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    Lightspeed Retail

    Score9.2 out of 10
    N/ALightspeed Retail is a retail PoS system from Lightspeed headquartered in Quebec. Core retail POS features are expanded on higher service tiers with ecommerce option and payments gateway, an accounting system, and a customer loyalty program.N/A

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    QuickBooksPOS

    Score9 out of 10
    N/AQuickBooksPOS is a point-of-sale software solution with features such as ring up sales and inventory tracking.N/A
    Pricing
    Lightspeed RetailMobile POSQuickBooksPOS
    Editions & Modules
    Basic
    $79.00 ($69.00)
    per month (when billed annually)
    Starter
    $119.00 ($99.00)
    per month (when billed annually)
    Standard
    $139.00 ($119.00)
    per month (when billed annually)
    Advanced
    $189.00 ($169.00)
    per month (when billed annually)
    Pro
    $259.00 ($229.00)
    per month (when billed annually)
    Enterprise
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Lightspeed RetailMobile POSQuickBooksPOS
    Free Trial
    NoNoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    Lightspeed RetailMobile POSQuickBooksPOS
    Considered Multiple Products
    Lightspeed
    Chose Lightspeed Retail
    Fantastically due to its powerful components combined with ease of use, support, help center, and intuitive interface. Made the choice easy to make!
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    Intuit
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    60%
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
    70%
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    Happy with the feature set
    70%
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    70%
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    Implementation went as expected
    80%
    Implementation went as expected
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    User Ratings
    Lightspeed RetailMobile POSQuickBooksPOS
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.5
    (15 ratings)
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    10.0
    (3 ratings)
    Usability
    9.5
    (3 ratings)
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    Support Rating
    9.8
    (4 ratings)
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    User Testimonials
    Lightspeed RetailMobile POSQuickBooksPOS
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Lightspeed
    It is perfect for any small business looking for inventory control, Tracking purchase history, and just an all round easy to use software for retail and beyond. I would not use it if I have only a few hundred items or was a larger company that can afford to build my own POS software.
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    Intuit
    If you run a retail store, or need to setup a retail store quickly and QuickBooks is your Acounting software of chouice, their POS System is a perfect choice. Given the fact that they are both interconnected and created and maintained by Intuit, it's a no brainer solution.
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    Pros
    Lightspeed
    • Lightspeed Retail has great reports that are very easy to read and understand.
    • Lightspeed Retail is great to train new employees on because of its ease of use. There are not lots of different things that you have to learn just basics.
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    Intuit
    • It tracks well your inventory, giving you alerts whenever a stock is low. It also helps you to re-order low stock levels.
    • Great loyalty reward system, giving you the chance to track customers and reward them for their purchases.
    • Generates comprehensive and easy to read sales reports.
    • Very suitable for small businesses.
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    Cons
    Lightspeed
    • With a larger SKU assortment size, the software really starts to struggle with doing physical inventory after scanning in a few hundred items.
    • Several times throughout each year Lightspeed went down on us (not our internet connection but actually Lightspeed verified).
    • Special order system could use a lot of modern improvements (ability to schedule ahead of time, etc.)
    • Reports are very basic, and will likely require there Lightspeed Analytics to actually get reports useful for day to day operations.
    • Weak system for receiving purchase orders.
    • Does not handle items and cases for reordering very well. Have used multiple Point of Sale systems in the past 10 years that allow to set reorder points based on single items, but reorder the case automatically, Lightspeed has no support for this.
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    Intuit
    • User friendliness
    • Integrations with cloud tech
    • Cost
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    Usability
    Lightspeed
    Simply well designed with obvious icons per component, making it easy to interface with.
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    eMobilePOS
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    Intuit
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    Support Rating
    Lightspeed
    I gave the rating of a 9 because ninety percent of the time when I talk to their support they're very helpful. One of the only real issues I have is there are times where the queue will be 7-9 people deep. When you have an error you don't know how to fix, sometimes this is very troubling. But overall their support is usually quick and friendly.
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    eMobilePOS
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    Intuit
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    Alternatives Considered
    Lightspeed
    Lightspeed is faster, sleeker and more modern than our previous POS system. I can’t express enough how easy the online store portion of Lightspeed is - it just intuitive and sometimes, is TOO easy, I feel like I have to be forgetting something. Lightspeed is staying modern and current where our previous POS was not
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    eMobilePOS
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    Intuit
    I feel like all of these products have their own advantages and disadvantages. I feel though that QuickBooksPOS is especially beneficial when paired with QuickBooks Accounting Software creating a combination paired from a single vendor as opposed to multiple vendors and managing integrations that may or not break between release cycles.
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    Return on Investment
    Lightspeed
    • Certainly has saved money on cash-outs/ accounting due to QuickBooks integration.
    • Faster processing through tills means happier customers and more sales per hour.
    • Expensive product at $5K a year has taken away some profitability for this small business. It's way, way over priced.
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    eMobilePOS
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    Intuit
    • Hit Sales Goals
    • Less downtime
    • Data review
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