Alexandria POS vs. iVend Retail

For any school district I would highly recommend it.

Incentivized

iVend Retail is very scalable, so can be used for small retailers, as well as multi-branch retailers. As the software is intuitive, training times are not extensive and allow a user to progress with other areas as they become familiar with the software. Any retailer will be familiar with the functions within a POS package, but there are many extra in iVend.

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

• Recording sales
• Stock management
• Sales reporting

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

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• Other ERP connections
• Cross language support

Incentivized

The alternatives in the market may be able to achieve some of what iVend does, but there is not an alternative around that can offer all options. iVend has POS, loyalty, ecom, passes, ERP and much more out of the box, without having to customise. This results in a low overall base cost.

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

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• Low initial cost to implement
• Omni channel at the centre

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