Cloud vs traditional POS - your experience?

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Sharing my experience in case it helps others.

We recently made some changes to our setup

Has anyone else seen this?

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Kevin Watson

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Oct 12, 2025

Make sure you're on the latest version. That fixed it for us.

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Kyle Ross

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Oct 13, 2025

Great question! In my experience with Homebase, it has been working well for us

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Stephanie Hill

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Oct 13, 2025

The WIC/EBT support is definitely worth the extra cost IMO.

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Harold Nguyen

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Oct 16, 2025

Check out the markdown handling setting, that might help.

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Janet Rivera

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Oct 20, 2025

+1 to this. We've seen similar results.

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Nancy Lewis

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Oct 21, 2025

I've been using NCR Counterpoint for 7 months and it has been working well for us

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Nancy Park

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Oct 22, 2025

Great question! In my experience with Gusto, it has been working well for us

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Karen Johnson

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Oct 24, 2025

Cost us about $53/month all in. Worth it.

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Dennis Perry

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Oct 26, 2025

This is why we switched to Golf Genius. No regrets.

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Nancy Sanders

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Oct 27, 2025

Check out the produce lookup setting, that might help.

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Nicole Thompson

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Oct 28, 2025

Different perspective here - you might want to consider a different approach

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Rebecca Foster

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Oct 31, 2025

This is why we switched to Aloha POS. No regrets.

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Harold Reed

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Nov 2, 2025

Cost us about $168/month all in. Worth it.

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Jennifer Carter

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Nov 6, 2025

Check out the price book management setting, that might help.

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Sean Stewart

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Nov 8, 2025

Great question! In my experience with Clover, it has been working well for us

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Scott Peterson

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Nov 9, 2025

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

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Donna Washington

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Nov 13, 2025

I've been using Paychex for 12 months and it has been working well for us

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Rachel Barnes

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Nov 14, 2025

+1 to this. We've seen similar results.

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Tiffany Adams

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Nov 14, 2025

Agreed with the above. Also worth mentioning you should also check the settings

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Donna Alexander

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Nov 19, 2025

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

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