United Hardware Distributing Co. maintains a strategic alliance with ARS Business Solutions, Epicor, DBMS Inc., and Pacsoft for their next generation point-of-sale (POS) systems, offering our dealers access to broader applications such as signature capture, wireless access, and e-commerce. However, United Hardware does not mandate which brand of POS system our dealers have in their stores. United Hardware communicates with numerous brands of POS systems across several different retail sectors.