that you will never own, you just rent it, pay the most for this way of obtaining a vehicle, but millions of people still do this and prefer this method. Same with Windows POS Software. So If you are the type of person that is always drawn to leasing and not owning, the equivalent to that is your Point of Sale software being on the cloud, because you do not own a copy of the Windows POS software or a license to use the Point of Sale software on your PC forever (like the case is [...]

What’s the catch with a FREE POS Software System (that mostly banks offer)?

OK, a free POS System sounded very tempting to us at first glance as well. And since only banks were offering them at first, we knew it had something to do with forced lengthy contracts, at a "not so competitive rate", for credit card processing with a certain processor (not a processor of your choosing). And that deal doesn't sound too bad either, when you consider we are discussing a full POS system, meaning you get the POS Software and you also get the POS computer hardware. So all of that, all free of charge, you would think how bad can this credit card processing deal be, right ? But if you thought that it sounds too good to be true, then you guessed it, it is. We called a few of these companies offering this kind of a point of sale system for free and here's what we found out (the story repeated to the minutest detail for all of these companies). The POS Hardware Quality I. Yes, you get a free pos computer, [...]