Reviews
Toast
Toast stands out as an all-in-one, customizable, and scalable restaurant POS solution. It integrates multiple ordering options with robust inventory and supply chain management. With plans starting at /month, Toast caters to all types of restaurants and budgets, including multi-location businesses. Discover how Toast can streamline your operations and revolutionize your...
Square POS
Catering to restaurants, retail stores, and appointment-based businesses, Square POS is one of the most popular systems on the market – no doubt in part because of its generous free plan, packed with features that are normally found behind paywalls. While Square POS works for most businesses, online-first and omnichannel businesses might find more robust support elsewhere.
Sekure Payment Experts
Despite past hiccups, Sekure Payment Experts has refined its approach and now provides good support and customer service. Businesses on a budget can save with Sekure's zero-cost processing Edge program, plus it offers free equipment and same or next-day deposits at no charge. It’s worth considering, but make sure you carefully review your contract terms before signing.
Lightspeed POS
Lightspeed serves restaurant, retail, and golf businesses, standing out as a feature-rich POS solution with advanced inventory, multi-location, and omnichannel capabilities. It provides e-commerce functionality exclusively for higher-tier plans. This means brick-and-mortar businesses only pay for necessary features. Lightspeed is ideal for established businesses and those...
Swyft Filings
Swyft Filings promises to handle the paperwork for the formation of your LLC, and that’s exactly what it does. Good customer support and an excellent set of features makes Swyft Filings ideal for small business owners. Though there are some extra fees to be aware of, it offers good value for money overall.
Shopify POS
Shopify POS is best suited for omnichannel businesses that sell online and in person. Its solutions allow you to unify sales across all your channels with automatic inventory updates and lets you manage your stock, staff, products, and marketing from one place. However, entirely brick-and-mortar businesses and those in industries other than retail might be better off with an...
SpotOn
SpotOn POS stands out with a POS platform highly customized for retail, restaurants, professional services, salons, and other small to medium-sized businesses. You can easily migrate from another system due to its personalized approach. Its free restaurant and affordable entry-level retail plan make it a good deal, provided you don’t need many add-ons. As for whether it beats...
Epos Now
Epos Now is one of the few POS solutions that provides flexible software compatible with many third-party hardware brands. You can also integrate any payment processor, but long-term contracts may be a drawback. While suitable for small to mid-sized retail and hospitality businesses, large or more complex organizations might find its features limiting.
Copy.ai
Thanks to its wide variety of writing tools for different use cases, Copy.ai is a robust AI writing platform ideal for businesses. It can generate sales copy, create long-form blog articles, and translate your content into multiple languages. It’s not perfect, but it’s worth trying out if you want to elevate your content in minutes.
Harbor Compliance
Though not as popular as some alternatives, Harbor Compliance is a legitimate company handling LLC formation and compliance services. It specializes in industry-specific licensing and offers comprehensive support for nonprofit formation. Combined with its compliance software, Harbor Compliance can save you a significant amount of time. However, it provides less value than our...
Blog Posts
10 Billion Passwords Exposed in Biggest Leak Ever
Researchers from Cybernews uncovered what appears to be the world’s largest compilation of leaked passwords, containing nearly 10 billion unique plaintext passwords. The stolen data file, rockyou2024.txt, was posted on a criminal underground forum, BreachForums, by a hacker nicknamed “ObamaCare” on July 4th. Like the 26-billion-record-heavy data leak, Cybernews discovered...
2023 Record Year for Data Breaches and Exposures
The Identity Theft Resource Center’s (ITRC) 2023 Data Breach Analysis shows that the total number of data compromises in the first half (H1) of 2023 has already surpassed 2022’s total number. The US recorded 1,393 data compromises between January 7 and June 30, 2023. The compromises that took place in H1 2023 were: 1,379 data breaches with 156,558,466 victims 12...
Center for Investigative Reporting Sues OpenAI, Microsoft
The Center for Investigative Reporting (CIR), a nonprofit that publishes Mother Jones and Reveal, is suing OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement. The country’s oldest nonprofit investigative newsroom alleges the tech firms have used its copyrighted material to train AI models. “OpenAI and Microsoft started vacuuming up our stories to make their product more...
