eHopper

eHopper is a point-of-sale system for small retailers and restaurants that combines checkout, stock control, staff administration, and reporting. It is best suited to operators who want those functions across Android, iOS, web, or Windows, with restaurants able to add synchronized online ordering. The main decision is whether its plan structure and online-ordering payment terms fit your operation.

Overview

eHopper covers everyday retail and restaurant work: recording sales, managing product quantities and prices, ordering from vendors, setting tax rates, tracking employee time, and reviewing staff activity. Reports include sales, inventory, customer information, staff activity, and transactions, so owners can examine both revenue and operations from one system. Multiple locations, staff permissions, inventory management, offline mode, and hardware support make it more suitable for growing businesses than a basic cash register.

Key features

Inventory, customers, and staff

The free POS offering supports unlimited products and categories, with pricing, quantities, and vendor records. It also allows unlimited employee accounts and can collect customer information during checkout for later remarketing or outreach. Time clocks and employee activity management add useful oversight for stores and restaurants with shifts. Staff permissions help separate responsibilities, while multi-location support matters once one site becomes several.

Reporting, offline use, and integrations

Reporting spans sales, stock, customers, staff activity, and transactions, giving owners more than a daily sales total. On Windows, the POS can continue operating without an internet connection and upload data to a cloud server later, a practical safeguard when connectivity is unreliable.

QuickBooks Online integration synchronizes sales, inventory, and revenue data. Setup requires a Freedom account and a QuickBooks Plus account, so businesses without those accounts should include their cost and administration when evaluating the integration.

Restaurant ordering and payments

The online-ordering system sends pickup, delivery, and dine-in orders into the eHopper POS, reducing the need to re-enter orders. The service lists $0.00 gateway, commission, hosting, SSL, and customer-support fees, but a minimum service fee of $29.99 per month may apply when processing does not generate that amount. Card processing is interchange plus 1% +29c per transaction, with Authorize.net, Nuvei, Stripe, and PayPal supported. Free SSL, CDN, hosting, monitoring, and backups are included.

Pricing

eHopper uses a freemium model with a free plan and paid monthly tiers:

All listed prices are billed monthly. The free POS page’s unlimited products, categories, and employee accounts make it a credible starting point for a small shop, but the paid tier that matches your required capabilities should be confirmed before committing. eHopper also offers a 30-day OmniChannel demo trial. Data from that demo is lost after 30 days unless you upgrade, so it is unsuitable as a long-term free workspace.

Platforms

eHopper runs on Android, iOS, web, and Windows. Windows adds offline operation with later cloud upload. That range suits businesses mixing terminals and mobile devices, while hardware compatibility is listed for both supported categories.

Who it's for

Choose eHopper if you run a small retail or restaurant business and want sales, stock, vendors, staff, customers, and reporting in one POS. It is particularly relevant to multi-site operators, teams needing role permissions, and restaurants that want pickup, delivery, or dine-in orders synchronized with sales. Look elsewhere if you need a trial whose data persists without upgrading, do not want conditional online-ordering fees, or cannot meet the Freedom and QuickBooks Plus requirements for accounting synchronization.

Pros and cons

Pros

• Unlimited products, categories, and employee accounts on the free POS offering support broad catalogs and larger staff rosters.
• Sales, inventory, vendor orders, tax rates, time clocks, staff activity, customers, and transactions are covered in one system.
• Offline Windows operation can keep sales moving during an outage and upload records afterward.
• Online ordering supports pickup, delivery, and dine-in while synchronizing orders to the POS.
• Multi-location support and staff permissions provide structure for expanding teams.

Cons

• The 30-day OmniChannel demo loses its data unless you upgrade, limiting its usefulness for extended evaluation.
• Online ordering may incur a $29.99 monthly minimum when processing falls short, despite the listed $0.00 gateway and service line items.
• QuickBooks synchronization requires both a Freedom account and QuickBooks Plus.
• Several plan capabilities are not established by the monthly prices alone, so selecting the right tier requires careful confirmation.

Alternatives

RetailPOS is a free, open-source, self-hosted option with no monthly fees and broader desktop platform coverage; choose it when avoiding recurring charges and managing hosting yourself matter more than eHopper’s integrated restaurant and staff scope.

Loyverse suits merchants wanting Android, iOS, web, and API access; its free POS keeps 31 days of sales history, while unlimited history costs $5 a month per store.

Open Source Point of Sale is free MIT-licensed software for Linux, macOS, self-hosted, web, and Windows deployments; pick it when open-source deployment is the priority.

Posnic POS offers a free Community Edition billed ₹0 forever and an AGPL-3.0-only desktop application; it is an alternative for organizations comfortable with open-source software.

uniCenta oPOS offers a BASE subscription at £72 a year, charged yearly, with downloads and source code; consider it when that subscription model fits your POS requirements.

NCR Voyix POS is a paid retail POS for grocery, convenience, fuel, department, and specialty retail; choose it when that retail focus matches your business and custom pricing is acceptable.

Oracle Retail Xstore Point-of-Service is a paid option for organizations seeking a retail-focused platform.

Runit RealTime is a paid cloud POS with support and upgrades included in its monthly subscription; it is an alternative for businesses preferring that service model.

For category comparisons, see Retail POS Software, Food Truck POS Software, and Point-of-Sale Software.

Verdict

eHopper is a strong fit for small retailers and restaurants that want a broad POS covering sales, inventory, staff, customers, reporting, and optional online ordering across major platforms. Choose it for that operational breadth and offline Windows support. Look elsewhere if persistent trial data, simpler online-ordering costs, or fewer accounting prerequisites are more important than an all-in-one system.