Products · Broad category
POS systems
Raised as a usability problem by 6 people on Hacker News over 16 years (2010–2025), in 6 threads.
This is a broad category rather than one product, so its issues aren't ranked on the home page.
People raised many different problems with POS systems, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.
Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.
The newest 6 complaints
- Tip request prompts are so annoying they push people away from paying by card2025-05-15
- Tax is folded into preset tip amounts, which messes with mental math2023-06-13
- Feels rushed to check the bill and tip while the server watches2022-10-30
- Adding custom requests and clicking the right items takes many extra steps and mistakes2018-05-11
- Card readers don't prompt for the card until the total is pressed, so inserting early ruins the transaction2010-11-04
- Touchscreen presses take 3-4 seconds to register, slowing ticket sales2010-05-18