Switching POS systems - worth the hassle?

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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?

Frank Moore 👑 Master

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Robert Perez

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Nov 9, 2025

I've been using 7shifts for 8 months and it has been working well for us

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Kimberly Watson

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Nov 9, 2025

The reporting dashboard is definitely worth the extra cost IMO.

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Frances Chen

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Nov 9, 2025

I've been using Brink POS for 6 months and it has been working well for us

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Patrick Hughes

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Nov 13, 2025

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

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Tiffany Adams

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Nov 15, 2025

I've been using PHP Point of Sale for 5 months and it has been working well for us

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Nancy Lewis

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Nov 15, 2025

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

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Kimberly Anderson

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Nov 17, 2025

This is why we switched to HungerRush. No regrets.

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Joyce Chen

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Nov 18, 2025

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

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Tyler King

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Nov 18, 2025

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

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Frank Price

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Nov 20, 2025

The payment processing is definitely worth the extra cost IMO.

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Rebecca Perry

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Nov 20, 2025

Had the same problem, support was hit or miss when I contacted them.

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Jennifer Young

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Nov 21, 2025

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

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Margaret Kim

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Nov 24, 2025

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

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Chris Wood

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Nov 24, 2025

Training took about 4 days for our staff.

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Brenda Lewis

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Nov 24, 2025

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

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Susan Taylor

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Nov 24, 2025

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

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Marie Foster

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Nov 25, 2025

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

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Marcus Powell

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Nov 26, 2025

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

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Dennis Davis

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Nov 27, 2025

The multi-terminal support is definitely worth the extra cost IMO.

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Kyle Thomas

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Nov 27, 2025

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

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