How to choose restaurant POS software: table management, kitchen coordination, offline reliability, split bills, and delivery integration.
Resources
Guides & “What is” articles
Practical guides and plain-language answers about running a business on DAXTOP — POS, inventory, restaurants, retail, HR with EmployDB, and receipt printing with AnyPrint. Written by the team that builds the platform.
Guides & best practices
A practical guide: real-time counts, barcodes, reorder points, cycle counting, expiry and batch control, and demand forecasting that cuts waste.
A working checklist for restaurant inventory: recipes, waste logging, weekly counts, supplier orders, and the food-cost numbers to watch.
POS handles selling; ERP runs the business around it. What each covers, where they overlap, and why modern platforms combine both.
How barcode inventory management works: scanners, labels, scan-based receiving, checkout, stocktakes, and a rollout plan without disruption.
General — the DAXTOP platform
DAXTOP is an all-in-one business platform: POS, inventory, supply chain, finance, HR, and AI analytics for retail, restaurants, hotels, and clinics.
Yes — DAXTOP runs in the browser as a cloud platform, synced across every device and location, with offline mode covering outages at the register.
Yes — offline mode keeps registers selling through outages: transactions queue locally and sync on reconnect, and receipts print locally via AnyPrint.
Yes — DAXTOP runs in the browser on any number of computers, tablets, and handhelds, all sharing one live system with role-based access per user.
Yes — central catalog and pricing, per-location inventory, transfers between branches, and consolidated cross-store reporting are built in.
Yes — DAXTOP tracks stock per warehouse, with transfers, per-location reorder points, and one consolidated view of inventory across the operation.
Yes — staff accounts, roles, scheduling, and workforce analytics in DAXTOP, plus free HR management with verified records through EmployDB.
Yes — slice sales, inventory, and finance data by store, daypart, category, or staff, export results, and ask ORCA AI questions in plain language.
Yes — standard USB and wireless barcode scanners work out of the box for checkout, receiving, stocktakes, and transfers. No drivers needed.
Yes — DAXTOP prints receipts to USB ESC/POS thermal printers through AnyPrint, its free printer bridge. Plug in, install once, print instantly.
Inventory management
Yes — items carry expiration dates with proactive alerts before stock ages out — essential for pharmacies, food service, and perishables.
Yes — batch and lot tracking ties quantities, expiry dates, and movements to specific lots, making recalls and pharmacy compliance manageable.
Yes — import your catalog from Excel/CSV, or let Digitize convert paper invoices and supplier documents into inventory data with AI extraction.
Yes — DAXTOP generates barcodes and prints labels for unlabeled goods, so every item flows through scan-based checkout and stocktakes.
Yes — serialized inventory for unit-critical goods: each serial follows the item from receiving to sale and returns, with warranty-ready lookups.
Restaurant & food service
Yes — floor layout, live table status, orders attached to tables, and kitchen coordination are part of DAXTOP's restaurant suite.
Yes — DAXTOP runs in the browser on tablets, so waiters take orders at the table and orders fire to the kitchen instantly. One live system.
Yes — confirmed orders fire to kitchen printers and displays automatically, routed by station, with items sequenced by prep time.
Yes — split bills by guest, item, or amount, merge tabs, and move items between orders — each split settles with its own payment and receipt.
Retail
Yes — create discounts and campaigns centrally and they reach every register in seconds, with margin impact visible in reporting.
Yes — loyalty programs recognize customers at checkout, track purchases, and reward repeat visits automatically across all locations.
Yes — issue and redeem gift cards and store credit at any register. Balances live centrally, and every movement is logged and auditable.
Yes — look up the original sale, refund to the original payment or store credit, restock automatically, and print return receipts via AnyPrint.
HR & EmployDB
EmployDB is DAXTOP's free HR platform and verified employment network: manage your team, and HR records become verified history employees control.
Verified employers issue factual records; recruiters see them only with the employee's explicit, revocable approval. No browsing, no opinions.
Yes — time and attendance runs in DAXTOP's HCM suite: staff clock in at their location, and hours feed scheduling and payroll automatically.
Yes — leave requests flow to managers for approval, approved leave feeds shift planning, and history is kept as a private record in EmployDB.
Printing & AnyPrint
AnyPrint is DAXTOP's free printer bridge: a small Windows app connecting browser-based POS to USB ESC/POS thermal printers. No cloud, no account.
Any USB thermal printer that speaks ESC/POS — Xprinter, Epson, Citizen, Bixolon, Star (in the right mode) and more, 58mm and 80mm, no drivers.
Yes — AnyPrint is local by design: it binds to 127.0.0.1 and prints over USB, so printing needs no internet. Updates are the only online part.
Yes — USB is what AnyPrint is built for: plug in a USB ESC/POS thermal printer and it is detected in seconds, with no drivers or configuration.
Not currently — AnyPrint is USB-only by design. For multi-printer venues, each station runs its own USB bridge; most LAN models also have USB.