Freehold POS is desktop register software you buy once and own outright. It runs entirely on your computer — no monthly fee, no cloud dependency, no vendor deciding your register stops working.
Start your 14-day free demoIntuit discontinued QuickBooks Desktop POS and stranded thousands of merchants who bought software expecting to own it. The replacements all want $100+ a month, your data on their cloud, and the power to sunset you again. Freehold is the other path.
One perpetual license per location. No monthly fee, no renewal, no rug-pull. If we vanished tomorrow, your register keeps ringing.
Internet down? Sell anyway. Every sale, report, and record works with the cord unplugged. Activation is the only step that ever touches the internet.
Sales, inventory, customers — stored locally in an open database format on hardware you control. Back it up to a USB stick if you like.
Keyboard-first register, barcode scanners, receipt printers, cash drawers. Made for a laptop that sits where the money changes hands.
Fifty-plus screens of real retail software — the parts below are what owners ask about first.
Quick keys for your bestsellers, instant item search by name, SKU, or barcode, size-level variants, held tickets, and keyboard shortcuts for everything.
Stock by size and option, low-stock alerts, purchase orders, cycle counts, bulk edits, and margins visible on every product.
Stacked jurisdiction tax tables — state, city, transit — computed per line and printed on every receipt. Tax holidays supported.
Opening counts, blind closes, variance tracking, X and Z reports, and a full history of every drawer session.
Purchase history, store credit, loyalty points, and customer-level reporting built in — no add-on module.
Every employee gets their own PIN and role. Discounts and overrides can require manager approval, and everything lands in the audit log.
We publish what we believe, in the license you sign:
Section 4 of our license agreement — your records live on your device in an open format, and they remain yours even if you stop using Freehold.
Section 5 — the card on file verifies your business. It is not charged during the demo, and never without prior notice and your consent.
Section 11 — no auto-conversion, no surprise invoice. Buying the permanent license is a decision you make, not one that happens to you.
Yes. After one-time activation, every function — sales, receipts, inventory, reports — runs locally. Internet is only used for optional things like emailing receipts.
Your software keeps working, forever. It doesn't phone home to run, and your data sits on your own machine. That's the whole point of a perpetual license.
Windows 10/11 (64-bit) or macOS 12+, 4 GB RAM, half a gig of disk. The laptop already on your counter almost certainly qualifies.
Star TSP100-series receipt printers, printer-driven cash drawers, and any USB keyboard-wedge barcode scanner. All optional — the demo runs fine without hardware.
Yes — bulk import from a spreadsheet is built in, and we'll do your first import with you over a screen-share if you want.
Card capture is built into the register; gateway configuration is set up per store during onboarding so you're not locked to anyone's processor.
No charge during the demo. Keep your data either way.
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