Point of sale
Phlo POS is a point-of-sale platform for counters that have to keep selling: bars, kitchens, canteens, shops and chains. It runs on the machine you already own, and is built to be shaped around your counter instead of the other way round.
This is not a first version. Our tills have been ringing up sales since 2017, across 27 stores and 9 brands.
Counted from the receipt archive of that till line and converted at the rates those systems use themselves. Both figures are rounded down, and the line is older than the archive that holds them. We name no customers.
Your hardware
Windows, Linux, an Android tablet, an iPad, the industrial screen already bolted to your counter: the till runs on it. Nothing here is rented per device, and nothing stops working because a contract ended.
How that holds up →Our own system
Phlo POS has a till system of its own: a machine boots into the till and into nothing else, with no Windows install behind the bar to keep alive. We set it up, and a till whose disk has died keeps selling from a stick while the hardware is sorted out.
What it runs on →Built to be shaped
One shared engine behind every counter we run, so most of yours is already built and proven. A chain of 27 stores needed its loyalty scheme and its own reports; the rest was already there. And whatever gets built for one counter goes back into the engine, so the next one starts further along.
What that means for you →The difference between a bar and a shop is a setting, not a different product. Same booking path, same offline behaviour, same back office.
Curious what your own counter would take? An intake gets you a fixed scope and a fixed price, or an honest no.
The same engine, arranged for the way each of these actually works.
A busy bar has no time for a till that thinks.
See what it takes →The floor and the kitchen, working from the same order.
See what it takes →Volunteers behind the bar, and it still has to add up.
See what it takes →A queue does not wait for a network.
See what it takes →Many counters, several countries, one back office.
See what it takes →One catalogue, one stock, one administration.
See what it takes →A till is easy to make look good for ten minutes. These are the decisions that decide whether it is still trustworthy on a Saturday with a queue and a dead router.
A flag on the device only says a network exists. Phlo POS decides from the traffic itself: a request that went unanswered means offline, an answer means online. Nothing runs on a timer, and the till does not visibly switch modes.
Refusing is fine; failing silently is not. A button that needs a server carries its reason, because a tap that fires into nothing leaves a cashier with a screen that does nothing and explains nothing.
A receipt line carries its title, price and tax frozen at the moment of sale. Change a price, rename a product, delete it entirely: last month's receipts still say what the customer actually paid.
Whatever the device worked out is provisional. The server recomputes every total when the sale is booked, from the catalogue and the tax rules, and a sale that arrives twice is booked once.
Ready to look at it properly?
Tell us how you sell today and what gets in the way. You get a fixed scope and a fixed price, or an honest no.
What an intake looks like
You hear back from the people who would build it, not from a sales desk.
Wondering what your counter needs?
Start an intake