Most grocery store owners think a generic retail POS will work fine — until they realize it can’t connect to their scales, requires a separate EBT terminal, and charges extra for loyalty programs.
Markt POS is a cloud-based grocery point of sale solution with scanner scales, EBT and SNAP, and loyalty built right into the system. Add self-checkout when you're ready.
Cut manual errors and wait times at the register with payment processing built into your grocery POS.
Accept cash, checks, credit, debit, and contactless payments, including Apple Pay, through Vantiv and WorldPay. PIN debit includes cash back, and penny rounding handles odd cents.
Ring up EBT Cash, EBT Food, and SNAP on your credit card terminal. Eligible items are separated automatically, and the balance splits across any other tender type.
Let regulars run a tab and pay later. Track on-account balances by customer and accept payments when they’re ready.
Speed up checkout for items sold by weight or made to order.
Connect scanner scales at checkout and label-printing scales at the deli counter to ring up produce, meat, and bulk items by exact weight. Sync prices to compatible deli scales, print labels with the price embedded in the barcode, and calculate weights and taxes up to four decimal places. Weights come straight from the scale, so cashiers don't have to key them in by hand.
Send orders to the prep area with modifiers for toppings, portion sizes, or special requests. Handle QSR pickup and delivery through Mercato, Local Express, Freshop, and eGrowcery.
Keep lanes moving during busy hours and track drawer activity by shift.
Add self-checkout to your grocery POS system. Let customers scan, bag, and pay with cards on their own while your team monitors from a central terminal and steps in for voids or age-restricted items. Self-checkout is card-only to keep maintenance costs low.
Track loan-ins, pay-outs, and closeouts by shift. Blind closeout prevents employees from seeing expected totals before counting their drawer.
Pause a sale mid-scan when a shopper needs to grab a forgotten item, then resume without re-scanning. Process refunds with or without the item and receipt.
Add bottle deposits, CRV, and other fees to the sale automatically. Set custom tax rules and tax exemptions to match your state.
Sell online and stay connected with customers between visits.
Accept pickup and delivery orders online through our in-house e-commerce integration, plus third-party integrations with Instacart, Mercato, Local Express, Freshop, and eGrowcery.
Print, email, or text receipts to customers. Edit the header and footer to add your logo, return policy, or promotional messaging. Include promo codes on text receipts and print bounce-back coupons that customers can redeem on their next visit.
Reward regulars with built-in loyalty features.
Collect opted-in phone numbers so customers automatically earn points for every purchase, with no card to carry or lose. Apply employee, family, and percentage discounts at the register. Physical loyalty cards require a third-party vendor.
Run mix and match, buy X, get Y, cumulative, and category-based promotions. Set up tiered memberships with different discount levels and expiration dates.
Integrate with 200+ CRMs, 87 email services, and 100 SMS platforms through third parties for marketing campaigns. Let customers redeem digital coupons at the register.
Sell gift cards with your store's branding at the register. Customers can purchase, reload, and redeem in one transaction.
Know what's on the shelf, what's about to expire, and what to reorder, all in the system you ring up sales on.
Track stock levels and expiration dates across your whole catalog, and see your inventory history item by item. Count with a handheld scanner and add products from a mobile device.
See items that run low in a low-stock report, and go straight from there to a purchase order. Set reorder thresholds, or get suggested order amounts based on your sales history.
Scan or snap a photo of a paper invoice, even a handwritten one, and your inventory updates automatically. No more typing in invoices by hand.
Set a target margin by department, and get suggested prices when your costs change. Update prices individually, in batches, or by department, then print new shelf labels in one step.
Pull daily sales, profit margin by category or department, inventory turnover, and spoilage reports from any browser.
Set up a reliable, intuitive system that matches your operations.
Arrange the touchscreen layout to put your most-used items front and center. A visual picture gallery lets staff add products by tapping an image instead of typing, and smart search finds items by partial name or SKU.
Create new products or update existing ones directly from the register. A missing item report lists anything that didn't scan and suggests product details from a database of over a million products — just review and save.
