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Point of Sale Lite

Designed for start-up retailers requiring a simple to use point-of-sale solution.

With comprehensive integration to Reckon Accounts accounting software, it offers features to manage sales, inventory, customers and accounting. 

Product overview

Point of Sale made easy

Designed to process sales quickly and efficiently, giving your staff more time to spend with your customers.

Integration with Reckon Accounts

Seamless integration with Reckon Accounts inventory, customer accounts, sales assistants and chart of accounts. Your copy of Reckon Accounts must be from the same year release as the Point of Sale products.

Find out more about Reckon Accounts >

Customisable touch screen

Create touch buttons, choose your own colour scheme and select screen size to make processing transactions quick and easy whilst minimising errors. Includes snap-to-grid functionality to automatically align buttons for a professional look.

Easily manage your stock

Connect POS to Reckon Accounts to see a comprehensive view of your inventory levels.

Create and assign barcodes

Save time at the check-out, improve customer service and accurately process transactions by creating and assigning barcodes.

Other advanced features include:

  • Customisable labels and design
  • Manage customer accounts and lay-bys
  • User and Role based security features
  • Train staff quickly and easily – using the training mode
  • Automatic backups

Notes:

Reckon Accounts 2017 Accounting or higher is required to successfully use Reckon Point of Sale Lite 2017.

If you are currently using Point of Sale 2007/08 or earlier versions, you will need to upgrade to Point of Sale Professional 2017 to continue using your database.

New Features

Instant error detection

Automatically detect and correct errors when you do your end-of-day transfer to Reckon Accounts.

Automatic calculation for change

Change is now calculated automatically when the final layby payment is made.

Register your POS terminal easily 24/7

Set up and register your POS terminal easily and anytime you'd like through the new registration site.

Mimimum requirements

Point of Sale System Requirements

  • 1.0 GHz Intel® Pentium® IV (or equivalent) processor, with 512 MB of RAM
  • For Windows 7, Windows 8 and Windows 10 users:
  • 2.0 GHz Intel Pentium IV or equivalent with 2GB of RAM
  • Microsoft® Windows 7/8/10*
  • 500 MB of disk space for Point of Sale installation
  • Reckon Accounts** Accounting, Plus, Premier or Enterprise 2017 pre-installed
  • 1GB of disk space for Reckon Accounts** installation
  • Super VGA or higher resolution: at least 1024x768 pixel resolution
  • 50 x CD-ROM
  • All online features/services require High speed Internet connection

NOTE: Ensure you consult the latest list of confirmed point of sale hardware compatible with this current version of Point of Sale, see the following for more details: www.reckon.com.au/pos-hardware-compatibility

* 64-bit is only supported with Windows 7, Windows 8 and Windows 10.

**Reckon Accounts system requirements are higher than POS. Please ensure that you make a note of these prior to installing your software. The system requirements for Reckon Accounts can be found in the Reckon Accounts 2017 StartUp Guide.

Note: Although Point of Sale operates within a Windows 7 Home Premium/Windows 8/Windows 10 single machine environment, it does not operate within a 7 Home Premium/Windows 8/Windows 10 networked environment. Windows 8 and Windows 10 Pro are supported in a network environment. Point of Sale 2017 functions with Reckon Accounts 2017 Accounting, Plus, Premier, or Enterprise levels. You must install/upgrade your previous version of Reckon Accounts before installing/upgrading to Point of Sale. The Reckon Accounts 2017 Installation and Upgrade Guide document provides details on installing Reckon Accounts and upgrading your data file.

Point of Sale 2017 functions with Reckon Accounts 2017 Accounting, Plus, Premier, or Enterprise levels. You must install/upgrade your previous version of Reckon Accounts before installing/upgrading to Point of Sale. The Reckon Accounts 2017 Installation and Upgrade Guide document provides details on installing Reckon Accounts and upgrading your data file.

Accounts System Requirements

  • 2.0 GHz Intel® Pentium® IV (or equivalent)
  • At least 512MB of RAM for a single user and at least 1GB of RAM for multiple, concurrent users
  • 1GB of RAM for Windows® Vista, 7, 8 and 10 users (Windows 8 &10 require 1GB for 32-bit & 2GB for 64-bit)
  • 1GB RAM for Windows Server 2003/2008/2012*
  • Windows 7/8/10 operating system
  • 1 GB of disk space (additional space required for company files)
  • Microsoft® Internet Explorer 7.0 or later required
  • Microsoft® .NET Framework Common Language Runtime 2.0 & 3.5 (provided on Reckon Accounts Installation DVD, requires an additional 150MB)
  • Requires 9 MB for Pro Timer
  • At least 256-colour SVGA video
  • 1024x768 pixel screen resolution
  • DVD drive
  • All online features and services require Internet access with at least a 56 Kbps modem (ADSL or Cable Modem recommended)

*Windows Small Business Server 2008 requires 4GB RAM. Windows Small Business Server 2003 is not supported.

Integration/compatibility Requirements

  • Microsoft®Word and Excel integration requires Microsoft Word and Excel 2007, 2010, 2013 or 2016.
  • Compatible with Reckon Point of Sale Professional 2017 or Lite 2017

Multi-user requirements (Premier and above)

  • Multi-user mode is optimised for Microsoft Windows Server 2003, 2008, 2012 and 2016 operating systems, and for Windows 7, Windows 8 and Windows 10**.
  • Terminal Services are supported for Reckon Accounts Premier and Enterprise.








** Not all versions of Windows 7, 8 and 10 are supported. Support is provided for Windows 7, 8 and 10 Pro and above.