While my sister was in a hair salon one day last week, she had to wait for a while due to not making an appointment first. She has known the owner of the business for several years, so she usually can walk in and the owner fits her in without waiting a real long time. She noticed something different at the reception area, and a new employee that she had never seen before or met. She decided to walk over and meet her. While introducing herself and having conversation with her, she noticed a new computer, cash register and more sitting on a new desk the salon recently bought. She asked why the upgrade was needed. They explained that it was one of the POS systems that is a real time saver in many ways and actually allowed them to reduce the number on staff. It helps them making appointments, has a feature to print out receipts, instead of buying and writing out receipts, and much more. I started looking at system they purchased as she was showing me all that it did. She said there are several different POS systems on the market today which also comes with the software for the systems to make it easier to get started using it.