BarraPOS is a Windows POS for Australian retail. It installs on your machines, talks to your own database, and when the connection drops mid-Saturday-rush, it keeps selling — then syncs everything back the moment you're online.
No browser tab. No "cloud outage" excuses. Real software, installed on your hardware.
These aren't roadmap promises — every feature below is built, tested on real hardware, and in the product today.
Run one till or a whole counter of them against a shared PostgreSQL database. Start a sale on till 1, park it, finish it on till 3 — receipts follow the customer, not the machine.
If the connection drops, each till switches to a local cache and keeps trading. Sales queue up and sync automatically when you're back online — and anything unusual (like an oversell during the outage) is flagged for review, not silently ignored.
Every refund, discount, void and permission change is logged. Suspicious patterns — repeated failed logins, unusual refund activity — surface automatically, so you find out from your dashboard, not your accountant.
An executive dashboard with real profit margins — COGS, expense tracking and sales forecasting — so you know which products make you money, not just which ones sell.
See sales per staff member, track targets, and use light gamification to keep the team engaged — without turning your shop into a surveillance operation.
A proper Windows installer, a licence tied to your business, and your data in your database — on your premises or a server you control. If we disappeared tomorrow, your POS would still open on Monday.
Most POS vendors treat security as a checkbox. BarraPOS was designed around it, because small retailers are the businesses attackers actually target.
Time-based one-time codes (TOTP) for owner and manager accounts, with automatic account lockout after repeated failed attempts.
Every till talks to the database over SSL/TLS. Nothing crosses your network in plain text.
Brute-force detection, refund and discount flagging, and a permanent record of who changed what, when — designed for the day you need to prove it.
Licences are cryptographically signed (Ed25519) — the same class of cryptography used to secure modern internet infrastructure. No phone-home dependency to open your till.
No percentage of your sales, no surprise processing lock-in, no "contact sales" runaround. All prices in AUD and include GST.
One till, one shop, the essentials.
per till / month, incl. GST
Multiple tills, growing shop.
per till / month, incl. GST
Serious operators who run on numbers.
per till / month, incl. GST
One-off onboarding from $499: we install BarraPOS on your machines, set up your database, load your products, and stay until your first live sale goes through. After that, your subscription is the only ongoing cost.
BarraPOS is built by an independent Australian developer with a background in software engineering and cybersecurity — not a venture-funded company optimising for a headcount slide.
That means the person who wrote the code is the person who answers your support email. It also means the product is built the way a security person builds things: assume the internet fails, log everything, encrypt everything, and never let a licence server stop a shop from trading.
If that sounds like the kind of vendor you'd rather deal with, book a demo and see the real software — not a slide deck.
No — and that's deliberate. BarraPOS is Windows software that runs on your machines with your own database. You get the things cloud POS vendors can't honestly promise: it works with no internet, your data stays on hardware you control, and there's no monthly bill tied to someone else's uptime.
Each till switches to its local cache and keeps trading. Sales queue up and sync automatically when the connection returns. If two tills sold the last unit of something during the outage, that's allowed on purpose — then flagged in the Security & Audit Centre so you can fix the stock count, instead of a customer being refused at the counter.
Any reasonably modern Windows 10 or 11 machine per till, plus your receipt printer and cash drawer. If you're not sure whether your existing gear will work, ask — checking that is part of onboarding.
No. You pay a flat per-till subscription. BarraPOS doesn't lock you into a payment processor or skim a percentage of turnover the way some platforms do.
Your data lives in your PostgreSQL database, and the software is installed on your machines — it doesn't need our servers to open the till each morning. This is the honest answer every small vendor should give you, and most won't.
Yes — book a demo and you'll see the actual software running, on a real multi-till setup, including what happens when we pull the network cable. No slideware.
A 30-minute demo of the real software — including the part where we unplug the internet.
Book a free demoOr email us directly: sales@barrapos.com.au