Odoo Point of Sale is the browser-based till for shops and restaurants. See how to set it up, which printers, scanners and card terminals it supports, how sessions and offline use work, and how sales reach stock and accounting.
Odoo Point of Sale, or Odoo POS, is the browser-based till that a shop, café or restaurant uses to take orders, accept payments and print receipts. Odoo's documentation says it runs on any device and keeps working through a temporary internet outage. Every sale lands in the same database as your stock and accounts. This guide follows the 19.0 documentation, so screens may differ in 20.0.
In short
Cashiers add products by tapping or scanning, apply discounts, take payments and hand over a printed or emailed receipt. Restaurants add floors, tables, kitchen orders, split bills and tips, and both can offer self-ordering on a kiosk or a customer's phone.
Point of Sale appears among the Community apps in our Community vs Enterprise guide, and Odoo's documentation notes that it installs the Inventory app automatically.
Products. Create them under Point of Sale ‣ Products ‣ Products with the Point of Sale box ticked, and group them with POS categories (Point of Sale ‣ Configuration ‣ PoS Product Categories). Once you use categories, a product without one is hidden in the register. Stock tracking needs the product type Goods (or Combo) with tracking on.
Payment methods. Create them under Point of Sale ‣ Configuration ‣ Payment Methods. Each has a journal, the POS where it applies and an Integration: None required for cash, Terminal, Bank App (QR Code) or Cash Machine. Odoo advises a dedicated cash journal and a Bank journal for terminals. With Accounting installed, an optional Intermediary Account routes a method to a chosen receivable account.
Taxes. The taxes assigned to a product apply directly to the POS order and change only through a fiscal position, as Odoo's taxes documentation states. Register retail prices with tax either included or excluded, not both, as Odoo's tax-included pricing page advises. The tax's Included in Price field controls which.
Receipts. The Bills & Receipts settings cover a header, a footer, automatic printing, SMS or WhatsApp sending and a QR code for invoice requests. Odoo's Saudi Arabia page adds a Gulf Cooperation Council Format option for Arabic as a second receipt language.
Odoo's hardware documentation covers printers, scanners, scales, customer displays, cash drawers, payment terminals and shelf labels.
| Device | Connection | What the documentation says |
|---|---|---|
| Network receipt printer | Wi-Fi or Ethernet, IP address in the POS settings | Epson TM-m30 i, ii and iii are recommended, other Epson ePOS models should work, no IoT system needed |
| USB ePOS or ESC/POS printer | IoT system | The Epson TM-T20 and TM-T88 families need one |
| Bluetooth printer | Not supported | Odoo states they are not compatible |
| Cash drawer | Cable to the printer | An RJ25 cable, in the IoT steps |
| Barcode scanner | USB, or the webcam icon | Match the keyboard layout, send Enter after each scan |
| Scale | IoT system | Mettler Toledo Ariva S recommended. In EU member states, certification is legally required |
| Customer display | USB-C, HDMI, IoT box screen or QR code | At least 6 inches diagonal |
Only for some devices. It is an IoT box, a plug-and-play micro-computer, or Odoo's Windows virtual IoT program, and Odoo recommends a physical one for scales. The IoT page says an IoT box subscription is required for production use, so ask Odoo or a partner what applies to your edition.
Odoo documents 13 providers: Adyen, DPO Pay, Ingenico, Mercado Pago, Mollie, Pine Labs, QFPay, Razorpay, SIX, Stripe, Tyro, Viva.com and Worldline, plus Cashdro, Cashmatic and Glory cash machines. Ingenico, SIX and Worldline need an IoT system, while Adyen, Mollie, Stripe and Viva.com need none. Coverage is limited: Tyro serves Australia, QFPay Hong Kong, Pine Labs Indian companies, and Ingenico and Worldline Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg. The pages do not name the Gulf countries, so ask the provider and an Odoo partner before you buy.
Odoo 19.0 speaks of opening and closing the register, while reports say session.
On Point of Sale ‣ Dashboard, click Open Register on the POS card and confirm the Opening cash amount in the Opening Control popover. Cash moved without a sale goes through Cash In/Out in the register menu. With Log in with Employees, staff switch by PIN or badge, and closing the register needs advanced rights.
In the register menu, click Close Register. Odoo shows the orders, the total and the expected amount per payment method, you count coins and bills, and closing posts the accounting entries. A cash difference opens a Payments Difference window, and Proceed Anyway posts it to the cash difference journal. Set Maximum Difference makes a manager approve gaps above a limit you choose. A restaurant POS cannot close with draft orders. Past sessions: POS card menu ‣ View ‣ Sessions.
Yes, for the core job. Products and customers load into the browser cache when a session starts, and offline orders stay there until the connection returns, so do not close, reload or clear the browser until they sync. Customer registration, real-time stock sync, payment terminals and on-demand data are unavailable offline, and invoices requested offline are generated after reconnection. Local printers and scales keep working if the network is unchanged.
Tick Is a Bar/Restaurant for floor plans and tables, table transfers, courses, bill splitting and tips. Orders go to a kitchen printer or a preparation display, and presets such as Dine In and Takeout can carry their own pricelist and fiscal position. The UrbanPiper page lists delivery platforms by country, including HungerStation, Jahez, Mrsool, NoonFood and Talabat for Saudi Arabia. Check their commercial terms first.
The Pricing section offers global and line discounts, Price Control to restrict price changes, and Promotions, Coupons, Gift Card & Loyalty Program, configured under Point of Sale ‣ Products ‣ Discount & Loyalty. Promotions apply automatically, while cashiers add Buy X get Y and loyalty rewards. Points need a customer on the order.
Odoo's accounting documentation says journal entries for point-of-sale orders are created automatically, and the register documentation says closing the register posts them. The POS settings' Accounting section holds the default journals for orders and invoices. Keep a dedicated cash method and journal per POS so entries stay traceable. An invoice needs a customer on the order, and a refund creates a credit note.
For Saudi shops, the Saudi Arabia page has a Point of sale section: install the Saudi Arabia - E-invoicing (Simplified) module, onboard the Invoices journal with a one-time password from the Fatoora portal, and assign a customer to each order before finalising it. Confirm your obligations with ZATCA or your accountant, and see Odoo for Saudi Arabia.
On the stock side, the Inventory app tracks the products you mark, and the optional Ship Later feature creates a delivery order. Odoo's POS pages do not spell out when each stock move is created, so test it: sell a tracked item, close the register, then check the Inventory moves history report and the journal entry. Our inventory guide and accounting guide cover both apps.
Our edition guide lists it among the Community apps, so it has no licence fee there. Hardware, card fees, hosting and setup still cost money, and the IoT box needs a subscription for production use. See how much Odoo costs.
The documentation says it runs in a browser on any device, and an IoT box can drive a customer display for tablet setups.
Not always. Network Epson ePOS printers and terminals such as Adyen, Mollie and Stripe work without one. USB printers, scales and Ingenico, SIX or Worldline terminals need an IoT system.
Yes. Create one POS per shop or till, each with its own payment methods and cash journal.
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