POS built for the shop you actually run
Most registers are built for a generic checkout. Specialty retail is a different job — age checks at the counter, high-fee product categories, and rules that change by what's in the case.
A general-purpose POS assumes every sale looks the same: scan, tap, done. Specialty and age-restricted shops don't work that way. The clerk has to card the customer before the sale can ring. The margins on your best movers are thin enough that the card fee — 3.5% plus $0.20 a swipe — quietly eats the profit. And the compliance line you have to hold sits inside the product mix itself, not in some settings menu you'll never open.
Batchly is built the other way around. It's a point-of-sale, inventory, and payments platform made for one independent shop carrying roughly 100 products, of which about 20 core items drive most of the volume. Dual pricing is the piece that changes the math: on every sale you choose who covers the processing fee. The register shows a cash price and a card price side by side, and the customer picks how they pay. It's presented as a cash discount, the model that's permitted in all 50 states. (Confirm the specifics with your processor and counsel, and check your state.)
Under that sits the rest of the counter: age-verification prompts, core-item inventory with reorder points, and Shophand, the AI-staff bundle that answers the phone, texts regulars when they're due to reorder, and handles the busywork a solo owner never has time for. Pick your shop below to see what it looks like in your world.
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Smoke shops
Card every customer at the counter and keep your thin-margin glass and accessory sales from being swallowed by the fee.
Vape shops
Age gates, flavor and nicotine variants, and PMTA-driven SKUs tracked without a spreadsheet — plus dual pricing on every sale.
Liquor stores
ID checks, a deep bottle catalog with a reorder point on every SKU, and a register that hands the card fee back to you on high-ticket bottles.
Ice cream shops
Fast small-ticket scoops where the $0.20 per-swipe fee stings most — so pass or split it and keep the cone profitable.
Coffee shops
Rapid morning rushes, the same 20 drinks all day, and cash-vs-card pricing that protects the margin on a $4 latte.
Boutiques
Size and color variants, low-volume high-margin goods, and a clean cash discount your regulars actually appreciate.
Lounges & tasting rooms
Open a tab, add rounds, close it as one sale, with dual pricing on the card price.
Inventory-first? See smoke shop inventory software and liquor store inventory software, or the AI POS system overview.
Every one of these runs on the same core: dual pricing at the register, inventory that keeps your 20 core movers up front with reorder points, and a 21-day free trial with no card required. The platform is a flat SaaS fee, and your processing rate is set at underwriting — bring any published quote and it gets matched or beaten. Not sure which fit is closest? Start with how dual pricing works, run your own numbers on the card fee calculator, or read whether cash discounting is legal before you commit.
Find your counter, keep your margin
Set up your shop in an afternoon and see the cash and card prices side by side. Free for 21 days.
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