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Any business owner working with retail or other direct sales industry knows that POS software can be an unexpected issue in daily operations. Lightspeed POS exemplifies how simple it may actually be to design widely-compatible POS systems that’s easy to use, scalable, and up to speed with modern best practices in software.
Features
- Mobile Sales – Lightspeed POS offers a mobile approach to sales, and this doesn’t specifically mean tablets or smartphones. With Lightspeed, any device capable of scanning, reading cards and running one of the interfaces available can complete a sale, a price check, an inventory check or any of the other host of functions this advanced point of sale system can offer. This idea actually has huge promise for making retail environments more convenient.
- Diversity – Lightspeed POS is intended to be used by both of the major sectors that make use of point of sale technology—restaurants and retail outlets. However, they actually did something smart by designing separate distributions for these, because trying to make a single solution that malleable would not end well. Both retail POS and restaurant POS systems are available, packing the same features and flexibility, optimized for either sector.
- Scalability – Lightspeed POS is designed to grow with your business scale, so you never need to worry about outgrowing it. It can be simplistic and basic for a small, specialized business, or become a retail or restaurant powerhouse as your business sees increasing success.
- Offline Mode – We don’t yet live in world where the internet doesn’t sometimes fail. Lines can be damaged, systems can fail—even in metropolitan areas with fiber optic backbones, sometimes the internet just stops working. Well, unlike a lot of e-pay-compatible POS systems out there, Lightspeed POS can work in offline mode, even for payments (this is limited of course), allowing you to conduct business as usual—within reason.
- Multiple Payment Systems – In that vein, this system is designed to work with the most possible payment methods, including the likes of PayPal and other e-pay methods. This is a huge convenience for customers, and reduces the amount of cash your business has to handle.
- Reporting – Generate reports based on any set of analytics and case metrics you need: sales percentages, frequency of things bought together—really anything.
- Advanced Data – Unlike a lot of POS solutions, this one offers built-in inventory, layaway, and customer profiling solutions for a unified sales and CRM system designed with retail or food service in mind.
- Platform Agnostic – Any device can run this system, which means any device can be a cash register. Of course, if you refrain from traditional cash register hardware, you have a slight challenge when it comes to cash, but there are ways around this.
Pricing
Lightspeed POS do list a most popular monthly price/plan, but clients will need to speak to a customer service representative to get actual quotes and availability.
From what can be surmised, it’s a little pricy for small businesses (though not unaffordable), and very reasonable for medium or large businesses, making this tentatively an all-business-size solution. |
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