Cybertill

I did a 3 year stint in the EPOS industry a few years ago, and Cybertill were our arch rivals (it's a cut-throat industry which I'm glad to be out of... poaching of staff, aggressive marketing and questionable business ethics is rife).

There's nothing particulary special about Cybertill compared to other EPOS solutions. Most EPOS systems have a stock control system that you can hook an e-commerce store into.

I once had a chat with the bloke who thought up Cybertill as a concept - combined EPOS and e-commerce run on an ASP model (Application Service Provider, rather than Active Server Pages, although I believe it's coded in the latter) and coded it initially. He reckons it's full of security holes and the architecture hasn't been updated for the best part of a decade, though he seemed to have a certain amount of sour grapes about his departure from the company.

The way e commerce with EPOS systems works varies. With some system, you have to allocate stock to e-commerce as a separate branch; others will let you source stock from one or several branches depending on sales and stock trends.

You need to make sure you understand how it works - if stock is allocated purely to e-commerce (and stock allocation is adhered to), you know that you can't take an order after the line has sold out. However, you can't source stock from branches which have an excess of stock without manually adjustment of stock levels, which is a PITA and time consuming.

What type of operation are you looking at it for? Single or multiple branch? What sector of retail is it?