Grocery & convenience
Barcode scanning, weighed items, fast tender, and offline resilience for busy corner shops.
The free EPOS system that's actually yours.
Free, open source and offline-first — a full sale completes with no internet at all. Runs on a Raspberry Pi, an old laptop, or a proper touch terminal. No monthly fee for the core. Ever.
MIT licensed · one small binary · works today
An EPOS till for every kind of shop
One system, tuned to how you actually sell.
Retail & boutiques
Variants, product photos, catalogue import, and clean receipts with your own branding.
Service trades
Barbers, repairs and workshops: quick sales, VAT invoices and credit notes for business customers.
Cafés & restaurants
Held orders, split tender, fast repeat items, and a kitchen-ready workflow through plugins.
Market stalls & pop-ups
Runs on a phone-sized budget with no signal needed — pack up, move, and keep selling.
Growing to many tills
Add a second till by scanning a QR; they sync over your own LAN for free, no cloud required.
No lock-in. Of any kind.
No contracts or proprietary hardware
Runs on generic hardware you already own — a complete DIY till costs from about £70. No multi-year tie-ins.
No payment-processor lock-in
We never sit in your money flow. Use any card machine and any processor — no fee creep, no frozen payouts.
Your data, exportable, always
Full catalogue and sales export to CSV whenever you want. Your shop, your records — take them anywhere.
Offline-first, truly
The internet going down never stops a sale. Everything works locally; syncing is a bonus, never a requirement.
See it in action
Real screens from a running till — not mock-ups.
Manage your shop from anywhere
my.universaltill.com: change your catalogue, modifiers and till settings and see your sales from any browser. Every till picks up changes on its next check-in. Shown with sample data; some screens are still being built.
Runs on hardware you choose
A Raspberry Pi, an old PC, a mini-PC, or a proper touch terminal — Universal Till is one small binary that runs on all of them.
Extend it with plugins
A signed, verified plugin marketplace: payments, integrations, loyalty, themes and more. Install in one click; everything is checked before it reaches your till.
Browse all pluginsUp and running in three steps
No technical setup. If you can use a phone, you can run your till.
1
Get a device
Use a Raspberry Pi, an old laptop or a touch terminal you already have.
2
Install Universal Till
Download the ready-made installer for your device and open it. One small app — nothing complicated to configure.
3
Follow the setup wizard
Pick your language and currency, set a PIN, and start selling. The whole thing takes a few minutes.
About us
Universal Till is built by Task Runner Technology LTD, a British company. We believe every shop — anywhere in the world — deserves a point of sale it truly owns: free, open, and free of lock-in. That's the whole reason we exist.
Questions shop owners ask
EPOS, POS, till system or cash register — what Universal Till is, and what it costs.
Is Universal Till an EPOS system?
Yes. EPOS (electronic point of sale), POS, till system and cash register all mean the software you ring up sales on. Universal Till gives you a touch sale screen, barcode scanning, receipts, stock and sales reports.
Is it really free?
Yes. The till itself is free forever on your own hardware: open source under the MIT licence, no monthly fee for the core, no contract. Optional cloud extras, such as off-site backup, may cost extra, and card payments carry your card provider's own fees.
Does it work without internet?
Yes. A full sale completes with no internet at all, and everything works locally on the till. Syncing is a bonus, never a requirement. A card reader still needs whatever connection its own provider requires.
What hardware do I need?
A Raspberry Pi, an old PC or laptop, a mini-PC or a proper touch terminal — there are downloads for Windows, macOS, Linux, Raspberry Pi and Android. A complete DIY till costs from about £70.
Can I take card payments?
Yes. We never sit in your money flow: use any card machine and any processor — no fee creep, no frozen payouts.
Can I move from my current till?
Yes. Export your catalogue from your current system and import it: Loyverse, Square, SumUp and Shopify exports are recognised automatically, and any CSV or Excel file with name and price columns works. You see a preview before anything is saved.