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Lease vs buy POS hardware?

🛒 Buying Advice 👁️ 1,625 views 💬 23 replies 📅 Nov 14, 2025
Quick question for the community:

We're trying to figure out the best approach for our grocery

Would love to hear from others who've dealt with this.
Joyce Perez 👑 Master
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Rebecca Bennett
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211 posts
Nov 14, 2025
For grocery, I'd recommend considering looking at multiple options
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Helen Stewart
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216 posts
Nov 14, 2025
+1 to this. We've seen similar results.
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James Mitchell
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221 posts
Nov 16, 2025
+1 to this. We've seen similar results.
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Kyle Thomas
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213 posts
Nov 16, 2025
This is why we switched to Grubhub for Restaurants. No regrets.
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Jonathan Park
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204 posts
Nov 16, 2025
+1 to this. We've seen similar results.
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Sandra Cooper
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198 posts
Nov 17, 2025
The markdown handling is definitely worth the extra cost IMO.
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George Clark
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202 posts
Nov 17, 2025
Cost us about $179/month all in. Worth it.
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Lisa Nelson
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222 posts
Nov 19, 2025
Different perspective here - you might want to consider a different approach
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Gregory Watson
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199 posts
Nov 19, 2025
Great question! In my experience with TouchBistro, it has been working well for us
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Margaret Rivera
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233 posts
Nov 19, 2025
Training took about 5 days for our staff.
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Kyle Thomas
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226 posts
Nov 20, 2025
We had the same issue. What worked for us was contacting support
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Lauren Howard
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222 posts
Nov 20, 2025
+1 to this. We've seen similar results.
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Ruth Powell
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213 posts
Nov 20, 2025
Training took about 4 days for our staff.
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Elizabeth Collins
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247 posts
Nov 20, 2025
Had the same problem, support was slow but eventually helpful when I contacted them.
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Jessica Campbell
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232 posts
Nov 22, 2025
Cost us about $99/month all in. Worth it.
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Tiffany Wright
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210 posts
Nov 23, 2025
For grocery, I'd recommend considering looking at multiple options
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Nathan Foster
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212 posts
Nov 23, 2025
Different perspective here - you might want to consider a different approach
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Benjamin Turner
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231 posts
Nov 24, 2025
Great question! In my experience with Shopkeep, it has been working well for us
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Brenda Walker
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243 posts
Nov 25, 2025
Had the same problem, support was responsive when I contacted them.
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Raymond Wilson
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208 posts
Nov 25, 2025
Had the same problem, support was responsive when I contacted them.
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