MicroBiz vs. Vend

Great for retail stores that want to manage inventory. Great for stores that want to have different prices for different types of customers.

Vend was great fit for this dry cleaner/laundry that had high traffic volume with customers stopping in before and after work. Things need to be done quickly.

Incentivized

• Ring up transactions and take payments
• Manage inventory
• Management Reporting
• Discounts and promotions

• Retail sales
• Inventory management
• Sales and promotions
• Reporting

Incentivized

• Missing a couple helpful features (such as a free loyalty program)
• The formatting on some screens is whacky and the font can be small
• It could be easier to email receipts (need to set this before the transaction)

Incentivized

• It would be nice to have alternate ways to adjust prices

Incentivized

Not much support needed but they were fast and helpful when it was.

Incentivized

We looked at several systems. Some POS vendors had really bad reviews (Revel). Others had systems more suitable for other types of retailers such as kioks and quickserve (Square). Some were too complicated or more focused on foreign markets or ecommerce. We took a hard look at Lightspeed, but just liked MicroBiz better (was also cheaper).

Incentivized

Vend is much more capable than Square POS for product management and inventory control. ShopKeep is fairly similar to Vend but is a more closed ecosystem with fewer third-party integrations and less frequent updates.

Incentivized

• Really amazing value for the monthly fees. Less expensive than other serious cloud POS applications
• Synch with QBO allows us to save time manually entering financial data into our accounting system
• Bar code scanning in both the front end and back end saves time and money

Incentivized

• For a small business, it was important to keep the cost low

Incentivized