Compare Lightning Online and Clover - Jun 2022

Shlomi Lavi

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Bottom Line: Which is Better - Lightning Online or Clover?

Clover is more expensive to implement (TCO) than Lightning Online, and Clover is rated higher (91/100) than Lightning Online (83/100). Lightning Online offers users more features (6) than Clover (0).

Looking for the right Point of sale solution for your business? Buyers are primarily concerned about the real total cost of implementation (TCO), the full list of features, vendor reliability, user reviews, and the pros and cons. In this article we compare between the two software products:

Computer Perfect Vs. Atlassian Pty Ltd

Computer Perfect: Computer Perfect is a fully staffed computer company that has been in business for more than 25 years. It develops and supports Lightning Online, a suite of software tools that growing retailers need: quick and powerful point of sale features, detailed inventory management, extensive reporting, a built-in marketing center, charity at check-ou...

Atlassian Pty Ltd: Software is everywhere – on our computers, our watches, our refrigerators. And the teams building software together – developers, product managers, doc writers, bug-bashers – are our heroes. Our products help teams of all sizes track and share everything, work smarter, and create better software together.We are 400 geeks, beer drinkers, nerf herder...

Who is more expensive? Lightning Online or Clover?

The real total cost of ownership (TCO) of Point of sale software includes the software license, subscription fees, software training, customizations, hardware (if needed), maintenance and support and other related services. When calculating the TCO, it's important to add all of these ”hidden costs” as well. We prepared a TCO (Total Cost) calculator for Lightning Online and Clover.

Lightning Online price starts at $139 per license , On a scale between 1 to 10 Lightning Online is rated 2, which is much lower than the average cost of Point of sale software. Clover price starts at $9.95 per month , When comparing Clover to its competitors, the software is rated 6 - similar to the average Point of sale software cost.

Bottom line: Clover is more expensive than Lightning Online.

Which software includes more/better features?

We've compared Lightning Online Vs. Clover based on some of the most important and required Point of sale features.

Lightning Online: eCommerce, Accounting Management, Customer Management, Employee Management, Inventory Management, Point of sale.

Clover: We are still working to collect the list of features for Clover.

Target customer size

Customers of the software mainly consist of small and medium retail businesses. Customers of the software include businesses of all sizes from all over the world.