A few weeks of trading, long evening queues and cold hands. POSolid keeps every sale to a couple of taps on the phone or tablet you already have, so the queue keeps moving.
Open POSolid in the browser on the phone or tablet already at the stall. Add a card terminal or a receipt printer only if you take cards or print receipts.
Add mulled wine, punch, hot food and gifts. Mug sizes become variants and a shot of rum a modifier, so one button covers every version of a drink.
Cash, card and mobile payment are recorded against each sale, and a receipt can be printed or saved as a PDF when someone asks for one.
Close the day and see what sold, at what hour and how it was paid. A Friday and a quiet Tuesday look very different, and the figures tell you how to stock and staff the next one.
Everything you need to launch: what to buy, how the tablet, printers and internet connect, which settings to turn on, and our recommendations for every size of crew.
Pin mulled wine and the other best-sellers to the top, so the drink the queue is waiting for is always the first thing you tap.
The same locals return on every Advent weekend. A loyalty or discount card applied at the till is a small reason for them to come to your stall rather than the next one.
Compare days and hours to see when mulled wine, punch and sausages peak, and order wine and spices for the evenings that actually sell.
For anything cooked to order, put ready numbers on a screen at the hatch. People step back from the counter while they wait, and the paying queue keeps moving.
A Christmas market is a short season, long evening queues, cold hands and staff hired for a few weeks. These are the six things that matter most.
Every part named above is a module of the same platform — the plans build on each other, and the 14-day trial opens all of them.
Yes. The subscription is monthly with no minimum term and no cancellation fee, so you can run it for the weeks of the market and stop afterwards. The 14-day free trial gives you time to set up the menu before the market opens.
There is no dedicated deposit feature. You can add the deposit as its own menu item, so it is charged with the drink and shows separately in the day's totals. How returned mugs are refunded depends on the deposit system your market runs.
Use touchscreen gloves and keep the winter menu short: with a handful of large buttons and the best-sellers at the top, a sale is a couple of taps rather than a search. A tablet gives bigger buttons than a phone if the counter has room for one.
In the browser POSolid needs a connection, so plan for a crowded square — a stall Wi-Fi router or a second SIM helps. The Android app, currently in beta, keeps taking orders without a signal and sends them once the connection returns.
A short winter menu on large buttons takes minutes to learn. Each worker gets their own PIN and role, so a temporary helper sees the till and nothing else, and clocks in and out on the same device.
Yes. Each stall is its own venue with its own menu, staff and reports, and you switch between them without logging out. A licence covers one venue, so a second stall needs a licence of its own.
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