We're the people who pick up the phone

Boston Point Of Sales sells, installs and supports point of sale systems and credit card readers across six counties in eastern Massachusetts. The thing that makes us different isn't the hardware — it's that the person who set your system up is the person who answers when it stops working.

Why local support is the actual product

Here's the honest version of how this industry works. POS hardware is largely commodity. The software platforms — Clover, Square, Toast, SwipeSimple — are available through hundreds of resellers. Processing rates vary, but not infinitely. So when a business buys from a national vendor at a slightly lower price, they're usually not making a mistake on paper.

The mistake shows up later. A kitchen printer stops routing on a Friday at 7pm. A scanner quits reading mid-holiday-season. A terminal won't take chip cards and the line is six deep. At that moment, the thing you need is not a competitive rate or a feature comparison. You need a person in a truck. That's what we sell.

We're not a single-platform reseller

Most POS companies carry one platform, which means whatever you describe, the answer is the thing they sell. That's how a six-table café ends up with an enterprise restaurant package, and how a busy convenience store ends up on a tablet that can't keep up at 5pm.

We work across Clover, Square, Toast and SwipeSimple, which means we can tell you when the cheaper option is the right one. The most useful thing we do is sometimes talk someone out of a purchase.

What's included that others charge for

• Hardware sizing for your actual space and volume
• A line-by-line review of your current processing statement
• Menu, catalog or service list built before install day
• On-site installation on your counter, not a shipped box
• Staff training by role, on your floor, with your items
• Offline mode tested by actually disconnecting your internet
• A follow-up visit during your first genuinely busy period
• New-hire training later, as you grow

What we won't do

We won't quote you a hardware number and then charge per incident to keep it running. We won't tell you a platform does something it doesn't and let you discover it on install day. We won't publish a fake "starting at" price to get you on the phone — your cost depends on your hardware and your rate, and we'll put both in writing before you commit to anything.

And we'll tell you when we're not the right answer. Occasionally the right platform for a business is an industry-specific system we don't carry. We'd rather send you somewhere else and keep the relationship than sell you something that won't work.

Where we work

Six counties: Suffolk, Middlesex, Norfolk, Essex, Plymouth, Worcester. Same-day on-site is routine through the Boston–Cambridge–Somerville core and out through Brookline, Newton and Quincy. On our regular routes — Waltham, Burlington, Braintree, Salem — on-site visits are often same-day. In the outer towns — Lowell, Framingham, Brockton, Plymouth, Worcester — on-site visits are typically next business day, and we triage by phone and remotely the same day you call. We'll be straight with you about response time for your specific town when you call.