Shlomi Lavi /
May 13, 2022
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Bottom Line: Which is Better - Lightspeed Restaurant or Spirits 2000?
Spirits 2000 is more expensive to implement (TCO) than Lightspeed Restaurant, and Lightspeed Restaurant is rated higher (90/100) than Spirits 2000 (88/100). Spirits 2000 offers users more features (12) than Lightspeed Restaurant (6).
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. Spirits POS
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...
Spirits POS:
The award-winning Spirit™ POS system is the result of our continued pursuit of delivering the most powerful, robust and intuitive system on the market. The system is designed to take advantage of client/server technology with built-in reliability and scalability. Our Fail Safe register technology enables unparalleled protection of critical d...
Who is more expensive? Lightspeed Restaurant or Spirits 2000?
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 Spirits 2000.
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. Spirits 2000 price starts at $8,500 per license , When comparing Spirits 2000 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 Spirits 2000.
Which software includes more/better features?
We've compared Lightspeed Restaurant Vs. Spirits 2000 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.
Spirits 2000: Accounting Management, Bar Code Scanning, Credit Card Processing, Customer History, Customer Management.
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. The software is a viable product for small single-location liquor stores as well as large multi-
location stores, due to its ability of managing multiple registers at the same time.