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Lease vs buy POS hardware?

🛒 Buying Advice 👁️ 2,187 views 💬 13 replies 📅 Jul 27, 2025
Quick question for the community:

We're trying to figure out the best approach for our general

Would love to hear from others who've dealt with this.
Heather Stewart 👑 Master
1,480 points • Member since Jun 2025

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Willie Martinez
👑 Master
217 posts
Jul 29, 2025
Training took about 2 days for our staff.
Paul Graham
👑 Master
217 posts
Aug 7, 2025
Cost us about $58/month all in. Worth it.
Karen Johnson
👑 Master
234 posts
Aug 22, 2025
Great question! In my experience with When I Work, it has been working well for us
Heather Stewart
👑 Master
244 posts
Aug 27, 2025
Just went through this. Here's what I learned: take your time with the setup
Jessica Price
👑 Master
220 posts
Aug 28, 2025
Just went through this. Here's what I learned: take your time with the setup
Mike Murphy
👑 Master
226 posts
Sep 3, 2025
Training took about 1 days for our staff.
Adam Scott
👑 Master
232 posts
Sep 19, 2025
Training took about 5 days for our staff.
Robert Perez
👑 Master
208 posts
Sep 20, 2025
Great question! In my experience with QuickBooks POS, it has been working well for us
Janet Rivera
👑 Master
214 posts
Sep 21, 2025
I've been using Lightspeed Retail for 24 months and it has been working well for us
Laura Jackson
👑 Master
194 posts
Oct 5, 2025
Great question! In my experience with Presto, it has been working well for us
Heather Stewart
👑 Master
244 posts
Oct 20, 2025
Agreed with the above. Also worth mentioning you should also check the settings
Kimberly Lewis
👑 Master
205 posts
Nov 8, 2025
Make sure you're on the latest version. That fixed it for us.
Scott Adams
👑 Master
238 posts
Nov 28, 2025
The cloud backup is definitely worth the extra cost IMO.

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