Beauty, better managed
Know What Sells.
Know What's Next.
Running a beauty business means keeping up with thousands of SKUs, changing trends, loyal customers, and a lot of moving parts. NOVA brings it all together in one connected platform, giving you the visibility and tools to manage inventory, understand your customers, empower your team, and grow with confidence.
BEAUTY ON THE INSIDE
What Matters Most in Beauty Retail?
Control the Complexity
Thousands of SKUs, shades, sizes, brands, vendors, and product variations make beauty inventory challenging.
Know Your Customer
Beauty is personal. Knowing what customers buy, love, and come back for can turn a single purchase into a lasting relationship.
React Quickly
Trends change quickly and best sellers can move even faster. You need to know what’s selling, what’s slowing down, and what needs attention.
Grow without Losing Control
More employees, products, customers, and locations bring more moving parts and make visibility across your business even more important.
BLENDED FOR BEAUTY RETAIL
Built for the Everything
Behind the Beauty.
NOVA brings inventory, customers, employees, and insights together in one connected platform – giving beauty retailers greater control, stronger customer relationships, and the visibility to grow.
Manage Complex Beauty Inventory
Track products across brands, categories, shades, sizes, styles, and SKUs while maintaining real-time visibility into what’s selling and what’s running low.
Turn Purchases Into Customer Relationships
Use customer profiles, purchase history, and loyalty insights to understand what your customers love and create more personalized experiences.
Keep Best Sellers in Stock
Spot fast-moving products, set low-stock alerts, create purchase orders, and transfer inventory between locations.
Motivate and Manage Your Team
Track employee performance, manage customizable commissions and permissions, and give managers greater visibility into store operations.
Keep Customers Coming Back
Create targeted promotions and marketing based on purchase history and customer behavior to encourage repeat visits and build loyalty.
Make Smarter Decisions, Faster
Access real-time reporting across sales, inventory, employees, customers, and locations so you can spot opportunities and act with confidence.
INVENTORY, BEAUTIFULLY MANAGED
Stay Ahead of What's Selling.
Beauty inventory management gets complicated. NOVA helps cosmetic retailers track products across brands, shades, sizes, SKUs, and locations – all in real time. Make quick, smart inventory decisions before best sellers disappear from your shelves.
Real-time Inventory
Track inventory levels across products, variants, and locations so you always know what's on hand.
Smarter Reordering
Spot low-stock and fast-moving products and create purchase orders before your best sellers run out.
Multi-Location Visibility
See inventory across stores and transfer products between locations to put stock where demand is highest.
Build with NOVA
Connect your business systems and create workflows around the way your retail operation works.
INTEGRATED PAYMENTS
Keep Payments Connected
Bring payment processing into the same system you use to manage your business for a more connected checkout and transaction experience.
MOBILE BUSINESS MANAGEMENT
Take Your Business With You
Stay connected to sales, invoices, employees, inventory, and location performance from the NOVA mobile app—wherever the day takes you.
HANDS-ON SUPPORT
Real Support When You Need It
Get responsive support and hands-on training from a team that understands retail operations and is there to help you get more from NOVA.
Customer reviews
Built on long term customer relationships
- Capterra
- GetApp
- Software Advice
- G2
- Trustpilot
LONG-TERM CUSTOMERS
With NOVA. And still counting…
The most exemplary POS system
“I have been associated with NOVA since 2011, and I have yet to encounter a point-of-sale system that surpasses the quality of NOVA.”
Zabih O.
Director, small business
A customer for almost 10 years
“Excellent customer service!!! I always received a quick, patient and comprehensive response. I have been working with the system for almost 10 years.”
Shani O.
Cosmetics retail
15 years – and still 10 out of 10
“I have been using the system for about 15 years, and it has consistently met our business needs. The support team is responsive.”
Mert F.
Owner, retail
New to NOVA, off to a great start
“I highly recommend Nova POS to all small business owners. The initial setup was quick, simple, and easy to understand.”
More P.
Owner, retail
Capterra, GetApp & Software Advice share one review pool (Gartner network, 13 reviews). Both 2026 reviews were invited by NOVA and are published verbatim – read them all on the platforms.
Cosmetics POS FAQs
What is the best POS system for a cosmetics or makeup store?
The best makeup store POS system should do more than process transactions. Cosmetics retailers often manage thousands of SKUs across brands, shades, sizes, and product variations, making accurate inventory management essential. Look for a cosmetics POS software that can:
- Track products by shade, size, and variant
- Monitor inventory in real time
- Alert staff when stock runs low
- Generate purchase orders automatically
- Build customer profiles with purchase history
- Support loyalty and targeted marketing
- Combine inventory, reporting, payments, and CRM in one platform
NOVA POS brings all of these capabilities together in one connected retail management solution, helping cosmetics retailers simplify operations, improve inventory accuracy, and deliver more personalized customer experiences.
Does NOVA POS track cosmetic inventory by shade, size, or variant?
Yes. NOVA POS includes a flexible inventory management system that allows retailers to organize products in the way that best fits their business. Cosmetics retailers can categorize inventory by attributes such as brand, shade, size, collection, or other custom product variations, making it easier to search inventory, replenish stock, and maintain accurate inventory counts.
Because every cosmetics business operates differently, NOVA’s inventory structure can be customized to match your workflow instead of forcing you into a rigid system.
Can NOVA POS handle beauty supply store inventory and reordering?
Yes. NOVA POS helps beauty supply retailers stay ahead of inventory by monitoring stock levels, notifying staff when products reach predefined reorder points, and automatically generating purchase orders for replenishment. The platform also supports integrations with other business systems to streamline purchasing and inventory management.
By automating routine inventory tasks, retailers can spend less time managing stock and more time serving customers.
How does NOVA POS track testers, samples, and expiring products?
NOVA POS provides a flexible inventory management system that allows retailers to create custom product categories and inventory workflows that fit their business. Many cosmetics retailers use this flexibility to identify products such as testers, promotional samples, or other non-standard inventory separately from retail stock. Depending on your operational needs, NOVA can be configured to help your team better monitor inventory usage and replenishment.
Does NOVA POS include customer loyalty and marketing tools?
Yes. NOVA POS includes a built-in customer relationship management (CRM) system that stores purchase history, preferences, and customer profiles. Retailers can use this information to create personalized marketing campaigns, reward customer loyalty, promote complementary products, and encourage repeat purchases – all from the same platform.
Can NOVA POS manage multiple cosmetic store locations?
Yes. NOVA POS supports multi-location retailers by allowing inventory, reporting, customer information, and operations to be managed from a centralized platform. Retailers gain visibility across every location while maintaining consistent inventory control and business reporting.
Can NOVA POS be used as cosmetic inventory software?
Yes. NOVA POS includes built-in cosmetic inventory software for beauty and makeup retailers. Track products by brand, shade, size, and SKU, receive low-stock alerts, set reorder points that generate purchase orders automatically, transfer inventory between stores, and monitor cost of goods sold – all in real time, inside the same platform that rings up the sale. It scales from a single counter to multiple locations without losing track of a SKU.
