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Lease vs buy POS hardware?

🛒 Buying Advice 👁️ 4,994 views 💬 17 replies 📅 Sep 12, 2025
Looking for recommendations:

We need something that handles retail operations well

Budget is around $163/month. What would you suggest?
Laura Davis 👑 Master
1,500 points • Member since May 2025

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Chris Hall
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221 posts
Sep 17, 2025
For retail, I'd recommend considering looking at multiple options
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Helen Martinez
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205 posts
Sep 20, 2025
Training took about 4 days for our staff.
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Amy Simmons
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226 posts
Sep 22, 2025
For retail, I'd recommend considering looking at multiple options
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Jennifer Wright
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221 posts
Sep 26, 2025
Just went through this. Here's what I learned: take your time with the setup
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Sharon Richardson
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234 posts
Sep 28, 2025
Check out the layaway management setting, that might help.
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Amy Simmons
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226 posts
Sep 28, 2025
Check out the gift card system setting, that might help.
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Carlos Murphy
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218 posts
Sep 29, 2025
Check out the returns processing setting, that might help.
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Frank Price
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226 posts
Oct 7, 2025
Agreed with the above. Also worth mentioning you should also check the settings
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Laura Davis
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238 posts
Oct 10, 2025
Make sure you're on the latest version. That fixed it for us.
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Susan Collins
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197 posts
Oct 17, 2025
The multi-location sync is definitely worth the extra cost IMO.
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Chris Wood
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247 posts
Oct 18, 2025
Had the same problem, support was slow but eventually helpful when I contacted them.
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Donna Ramos
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225 posts
Oct 20, 2025
The gift card system is definitely worth the extra cost IMO.
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Sarah Barnes
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206 posts
Oct 24, 2025
Make sure you're on the latest version. That fixed it for us.
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Chris Wood
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247 posts
Oct 26, 2025
Had the same problem, support was hit or miss when I contacted them.
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Amy Simmons
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226 posts
Oct 30, 2025
This is why we switched to Club Prophet. No regrets.
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Adam Bennett
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221 posts
2w ago
For retail, I'd recommend considering looking at multiple options
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Gregory Watson
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199 posts
1w ago
I've been using Thrive POS for 12 months and it has been working well for us
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