EPOS for convenience and farm shops

We fit convenience stores and farm shops with a till built for a busy counter and a big product range: fast barcode scanning, stock control across hundreds of lines, and straightforward pricing for weighed and loose produce.

What a convenience or farm shop till needs

A shop counter lives or dies on the queue: scanning has to be fast and card payment has to clear in seconds, whatever’s in the basket. A big product range, often hundreds of lines from groceries to local produce, needs stock control that doesn’t rely on someone remembering what’s running low. Age-restricted sales (alcohol, tobacco, lottery) need a prompt staff can’t skip on a busy Saturday, and weighed or loose produce needs pricing that’s simple for staff to get right first time. Farm shops add their own twist: seasonal produce and a deli or butcher counter often sit alongside packaged retail lines, so the till needs to cope with both without staff switching between two different layouts.

A typical setup

Most convenience stores and farm shops run a scanning terminal for fast checkout, TouchStock for stock counts and supplier reordering, and a self-service option for sites with steady footfall. A rugged handheld such as the Oxhoo TAB10 covers stock counts and deliveries on the shop floor without tying up the till. For sites with consistently high footfall, SelfService lets customers scan and pay at a kiosk without waiting for a free till, which suits a quick top-up shop well. Farm shops mixing retail with a food-to-go counter or a small café typically run both from the same till rather than two separate systems, so a delivery checked in on TouchStock updates the same stock figures a food-to-go item sells against.

Kit we recommend

TouchPoint on an Oxhoo EVOQ 4:3 covers most shop counters, its square screen suited to a retail button layout, paired with TouchStock on a handheld for stock counts and deliveries without stopping trade. TouchPoint’s own age-verification prompt covers alcohol, tobacco and lottery sales, so staff aren’t relying on memory at a busy till. For simpler service, an Aures EKO is a straightforward, lower-cost terminal built for exactly this kind of counter, paired with an Oxhoo BC361 scanner and a TR410 cash drawer for a till handling a lot of cash. For a wider product range or more than one site, CES Touch is a modular alternative that runs as a shop till with stock and loyalty modules switched on as you need them, and CES Intelligence adds cloud reporting and screen changes you can make without standing at the terminal. A farm shop running a stall at a local market alongside the main shop can lean on CES Intelligence’s phone app for sales monitoring and stock control without needing a full terminal on site.

Integrations that matter here

Accounting software and card payments are the integrations convenience stores and farm shops ask about most, so a day’s takings reconcile without re-typing anything. See the full integrations directory for what’s available, and read what an EPOS integration actually is if you’re weighing up whether you need one.

Support after we fit it

We fit the hardware, set your product file and pricing up before you open, and train your team on the day. After that, support packages cover you for the ongoing day-to-day, and we keep pricing and product changes up to date as your range shifts with the seasons. We’re based in Runcorn, working with shops and farm shops across the North West.

A shift in service

The morning starts with a delivery checked in against TouchStock, so shelf counts are accurate before the doors open. Through the day, the till scans fast enough to keep a queue moving and prompts staff on every age-restricted sale, and by evening the manager can see exactly what needs reordering before it runs out.