LS Central vs. Retail Pro

Ideally it can work with any kind of retailer but workarounds and customisations required to handle deliveries.

Incentivized

It will suit simple small size businesses like mom and pop shops. For a mid-sized retail company with more than 100 stores, it runs way too slow and lacks a lot of functions.

Incentivized

• Offline/semi-offline mode works well in areas where connectivity is an issue.
• Pricing, offers and promotions can be configured exceptionally well in LS Retail.
• POS interface design is simple, robust and easily configurable.
• Security wise there is enough detail available to trace all kinds of POS transactions.

Incentivized

• Stable and reliable (we never faced any issue with the data).
• Handling promotions is easy.
• Easy reports.
• Retail Pro's support network is strong. We get support in all the regions.

• Data Director leaves room for improvement as it can be very tricky while dealing with a large number of master data records. Sometimes it doesn't write delete actions to POS.
• Furniture retail is another area where improvement is required to handle deliveries.
• Newer versions don't support data replicator which was the most reliable data tool with earlier LS Retail versions. There should be a replacement for this tool.

Incentivized

• Always crashes. Runs very slow. Part of this is because it does not fit the size of our company anymore.
• Lack of capability to integrate with accounting software. We have to use Access tool to pull sales journal data from Retail Pro, then import to our accounting software.
• The interface looks very out of date.

Incentivized

First thing, all of my business users are happy with the usability and reliability of retail pro. Users are able to get what they want to run the business positively. We are able to customize the solution any time based on the business requirements. Finally after working on different solutions we found a solution that works with little support.

Retail pro is a solution which needs minimum support, so we can concentrate on other productive work. Worst case if there is any problem our well trained Zimson team is able to handle it on time. Thanks Retail Pro for its world class support and training system. No wonder why all top retail brands use Retail Pro for its POS operations.

It scores higher on overall user experience and matured features set.

Incentivized

N/A. I wish we could switch to other products.

Incentivized

• Timely sales visibility
• Optimum Inventory levels
• Enough data to visualise trends and patterns

Incentivized

• It decreased the home office's efficiency because it runs too slow and always crashes.
• At the store level, it causes cash over short/duplicate charge issues when it crashes.
• For the inventory and planning department, it impacted the accuracy of inventory level due to the lack of functions.

Incentivized