Alexandria POS vs. Opayo by Elavon

For any school district I would highly recommend it.

Incentivized

This tool is most usable when used in parallel with Sage's accounting management software, as with other accounting systems it can generate errors, leaving room for other credit card payment processor alternatives to exist and be preferred by other potential users for their overall performance. It is promising the ability to develop transaction reports in summary or detailed form, resulting in a better management of income to then make the distribution of budgets in the company, thus achieving better planning and performance of our work. This service allows the processing of payments through touch screen card devices at POS points of sale without having to be sitting at your laptop, fortunately with face to face payments companies with fixed establishments can get their money faster, which constantly benefits the flow of money.

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• 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

• Simple. If you use a Sage accounting product the integration is seamless.
• PCI compliant. PCI compliance is assured through the provided Trustwave audit.
• Secure. Keeps all card numbers remotely, none stored locally where they could be exposed by a hack or dishonest employee.
• Robust. API for integrating into multiple web platforms and extensive reporting capabilities through the secure web portal.

Incentivized

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

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• When you are reversing a credit card it just deducts from your total batch for the day. Instead of showing a separate charge out of the account. That can cause confusion if someone else is doing your bank reconciliation.
• It would be nice is Sage Pay could copy over client emails as well as the address and other information so that you can send that email confirmation of charge without having to go back to pull it up.
• If Sage could post it as a total deposit instead of each individual charge for the day that would also save time with bank reconciliation.

Incentivized

It plays better with Sage 50. It has better associates should you have an issue. It's reasonably priced.

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

Incentivized

• By simplifying payment processing and automatically posting payments to their related transactions within our Sage accounting product, it has eliminated a source of friction between sales and accounting.
• Eliminates clerical errors in recording paymens.
• Eliminates one step in the payment reconciliation process by automatically posting payments to their respective transactions.
• Insures PCI compliance with scheduled monitoring. No need for a separate product.

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