Say yes to nonstop selling. Everywhere. Always. Even in peak season
Break free from legacy limits. With Manhattan Active® POS, unify selling, service, and fulfillment in one cloud-native app built to thrive under pressure — and delight both associates and shoppers.
“Peak” shouldn’t mean “panic.”
Holiday crowds. Promo chaos. Endless carts. Peak season is when your store should really shine … but it’s also when legacy POS systems fall short.
Older systems weren’t designed to keep up with today’s heavy retail demands, resulting in stressful problems:
- Long lines and slow checkouts frustrate shoppers, stress associates, and kill conversions
- Outdated, siloed apps leave seasonal hires overwhelmed and undertrained
- System lag — or worse, experience downtime — which breaks momentum and erodes trust
- Manual workarounds during mixed-cart orders lead to costly errors
- Mid-peak software updates put your biggest revenue moments at risk
That’s why retailers are planning now to get ahead next peak season.
Because when it matters most, Manhattan Active® POS performs.
Black Friday waits for no one. Neither should your POS.
With Manhattan Active® POS, every team, from the sales floor to the CFO’s office, gets exactly what they need to move faster, sell smarter, and power through peak season with certainty.
- Unified checkout for purchases, returns, BOPIS, and endless aisle
- Mobile-enabled associates reduce lines and elevate service
- AI-driven personalization using preferences, wishlists, and history
- Easy, convenient experiences across every channel
- One intuitive app for stress-free selling, service, inventory, and fulfillment
- Mobile-first UX reduces training time to days, even for seasonal hires
- RFID “scan-all” and mixed-cart checkout streamline every interaction
- AI-powered selling suggestions boost upsell and conversion
- 100% cloud-native and elastic for fast, reliable performance
- Versionless platform updates every 90 days with zero downtime
- Offline mode ensures uninterrupted selling, even during outages
- Built-in intelligence anticipates demand and optimizes performance, minimizing latency across devices
- Faster checkout and uptime capture more revenue
- AI-powered forecasting reduces stockouts and fulfillment gaps
- Evergreen updates eliminate re-implementation costs
- Real-time analytics sharpen planning and margin control
Why leading retailers trust Manhattan
For over 35 years, top retailers have relied on Manhattan for the reliability and innovation that keep operations running and customers coming back.
Secure
zero-downtime updates delivered every 90 days
Recognized
Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Point of Service, Q4 2024
Offline
resilience ensures 100% transaction uptime, even during outage
How do you stack up against your peers?
The 2025 Unified Commerce Benchmark reveals how top specialty retailers are staying ahead, especially when stores are busy and every second counts.
With insights from 220+ retailers and 300+ performance metrics, the Benchmark shows what Leaders do differently, and the results they get:
- 3X more likely to grow revenue
- 25X higher customer lifetime value
- 25% more efficient at checkout
Check out the Benchmark to see how you compare, and where you could improve ahead of peak season.
Let’s make your stores unstoppable.
Whether you're solving problems ahead of Black Friday or building for the future, Manhattan Active® POS is here to help. Schedule a demo or connect with our experts to get started.