As of 13 August 2026, AI can only partly compare EPOS systems for your UK shop.

What to actually do

1. Hand it to a person

   The route this page recommends

   A person who owns the outcome does this end to end, worth it when the failure is dear.

2. Use a tool built for this

   Second choice

3. Do it yourself

   The distant third

   A chat interface, chat-fluent skill, and roughly 30 minutes until you can act on the result.

   How to actually do it

   1. Write down your shop type, number of tills and locations, staff count, sales channels, products, required hardware, integrations and the three requirements that matter most.
   2. Open the official UK pages for each EPOS supplier and save the current pricing, hardware, payment, contract, support and integration information, including the URL for each claim.
   3. Collect any existing quotes, payment-provider terms, hardware lists and accounting or ecommerce requirements that the comparison must accommodate.
   4. Paste the prompt into an AI research tool, replace every bracketed slot, and attach or paste the supplier pages, quotes and documents.
   5. Ask the tool to produce the comparison table, source links, unknowns, ranked shortlist and supplier questions without filling gaps with estimates.
   6. Compare every price, fee, contract term, feature and integration in the draft against the official supplier pages and written quotes checked on 2026-08-13.
   7. Send the supplier-question list to the shortlisted providers, record their written answers, update the comparison, and run the leading system through a realistic till, refund, stock and reporting workflow before buying.

   Prompt

   Compare EPOS systems for my UK shop using only the supplier sources and documents I provide or you can cite. The shop is [shop type], with [number of tills or trading locations], [number of staff], [sales channels], [products or services], [payment provider if known], [accounting, ecommerce or delivery integrations], and [required hardware]. My priorities are [priorities], my budget approach is [budget], and my target decision date is 2026-08-13.
   
   Research these systems: [system names or supplier URLs]. Create a table covering upfront hardware, software subscription, transaction or payment fees, contract length and cancellation, support, stock control, staff permissions, reporting, offline operation, refunds, customer data handling, integrations, hardware compatibility, onboarding and likely limitations. Do not invent prices, features, legal claims or compatibility. Mark each item as confirmed, unclear or not found, and include the source URL and the date checked for every material claim. Separate supplier claims from your analysis.
   
   Then rank the systems against my stated requirements, explain the trade-offs, identify missing information, give me a supplier-question list, and recommend a short list rather than making the purchase decision for me. Where a figure is unavailable, write "not found" rather than estimating it.

   Open it prefilled in ChatGPT or Claude, or copy it into Gemini, which takes no prefill link.