Benefits of Adding a Second Display to Your POS System

What is a POS system customer display?

A POS system second display is an additional screen that faces the customer when making payment at the counter, through a POS system. They come in different variations such as:

• Digital 2 line display
• Tablet based customer display

Digital 2 line customer display

The digital 2 line display is the legacy type of customer display as shown in the image above. These can still be commonly found in many shopfronts.

The 2 line second display features 2 lines of information display. Most commonly, the top line will be used to display company name, and the second line will be used to display items and prices that are being entered into the POS system. It will then display the subtotal and total bill once all items are entered.

Tablet based customer display

A tablet based customer display, as its name suggests is a customer facing display that displays all items purchased, the subtotal and total bill amount in once screen.

With its larger screen, it can accommodate displaying high resolution company logo and name, and attractive banner images of new items, best sellers and promotions etc.

What are the benefits of using a tablet based customer display?

Some of the benefits of using a tablet based customer display are:

• Able to choose your customer display size
• Display full order details
• Promote your new items
• Display promotions

Able to choose your customer display size

Customer display sizing should not be a one-size-fits-all solution because every merchant will have their preferred customer display size in mind.

A tablet based customer display allows your POS vendor to install the customer display software that can be optimized to fit different tablet sizes. This gives you the flexibility of choice to choose your preferred customer display size.

Display full order details

A tablet customer display has the space to be able to display full order details of your customer’s purchase, subtotal before tax and the total bill size after tax.

This will ensure that billing is transparent, and customers can verify any price discrepancies before making a purchase.

Promote your new products

If you have new products in your shop, there may be a chance that your customers may have missed them.

You could use your tablet customer display to display your new products which may capture your customers interest leading to a purchase when they are making payment.

Display promotions

Everyone loves promotions and discounts. By displaying your latest promotions on your tablet customer display, it may encourage your customers to find out more about the promotions and get more items to enjoy the promotion

Thus, increasing the likelihood of a promotion campaign’s success.

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