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Retail Express

Cafe POS in AU & NZ: When Retail Express Fits

Run the retail side of your cafe with confidence: barcoded beans, mugs, and packaged food tracked with live stock and fast counter checkout. Retail Express is built for product retail, not table service or kitchen orders, so it fits cafes with a real retail counter. For drinks-only or seated service you will need a dedicated hospitality POS vendor.

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Common pain points

Searching cafe POS but selling retail needs a different fit

Cafe search, retail counter reality

Retail Express fits cafes that sell barcoded beans, mugs, merch, and packaged food with real inventory at the counter.

Table service is not the whole business

Hospitality POS suits seated cafes and kitchen workflows. Product retail with stock matters when the counter sells barcoded goods.

Want to sell beans or merch online

Shopify links help cafes sell online and in-store with inventory sync to the shop.

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Retail counter

Barcode retail for beans, mugs, and merch

The retail side of a cafe is where Retail Express shines. Scan barcoded beans, mugs, and packaged food at the counter, with variants and multiple barcodes per product, so retail sales are as fast and accurate as your coffee line. See POS barcode scan and retail POS software.

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Stock control

Live stock so you know what to reorder

Retail lines slip out of stock fast. Retail Express updates inventory as you sell retail products, so you can see what is running low on beans and merch and reorder before you run out, without a manual count. See inventory management.

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Online + counter

Sell online and in the cafe

Cafes increasingly sell beans and merch online too. Retail Express links to Shopify with inventory sync, so one stock count covers the counter and the web store and you do not oversell online.

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Pay + accounts

Flexible payments and books that reconcile

Take cash, EFTPOS, and buy-now-pay-later at the retail counter, then send sales and stock to Xero or MYOB without re-keying. See POS payments and retail accounting.

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Integration

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Our omni-channel POS software integrates with Shopify eCommerce to ensure your bricks and clicks stores operate in perfect unison. Try a FREE DEMO.

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Retail Express - the #1 Retail POS System - integrates with The ICONIC allowing you to profitably manage your marketplaces, physical and online stores from one centralised platform.

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Retail Express - the #1 Retail POS System - integrates with David Jones Online allowing you to profitably manage your marketplaces, physical and online stores from one centralised platform.

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Leading supplier of barcode scanners to perform stocktakes in Retail Express.

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Our omni-channel POS software integrates with Magento eCommerce to ensure your bricks and clicks stores operate in perfect unison. Try a FREE DEMO.

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Build an integrated eCommerce and in-store experience that your customers and members will love with Retail Express & Marketplacer.

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Deliver unrivalled omni-channel customer experience and operational efficiency with the #1 multi-store Retail POS Software and NetSuite ERP Integration. Try our Free DEMO

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Simplify your finances and retail management with the #1 Xero integrated POS.

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Get instant visibility of the performance metrics critical to omni-channel retail success with Retail Express and The Retail Score. Try a FREE DEMO.

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Maximise accuracy of your inventory tracking and purchasing with an integrated RFID and POS Solution from Retail Express and RAMP. Try a FREE DEMO today!

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Leading supplier of barcode scanners to perform stocktakes in Retail Express.

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Leading supplier of barcode scanners to perform stocktakes in Retail Express.

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Retail Express - the #1 Retail POS System - integrates with The ICONIC allowing you to profitably manage your marketplaces, physical and online stores from one centralised platform.

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Get instant visibility of the performance metrics critical to omni-channel retail success with Retail Express and The Retail Score. Try a FREE DEMO.

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Retail Express - the #1 Retail POS System - integrates with The ICONIC allowing you to profitably manage your marketplaces, physical and online stores from one centralised platform.

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Retail Express - the #1 Retail POS System - integrates with the Leading In-Store Ticketing Automation Solution from Ticket-IT. Learn more with a FREE DEMO.

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Integrate Tyro EFTPOS with Australia & NZ’s #1 POS software. Provide the payment options that shoppers demand. Try a FREE DEMO today!

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Our omni-channel POS software integrates with WooCommerce to ensure your retail stores and Wordpress ecommerce store operate in perfect unison. Try a FREE DEMO.

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Cafe POS in AU & NZ: When Retail Express Fits FAQ

Answers for retailers in Australia and New Zealand.

For most seated cafes and coffee shops, the best POS is a dedicated hospitality POS vendor (menus, tabs, kitchen). Retail Express is the better fit when your cafe runs a product retail counter: barcoded beans, mugs, merch, and packaged food with real inventory. If you only sell coffee with no stock lines, a hospitality POS is the right choice.

A coffee shop POS system is till software for a cafe. Searchers usually mean hospitality POS (drinks, tabs, kitchen) or product retail POS (barcoded beans, mugs, merch with stock). Retail Express fits the second case: cloud product retail POS for coffee shops that track inventory at the counter.

Choose a hospitality POS vendor when table service, kitchen tickets, or a simple drinks menu with no product inventory is the whole operation. Retail Express does not replace table plans or kitchen display; it runs the retail counter alongside them.

Yes, when you sell packaged or barcode products at the counter (beans, merch, retail food). Drinks-only or table-service workflows need hospitality POS. See inventory management.

Yes. Retail Express links to Shopify for shops that sell online and in the cafe, with inventory sync to stores.

Pricing depends on stores and registers. See pricing. Hardware and EFTPOS are separate from software.

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Honest fit check for cafe POS

Retail Express is product retail POS. If your cafe sells barcoded products with inventory, walk through checkout with our team. If you need full hospitality table service, we will point you in the right direction.

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