What is POS System (Point of Sale)?
A POS system is the software and hardware a business uses at the billing counter: it records each sale, prints the bill, tracks stock, applies GST, and totals the day's collection. A modern restaurant POS also manages tables, fires KOTs to the kitchen, splits bills, applies discounts and shows reports — which dish sells most, which hour is busiest, who gave discounts.
In India POS options range from ₹5,000 one-time desktop billing software to cloud POS subscriptions around ₹5,000 to ₹15,000 per year, running on anything from a Windows PC to an Android tablet. The reports are the real value for owners who cannot sit at the counter all day: daily sales reach their phone automatically, and stock and cash mismatches surface immediately instead of at month end.