Compare Lightning Online and Vend - Jun 2022

Shlomi Lavi

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

Lightning Online is more expensive to implement (TCO) than Vend, and Lightning Online is rated higher (83/100) than Vend (78/100). Lightning Online offers users more features (6) than Vend (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. Vend

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...

Vend: Vend allows real-world retail store owners or managers to have full visibility and centralized control of one to many retail stores. The Vend POS runs in the browser and supports full online and offline modes. Although Vend runs from the Internet, it keeps running the point of sales even when there is no active internet connection.

Who is more expensive? Lightning Online or Vend POS?

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 Vend POS.

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. Vend POS price starts at $99 per month , When comparing Vend POS to its competitors, the software is rated 2 - much lower than the average Point of sale software cost.

Bottom line: Lightning Online cost is around the same cost of Vend POS.

Which software includes more/better features?

We've compared Lightning Online Vs. Vend 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.

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

Target customer size

Customers of the software mainly consist of small and medium retail businesses. and Vend POS's target customer size include: Small, medium and large size businesses.