Microsoft Dynamics RMS (Discontinued) vs. Square for Retail vs. Vend

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.

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Square for retail is great to use alongside WooCommerce to accept credit card payments on your e-commerce website.

Square for Retail works with a very easy to use card scanner that works with your phone, so it is great if you are selling items at an event like a conference, a farmers market, or an art fair. It is very easy and useful for the small business person who wants easy credit card processing either in person or online.

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Vend was great fit for this dry cleaner/laundry that had high traffic volume with customers stopping in before and after work. Things need to be done quickly.

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

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• Point of sale transactions
• Ease of use and convenient payment method for customers
• Receipts and transaction records for the business and customers
• Multiple ways to pay
• Fair transaction fees

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• Retail sales
• Inventory management
• Sales and promotions
• Reporting

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

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• This may just be me, but I want some additional customizations for our biggest annual fundraiser, so that we can differentiate between donations, chance drawings, etc.

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• It would be nice to have alternate ways to adjust prices

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Not much support needed but they were fast and helpful when it was.

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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.

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Square for Retail offers just about everything that the competitors offered, and does so with a more attractive, all-inclusive package. We chose Square for Retail due to the myriad of plugins available, from Dashboard to Appointments, to Estimates and Invoicing, Square for Retail provides just about everything we could hope for, with a predictable, and reasonable bill attached. From the predictability of our period's processing fees to the flexibility of the software and all of [its] possible plugins, Square for Retail was the obvious winner.

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Vend is much more capable than Square POS for product management and inventory control. ShopKeep is fairly similar to Vend but is a more closed ecosystem with fewer third-party integrations and less frequent updates.

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• 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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• Simplicity: Integration of appointment management and billing
• Time saving: Quick management of billable services
• Time Management: Integration of Google calendar and customer-facing appointment calendar

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• For a small business, it was important to keep the cost low

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