Pos Browser — bank compatibility

Pos Browser is a point-of-sale system for general retail, newsagencies, pharmacy retail and retail. The product name tells you nothing; the vendor is POS Solutions, who have been the newsagency system in Australia since 1983.

Tyro only. Tyro is its own middleware and its own acquirer, so this one comes with the bank attached — moving bank means a new integration.

Certified to do cash out. Tyro rates it a Plus partner.

Pos Browser is a POS Solutions Australia product. POS Solutions is a private software company founded in Australia in 1983 and based in Keysborough, Victoria, with Bernard Zimmermann as founder and around 50 staff as at 2007. Its range runs from entry-level tools up to multi-user enterprise systems, and it is described as the market leader in newsagencies — which is the real story here. Four decades in one vertical is unusual in this market and it is not an accident.

That heritage is the thing to weigh. Newsagency retail has requirements almost nothing else does: magazine returns and supplier claims, tobacco and lottery, a product file that changes every week, and margins thin enough that stock accuracy is the whole business. A system built for that over 40 years will do it better than a modern cloud POS, and will feel older while doing it.

Searching the product gets you nowhere, so if you are doing your own diligence, look up POS Solutions rather than Pos Browser. Worth confirming directly which of their systems Pos Browser corresponds to in their current range before you accept a quote written against the name.