Alexandria POS vs. Microsoft Dynamics RMS (Discontinued)

For any school district I would highly recommend it.

Incentivized

Like I said before, it's great to use when you have to manage multiple warehouses, multiple stores or multiple websites, or all of the above and you need to keep an up to date inventory for all locations. Once learned it will make anyone's job much easier to do each day.

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

• Once you set it up correctly, it just works
• Can be customized
• Tons of options

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

Incentivized

• Steep learning curve
• Not as advanced as new systems on the market
• Can be buggy with websites

Incentivized

It's been so long since we actually chose this program, I am not sure of the competitors out now. I started using it a couple years ago, but our company has used it for maybe 10 years now? We plan on reviewing other systems next year, so I will know more then.

Incentivized

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

Incentivized

• It has saved us time by not having to do anything manually
• It has kept our inventory updated so customers are not upset
• It's always worked, so not a lot of dev/support money required

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