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 BEST Credit Card Processing Apps for Smartphones in 2024
Tired of hauling bulky terminals around when you need to take payments on the road? There’s an app for that. Mobile point-of-sale (mPOS) apps make it easier than ever to manage your business on the go. However, with almost every credit card processor on the market offering some kind of mPOS solution, it can be difficult to determine which is the best one for your...
Uber Fined $324 Million in EU for Sending Drivers’ Data to US
The Dutch Data Protection Authority (DPA) fined transport company Uber a record $324 million (€290 million) for transferring EU drivers’ sensitive data to the US without proper safeguards for over two years. The agency said Uber violated the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). “In Europe, the GDPR protects people's fundamental rights by requiring companies and...
77% of Employees Say AI Creates More Work for Them
Upwork's Workplace Intelligence Survey unveiled a mismatch between executives’ high expectations of AI’s ability to improve efficiency and employees experiencing AI-related burnout and decreased productivity. As many as 96% of C-suite leaders expect AI adoption to increase company productivity. On the contrary, 77% of employees say AI tools have increased their workload and...
10 Best Credit Card Processing for Small Businesses in 2024
It’s not easy finding the right credit card processing company for your small business. With multiple types of payment models on the market, it can be difficult to know which one is best for you. Plus, very few small business merchant services publicly advertise their rates, making it even harder to draw an accurate comparison. Not every small business is the same, either...
Stax vs Payment Depot: Which Is Better? (Compared in 2024)
Many payment processors claim they have the best deal on payment processing, but few actually save you money. If you need online and in-person support and some nice-to-have features, finding a processor that can do it all (and well) seems impossible. Stax and Payment Depot seem to have it all – a payment model designed to provide savings the more your business grows, plus...
Procreate Hates Generative AI & Will Never Adopt It
iPad digital illustration app Procreate, owned by Australian company Savage Interactive, is taking a bold stance against generative AI and vowed never to incorporate the new technology into its products. “I really f****** hate generative AI,” the company’s CEO, James Cuda, said in a video posted on the Procreate account on X. “I don’t like what’s happening in the industry,...
National Public Data Confirms Huge Social Security Breach
Florida-based Jerico Pictures Inc., the Coral Springs, an entity that does business as National Public Data (NPD), confirmed the “data security incident” that potentially leaked every American’s Social Security number (SSN) to identity thieves. According to the company’s notice, “a third-party bad actor” has stolen billions of records, including names, email addresses, phone...
Wix Payments Review [2024]: Fees, Plans & Is It Worth It?
If you have a Wix Business plan, you can take advantage of Wix’s built-in payment gateway, Wix Payments. It’s an all-in-one business solution that allows you to conveniently manage payments from orders, events, bookings, and subscriptions from the same platform where you manage your Wix online business. As someone fascinated by (almost) everything Wix, I just had to dive...
Fiverr Releases 2023 ESG Report
Freelance platform Fiverr published its 2023 Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) report, detailing its efforts throughout 2023 to support the four key pillars of its ESG strategy: creating fair economic and social opportunities, maintaining marketplace integrity and ethics, empowering people, and fighting climate change. As part of Fiverr’s efforts to create fair...
Wix Is the First Gemini for Workspace Google Partner
SaaS website builder Wix is expanding its partnership with Google to offer users access to Gemini for Workspace. As the first reseller of Gemini for Workspace, Wix will enable users to utilize advanced Gemini-powered generative AI solutions across Google Workspace. Gemini for Google Workspace with Wix is available only in English and for US-based users. Gemini for Workspace...
How To Sell Digital Downloads: Complete Guide And Tips in 2024
You might know people making $$$ by selling digital downloads online, and here you are, ready to do the same. Amazing! It’s a learnable skill and is not nearly as complicated as you might think. Spoiler: Getting started can take as little as a few hours! But before we jump into the what and how to sell digital downloads, it’s crucial to think through the where. While you...
Google Chrome Update Adds New Search Tools
Google’s latest Chrome desktop update will bring new AI features to its Search platform. These include advanced searches with Google Lens, online product comparisons from different tabs, and a more intuitive way to rediscover sites from the Chrome browser history. Google Lens, the tool for visual scanning on smartphones, is finally coming to Chrome’s desktop version...
Fiverr Acquires Dropshipping Automation Tool AutoDS
Freelance platform Fiverr recently acquired e-commerce platform AutoDS. This move further cements Fiverr’s evolution from a talent marketplace to a comprehensive platform offering access to experts and software solutions. Fiverr founder and CEO Micha Kaufman described the acquisition as “another step in Fiverr's transformation from a marketplace into a powerful platform...
Google Upgrades Gemini With Faster 1.5 Flash AI Model
Google is rolling out the more powerful 1.5 Flash model for its Gemini AI chatbot, which is capable of generating faster responses, handling longer context windows, and better reasoning and image understanding. This model will now power the free Gemini version on web and mobile, previously running on the Gemini 1.0 Pro large language model (LLM). The 1.5 Flash model is rolling...
6 Best Credit Card Processing for Therapists in 2024
Every good therapist knows that client comfort goes beyond the therapy session. The same principle applies to collecting payments, too. By offering a simple invoicing process and multiple ways for clients to pay, you can set yourself apart from the competition. Unfortunately, not every credit card processor offers the level of service you need. Some accept very few payment...