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Budget POS for starting store?

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Looking for recommendations:

We need something that handles retail operations well

Budget is around $292/month. What would you suggest?
Scott Peterson 👑 Master
1,400 points • Member since Apr 2025

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Margaret Davis
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210 posts
Jun 19, 2025
The employee management is definitely worth the extra cost IMO.
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Willie Martinez
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217 posts
Jun 22, 2025
Had the same problem, support was frustrating when I contacted them.
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Angela Baker
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195 posts
Jun 25, 2025
We had the same issue. What worked for us was reconfiguring the network settings
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Raymond Henderson
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191 posts
Jul 14, 2025
This is why we switched to Celerant. No regrets.
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Melissa Walker
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231 posts
Jul 30, 2025
Just went through this. Here's what I learned: take your time with the setup
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Jennifer Wright
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221 posts
Aug 3, 2025
+1 to this. We've seen similar results.
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Donna Washington
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187 posts
Aug 6, 2025
Different perspective here - you might want to consider a different approach
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Sharon Foster
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195 posts
Aug 8, 2025
Training took about 4 days for our staff.
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Aaron Wood
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237 posts
Aug 20, 2025
Great question! In my experience with Ingenico, it has been working well for us
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Brittany Kim
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187 posts
Aug 23, 2025
This is why we switched to Brink POS. No regrets.
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Brittany Kim
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187 posts
Sep 4, 2025
Cost us about $98/month all in. Worth it.
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Nathan Foster
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212 posts
Sep 7, 2025
+1 to this. We've seen similar results.
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Tyler King
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198 posts
Sep 23, 2025
Different perspective here - you might want to consider a different approach
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Amy Kim
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193 posts
Sep 26, 2025
The ecommerce integration is definitely worth the extra cost IMO.
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Brenda Johnson
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210 posts
Oct 2, 2025
Cost us about $155/month all in. Worth it.
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Chris Johnson
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206 posts
Oct 4, 2025
Just went through this. Here's what I learned: take your time with the setup
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Rebecca Powell
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204 posts
Oct 13, 2025
I've been using Restaurant365 for 12 months and it has been working well for us
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Donna Zhang
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222 posts
Oct 13, 2025
This is why we switched to Simphony. No regrets.
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Brittany Moore
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212 posts
Oct 19, 2025
The inventory tracking is definitely worth the extra cost IMO.
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Nancy Sanders
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217 posts
Nov 2, 2025
I've been using Qu for 22 months and it has been working well for us
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