Toy shop POS

The toy store POS system that gets you ready for Christmas.

POS2026 helps independent toy shops organise a wide catalogue, plan Christmas stock from last year's sales and keep the till moving when the shop is full, from the browser on your shop computer or tablet.

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A wide catalogue
Plan from last year
The Christmas rush
After Christmas
Questions

A street decorated with British flags for a celebration — Busy streets mean busy tills. Plan the stock before the rush.

In short

A toy store POS system should organise a wide range of products, keep the till fast in the run-up to Christmas and help you plan stock from last year's sales. POS2026 gives you categories by age, brand or type, barcode checkout, alerts on key lines and sales reports you can filter by date to see exactly what sold last season.

Toy shops have one of the most uneven years in retail. Trade ticks along through spring and summer with birthdays, pocket money and rainy-day treats, then the last months of the year arrive and the shop fills up. Christmas buying has to be done months ahead, often at trade fairs or with sales reps, long before you know which toy every child will be asking for.

The catalogue is wide too: board games, jigsaws, soft toys, construction sets, arts and crafts, outdoor toys and a wall of pocket-money items, from many suppliers. POS2026 keeps that range in order, keeps checkout quick when the queue builds and records what sold each week, so next year's Christmas order starts from your own figures.

Why toy shops switch

One season that decides the year.

Get the Christmas stock right and the rest of the year is easier. Get it wrong and January hurts.

Buying for Christmas in the summer

Christmas orders are placed months ahead. Without last year's figures, you are guessing how many of each line to commit to.
The must-have toy that sells out

One line takes off and is gone by early December. Spot it late and the reorder arrives after Christmas.
A catalogue that sprawls

Hundreds of lines across ages, brands and types make it hard to see which parts of the shop carry the rest.
January leftovers

Whatever did not sell at Christmas sits in the stockroom, holding cash you need for spring.

Shop worker smiling at a customer across the counter — Customers ask for an age or a brand; categories help you find it.

01 · A wide catalogue

Hundreds of lines, organised the way customers shop.

Give each toy a category that matches how customers browse, such as Under 3s, Board games, Construction or Pocket money. Most packaged toys carry a manufacturer barcode, so they scan straight into the sale; add a product image so the right item is easy to find when one does not.

Categories pay off in the reports. You can see which parts of the shop bring in the money and which take up space, which helps when you decide how much floor to give each one.

Categories by age, brand or type

Group the range the way it is laid out.

Scan the box

The manufacturer's code brings up the right toy.

Images for quick picking

Find an unbarcoded item at the till by its photo.

How Products works

Person working on a laptop with a cup of coffee — This year's order, built from last year's sales.

02 · Plan from last year

Plan this Christmas from last Christmas.

Every sale is kept in the sales history, so after your first Christmas on POS2026 you have a detailed record of the season. Narrow the product reports to October, November and December and you can see which lines sold out, which sold steadily and which you are still holding. Export the figures and take them to the trade fair or the rep meeting.

That turns the summer buying decision into something you can measure: commit deeper to lines that sold through, more carefully to ones that ended up in the January sale. Once the orders are placed, log each one in Purchase so you can see which suppliers have delivered and which are still to come.

Every sale kept

A full record of last season, week by week.

Filter by date

Look at the run-up to Christmas on its own.

Export for buying

Bring last year's numbers to the rep meeting.

How Report works

A woman standing at a cash register in a shop — Keep the queue moving in the busiest weeks.

03 · The Christmas rush

A fast till and live stock when the shop is full.

In the busiest weeks, checkout needs to be quick. Scan the box, take off any offer, choose the payment method and hand over the receipt. Stock drops with each sale, so the figures hold up even on the last Saturday before Christmas.

Put a reorder level on each key Christmas line and you are warned as it sells down, with the warnings gathered on the Dashboard. That is your earliest warning to reorder a line that is taking off, while the supplier may still have stock.

Quick checkout

One routine for every sale, however long the queue.

Alerts on key lines

Know which toys are running low.

Fast top-up orders

Record a reorder the moment you need it.

How POS Sales works

A calculator on a table next to a laptop — Leftovers cleared, the year reviewed.

04 · After Christmas

Clear the leftovers and see how the year went.

When the rush is over, stock reports show what is left. Clear it with a January sale, using discounts at the till or lower prices on the products, or keep lines that will sell again next year.

Then look at the whole year. Seasonal wages and extra storage can be recorded as expenses, and Loss/Profit tells you whether it was a good Christmas once every cost is in.

What is left

Stock reports after the season.

January sale

Discounts or new prices to clear stock.

The year in profit

Whether the Christmas rush paid off.

How Stock works

The modules you will use

How a toy shop uses POS2026 through the year.

One app for the range, the rush and the review afterwards.

Getting started

Have your toy shop running on POS2026 before autumn.

Start before the autumn, so a full season of figures is on record by next summer.

Start the free trial early in the year and set your language and currency.
Create categories by age, brand or type.
Load the range, scanning each box barcode and adding a photo where it helps.
Count the stockroom and give your Christmas lines a reorder level.
Add your suppliers and record this season's orders.
Scan your first toy through the till.

Questions

Common questions.

Straight answers for shop owners, based on what POS2026 actually does.

What should a toy shop look for in a POS system?

Fast barcode checkout, a catalogue that copes with a wide range, live stock with low-stock alerts, supplier orders and sales reports by date for planning. POS2026 includes each of those, and the free trial lets you try them before the busy season.

Can I see what sold last Christmas?

Yes, once you have traded a Christmas on POS2026. Every sale is saved, and product reports filtered by date show what sold in any period. If you are new to POS2026, starting now means next year's figures will be there.

Can I put a toy aside for a customer with a deposit?

Yes. Ring it up under the customer's name, enter what they have paid so far, and the remainder waits on the Due List until they come in to collect.

Does it do gift cards or vouchers?

No. POS2026 does not offer gift cards or loyalty schemes, so check whether you need those before you switch.

Can seasonal staff use it?

Yes. The till runs in a web browser on any computer, laptop or tablet you have, and the steps are the same every time. POS2026 does not manage staff rotas or permissions. For a shop that mixes toys and gifts, the gift shop POS page looks at seasonal buying from another angle.

Buy smarter for Christmas, sell faster when it comes.

Start a free trial now, and next year's Christmas order will have this year's figures behind it.

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