POS systems in Cambodia compared: what ten vendors are actually good at

We build one of the ten systems below; it is not ranked first, and the table is alphabetical. Nothing here is a hands-on test of a rival. We have run a shift only on our own till and read every other vendor off its own public pages, checked on 16 August 2026, with one price carrying a caveat set out below. Support quality we could not verify for anybody, ourselves included. Scale POS loses on price and on age. It is also the only row where we had complete information, which is a reason to weigh its column of yeses more lightly than it looks, not more heavily.

How was this comparison built, and who is publishing it?

By reading, not by testing. What follows is what each vendor states on its own public pages. Where a vendor states a price, that figure is quoted. Where a vendor states nothing, the cell says so.

Three rules kept it honest. First, a vendor that publishes no price is recorded as "Not published". Never a guess, and never a figure lifted from a third-party listing or a reseller's blog without saying where it came from. Second, a column a vendor does not address is recorded as "Not stated". Several of these systems may well sell offline or hold two currencies without ever writing it down, and if a vendor tells you they do, believe them over this table. Third, every source is printed as a plain domain and a date rather than as a link. That last rule is deliberate: there is one domain in this list we will not send traffic to, and carving a single exception would point at it harder than a link would. So nothing is linked, and every other source is printed in full below the table.

Two things could not be verified at all. The first is what any of these systems actually does when the connection drops, beyond what its vendor claims. That is a test you have to run on a demo device yourself, and there is a five-minute procedure for it in what happens when the connection drops. The second is support: response time, whether anyone will come to your province, what happens on a Sunday afternoon. No public page will tell you, and no comparison table can.

One row needs a caveat before you quote MPOS at anyone. MPOS serves its site as a browser-rendered application, and a plain fetch of its pricing page returns no readable text at all. The tier names and figures in the table were therefore read from that page's own pricing data rather than from the rendered screen, which we did not see. This is the one price here we cannot say we read as a visitor reads it. Two details follow. The underlying figures are held as 7.99, 19.9 and 69.9, written with two decimals in the table for readability. And the page's monthly/yearly toggle opens on yearly, so the first number actually on screen is likely to be the lower one. Confirm the row on screen before you rely on it.

One last thing, since it is the reason this article exists. Search for the best POS system in Cambodia and what comes back is a set of short ranked lists, each published by a vendor that placed itself at the top of its own ranking. That is what happens when nobody independent writes the piece, and it leaves a buyer here with no neutral starting point.

What do the ten systems actually cost?

Read across a row rather than down the price column. Two systems at the same published figure can behave completely differently in the three columns that follow it.

The pages every figure above came from, so you can check any of them yourself. All were read on 16 August 2026.

• Atech: atech-it.com, restaurant POS pricing page.
• CamboPOS: cambopos.com, pricing page and front page.
• CLOSO: closocambodia.com, POS software page and front page.
• Innolabs: innolabs.dev, POS page.
• Loyverse: loyverse.com pricing page; offline behaviour and currency scope from help.loyverse.com.
• MPOS: m-pos.cc, pricing page, with the caveat set out above.
• MyLekha: mylekha.net, POS system page and front page.
• POS Cambodia: their own pricing page, read on the same date as everyone else's. We are withholding this domain and not printing it; nothing in their entry rests on anything except the tiers they publish.
• Scale POS: ours, at scalekh.com.
• Smart POS: smartpossoftware.com, pricing page and Cambodia page.

The pattern in that column matters more than any single figure, because two business models are wearing similar clothes. One sells a licence once: Atech at $500, Smart POS on a quote, CamboPOS bundled into the hardware. Your risk there is that the software stops being maintained while you still own it. The other sells a subscription: Innolabs at $299 a year, MyLekha from $5 a month, MPOS from $7.99, Loyverse free with paid add-ons, ours from $12.99. Your risk there is that the headline figure is not the whole figure. Add-ons are where both models find you. On one of these pages loyalty is another $500 and tablet ordering another $200; on another, employee management is $5 a month per employee. Price the shop you will be running in two years, not the one you run today.

Where is each one genuinely the right answer?

Ten short answers, alphabetically, same as the table. Each is the case for that system put as strongly as its own published material supports, including the ones that beat us.

Atech

Atech publishes the clearest one-time number in the market: $500 for the software licence, described as a lifetime licence, with basic terminals from around $400 and a larger hardware setup around $1,000. Loyalty is another $500 and tablet ordering another $200, so do the addition before you set that total against a monthly figure. Their published client list is restaurant and café chains you will recognise from any Phnom Penh mall. If your instinct is to own the software outright rather than rent it, this is the entry that matches the instinct.