Use standard grocery equipment you already own, like Zebra and Datalogic scanner scales and Hobart, Ishida, and CAS deli scales. Our grocery POS software works with most common hardware, and our team checks compatibility before you buy anything new. Need new hardware? Build your bundle with our custom pricing tool.
Connect a customer-facing display so shoppers can see their items and total as you ring them up.
Prompt cashiers for ID checks on age-restricted items and log completed restricted sales by employee.
Check sales from any browser. Offline sales sync automatically once you're back online.
Set different cash and credit prices to offset fees or, if your state allows, add surcharges at checkout.
Connect a dedicated price checker device for quick, self-service product lookup.
Apply approved card amounts instead of declining sales, and set refund or change limits by employee.
Manage inventory, pricing, and product information across locations from one login.
See how our point of sale solution helps grocerants, butcher shops,
seafood markets, delis, and organic food stores run more efficiently.
Bexley Natural Market is a community-owned cooperative grocery store that has been serving Bexley, OH since 1976, known for carrying unique products and sourcing as much as possible from local farms and vendors.
Labriola's Italian Market is a Pittsburgh institution established in 1929, offering a wide selection of cheeses, deli meats, pasta, homemade sauces, breads, desserts, and prepared meals across multiple locations throughout the region.
Richlands Cajun Market is a small specialty grocery store founded by two retired military veterans in Richlands, NC, bringing authentic, certified Cajun products — from boudin and andouille to crawfish and king cakes — straight from Louisiana to the Carolinas.
Captain Marden's Seafoods is a fourth-generation, Wellesley, MA-based seafood institution founded in 1945, offering a fish market, restaurant, food truck, catering, and East Coast wholesale distribution.
Sophia's Greek Pantry is an authentic Greek/Balkan specialty store in Belmont, MA — and now Lowell — offering hundreds of imported Mediterranean products
The Market Al Fresca is a family-run specialty market in Tewksbury, MA, born as an extension of Al Fresca Ristorante, offering prepared Mediterranean meals, fresh pasta, imported ingredients, and homemade desserts.
Markt POS integrates with your accounting software, e-commerce platform, and delivery apps, like QuickBooks, Instacart, and Mercato, so you don't have to manage everything separately.
If your internet goes down, Markt POS continues running. Store and Forward Payments lets your team process transactions offline, and the system automatically syncs every sale once your connection’s back up.
Yes. Markt POS runs on the cloud, so you can pull up sales reports from any browser. Mobile Mode also lets your team ring up sales away from the register.
Not with Markt POS. Ring up EBT Cash, EBT Food, and SNAP on the same terminal you use for credit cards. Flag SNAP-eligible items in the back office, and the system separates them automatically at checkout. EBT is included at no extra cost, and customers can pay any remaining balance with another tender type.
The complete self-checkout stand ships ready to go — hardware and software together. Instead of paying $20k+ for a self-checkout unit, you get the full package from Markt POS for under $5k.
Markt POS runs mix-and-match, BOGO, cumulative, and category-based promotions, plus custom pricing for wholesale and loyalty members. Set up tiered memberships with configurable discounts and expiration dates, and apply flexible discounts on the fly at checkout.
Markt POS plans start at $49/mo and include scanner scale integration, EBT and SNAP, loyalty, deli printing, gift cards, and dual pricing. Hardware costs depend on your store. Use the Build and Price tool for a custom quote.
Yes. Many stores move from cash registers with no prior system, and others switch from another grocery POS. We move your item file during onboarding, including products, PLU codes, and departments, and you can add or edit products from the register as you go. Sales history from your old system doesn't transfer, so keep it for reference.
The best grocery POS system for an independent grocer has scanner scales, EBT and SNAP, loyalty, and offline payments built in, not sold as add-ons. Markt POS includes all of these, plus deli printing, gift cards, dual pricing, and multi-store sync.
Markt POS is built for grocers and specialty markets, with grocery features built in from the start. See how we stack up against Vori, Toast, Square, Clover, NCR, and others on our grocery POS comparisons page.