Alexandria POS vs. STORIS

For any school district I would highly recommend it.

Incentivized

STORIS is a great solution for all aspects of a retail furniture store. It is well suited to incorporate modern technology for better communication with customers and vendors. We also use the STORIS website module to advertise our business, and it synchronizes data from our inventory module enabling automatic updates to the website. Transitioning from our previous software provider was a bit difficult because we were used to doing things differently for almost 35 years.

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

• Inventory management.
• Retail POS.
• Reporting.

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

Incentivized

• Currently the client platform has to run in a Windows environment. But I understand they are starting the address this.

Incentivized

This can be an overwhelming experience if you are new to point of sale software. There is a lot of information and decisions that have to be made as you set up this system. I highly recommend the in person training to get a better idea of the process. With that being said, this is the reason you want a system like this, it gives you the ability, control and support to build a system that meets your needs with the flexibility to make changes as you grow.

All support staff are professional, courteous, and genuinely interested in helping

Incentivized

I don't think this company exist any more. But at the time we did an evaluation of the two companies to see which came out on top. At the end, it was clear that Storis was a much better transaction based system. It focused on functionality that would help you take care of your customer. The other focused more on reporting and executive level information.

Incentivized

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

Incentivized

• STORIS has allowed us to continue to have excellent inventory control. We have always had virtually no problems with not-in-location merchandise, and we have maintained that level of accuracy with Storis.
• We have improved efficiency by eliminating manual postings for certain receivables, payables, and sales information. We require less staff to handle the day to day processing.
• We also use the optional module for delivery truck routing, which integrates well with the STORIS system.
• The website integration with the STORIS system has enabled us to show products much easier than we did with our previous software solution & web host provider. There is no longer much manual updating required.

Incentivized