The offline EPOS system for shops, cafés and pubs in Ireland

No. Ireland does not run a certification scheme for cash registers, and BelloPOS holds no certification or approval from Revenue or anyone else. What Revenue does publish is guidance on what EPOS records must contain and how long to keep them: numbered, dated and timed entries, daily totals, Z reports and six years of records. BelloPOS gives you numbered sales, X and Z reports and backups, but you should check with your accountant that your setup meets your obligations.

Yes, fully. BelloPOS runs on your own Windows PC, Mac or Android tablet and stores every sale, product and customer locally, so a broadband outage, a dead router or poor coverage in a rural shop does not stop the till. Nothing depends on a cloud server being up. Because the data lives with you, make regular backups to a USB stick or external drive; the Go plan adds scheduled automatic backups so you do not have to remember.

No. BelloPOS does not process payments and is not integrated with card terminals. You keep the card machine you already have from your bank or your payment provider, key in the total there, and mark the sale as card in BelloPOS. That keeps your card fees and contract exactly as they are, and the end-of-day report still shows the split between cash and card so cashing up balances against the terminal's own totals.

Yes. Each product carries its own VAT rate, so a café can sell food at 9% and soft drinks at 23% in the same order, and a shop can mix zero-rated, reduced and standard-rated lines in one basket. The receipt and the reports break the VAT down by rate. BelloPOS does not decide which rate applies to a product; that is for you and your accountant, using Revenue's guidance.

An ordinary Windows PC or a Mac running macOS 12 or later is enough to start. A touch screen, a thermal receipt printer, a USB barcode scanner and a cash drawer make the counter faster, but you can begin with a keyboard and mouse. BelloPOS also runs on Android tablets (Android 7 or later). With Pro and Pro+, our team installs the software, sets up your printer, scanner and drawer, and adds your products for you.

Yes. The Lite plan is a free lifetime licence with checkout, receipts, barcodes and stock, and no card is needed to download it. When you need more, Go, Pro and Pro+ are sold either as a one-time licence you own for good or as a monthly or yearly key paid in advance. Nothing renews automatically, and if a key ends the app carries on as Lite with all your data intact.

Yes, with Pro. One PC acts as the main till and the others connect to it over your shop's local network, so a pub can have a till at each end of the bar and a café can add one at the counter and one at the terrace. Staff can also take orders on a phone or tablet with the handheld web app, and the kitchen can follow orders on its own screen.

Download BelloPOS, try every Pro feature free for 7 days, then message our team on WhatsApp to choose a plan. You receive an activation key for your machine, and Pro and Pro+ include the done-for-you setup pack with installation, product entry and staff training. Every paid licence has a 14-day money-back guarantee. Prices are shown in euro on the pricing page.