4 Best Gas Station POS Systems

Who should use it:

Gas stations that are willing to pay a premium for a POS system with a complete feature set for fuel management, loyalty and gift cards, lottery sales, and food sales would be an ideal fit for NCR Voyix.

Why we like it:

NCR takes first place for best gas station POS because it’s a single software system for forecourts and convenience stores. In addition to the POS, back-office, and business intelligence tools, it can handle vendors and staff, allow program marketing at the pumps, and even let customers order food from the pumps.

User reviews:

NCR Voyix scored an average of 3.8 out of 5 based on scores from several different review sites. Customers liked its ease of use and ability to accept multiple forms of payment. They disliked the high pricing, occasional software glitches, and slowness.

• Because quoting prices are undisclosed on the provider website, you will need to contact NCR Voyix for a custom quote. However, real-world users have noted that this is an expensive POS system.
• NCR also provides an end-to-end payment processing solution, which may be included in the price. You will likely need to purchase NCR’s integrated hardware for POS terminals and pump POS.

The NCR Voyix self-checkout system can be configured with various hardware, alerts store staff if a problem is detected, and includes marketing and advertisements. (Source: NCR Voyix)

• Mobile checkout: Customers can use their smartphones to scan items as they shop and pay via smartphone with a stored payment method or via a self-checkout kiosk.
• Real-time sales reports: Monitor your sales with NCR analytics, which gives near real-time insights, predictive insights, and alerts. Reports include sales, fuel, and end-of-day.
• Front-end consumer engagement: NCR’s pump POS systems have highly customizable video functions that you can use for promoting products, loyalty programs, sales, or other items.
• Multiple payment options: It allows you to accept credit, debit, loyalty, and fleet cards. Outdoor pumps can handle EMV, mobile, and contactless payments.
• Age verification: The NCR Voyix software lets cashiers perform age verification at the register when processing sales for age-restricted items such as alcohol.

Who should use it:

LS Retail is the best POS system for gas stations wanting to prioritize fuel management while also having a comprehensive set of features for loyalty, age verification, food sales, and more.

Why we like it:

LS Retail makes it easy for cashiers to manage pumps, from approval to shutdowns, and calculate wet inventory levels using the built-in tank gauge tracking system so that you know what fuel to reorder and when. The backend is powered by Microsoft Dynamics 365 for customer resource management and inventory.

It offers two gas station POS systems, LS Central and LS First, plus business intelligence, payment processing, and other programs for different business sizes. LS Central is an all-in-one POS and ERP software solutions and LS First is for large-scale businesses.

User reviews:

LS Retail got an average score of 4.3 out of 5 on third-party review sites. Users liked the rich feature set and functionality, as well as the ease of use and efficient software. They were frustrated with the limited or slow customer support, lack of training materials, and some issues with customizing the software.

• Contact LS Retail for detailed pricing.
• LS Retail also has a payment software solution called LS Pay. This may require a separate subscription as well as a separate merchant account.

• Central/cashier pump control: Cashiers have complete control of the pumps. They can authorize, pause, stop, and lock or unlock pumps. You can log drive-aways and refund money if customers don’t use their full prepay.
• Automatic stock replenishment: The system can automatically replenish wet stock based on sales history and stock levels.
• Real-time performance monitoring: Get a real-time overview of your inventory and merchandising system. Analyze sales distribution according to POS, total income, number of customers, number of items, or average purchase amount at any given time.
• Loyalty management: LS Retail allows you to set up in-store, online, and mobile loyalty schemes and offers with a click of a button.
• Full food service functions: You can manage the kitchen, menus, ingredients, and meal deals from the POS.

Who should use it:

If you own a travel stop with gas pumps, souvenirs, and food to order or if you have multiple gas stations, then Verifone is worth considering.

Why we like it:

Verifone earns a top spot because of its purpose-built solutions that cover all your gas pump and convenience store needs.

In addition to handling up to 64 pumps, it can manage store sales and even food service and self-serve kiosks. It also handles age-dependent sales like tobacco, and you can sell lottery tickets at the pump. Verifone lists several integration partners for loyalty management, fleet cards, tank level monitoring, and electric fuel signage.

User reviews:

Verifone achieved an average rating of 3.8 out of 5 based on scores from several review sites, though only a few users left reviews. They liked the system’s intuitive nature, ease of use, and the detailed reports. They reported occasional problems with the touch-screen functionality, plus some instances of unhelpful customer support.

• Contact Verifone for custom quotes (software and hardware).
• Verifone offers card processing services but does not list prices online.

• Kitchen management system: Food-service and self-service kiosks have a built-in kitchen management system, so orders are directly sent to the kitchen.
• Multiple payment options: It accepts mobile payments, RFID payments, and credit, debit, loyalty, and fleet cards. It also has a coupon-scanning feature at the pump.
• Car wash management: This allows your customers to pay for their car wash service through a POS terminal if they are paying with a card or through a pay point device if they are paying in cash.
• Money order selling: Verifone integrates with Western Union and MoneyGram Delta, which allows it to sell money orders from the c-store POS terminal.

Who should use it:

Gas stations and convenience stores wanting an all-in-one hardware and software solution—including strong tools for analytics, loss prevention, and reporting—would be happy with Petrosoft.

It’s also the only system on this list that works with multiple payment processors, meaning you have the option to shop around for low rates.

Why we like it:

When combined with CStoreOffice, SmartPOS by Petrosoft gives you a powerful backend with over 200 customizable reports for optimizing your sales and inventory, including a mobile app so you can access your business data anytime.

Petrosoft also installed processes to manage employee performance. For example, you can create automated workflows for closings or to ensure individual employees get their tasks done. The optional loss prevention analytics system analyzes key sources of information, from transactions to security video, to track down the sources of inventory losses. These are unique to the software on our list.

User reviews:

Very few online user reviews exist for Petrosoft SmartPOS. Users of this system are likely to appreciate its comprehensive sales and reporting functions, but may have difficulty with customer service and adding more features to the software.

• Self-Service Terminal: $1,199
• SmartPOS 129: $799
• CStoreOffice: $269/month
• Retail 360 (for loss prevention tools): $199/month
• QwickServe: from $99
• Scan Data Subscription: $29/month
• Scan Data Loyalty: $15/month

• POS screen customization: Cashiers can customize their screen with their favorite or most used buttons for quicker checkouts.
• POS system and lottery management safeguards: If you limit the amount of cash in your registers as a theft deterrent, the system can signal you when it’s time to do a safe drop. For instant lottery sales, SmartPOS also includes early theft detection.
• Price book manager: It allows you to add, update, and push price changes to your POS system.
• Electronic journal: It comes with event tagging and bookmarking that helps highlight suspicious transactions.