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Point-of-sale & receipt solutions for Adelaide businesses

Your POS system is the engine room of your daily trade. When it works well, you don't think about it. When it doesn't, everything slows down. We help Adelaide retailers, cafes, restaurants and service businesses choose the right POS setup, get it installed properly, and keep it running — including receipt printers, terminals, and the back-end that ties it all together.

What are POS & receipt solutions?

A point-of-sale system handles your transactions — taking payments, printing receipts, tracking sales and managing stock. Modern POS setups do a lot more than an old cash register: they connect to your accounting software, manage customer loyalty, split bills, handle multiple payment types, and give you real-time sales data. Receipt solutions cover everything from thermal printers to digital receipts and integration with your existing workflows.

What we cover

System selection

We help you choose a POS platform that fits your business — retail, hospitality or services — without overpaying for features you won't use.

Hardware setup

Terminals, tablets, receipt printers, barcode scanners, cash drawers — sourced, configured and installed at your counter.

Software configuration

Menu or product setup, tax rates, payment types, staff logins and reporting — all configured before you open the doors.

Accounting & stock integration

We connect your POS to Xero, MYOB or your inventory system so data flows automatically.

Receipt customisation

Branded receipts, digital receipt options, and setup for kitchen or bar printers in hospitality venues.

Ongoing support

When something goes wrong mid-service, you need someone who picks up the phone — that's us.

Who it's for

  • Cafes, restaurants and bars that need a reliable hospitality POS with kitchen printing.
  • Retail shops that want proper stock tracking, barcode scanning and sales reporting.
  • Service businesses — salons, clinics, trades — that need appointment and payment handling in one place.
  • Any Adelaide business replacing an old or unreliable POS system.

How it works

  1. Understanding your business. We learn how you trade — what you sell, how you take payments, what reporting you need.
  2. System recommendation. We shortlist POS platforms and hardware that match your workflow and budget, then talk you through the options.
  3. Setup & configuration. We install the hardware, load your products or menu, set up integrations and configure everything before go-live.
  4. Staff walkthrough. We show your team how to use the system — taking orders, processing refunds, running end-of-day reports.
  5. Ongoing support. We're on call for troubleshooting, updates and changes as your business evolves.

Why WaTo for POS solutions

  • A real person answers — not a call queue or a chatbot.
  • We're independent — we recommend the right platform for you, not the one that pays us a commission.
  • One local team for POS, networking, IT and more — one number to call when something plays up.
  • We understand Adelaide retail and hospitality — the pace, the expectations, the local setup.
  • Adelaide owned since 2001, supporting businesses from the CBD to the suburbs.

POS & receipt questions

Which POS system do you recommend?

It depends on your business. For hospitality, platforms like Mr Yum, OrderMate and SwiftPOS are popular in Adelaide. For retail, Lightspeed or POSApt are solid options. We'll recommend based on your specific needs.

Can you set up our POS to talk to Xero?

Yes. Most modern POS platforms integrate with Xero and MYOB. We'll set up the connection so your sales data flows through automatically.

What if our POS goes down during a busy service?

Call us. We understand that a POS outage during trade is urgent and we prioritise getting you back up and running.

Can you move our data from our old system?

In most cases, yes. We can migrate product lists, customer data and historical sales where the old system allows it.

Ready for a POS system that just works?

Tell us what you're running now and we'll help you find something better — or get the most out of what you've got.

No two businesses are the same — so nothing we do is off-the-shelf. Every solution is built around yours, and kept simple.

Questions

Frequently asked questions

How do your plans and pricing work?

Whatever suits you — a fixed contract, a monthly retainer, prepaid blocks of hours, or simple hourly rates. You pick the model that fits your business, and we keep it transparent with no surprise bills.

How quickly do you respond?

Fast. You talk to a real person, not a call queue — and for urgent issues we're often on-site within the hour across Adelaide, with remote support Australia-wide.

Do you only do IT support?

No — IT & Digital, cyber security, websites & hosting (via Whosts.au), business solutions and currency equipment, all from one local team. One number to call.

What does it cost?

It depends on your size and the cover you need. We keep pricing simple and transparent, with no surprise bills — call us for a tailored quote.

Do you support businesses outside Adelaide?

Yes. We're Adelaide-based and provide remote support Australia-wide, with on-site visits across South Australia.

Will you work with our existing IT person?

Absolutely. We often co-manage — taking on monitoring, security and after-hours cover alongside your in-house team.

Why we're different

Not your typical IT company

We keep it simple, and fix things for the future — not just patch them today.

A typical IT company
WaTo Consulting
You wait in a call queue
A real person on the WaTo team answers
One rigid plan — take it or leave it
Contract, retainer, blocks or hourly — your choice
Patch it today, deal with it again later
Fix the root cause — and what it could cause next
Jargon and over-engineering
Kept simple and explained in plain English
IT only — you juggle other vendors
IT, cyber, web, business & currency under one roof
Hosting resold from someone else
Our own Australian hosting — Whosts.au
WaTo character — happy to help

Still not sure what you need?

Tell us what's slowing you down and we'll point you to the right fix. You're a partner, not a client.

Call (08) 7123 0805 Email info@wato.com.au
Why clients choose us

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Our story

Built in Adelaide, since 2001

WaTo Consulting was founded by John Watson in Adelaide in 2001. Over two decades it's earned a name for tailored work across a wide range of industries — helping businesses of every size run more smoothly, work more efficiently and grow steadily, without blowing the budget or disrupting the day-to-day.

Emma Watson (née Dickenson) played a significant part in shaping what WaTo became. She brought real expertise and a clear vision for where it could go — expanding the business, bringing in new systems and fresh thinking, and raising the standard of how things are done. A great deal of what WaTo is, we owe to her.

Today it's all tailored, never off-the-shelf — IT & Digital, Business & Web Hosting, built around what each client actually needs. Over the years those areas have come together under one roof: our IT & Digital, Currency, Business and Web work (through Whosts.au) now all sit within WaTo Consulting — one team, one standard, looking after the lot.

When you work with us, you're not a client — you're a partner.