CamboPOS

CamboPOS sells the till as a boxed thing: hardware bundles listed by product code, software included, and in their own words "offline use, no require internet, no monthly payment". No price is published against those codes, so the conversation starts with a quote. What they are describing is the model a great many Cambodian shops actually want. Pay once, no subscription, keeps working when the line goes down. Their published client list reaches past the capital: a coffee shop and a noodle brand with branches in Battambang are both on it.

CLOSO

CLOSO has been at this the longest of anyone here, "16 Years of Experience" by their own front page, and sells separate product lines for retail and marts, for restaurants and cafés, and for wholesale and distribution, alongside ERP, accounting and HR systems. Multi-currency is listed as a feature. No price is published, and the software is described as cloud-based with nothing said about what happens offline. Longevity answers a real question: if what worries you most is whether your vendor will still exist in five years, sixteen years of clients is a better answer than any feature list.

Innolabs

Innolabs publishes the most complete public specification in this table: $299 a year for the POS, from $799 a year with invoicing, accounting and payroll attached. They state dual currency in the plainest terms anyone here uses: "accept USD and Riel automatically in the same sale". That sits alongside Khmer language, KHQR certified with Cambodian banks, NFC loyalty cards and Sunmi hardware, and they claim regulation-ready receipts for electronic invoicing on the upper tier. Offline behaviour is the one thing they do not address. If you want a Cambodian vendor whose price and capabilities are both on the page before you pick up the phone, this is the strongest entry here.

Loyverse

Loyverse is free, and free is a real answer rather than a consolation. The till, the dashboard, the kitchen display and the customer display all cost nothing; you pay only for unlimited sales history at $5 a month per store, employee management at $5 a month per employee, or advanced inventory at $25 a month per store. It sells offline, holding receipts locally as "Unsynced" and pushing them up on reconnect. Refunds are disabled while offline, customer records are locked, and stock levels are hidden until it syncs. The catch for Cambodia sits in the settings: currency is set once per account. One counter, one currency, no staff to manage and no budget at all, and Loyverse is not the compromise. It is the answer.

MPOS

MPOS is built around the restaurant floor: QR self-ordering from a multilingual menu, table and kitchen zones, ABA, UPAY and KHQR, and an interface in Chinese, English and Khmer. It claims more than 2,000 restaurants. Pricing is published and tiered: a free Starter capped at five tables and fifty products, then $7.99, $19.90 and $69.90 a month, each cheaper billed yearly. The vendor's own FAQ says two currencies can be added and used together. If you run a restaurant where guests order from their phones and some of your staff read Chinese, this is the entry shaped for you.

MyLekha

MyLekha sells what most first-time buyers actually want: a counter, in a box, at a price. A mobile set from $199, desktop or tablet from $389, touchscreen from $499, each with the first year of software free, and a cash drawer or receipt printer priced separately on the same page. After that first year the software runs $5, $10 or $15 a month depending on store, staff and device counts, with twenty per cent off if you pay annually. If you have never bought a till before and want one purchase decision rather than three, start here.

POS Cambodia

POS Cambodia leads with a free tier, and on that it is doing what Loyverse and MPOS do: letting a shop start at nothing and decide later, which is a real answer for a counter that is not yet sure what it needs. The paid tiers are $500 and a premium tier that sends you to Telegram, so the next step is a conversation rather than a checkout, the same as it is with CamboPOS, CLOSO and Smart POS. What is different is that no billing period is attached to any of the three tiers, and that gap is the one thing in this table a buyer cannot close by reading harder. So ask two questions on that call before anything else: is the $500 a month, a year, or once; and what stops working if it lapses. There is very likely a good answer to both. It is simply not on the page.

Scale POS

Ours, so weigh it accordingly. Scale POS starts at $12.99 a month with two weeks free and twelve months for the price of ten; counter hardware and on-site setup are quoted separately. It holds USD and KHR on the same sale in integer minor units, with one rounding rule and one rate stored against the sale, so a refund next month reverses what was actually charged rather than re-pricing it. It runs entirely on local storage with the network optional, and a retrying queue catches the device up on reconnect. Every sale, every refund and each shift open and close reaches the owner's phone on Telegram, each sale followed by its receipt as a PDF.

What it does not have is age. The company was founded in 2025, against sixteen years at one vendor in this table and a mall-chain client list at another. If installed base is the thing that reassures you, that is a fair reason to buy something else. And if what you want is the cheapest possible start, Loyverse, the free MPOS tier and POS Cambodia's free tier all beat us outright: they begin at nothing, and we do not.

Smart POS

Smart POS sells a self-hosted licence on a pay-once model, "never pay monthly again", with no figure published and a quote form in its place. Self-hosting is a genuine preference and a genuine answer: your data on your own server, and nobody able to switch you off. Read the Cambodian pages carefully, though. They are city-by-city landing pages, and on the ones we read there was no mention of Khmer language, of KHQR, or of the riel. If those matter at your counter, ask about all three before you ask about anything else.

