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National Teaching and Learning Change ProgrammeInformation and Communication Technology: Dictionary

electronic point-of-sale terminal

Electronic point-of-sale (EPOS) terminals are the specialised terminals used at supermarket checkouts. A point-of-sale terminal will have a variety of functions, which may include electronic funds transfer, as well as bar code scanning combined with getting the costs from a database on the network to produce the customer

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smart cardcard readerhand-held scannerscannerterminalonline shoppingdatabasedatabase management system (DBMS)
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