Is a web app enough to run a point of sale?
It is now. The runtime is what changed.
For years the answer was no — not because the web couldn't draw a register screen, but because a browser can't talk to a card reader, drive a receipt printer, or pass a payment certification. So POS builders wrote native apps, and every one of them paid the native tax: per-platform builds, app store releases, device testing, SDK maintenance.
What the runtime does
The Kuvex Commerce Runtime closes the gap between a web app and the physical counter. Your application runs in a secure web environment on our devices; payments, printing and scanning are exposed to it as simple calls. The hardware capabilities the browser never had are provided by the runtime underneath — certified, maintained, and invisible to your code.
So the honest answer today: a web app plus Kuvex is a point of sale. Same URL you already ship, running on real commerce hardware, taking real payments.
This matters more every month, because the cost of building a web app is collapsing. AI can produce a working application in minutes. The bottleneck isn't the software anymore — it's everything physical and regulated around it. That's the part we industrialized.