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SHOPOS

A Budget-Friendly POS for Everyone

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SHOPOS is an offline-first POS ecosystem built for Windows, Linux, macOS, and Android that bridges the gap between small local merchants and shoppers. For small shops, kiosks, and pharmacies, it replaces expensive hardware, offering local barcode scanning, real-time profit tracking, and custom loyalty or bulk SMS tools [cite: 1]. It supports Cash, Till, Credit, and Hire Purchase. For shoppers, it allows local price comparisons and digital shopping list sharing for early store processing.

PH · launched Nov 6, 2026 · 1 upvote (top 65%) · 0 views

Niche: pos and venue management systems · 96 launches, 9 in the last 7 days ▼ -44% · Explore this niche →

Category and tags
  • Retail & commerce
  • Vertical SaaS
  • B2B
  • Not AI
  • Commercial product
  • Productivity
  • SaaS
  • E-Commerce

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Could you build this?

Partial The product and inventory UI are vibe-codeable, but a reliable offline-first POS across five platforms with sync, hardware integration, and payment compliance is much harder.

What it would actually take: The stack would be a local-first database (SQLite or similar) with a conflict-resolving sync engine, native or cross-platform clients (Electron, Flutter, or React Native), and barcode and receipt-printer drivers. The hard parts are offline sync correctness, device driver support, and PCI-compliant payment handling. Expertise needed includes distributed-systems and sync engineers plus payments compliance.

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one : 308 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #91 of 309 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 158 days after the earliest competitor.

  • POSable POS - Affordable ePOS Software · ph · 2026-10-17 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.65
  • SellyPOS · ph · 2026-11-08 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.60
  • GreenPOS · ph · 2026-10-31 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.59
  • OrdinoPOS · ph · 2026-10-26 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.58
  • KiriPOS · ph · 2026-09-27 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.58
  • ModaPOS · ph · 2026-09-10 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.55
  • POWR POS · ph · 2026-09-30 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.54
  • AllinWebPOS · ph · 2026-10-03 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.54

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