Square: Services both retail and restaurant businesses, but lacks specialty in any one industry.
POS Nation: Built to support exclusively retail small businesses, this team is equipped with years of industry expertise.
Winner: POS Nation
Square: An introductory product that can be easier to use for small retailers who are new to the industry.
POS Nation: POS Nation for Retail offers advanced features, over 55 built-in reports, and customization options, which may take more time to learn for less tech-savvy owners.
Winner: Square
Square: Limited hardware offerings; if your business requires the sale of weighed items, or displaying transactions or advertisements, this is a challenge.
POS Nation: Offers a large variety of hardware, including advanced hardware for your specific retail industry's needs: customer displays, integrated scales, wireless scanners, label printers, and more.
Winner: POS Nation
Square: Many need-to-have features such as processing exchanges, managing vendors and purchase orders, running profit margin reports, and more, are only included in an upgraded plan at an additional fee.
POS Nation: Exchanges, vendor and PO management, and reporting are all included with the system, including several other advanced features at no additional cost.
Winner: POS Nation
Square: Offers a completely mobile option that can be taken to markets, pop-ups shops, and other remote events.
POS Nation: Offers remote reporting, inventory management, and other back office features, but not cashier features.
Winner: Square
Square: This is a 100% cloud-based POS system, so having a strong and stable internet connection is needed to use the software.
POS Nation: A hybrid system, this software offers internet-enabled cloud capabilities for accessing business-critical data, as well a local database which does not require internet.
Winner: POS Nation
Square: Effective rate is 2.6% and 3.5% depending on the payment method.
POS Nation: Effective rate is between 2% and 2.5% depending on average transaction size.
Winner: POS Nation
Square: Good option for businesses that want to be completely mobile and run their business on a tablet
POS Nation: Tablet integration is offered, however, software performs best on a touch PC.
Winner: Square
In addition to offering US-based, 24/7 support and a dedicated customer success manager, POS Nation's team boasts a high level of customer satisfaction and is a leader in the "Customer Support" category according to several 3rd party review websites.
POS Nation's solution and in-house team are positioned for a long-term commitment to every customer.
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