Alexandria POS vs. Chargent

For any school district I would highly recommend it.

Incentivized

For organisations keen to streamline their payment processes and who use Salesforce, this is a brilliant solution.

Incentivized

• Cloud hosting. Only has gone down once and was back up in a matter of hours. Updates are applied automatically.
• Easy to use from the librarian side. Little help or training is needed.
• Support is very helpful and approachable when issues arrive.

Incentivized

• Extremely easy to implement + 100% native on salesforce.com.
• Payment information is on the opportunity level making it easily visible across teams.
• Payment request feature allows cutomers to pay online via force.com site.
• Supports recurring payments which allows payment processing to be run on an automated schedule.

Incentivized

• Cost is pretty high.
• Some settings are difficult to locate, had to call tech support to find them.

Incentivized

• Because it is a low fee, you need to do more configuration on your own to get it up and running.

Incentivized

They were overwhelmingly easy to deal with and helped us work through some very specific use cases

Incentivized

Chargent has been better for us as it works within Salesforce and can be mapped into workflow processes and reporting.

Incentivized

• Cloud hosting has enabled an offsite backup of our library inventory.

Incentivized

• Decreased time to collect payments. Payment collection process can be integrated into team workflows, thus incentivizing quicker collection from customers.
• Increased revenue collection as billing information is easily accessible on the opportunity.
• Reduced labour needed to process payments. Recurring payments can be automated, payments can be accepted online.

Incentivized