Report: Layoffs in Finance Bring Spike in Freelance Hiring
Freelance platform Fiverr has partnered with market research group Censuswide to report on finance business leaders’ attitudes toward AI, freelancers, and more. The study, Strategic Insights: Leveraging Freelance Talent in Finance, consisted of a sample of 501 leaders from medium and large US finance firms relying on freelancers. The survey indicates the biggest...
9 Best Open-Source Website Builders + SaaS Options [2024]
Open-source website builders can help you create a site with all the bells and whistles for free. But there’s a catch: while the code itself is free, you still have to pay for hosting, domain, plugins, and expert help. Unless you have the technical know-how, a free open-source website builder could end up costing you thousands of dollars if you need to hire outsid help.can...
Apple and Meta Consider AI Partnership
Apple is reportedly in talks with Facebook parent Meta Platforms to integrate the latter’s generative AI model into the iPhone, people familiar with the matter told the Wall Street Journal. The report signals the latest in a string of AI-related developments for Apple. In the spring, reports emerged of Apple discussing an AI partnership with Google to integrate its Gemini...
Wix Adds Figma Plugin for Exporting Designs to Wix Studio
According to a Wix press release, leading website builder Wix can now integrate with the collaborative design tool Figma. With the Figma to Wix Studio plugin, users can seamlessly export their Figma designs to Wix Studio, Wix’s website-building platform for agencies and enterprises. "We are thrilled to present the new plugin to the design community," said Gali Erez, Head of...
Microsoft Delays AI “Recall” Feature Over Security Concerns
Microsoft is pausing the mass rollout of "Recall," an AI feature intended for new CoPilot+ PCs that shipped in late June. Due to privacy concerns, Recall will only be available to a small group of users instead of immediately being available on the new computers. Recall records user activity, from web browsing to voice chats, and creates a search history stored on the...
Squarespace Adds New Features for Service-Based Sellers
Website builder Squarespace has introduced tools for service-based sellers, such as photographers or event planners. The company said the new toolkit will help service-based entrepreneurs, which comprise a “good portion” of its customer base, “expand their product offerings and streamline project management.” The new features include branded proposals, contracts, invoices,...
6 Best Colorado LLC Formation Services: Easy & Cheap [2024]
Colorado consistently ranks among the best US states to start a business, especially for creative and STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) startups. Still, forming a Limited Liability Company (LLC) in Colorado can feel daunting, especially if you’re a first-time business owner. Finding a reliable Colorado LLC formation service can save you from the hassle and help...
The Biggest Highlights From Apple’s WWDC 2024
Apple announced several features at its 2024 Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC). The opening keynote was almost entirely dedicated to artificial intelligence, an area that Apple is widely seen as lagging in since ChatGPT kicked off the generative AI frenzy in late 2022. Apple’s biggest reveal was its new "personal intelligence" system, Apple Intelligence, which will be...
Google Won’t Face Jury Trial in US Digital Ads Case
A federal judge ruled that Google won’t face a jury trial for allegedly monopolizing the digital ads market. The judge’s decision comes after the tech giant paid $2.3 million to the US government to cover damages related to the case. US District Judge Leonie Brinkema had initially scheduled a jury trial for Google’s case in September. Brinkema ruled Google’s payment was the...
Nvidia CEO Says New AI Chips Are Coming Every Year
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang announced that the company aims to introduce new versions of its AI chips each year, twice its current rate of once every two years. The head of the world's most valuable chipmaker claimed this would unlock $100 trillion in opportunities across different industries as part of an “industrial revolution.” When asked by an analyst during the Q1 2025...
Hostinger Might Be the Fastest-Growing Hosting Provider
Lithuanian web hosting company Hostinger recently reported achieving €110.2 million in revenue in 2023, a 57% increase over the previous year’s figure. The company said the growth was due to an increase in users and cost savings from the internal use of AI. Hostinger said it ended 2023 with 57% more customers than at the end of 2022, with total billings rising 61%...
6 Best Cannabis Credit Card Processing Companies in 2024
Despite the legality of cannabis in many places, US banks and credit card networks generally avoid cannabis-related payments – meaning your store can’t easily take credit cards. And yet, running a cash-only cannabis business increases the risk of robbery and limits your profit to in-person sales. With 66% of CBD sales happening online, securing a reliable payment processor is...