The invention relates to the technical field of POS systems, and particularly discloses a chain retail POS system which comprises a POS management background, a POS middle platform, a front-end service system and a rear-end application system, the front-end service system and the rear-end application system both operate based on the POS middle platform, the POS middle platform is used for monitoring information and uploading the information to the POS management background, and the POS management background can download definitions, rules and parameters of the POS middle platform; and business logic is processed in a centralized mode through the POS middle platform, the terminals and channels are opened in a service arrangement mode, the capacity of sharing, adapting and rapidly responding to market requirements of core business is improved, meanwhile, the requirement of a front end is lowered, rapid adapting of multiple types of terminals is facilitated, and after a new offline file is generated every day through POS background service, old files are directly replaced, so that the problem that a large number of off-line files occupy disk space is effectively avoided, the requirement for computer performance is not high, the use cost is low, and the concurrency requirement for a headquarter server is reduced.