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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Olo

    Score8.3 out of 10
    N/AOlo in New York provides an on-demand interface for the restaurant industry, designed to drive digital ordering and delivery for restaurant brands.N/A

    Vend

    Score9 out of 10
    N/AVend is a cloud-based point-of-sale and retail management platform. The vendor says it’s used by retailers of all types and sizes to create the ultimate customer experience and manage sales, inventory, customers and more. Vend also works offline and it automatically resyncs the user’s sales once they are back up online. The vendor offers a free 30-day trial and no credit card is required.N/A
    Pricing
    OloVend
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    OloVend
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    OloVend
    Considered Both Products
    Olo Inc
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    Vend
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    97%
    Would buy again
    35 Answers
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    Delivers good value for the price
    97%
    Delivers good value for the price
    30 Answers
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    Happy with the feature set
    94%
    Happy with the feature set
    34 Answers
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    20 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation went as expected
    96%
    Implementation went as expected
    26 Answers
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    Best Alternatives
    OloVend
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    Square POS
    Score9 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
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    User Ratings
    OloVend
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.1
    (36 ratings)
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    8.4
    (3 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.4
    (2 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    OloVend
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Olo Inc
    After using a previous integrator, I can safely say I would recommend Olo above the competition. Olo successfully consolidates all platforms for order ingestion thus simplifying the entire process of digital ordering. Trying to do it any other way would simply be foolish. The technology works and there is a great support structure behind the scenes to make sure that if there are any questions, feature requests, or advancements that they get added to the development queue.
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    Vend
    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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    Pros
    Olo Inc
    • Olo makes the guest experience easy and understandable while placing their orders. They can easily customize their order, modifying each item to their liking using the guidelines we at our restaurant have given.
    • If there are issues with our equipment, Olo is quick to respond and get us back online.
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    Vend
    • Retail sales
    • Inventory management
    • Sales and promotions
    • Reporting
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    Cons
    Olo Inc
    • hard to set up 3rd parties on Rails - providing access and adding pricing information
    • bug in searching orders - have to first deselect all before selecting store
    • need to add group ordering - but they said they are working on this
    • store hours are too difficult to update. please make them editable all at once
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    Vend
    • It would be nice to have alternate ways to adjust prices
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Olo Inc
    It's quick, responsive, easy to navigate and has all the functions necessary to get the job done
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    Vend
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    Usability
    Olo Inc
    Olo's usability is great. The only area that keeps them from being a 10 is menu management. Menu management is absolutely workable, but it could be better. The rest of the system works well and is very usable and user-friendly. To the extent that their menu management has opportunities, the Olo Expo product helps this out with the people that need it the most, and thus why they score a 9 overall. Without Olo Expo, I'd score it an 8.
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    Vend
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    Support Rating
    Olo Inc
    No product is ever perfect and support is there to help when that is the case. The vast majority of time the Olo support team is quick, transparent, and resolves the issues. However, I can't say that they are absolutely perfect (but few support teams are). The only thing keeping them from a 10 is the LVL1 support teams will often not read a ticket fully and see that the troubleshooting steps they are about to give have already taken place.
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    Vend
    Not much support needed but they were fast and helpful when it was.
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    Implementation Rating
    Olo Inc
    not sure
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    Vend
    No answers on this topic
    Alternatives Considered
    Olo Inc
    Revel is my POS provider and they want to charge way to much for online integration so I have not tried it. What I have tried is each companies own apps on their tablets. I would rather have 3 or 4 different tablets that are good at what they do for their respective company then use your "all-in-one" solution that honestly is much worse.
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    Vend
    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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    Return on Investment
    Olo Inc
    • Time savings for employees has been a positive impact.
    • Our takeout business has increased from less than 10% to over 30% in the last 2 years, we could not have been as successful with this increase without the help of Olo.
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    Vend
    • Correct inventory levels has been a game-changer. We use to oversell because of inconsistencies between POS and e-commerce sales.
    • The built-in loyalty program has been very useful and was much more appealing to customers than we originally predicted.
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