Quail Creation

To: Gary Schumacher

From: Yijie Yang

Subject: Research on POS Systems

Hi Gary,

In order to adapt POS to our company's current usage scenarios and to combine the company's future development, I focused on the following criteria:

 Price: Consider the monthly fee, cost of add-on features, and payment processing fees.

 Ease of Use: Best systems are intuitive and easy for our employees and customers to use

immediately.

 Online Sales: Look at POS software that offer built-in ecommerce support or integrated solutions.

 Inventory Management: Consider inventory management to some degree because of our business.

Criteria Square POS Shopify LightSpeed Retail

Price Less expensive Expensive Most expensive

Ease of Use Best Good Good

Online Sales Supported Best Supported

Inventory

Management Less advanced Good Best

According to these four criteria, I have selected the best three choices for you to review.

Square POS is free to use. And add-on features are inexpensive. The POS app works on iOS and

Android devices, and all accounts can get a free magstripe (swipe) reader. It is easy to use, from inventory

control to running reports. However, Square POS sticks to the basics, which means it cannot offer many

advanced features such as detailed reports.

Shopify gets high review from users for the online store and themes. It’s often noted that the platform is

easy to use. However, it’s more expensive than most other POS systems, especially for the highest-tiered

plan.

LightSpeed Retail is easy to use, offers several helpful tools for inventory and reporting. It offers

excellent customer support. However, there was a bit of frustration regarding extra costs for advanced

reporting and add-on features, like loyalty and ecommerce.

Best wishes,

Yijie

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Student Name : Yijie Yang Date: 04.16.2019