--- description: Learn more about Cash Register price, benefits, and disadvantages for businesses in Ireland. Read verified software reviews and discover tools that fit your business needs. image: https://gdm-localsites-assets-gfprod.imgix.net/images/capterra/og_logo-e5a8c001ed0bd1bb922639230fcea71a.png?auto=format%2Cenhance%2Ccompress title: Cash Register Pricing, Cost & Reviews - Capterra Ireland 2026 --- Breadcrumb: [Home](/) > [POS Systems](/directory/20052/point-of-sale/software) > [Cash Register](/software/141376/cash-register) # Cash Register Canonical: https://www.capterra.ie/software/141376/cash-register Page: 1 / 2\ Next: [Next page](https://www.capterra.ie/software/141376/cash-register?page=2) > A completely free POS system with inventory features allowing for tracking up to 26k different items and up to 56 employee sale \& tips. > > Verdict: Rated **4.9/5** by 18 users. Top-rated for **Likelihood to recommend**. ----- ## Overview ### Who Uses Cash Register? All small and medium retail General retail Restaurants Theaters (Tickets) Timed sales (Rental / use per minute or hour) ## Quick Stats & Ratings | Metric | Rating | Detail | | **Overall** | **4.9/5** | 18 Reviews | | Ease of Use | 4.7/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Customer Support | 4.7/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Value for Money | 5.0/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Features | 4.7/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Recommendation percentage | 100% | (10/10 Likelihood to recommend) | ## About the vendor - **Company**: KeyHut - **Founded**: 2001 ## Commercial Context - **Starting Price**: US$1.00 - **Pricing model**: Per User (Free version available) - **Pricing Details**: Free - **Target Audience**: Self Employed, 2–10, 11–50 - **Deployment & Platforms**: Windows (Desktop) - **Supported Languages**: English - **Available Countries**: United States ## Features - Barcode/Ticket Scanning - Customer Accounts - Discount Management - Employee Management - Inventory Management ## Support Options - Chat ## Category - [POS Systems](https://www.capterra.ie/directory/20052/point-of-sale/software) ## Alternatives 1. 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Sometimes it becomes slow, maybe some system (Cash Register or ecommerce platform) is busy or there are a lot of people using the system at same time. > > It helps us about payment system, now it is like automated to accounting area. ----- ### "Cash Register Review" — 5.0/5 > **Michelle** | *3 April 2019* | Food & Beverages | Recommendation rating: 9.0/10 > > **Pros**: -It allows the user to configure the POS system according to the needs of the business without having to rely on a programmer or on tech support. That means less downtime for the business because the business owner does not need to schedule a programmer to do the setting up of the POS system. -Any user who can read and understand basic instructions can actually set it up. The features of each function has explanations on what it is for (on the same screen), how the settings affect the user, and how to configure each function. The user can make the system as simple or as robust as he wants it to be. The most basic step is just to input the items and the prices and you can already have a working POS system. -I do not encounter runtime errors which perhaps is due to the fact that it is DOS-based unlike if the software runs on some other programming languages. -It could be configured in one computer and then installed on another by just copying and pasting the whole POS folder in a USB or via a network. -It has some good features such as the ff: a. You can set it up to compute for discounts for specific people (e.g. senior citizens) or during promotional sales. b. You can maintain, add, and monitor inventories. c. You can set up access levels through the setting up of passwords for different functionalities. d. It can actually print on receipt printers, open cash registers and utilize pole displays. e. It can track and display all transactions whether sales, voids, etc > > **Cons**: I'm actually looking for a way for the cashier to input the cash on hand in the system before the cash register totals are displayed so we can check if the actual cash is over or short from the POS register totals. What we do now is a workaround. The cashier inputs the cash on hand in the POS system and another person closes the cash register and declares if the actual cash is over or short from the POS totals. Also you can't use a mouse on it since it is DOS-based. However, it displays what you need to press in the keyboard to do transactions. > > Overall, I am happy with the Cash Register software. Even if it is free, it can rival other software that charges a fee for its use. It has functionalities that other expensive software offers. It can basically run any business whether it is heavy on inventories or services. It is configurable by the user himself. It is user-friendly and easy to set-up. It can monitor sales (per hour, per day, per item, etc.), track and update inventories and even customers if the business requires, and set up user limits. We have used it before in a computer rental business. We are using it now for our milk tea business. It can be a useful tool in any business, I think. ----- ### "Good enough for basic cash register and inventory management" — 3.0/5 > **MADHUR** | *15 June 2021* | Hospital & Health Care | Recommendation rating: 6.0/10 > > **Pros**: Easy to use. New Assistant get used to this software within 2 days to input data of collected cash and inventory stock management. > > **Cons**: Very less feature compare to other software but so is the price. May be developer needs to add more feature and start selling those extra features at premium rate. > > Cash collection from customers/ patients makes easy and that too with transparency. No chance for employee/assistant to steal few cash because every entry is accounted. Inventory stock management of items needs more improvements. ----- ### "Cash Register (or DHPOS): A Classic, but Classy, Free POS Application" — 5.0/5 > **Nicholas** | *17 March 2019* | Information