The global Point of Sale (POS) software market size reached USD 12.7 Billion in 2024. Looking forward, the analyst expects the market to reach USD 24.5 Billion by 2033, exhibiting a growth rate (CAGR) of 7.19% during 2025-2033. The market is experiencing steady growth driven by the escalating need for businesses to enhance operational efficiency and improve customer service, the growing trend towards digital payments and mobile POS solutions, and the integration of advanced technologies.
Point-of-sale (POS) software enables businesses or merchants to manage store operations and perform online retail transactions. It aids in managing inventory, supervising sales, searching for products, accepting payments, scanning consumer goods information faster, tracking taxes, and analyzing and representing sales reports to provide accurate business insights. This, in turn, assists enterprises in ensuring quicker payments, providing a better customer experience, maintaining price consistency, simplifying business operations, and optimizing workflow. At present, POS software is mainly available in fixed and mobile solution types.
Additionally, the integration of software as a service (SaaS), cloud computing, and customer relationship management (CRM) solutions that assist in tracking customer behavior, collecting data, and increasing business revenue is contributing to the market growth. Moreover, the increasing demand for contactless payment options, especially during the sudden outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, is creating a favorable scenario for the market growth.
The pandemic led consumers to shift toward various e-commerce platforms to order food, medicines, and other essential commodities, which, in turn, escalated the number of online deliveries, thus propelling the market growth. Other factors, such as the easy availability of high-speed internet connectivity and strategic collaborations amongst leading players to introduce mobile POS with biometric solutions, are creating a positive outlook for the market.
Point-of-sale (POS) software enables businesses or merchants to manage store operations and perform online retail transactions. It aids in managing inventory, supervising sales, searching for products, accepting payments, scanning consumer goods information faster, tracking taxes, and analyzing and representing sales reports to provide accurate business insights. This, in turn, assists enterprises in ensuring quicker payments, providing a better customer experience, maintaining price consistency, simplifying business operations, and optimizing workflow. At present, POS software is mainly available in fixed and mobile solution types.
POS Software Market Trends:
The widespread adoption of POS software across various industrial verticals can be attributed to rapid digitization and the increasing need for efficient electronic or in-store payment facilities to ensure safe, flexible, and accurate money management while eliminating human errors. In line with this, the extensive employment of e-wallets (electronic wallets) to store credit and debit card information to provide convenience and flexibility to the user during online transactions is acting as another growth-inducing factor.Additionally, the integration of software as a service (SaaS), cloud computing, and customer relationship management (CRM) solutions that assist in tracking customer behavior, collecting data, and increasing business revenue is contributing to the market growth. Moreover, the increasing demand for contactless payment options, especially during the sudden outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, is creating a favorable scenario for the market growth.
The pandemic led consumers to shift toward various e-commerce platforms to order food, medicines, and other essential commodities, which, in turn, escalated the number of online deliveries, thus propelling the market growth. Other factors, such as the easy availability of high-speed internet connectivity and strategic collaborations amongst leading players to introduce mobile POS with biometric solutions, are creating a positive outlook for the market.
Key Market Segmentation:
This report provides an analysis of the key trends in each segment of the market, along with forecasts at the global, regional, and country levels for 2025-2033. Our report has categorized the market based on component, type, deployment mode, organization size, application and end user.Breakup by Component:
- Software
- Service
Breakup by Type:
- Fixed POS
- Mobile POS
Breakup by Deployment Mode:
- Cloud-based
- On-premises
Breakup by Organization Size:
- Large Enterprises
- Small and Medium-sized Enterprises
Breakup by Application:
- Inventory Tracking
- Sales Reporting
- Purchasing Management
- Customer Engagement
- Others
Breakup by End User:
- Restaurants
- Hospitality
- Healthcare
- Retail
- Warehouse
- Entertainment
- Others
Breakup by Region:
- North America
- United States
- Canada
- Asia-Pacific
- China
- Japan
- India
- South Korea
- Australia
- Indonesia
- Others
- Europe
- Germany
- France
- United Kingdom
- Italy
- Spain
- Russia
- Others
- Latin America
- Brazil
- Mexico
- Others
- Middle East and Africa
Competitive Landscape:
The competitive landscape of the industry has also been examined along with the profiles of the key players being Block Inc., Clover Network LLC (Fiserv Inc.), HP Development Company L.P., Idealpos Solutions Pty Ltd, Intel Corporation, Microsoft Corporation, NCR Corporation, Panasonic Canada Inc (Panasonic Holdings Corporation), Revel Systems Inc., SwiftPOS (MSL Solutions), Toast Inc., Toshiba Corporation and Vend Limited (Lightspeed).Key Questions Answered in This Report:
- What was the size of the global POS software market in 2024?
- What is the expected growth rate of the global POS software market during 2025-2033?
- What are the key factors driving the global POS software market?
- What has been the impact of COVID-19 on the global POS software market?
- What is the breakup of the global POS software market based on the type?
- What is the breakup of the global POS software market based on the deployment mode?
- What is the breakup of the global POS software market based on organization size?
- What is the breakup of the global POS software market based on the end user?
- What are the key regions in the global POS software market?
- Who are the key players/companies in the global POS software market?
Table of Contents
1 Preface3 Executive Summary14 Value Chain Analysis16 Price Analysis
2 Scope and Methodology
4 Introduction
5 Global POS Software Market
6 Market Breakup by Component
7 Market Breakup by Type
8 Market Breakup by Deployment Mode
9 Market Breakup by Organization Size
10 Market Breakup by Application
11 Market Breakup by End User
12 Market Breakup by Region
13 SWOT Analysis
15 Porters Five Forces Analysis
17 Competitive Landscape
List of Figures
List of Tables
Companies Mentioned
- Block Inc.
- Clover Network LLC (Fiserv Inc.)
- HP Development Company L.P.
- Idealpos Solutions Pty Ltd
- Intel Corporation
- Microsoft Corporation
- NCR Corporation
- Panasonic Canada Inc (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
- Revel Systems Inc.
- SwiftPOS (MSL Solutions)
- Toast Inc.
- Toshiba Corporation
- Vend Limited (Lightspeed)
Methodology
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Table Information
| Report Attribute | Details |
|---|---|
| No. of Pages | 138 |
| Published | April 2025 |
| Forecast Period | 2024 - 2033 |
| Estimated Market Value ( USD | $ 12.7 Billion |
| Forecasted Market Value ( USD | $ 24.5 Billion |
| Compound Annual Growth Rate | 7.6% |
| Regions Covered | Global |
| No. of Companies Mentioned | 13 |