What does Cambodia ask of a till that other markets do not?

Start with scale, because it explains the shape of every product above. Cambodia's last economic census counted 494,552 retail and wholesale establishments, 65.6% of all business in the country, plus 106,977 in accommodation and food service, another 14.2%. Four businesses in five are one- or two-person operations. That is the market every system in this table is selling into: overwhelmingly small, overwhelmingly owner-operated, and almost never staffed by anyone whose job is the software.

Then the money, which is where the market diverges hardest from the one most POS software was designed for. Cards are not the story here, and they are moving the wrong way: 7.0 million payment cards were issued in 2025, down from 12.6 million a year earlier, per the National Bank's Financial Stability Review 2025.

Against that sit 41,797 card POS machines in the country and roughly 4.5 million KHQR-capable merchant accounts, both from the National Bank's 2024 annual report.

Read the second number carefully, because it is the one most often quoted wrongly. It counts accounts, not businesses: a market seller with a personal account that takes payment is counted alongside a supermarket chain. The direction is real and the ratio is real. The version of this statistic you will see elsewhere quietly drops the word "accounts" and substitutes the word "businesses", and that one substitution inflates the figure by an unknown multiple.

So what a Cambodian counter asks for is not exotic. It is specific. Take a KHQR payment and cash in the same shift. Price in dollars, hand back riel, and still reconcile the drawer at close. Keep selling when the connection drops, where the risk is the signal and not the grid. Be operable by an owner who is also the cashier, the buyer, and the person who locks up. Every column in the table above is one of those requirements written as a question.

What are the three questions to ask any vendor?

Three, in this order. Each is answerable on a phone call, and between them they separate every system in the table faster than any feature list will.

1. What does it cost per month, and is that the whole number? Ask what the price includes, what is an add-on, and what year two costs. On a one-time licence, ask what maintenance and updates cost after the first year. On a subscription, ask what happens to your data if you stop paying.
2. What happens to a sale, and to a KHQR payment, when the connection drops mid-transaction? Not "does it work offline". That gets a yes from everyone. Ask where an interrupted QR payment sits until the bank confirms it, and what stops a queued sale being written twice on reconnect. Then test it yourself: put the device in aeroplane mode and count what comes back.
3. What happens to riel change, and to a refund at a different rate? Ring a $4.50 item, tender 20,000 riel, and read the change on the printed receipt. Then refund one line of a two-line mixed-tender sale. Why this quietly breaks tills here is worth twenty minutes before any demo.

None of that needs a comparison table. It needs a demo device and half an hour, and any vendor worth buying from will hand you one. What a table like this is for is narrowing ten down to three.

Frequently asked questions

Is a free POS good enough?

Often, yes, and anyone who tells you otherwise is selling something. If you run one counter, price in one currency, have no staff accounts to manage and need sales history rather than analytics, a free till is not a compromise. Loyverse gives you the app, the dashboard and a kitchen display for nothing. The costs arrive later and predictably: a per-employee fee once you hire, a second currency you cannot add, an export that sits behind an add-on, and support that is a forum rather than a phone number. Start free with your eyes open about which of those will find you, and when.

Do I need a Cambodian vendor?

Not for the software. You may well need one for everything around it. A global product can be excellent and still leave you alone with the riel, with KHQR, with a Khmer-speaking cashier, and with a receipt printer that stopped working on a Saturday. What a local supplier sells that an international one structurally cannot is someone who answers in your language, an invoice your accountant recognises, and, if they are any good, someone who will travel to your province. Ask about that last one specifically. It is the part nobody publishes and the part you will eventually need.

Why does nobody publish a price?

Because in this market most POS software is sold with hardware, installation and a service relationship attached, and a vendor would rather scope all of that on a call than post a number that looks high next to a bare licence. That is a defensible commercial position and a poor buying experience. It is not evidence of anything sinister. It does mean the unpriced systems cannot be compared on cost until you have spoken to them, and the vendors who do publish are handing you something the others are not.

How do I compare two quotes that are not the same shape?

Convert everything to a three-year total and write it on one line: licence or subscription, hardware, installation, training, the add-ons you will actually switch on, and support after the first year. A $500 lifetime licence against $12.99 a month is $500 against about $470 at the monthly rate. That is close enough that the decision is not about price at all. It is about what happens in year four, and who picks up the phone. Do that arithmetic once and most of these ten stop competing with each other.

Where to go next

What a POS system costs and covers in Cambodia sets out the till, the hardware and the support around it. Riel and dollars on one till and what happens when the connection drops go behind two of the columns above, and are the two tests worth running on any demo device before you sign. The Scale POS product page shows the register and the owner's dashboard as they actually run.