Budget POS for starting business?

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Looking for recommendations:

We need something that handles general operations well

Budget is around $89/month. What would you suggest?

Tiffany Adams 👑 Master

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Benjamin Turner

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231 posts

Oct 16, 2025

Cost us about $148/month all in. Worth it.

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Raymond Henderson

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191 posts

Oct 18, 2025

We had the same issue. What worked for us was checking the cable connections

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Margaret Rivera

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233 posts

Oct 31, 2025

Cost us about $54/month all in. Worth it.

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Frances Russell

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212 posts

Nov 1, 2025

The payment processing is definitely worth the extra cost IMO.

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Chris Perez

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171 posts

Nov 2, 2025

This is why we switched to Aldelo. No regrets.

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Angela Reed

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210 posts

Nov 2, 2025

We had the same issue. What worked for us was restarting the terminal

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Maria Butler

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217 posts

Nov 5, 2025

The payment processing is definitely worth the extra cost IMO.

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James Mitchell

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Nov 14, 2025

We had the same issue. What worked for us was restarting the terminal

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Jennifer Wright

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221 posts

Nov 24, 2025

Just went through this. Here's what I learned: take your time with the setup

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