Opayo by Elavon vs. LS Central

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.

Incentivized

Ideally it can work with any kind of retailer but workarounds and customisations required to handle deliveries.

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

• Offline/semi-offline mode works well in areas where connectivity is an issue.
• Pricing, offers and promotions can be configured exceptionally well in LS Retail.
• POS interface design is simple, robust and easily configurable.
• Security wise there is enough detail available to trace all kinds of POS transactions.

Incentivized

• 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

• Data Director leaves room for improvement as it can be very tricky while dealing with a large number of master data records. Sometimes it doesn't write delete actions to POS.
• Furniture retail is another area where improvement is required to handle deliveries.
• Newer versions don't support data replicator which was the most reliable data tool with earlier LS Retail versions. There should be a replacement for this tool.

Incentivized

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

Incentivized

It scores higher on overall user experience and matured features set.

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.

Incentivized

• Timely sales visibility
• Optimum Inventory levels
• Enough data to visualise trends and patterns

Incentivized