Technology & Services | Recommendation rating: 10.0/10 > > **Pros**: It is heartening that this package is completely free when many POS applications are painfully expensive for small businesses on a tight budget. But, even if it had instead been a paid product, nothing quite measures up to DHPOS (otherwise known as Cash Register) for rock-solid common sense, customisation and broad application to almost any small retail business that is happy to do without a graphical interface. Some may balk at using a DOS application for their day-to-day POS requirements -- and it is indeed a very classic DOS application written in QuickBasic 4.5 -- but it is both stable and reliable, as well as enjoying tremendous voluntary support from its creator. As it is a DOS application it will run on virtually any platform including 64-bit Windows, Linux and Mac OS courtesy of DOSBox and provides an advanced cash register, inventory manager, customer database and reports engine as its core functionality. Additionally it can provide ticket sales for theatre environments, a kitchen display for restaurants and bars, timed sales for Internet cafe type environments, and a variety of additional other features for innumerable business cases. It generates very detailed and useful reports that if used appropriately can be exactly what a small business needs to get control of its cashflow. All business operations in DHPOS follow a linear, step-by-step model which prevent errors from staff input and it requires very little staff training to use once set up. > > **Cons**: As it is a DOS program, there is no native support for many printers and barcode scanners directly from the program itself when run under Linux or Windows, so it can sometimes be tricky to make these devices behave themselves. There is a program called APRINT provided with the package for printing under Windows, although this can sometimes be a little tricky to configure correctly and does not always work. A workaround is available via the serial port emulation functionality of DOSBox which under Linux can be mapped to a physical device. This however is not a fault so much with the software as the environment in which it is developed, although given some persistence these issues can generally be overcome successfully. > > Whilst it may well be the case that many commercial and cloud-based POS packages have a nicer-looking user interface and require less setup and configuration, I have always been impressed with the rock-solid, "Swiss Army Knife" type approach that DHPOS takes. It is true that there is a little tinkering and thought necessary to get the software working the way that a client wants for initial setup, but once done nothing needs to be further altered and there are no ongoing costs to the client; it is literally like a physical cash register once set up. I still see some small businesses struggling with "dumb" cash register type tills that are clearly inadequate for their requirements where DHPOS can easily do a far better job, and for free, on literally any computer they have to hand even if it dates back to the late 1980s. This software could be a huge game changer for these businesses that could benefit from a more rigorous and careful analysis of their sales transactions. Above all, in terms of experience, I must say that the creator has proven to be an absolute gentleman to all of us in the DHPOS user community. Despite this being an unpaid role of his, and the software being free, quite amazingly he provides better support to all of us in using his software than many people get from paid POS support contracts. ----- ### "Great POS Software and It's FREE\!\!" — 5.0/5 > **Dwight** | *8 October 2019* | Accounting | Recommendation rating: 9.0/10 > > **Pros**: I like that the software didn't cost me more than a donation, which I believe should be done by everyone to help this developer improve the software. I like that with my technological knowledge the software was fairly easy to install and set up. It gives you great, in software, direction and information to make setup easy by simply following the direct and clear instructions given. Despite it being free I like that you can connect your cash register, barcode reader, and your pole display to the software. Of course you can connect your receipt printer a well with ease. It has all the needed features to run a successful business such as inventory for retail store and because of this there's no real need to go buy an expensive POS system which will do the same job as this one which is FREE. They say "free isn't always good", however this POS software is the complete opposite of that well known statement. It's not only good it's great and get the needed job done. On top of all this I like the customer service received it was fast, clear, and helpful. Something many wouldn't expect to get from a free software. Hats off to the owner of this product for being so dedicated. > > **Cons**: What I don't like and would like to see change even though it's not a big issue would be to have the capability to use the mouse to select the options instead of using just the keyboard. I would also like if the interface can be upgraded a little and look a little more user friendly or pretty in other words. However those are minor things and doesn't really should matter long as it gets the job done. > > Overall it's a great experience. Needed a POS system to meet tax department requirement in my country and this solve that problem at little to no cost to my business. Great software we love it. ----- Page: 1 / 2\ Next: [Next page](https://www.capterra.ie/software/141376/cash-register?page=2) ## Links - [View on Capterra](https://www.capterra.ie/software/141376/cash-register) ## This page is available in the following languages | Locale | URL | | de | | | de-AT | | | de-CH | | | en | | | en-AE | | | en-AU | | | en-CA | | | en-GB | | | en-IE | | | en-IL | | | en-IN | | | en-NZ | | | en-SG | | | en-ZA | | | es | | | es-AR | | | es-CL | | | es-CO | | | es-CR | | | es-DO | | | es-EC | | | es-MX | | | es-PA | | | es-PE | | | fr | | | fr-BE | | | fr-CA | | | fr-LU | | | nl | | | nl-BE | | ----- ## Structured Data