Build a system
Build a POS system that fits the way your store runs
A complete system is the platform, the checkout stations, the peripherals the counter needs, the payment path, and the implementation work. This page puts those decisions in order so you know what BizTracker needs before a system is recommended and quoted.
Specified before quoted. Nationwide remote implementation, Tampa Bay onsite.
How do I put together a complete POS system?
You decide five things, roughly in this order: what the store sells and how it is counted, how many lanes serve it, which peripherals the counter needs, how cards are taken, and who sets it up and supports it afterwards. Every other choice follows from those five. We specify the system against your answers rather than asking you to assemble it from a parts list.
Most buying mistakes are made in the wrong order — hardware chosen before the workflow, or a lane count chosen before anyone has looked at the busiest hour. The order below is the one that avoids buying twice.
- What the store sells decides the platformDepartments, scales and configured age restrictions are workflow, not add-ons.
- The busiest hour decides the lane countAn average day never queues; a Saturday afternoon does.
- The counter decides the peripheralsScanning, printing, weighing and cash handling are what the staff touch.
- Payments decide how many systems you runIntegrated or separate is a workflow choice before it is a cost one.
- Implementation decides how the first week goesAn item file and trained staff are the difference between opening and coping.
The guided builder helps scope the system, but it does not set final pricing or confirm that two specific devices are compatible. A BizTracker specialist reviews the configuration before a quote is prepared.
Build your system
Describe the store and get a starting configuration
Seven short steps. The result is a starting configuration and a scope for review: the platform, the checkout stations, the counter hardware, setup and training, and processing interest. No price is shown, and an exact model is named only after it is verified.
Send this configuration to BizTracker
Your answers are attached, so nobody asks you to enter them again. A person checks the configuration and comes back to you; nothing is ordered or charged.
The five decisions
What a specification is actually made of
Nothing here needs a model number from you. It needs to know how the store works.
1. Retail: Infinity
Infinity POSGrocery, convenience, liquor and specialty retail start on Infinity.
Restaurants and bars: LINGA
Restaurant POSRestaurants and bars follow a separate LINGA pathway for table, tab, kitchen and ordering workflows.
2. The lanes
Payment outage planningHow many registers, where they sit, and whether any of them has to keep working when the internet does not.
3. The counter
Hardware for InfinityScanning, receipt printing, a cash drawer, and scales where anything is sold by weight.
4. The payment path
Merchant processingWhether cards run through the POS or beside it. This is reviewed against a real statement, not assumed.
5. The implementation
Installation and trainingItem file, programming, training and go-live. Remote across the country, onsite across Tampa Bay.
What goes wrong when a system is assembled instead of specified
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Peripherals bought before the workflow is known
The scanner is wrong for the counter and the printer is in the wrong place.
The counter layout is part of the specification rather than an afterthought.
Hardware for Infinity -
A lane count based on an average day
The store queues exactly when it can least afford to.
We size against the busiest hour, because that is the hour customers remember.
Complete POS systems -
Payments arranged separately, afterwards
Two vendors, two support numbers, and a re-keyed total at the counter.
The payment path is decided with the system, and reviewed before it is recommended.
Merchant processing -
Existing equipment written off without being checked
Money spent replacing peripherals that would have carried over.
We check what you already own before specifying replacements.
Replace an existing POS -
No plan for the item file
Go-live becomes data entry, and the system is blamed for it.
Item file setup and data conversion are scoped as part of the build.
Data conversion
Questions about building a system
Can I configure and buy a complete system on this page?
Not as a purchase. The builder on this page walks the decisions and returns a starting configuration you can send to a person who specifies the system. It names an exact model only after that model is verified, and buying a system on screen needs an approved product catalog behind it, which is not finished.
Do I need to know what hardware I want?
No. Describe how the store runs and we work backwards to the hardware. That order produces fewer mistakes than starting from a parts list.
Can I reuse equipment I already have?
Often, and it depends on the specific models rather than the category. Send us what you have and we will tell you what carries over before anything is quoted.
Does a system have to be bought all at once?
No. A replacement is usually staged, and which parts move first is part of the specification.
What happens after I describe the store?
We come back with a specification: the platform, the lane count, the peripherals per counter, the payment path and the implementation work. You see what is being proposed and why before any number is discussed.
Describe the store and we will specify the system
What it sells, how many registers it runs, what it uses today, and anything already on the counter. That is enough to come back with a specification.