Clover POS - Top Competitors (May 2022)

Shlomi Lavi / updated: May 15, 2022

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Clover POS vs. Alternatives in 2024

It is essential to compare and analyze various alternatives with changing business needs. The three tough competitors of Clover are Square, Shopify, and PayPal Zettle.

• Functionality: Square is a cloud-based POS software for small, medium, and large-sized organizations. Square offers a wide range of features including, online payment processing, inventory management, retail management, customer management, employee administration, user-based access, taxes & discounts option, unpaid invoice reminders, cash drawer management, loyalty module, offline mode, refund processing, returned items module, order notes, and customization.
  
  Square is available for iOS and Android mobiles helping users with easy POS processing and management. Square also offers POS hardware to assist users with their day-to-day transactions. Both Clover and Square offer similar feature sets. Shopify is a cloud-based POS system for online stores. Along with offering a payment solution, Shopify also offers stores where users can create their own stores and sell products and get paid from anywhere around the world.
  
  The features offered by Shopify POS include checkout module, email cart, product detail QR codes, standard shopping rate estimations, cash flow management, staff management, product administration, reporting & analytics, smart inventory management, email marketing, social media integration, Google Ads credits, and product reviews. Compared to Clover, Shopify is available in various regions across the world, and it is easier to integrate it with your current store.
  
  PayPal Zettle is a cloud-based POS system for small, medium, and large-sized organizations. The features offered by PayPal Zettle include inventory management, reporting & analytics, product export/import, stock level updates, business tracking metrics, checkout process streamlining, customized flows, and integrations with PayPal. In addition, as compared to Clover, PayPal Zettle is easier to integrate with PayPal payment solution.
• Pricing: The cost of Square POS is around a 2.6 % processing rate of cards, along with 10 cents for each tap/swipe. There is no monthly and setup fee included. The cost of Shopify POS is around $89 per month. However, Shopify has a lesser-priced pricing plan, which costs around 2.4% of the card processing. PayPal Zettle is approximately $29 for card readers and a 2.29% transaction fee. However, the users need to pay $79 each for additional card readers. The pricing of Clover is lesser than the other products in the market.
• Support: Clover POS and the various alternatives listed all offer support to the users via email, FAQs, phone support, chat & 24/7 life support, and knowledge base. Moreover, users can subscribe to monthly newsletters for all updates and news.