ERPLY vs. Lightspeed Retail

The POS system of ERPLY has no major issues that we have noticed or that have prevented us from being able to accomplish something for the task at hand. A specific scenario in which ERPLY is well suited is the scenario of needing to have a customer pay for a service or a purchase and not having a payment reader available and being unable to match up payment methods with what consumers of today use such as Apple Pay, Venmo, etc. ERPLY works well for this as it does integrate with Apple Pay but moreover works well like any POS should to allow the transaction to happen.

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It is perfect for any small business looking for inventory control, Tracking purchase history, and just an all round easy to use software for retail and beyond. I would not use it if I have only a few hundred items or was a larger company that can afford to build my own POS software.

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• POS system and reporting
• Ease of use and trusted use for customers and clients

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• Very very user friendly.
• Easy iPad interface that is easy to upgrade to new hardware if an iPad breaks, etc.
• On the Advanced plan the reporting is outstanding.
• Very easy to train new employees, especially younger employees raised on phones and tablets.
• We use their payments system and it's a very easy integration. I believe Stripe is their payment provider.

• They were not able to adapt to help us with backorder reports, export function they created for us never worked properly and ultimately they were unable to fix.
• In our accounts, we ship to different countries from the same stock, these countries have different ecomm sites, they were unable to integrate with more than one ecomm site, requiring us to manually put in the second site orders which was hugely time consuming.
• We invested a lot of money and time without progress. We found it difficult to work with their engineers overseas even our UK team couldn't connect with them and in the US we found our NY rep without answers.

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• They have not had major updates to their system in years. The inventory system is stagnant. Although their inventory system is robust, it is outdated.
• They do have 24-hour support, however, wait times are excessive and representatives have challenges understanding your issues.
• Trying to get issues resolved can take months or never at all. Management is non-existent. Trying to reach a supervisor is impossible.
• They have a culture of telling you what you want to hear but have no intentions of actually following through.
• Lightspeed is a great solution if you are a small business just getting started. But if you are intending to grow and expand, Lightspeed will become detrimental to your growth.
• The reporting/analytics is basic at best. They do offer paid options that are very expensive, but it is very robust. The basic reporting is very minimal.

Very easy to use and figure out without calling customer support which is also very responsive and helpful.

Incentivized

I gave the rating of a 9 because ninety percent of the time when I talk to their support they're very helpful. One of the only real issues I have is there are times where the queue will be 7-9 people deep. When you have an error you don't know how to fix, sometimes this is very troubling. But overall their support is usually quick and friendly.

Incentivized

Stitch Labs is less mobile friendly but suits our needs for handling lots of ecommerce sites and Amazon accounts in one place. They were able to get us the custom report we were looking for and it works without issue. It does not have the accounting functions that ERPLY offered so we needed to invest in separate software. this was a definite down side. Their chat feature is much better than ERPLY and the staff is responsive.

Incentivized

We used Microsoft Retail Management System before this and this was in a whole other league of its own with features and ease of use. I really like using Macs also. They are much more reliable and longer lasting than IBM or Similar computers. The cloud based system is great also so you do not have to have another unit to store you database on

Incentivized

• We put a lot of money and time into developing custom reports with their off shore team that never worked.
• They were inexpensive way for us to test integrating ecommerce sites to our ERP system.
• They provided a decent, basic accounting module that enabled us to save on investing in separate accounting software.

Incentivized

• I have to spend a lot less time training my employees because Lightspeed is so easy to use!
• Keeping track of our inventory is as simple as clicking a few buttons.
• Our online sales have grown tremendously since changing to Lightspeed

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