Best POS Systems For Mac

Paid plans include inventory management features like vendor management, inventory counts, automated purchase ordering, and barcode printing. You can also accept cross-location returns and exchanges on the Premium plan.

Note: All free plans apply to single-location businesses only. If you open multiple locations, you must upgrade to a paid plan.

There are also a variety of add-ons available.

Square’s standout features include:

• Square Online: Free online store builder that allows you to sell items, memberships, and/or schedule appointments
• Square Invoices: Free invoice builder to send estimates, charge deposits, and charge cards on file for things like multi-stage home improvement projects or B2B retail orders
• Unlimited Devices: On the free plan, you can use an unlimited number of tablets at your location
• Square Checkout Links: Accept payments via QR code, hyperlink, email, text, social media profile, or buy button embedded in a website
• Square Dashboard: Manage your inventory, reports, online store, appointments, customer profiles, and your team from anywhere on one tablet dashboard
• Social Media Integrations: Sell on Instagram or TikTok, the Google product listing integration, and features like product reviews and saved carts.
• Appointments: Integrate with Google appointment booking and send customer confirmation notifications and automated reminders — perfect for service businesses like salons.

You’ll need to connect the Square Terminal to your Mac to take orders and payments in a streamlined way, or you can manually enter customers’ credit card numbers into the web-based POS app to accept payments.

However, if you manually enter card numbers, you will be charged higher payment processing fees.

All Square accounts include payment processing with Square Payments at the following prices:

• 2.4% – 2.6% + $0.15 for card-present payments
• 2.9% – 3.3% + $0.30 for online payments
• 3.5% + $0.15 for manually keyed-in card payments (using a virtual terminal or card on file)

Square offers monthly contracts that are easy to cancel with no early termination fees.

You will need to purchase the Square Terminal if you want to give customers the ability to pay with chip cards and for a more streamlined POS register payment setup.

Helcim’s POS software is completely free to use. You only pay Helcim’s payment processing fees.

Helcim’s best POS features for Mac users include:

• Standard POS tools to add products, discounts, tips, and customer accounts during checkout
• Options to sell individual items or bulk orders through customer portals and catalogs
• Custom drag-and-drop invoice creation with full or partial payment due dates and automated reminders
• Recurring billing using saved payment methods, with customizable tax settings and free trial options
• Subscription management with prorated and metered billing, add-ons, and cancellation feedback tracking
• Drag-and-drop web builder for branded checkout pages, subscription signups, and client portals
• Full branding control with the ability to remove unnecessary fields for service-based businesses

Helcim has a desktop app available on the Mac App Store so you can take sales offline. Helcim’s card reader can be connected to your Mac via Bluetooth to take payments.

There are also a few compatible receipt printers available.

Helcim offers interchange-plus payment processing for all businesses, small or large. There are no minimum sales volumes or transaction numbers. This is highly uncommon among POS providers.

The company offers a sample “find your custom rate” tool on its website so you can easily see a rate estimate and how much you could save by switching to interchange-plus payment processing.

Similar to Square, Helcim offers very flexible month-to-month contracts with no early termination fees.

Hike POS plans come with one register license per location. Additional registers and locations incur an additional monthly fee.

This cloud-based all-in-one POS has several features beneficial to small- to mid-sized businesses.

Standout features include:

• POS inventory management system with tracking across multiple locations, automated reordering, custom barcodes, reminders, and updates
• Customizable loyalty program
• Real-time business analytics and numerous customizable reports
• Integrations including QuickBooks, BigCommerce, WooCommerce, Shopify, and Mailchimp
• Customer and employee management
• In-store, online, and Amazon Marketplace sales

Note: If you’re looking for a retail POS system with a built-in online store builder, more online sales marketplace integrations, and better online/offline sales features, look into Shopify POS, one of our best retail POS systems. The POS software runs only on iPad and Android, but purchasing an iPad is worth it for the retail sales feature upgrades.

Hike POS can be used directly from your Mac through a web browser or offline with the Hike POS app for Mac.

Hike also sells various POS equipment, including barcode scanners, receipt printers, label printers, cash drawers, and hardware bundles. Contact the company for more information on hardware pricing.

Hike integrates with several payment processors in the US. Options include Square, PayPal, Elavon, WorldPay, TSYS, and Chase.

Hike POS does not have any contracts or hidden fees.

Make sure to read through any payment processing contracts before signing with any merchant services providers. Many providers have lengthy contract terms and early termination fees, so make sure to negotiate a good merchant agreement.

With paid plans, you get access to all Odoo apps.

The Custom plan also includes an on-premise local installation offer for offline sales, multi-company management, the Odoo Studio which allows you to create your own Odoo apps, and an external API (application program interface) for even more developer customizations.

Odoo’s best POS features for Mac users include:

• Built-in inventory management with barcode label printing in multiple sizes
• Itemized sales sessions and flexible custom payment options
• Invoicing software with customizable templates, B2B customer data storage, and custom repayment terms
• Integrated accounting tools for tracking revenue, expenses, and overall business performance
• Optional apps for HR, payroll, helpdesk management, manufacturing, quality control, and shipping integrations
• Modular design that lets you add or remove business apps as your company grows

You can purchase a Stripe Terminal card reader to take in-person payments.

You can also choose a credit card reader from another third-party payment processing provider.

Odoo users most often use Stripe to process online and in-person payments, so you’ll be subject to Stripe fees. There are no additional fees to take payments through Odoo. Y

ou will have to set up the Stripe connection, and while it isn’t straightforward, there are tutorials to show you how Stripe works.

You also have the option to integrate Odoo with one of several payment providers, such as Chase, Authorize.Net, and PayPal.

Note: If you’re looking for a highly customizable POS system with a built-in payment processor and you’re willing to move to an iPad-based POS, Revel Systems is a good alternative to Odoo’s POS system.

Odoo is an extremely flexible software provider with no early termination fees, so the only warning we can give is that it will take a little while to fully set up and appreciate all that Odoo has to offer.