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New technologies have undoubtedly co-opted a good part of our daily life, to facilitate it of course it is there and then in that sense it is possible to see them intervene in many of the actions that we carry out... And the machine POS is one of the many materializations of it since it allows us to carry out purchases of products and services without tickets, because basically this machine works online, with credit cards or debit that we have the clients. It allows us to make a transaction in a simple, fast and safe way since we pay through the money that we have in a bank account (debit card) or via credit with cards of this nature.

Purchases through these machines have become a widespread fact throughout the world as a result of the benefits reported in the paragraph previous.
It should be noted that this type of machine is used almost exclusively in those commercial transactions of the Commerce retail and are available in almost all shops, supermarkets, clothing stores, hairdressers, bookstores, appliance sales houses, restaurants, among others.

The POS machine has a digital screen in which the operation data, a keyboard Through which you can enter the transaction info. Meanwhile, the card is inserted or passed through a specific space before starting the operation.

Without fear of exaggeration, we must say that the appearance of this machine notably revolutionized the commercial retail market because before its arrival it was certainly done It was cumbersome to charge through credit cards, requiring, for example, a phone call to the card issuing company to authorize the transaction and to that was added a form which was placed in a very impractical manual machine. Normally it was difficult to engage in communication with the card company and then the procedure ended up being very slow, until the POS machine appeared that scans, authorizes the payment and even supports digital signatures.

The name of POS comes from the abbreviation attributed to it in English: point of sale, which translated into Spanish refers to point of sale.