Likelihood to Recommend 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.
Read full review If you are doing all the different streams of business music stores or similar small businesses would have Rain Point of Sale is a great solution. If your store is more similar to a gift shop or cafe it may be too much for your needs.
Read full review Pros 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. Read full review Integration. One customer list. One product item list. One inventory count. POS and website store that function in real time with each other. Responsiveness. New features and tweaks to the user interface are actually constantly being developed based on our feedback and requests. Multiple location support. We have two stores and many of the other platforms we shopped didn't have good solutions for that. Rain lets us have a combined product database with different reorder preferences. Also, a new update to the system made transferring serial numbered products even easier. Read full review Cons 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. Read full review Reorder amount preset options could more sophisticated. I'd like to see the option to automatically "round up" the preset reorder qty up to 10 or 12 or 6, etc. This was possible previously but they added other options that changed the automated reorder suggestion to the difference between your current count the ideal count you have set for each product. This is good for some items, but not for others. Guitar strings come in a box of 12, but sheet music can be any number. And then some items we purchase in a box and then sell individually. Rain does allow for that in the purchase order automated reorder quantity. Mostly, I change each reorder quantity as I am copying and pasting the product codes into the vendor's website. Not huge deal breaker. And I believe they will eventually add more options like I want to see. You do need the internet to do business. So in case of a localized broadband outage you can use your mobile device as a hot spot. Read full review Likelihood to Renew We are very pleased with the service
Read full review Alternatives Considered It plays better with Sage 50. It has better associates should you have an issue. It's reasonably priced.
Read full review We migrated from a less integrated situation of running
ShopKeep for a POS system and the
AIMsi as a billing solution. This created a lot of extra steps for a large percentage of tasks.
AIMsi is just to hard to work with and it is very difficult to use it efficiently across multiple locations since tri-tech wants to license how many computers you can use it on and so on.
ShopKeep works well but we wanted ti move on to something a tiny bit more sophisticated for tracking repairs and replacing some of the billing functions of
AIMsi , and we wanted to have a web store finally.
ShopKeep doesn't go past being an easy to train on POS system with inventory tracking.
Read full review Return on Investment 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. Read full review We did not have any type of web-store before starting up with Rain Point of Sale so adding that online presence has helped us bring first-time customers into the store We have had one or two bad deals happen because of the site - so watch out for scammers using temporary office space with a fake business as the ship to address. Not Rain's fault, just part of doing business online. Read full review ScreenShots Rain Retail Software Screenshots