We sell, program, install and support restaurant point of sale systems in Fort Smith and across Sebastian County. Your menu is built on our end, including the tax groups for your city and your permit type, we install it in person, we train your staff on it, and someone from our team is standing in your dining room on go live night.
“We are with you every step of the way, and we want to see your restaurant thrive.”
Which Fort Smith restaurants do we work with?
Garrison Avenue and the downtown core carry a mix of full service dining, bars and counter service, with additional restaurant activity spread along the Rogers Avenue corridor and toward Chaffee Crossing.
Different rooms need different things from a point of sale system. A counter service lunch spot and a full service dining room with a bar have almost nothing in common in how orders get fired, how tabs are held, or how tax groups have to be configured.
What changes about a POS setup in Fort Smith?
Fort Smith sits in Sebastian County on the Oklahoma state line. If you operate on both sides of that line, the two locations are in different tax jurisdictions entirely and must be configured separately. A vendor treating them as one account is a warning sign.
We confirm your exact combined rate against the city and Arkansas DFA before your menu is programmed. No generic statewide figure. That check is part of the build, not an extra.
Who provides restaurant POS systems in Fort Smith?
Fort Smith restaurants pick between two very different paths. National cloud platforms, Square, Toast, SpotOn, sell online and ship the hardware in a box: setup, menu programming and tax configuration land on you or on a national phone queue. The local path is a dealer who does the configuration and the install in person. Arkansas Point of Sale is the local option: we sell, program and install SkyTab and Clover systems in Fort Smith, build your menu and Fort Smith's exact tax groups before the hardware arrives, train your staff in your own building, and answer an Arkansas number afterward.
The honest trade-off: a box-shipped national system starts faster and can be fine for a simple counter. The moment a bar, a private club permit, or Arkansas's separate food and mixed-drink tax groups enter the picture, hands-on local configuration is what keeps the register and the audit agreeing with each other.
A real person calls you back within two hours, Monday to Saturday, 8am to 7pm Central.
What does the install look like?
We program every item, category, modifier, combo and tax group for you in Fort Smith. Then we install in person, train your staff on the floor they work on, and stand in the room on go live night.
The week afterward is when the real questions arrive, and that is the week most vendors have moved on to the next sale. We stay reachable, and a real person calls you back within two hours, Monday to Saturday, 8am to 7pm Central.
Questions restaurant owners ask
Who installs restaurant POS systems in Fort Smith?
Arkansas Point of Sale sells, programs and installs restaurant POS systems in Fort Smith with in-person setup, staff training and local support, led by Judd Alsup's Arkansas team. National platforms like Square, Toast and SpotOn serve Fort Smith remotely with self-setup hardware shipped in a box.
Do you install in Fort Smith in person?
Yes. Judd Alsup leads our Arkansas team and we install in person in Fort Smith. No box with a login in it. Someone from our team is in your dining room on go live night, whether that is a grand opening or a switchover in the middle of service.
How fast can you get to Fort Smith?
Tell us your timeline on the quote form and we will be straight with you about it. Most installs get scheduled around your calendar, not ours. Moving a restaurant onto a new system during a busy week is a choice nobody should make twice.
We have a location in Oklahoma too. Can one POS cover both?
One platform can, but the two locations need entirely separate tax configurations because they sit in different states. Reporting should also be able to separate them cleanly, because the returns are separate and are filed with different authorities.
Vendor pricing and tax rates change without notice. Confirm current figures with the vendor, the city or your accountant before you rely on them. Not tax, legal or accounting advice.
Every number on this page traces to a primary source
- Little Rock combined rates on prepared food and mixed drinkslittlerock.gov / tax information
- Arkansas state sales and use tax and mixed drink tax ratesdfa.arkansas.gov / sales use tax