Shlomi Lavi /
Mar 22, 2022
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Bottom Line: Which is Better - Lightspeed Restaurant or Apple Pay?
Apple Pay is more expensive to implement (TCO) than Lightspeed Restaurant, and Apple Pay is rated with the same score (90/100) as Lightspeed Restaurant (90/100). Lightspeed Restaurant offers users more features (6) than Apple Pay (0). There is a clear winner in this case and it is Lightspeed Restaurant!
Looking for the right Retail & POS 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:
Lightspeed Vs. Apple
Lightspeed: Retailers and restaurateurs liven up communities with their businesses. At Lightspeed our goal is to make small businesses run smoothly. We pride ourselves on creating easy-to-navigate point of sale products for retail stores and restaurants. Our tools are specifically designed around the realities of business owners managing single to multiple loc...
Apple: Apple Inc., formerly Apple Computer, Inc., is an American multinational corporation headquartered in Cupertino, California[2] that designs, develops, and sells consumer electronics, computer software and personal computers. Its best-known hardware products are the Mac line of computers, the iPod music player, the iPhone smartphone, and the iPad tab...
Who is more expensive? Lightspeed Restaurant or Apple Pay?
The real total cost of ownership (TCO) of Retail & POS 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 Lightspeed Restaurant and Apple Pay.
Lightspeed Restaurant price starts at $39 per month , On a scale between 1 to 10 Lightspeed Restaurant is rated 2, which is much lower than the average cost of Retail & POS software. Apple Pay price starts at $300 per license , When comparing Apple Pay to its competitors, the software is rated 2 - much lower than the average Retail & POS software cost.
Bottom line: Lightspeed Restaurant cost is around the same cost of Apple Pay.
Which software includes more/better features?
We've compared Lightspeed Restaurant Vs. Apple Pay based on some of the most important and required Retail & POS features.
Lightspeed Restaurant: Sales Management, Retail & POS, Point of sale, Supplier Management, Inventory Management, Barcode Scanning.
Apple Pay: We are still working to collect the list of features for Apple Pay.
Target customer size
The typical customers that enjoy using Lightspeed Restaurant are entrepreneurs and business people within the small business (10-200 employees) to medium-sized (500 to 1,000) relying on IT services, data processing and hosting and other related services, particularly the field of retail, hospitality and POS. and Apple Pay's target customer size include: Small, medium and large size businesses.