Compare Retail Express and Merchant RMS - Mar 2022

Shlomi LaviShlomi Lavi / Mar 30, 2022

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Bottom Line: Which is Better - Retail Express or Merchant RMS?

Merchant RMS is more expensive to implement (TCO) than Retail Express, and Retail Express is rated higher (75/100) than Merchant RMS (62/100).

Looking for the right Retail Management 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:

Retail Express Vs. Merchant Applications

Retail Express: Retail Express was originally designed in conjunction with a real retail business, not in a software laboratory. It began when an Australian retail and distribution company wanted to leverage the Internet and streamline their business operations with a practical software solution.Having developed an in-house retail operating software system for it’...

Merchant Applications: Merchant Applications Inc. is a POS / Retail Management Systems developer and a total solution provider for specialty retailers. We offer complete systems including software, hardware, and professional services such as project management, training, and installation. Based on Microsoft Windows technologies (.net and SQL Server ), we also offer ...

Who is more expensive? Retail Express or Merchant RMS?

The real total cost of ownership (TCO) of Retail Management 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 Retail Express and Merchant RMS.

Retail Express price starts at $129 per month , On a scale between 1 to 10 Retail Express is rated 4, which is lower than the average cost of Retail Management POS software. Merchant RMS price starts at $10,000 per license , When comparing Merchant RMS to its competitors, the software is rated 6 - similar to the average Retail Management POS software cost.

Bottom line: Merchant RMS is more expensive than Retail Express.

Which software includes more/better features?

We've compared Retail Express Vs. Merchant RMS based on some of the most important and required Retail Management POS features.

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

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

Target customer size

Retail Express is great for use in the retail industry belonging for small business (10-200 employees) to medium-sized (500 to 1,000) categories relying on IT servicesas well as data processing and hosting and other related services, particularly retail, hospitality and POS. and Merchant RMS's target customer size include: Small, medium and large size businesses.

Retail Express

ITQlick rating
(3.6/5)

starts at $129 per month

Retail Express is a cloud-based point of sales/POS software developed with market leading modules helping users to achieved minimization of costs, improvement of efficiency and in overall sales growth.

Categories: Retail & POS, Bookstore POS, Cell Phone Store POS, Clothing Store Inventory POS.

Merchant RMS

ITQlick rating
(4.7/5)

starts at $10,000 per license

Merchant RMS is a fast growing cloud-based Inventory Management software, it is designed to support small, medium and large size business. Merchant RMS received a rating of 4.7 from ITQlick team. The software c...

Categories: Payroll, Inventory Management, Barcoding, WMS, Invoicing.

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Retail Express: 0 Features

We are working to collect the list of features

Merchant RMS: 0 Features

We are working to collect the information
ITQlick rating ITQlick Rating is based on the software score (below) and aggregated online reviews
ITQlick score ITQlick Score is a 1 to 100, the calculation is based on pricing, and functionality Vs. alternative solutions
Pricing score pricing Score is a 1 to 10 (10 is high cost), based on the TCO (cost of licences, customizations, training, hardware when relevant) Vs. alternative solutions
License pricing license pricing (if provided by the software vendor)
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Retail E...
ITQlick rating
3.6/5
Score
75/100
Pricing
5.4/10
License pricing
$129 per month
Functionality
13
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Merchant...
ITQlick rating
4.7/5
Score
62/100
Pricing
6.8/10
License pricing
$10,000 per license
Functionality
6
Rent it ...
ITQlick rating
3/5
Score
86/100
Pricing
4.4/10
License pricing
$129 per month
Functionality
7
NOVA POS
ITQlick rating
4.5/5
Score
85/100
Pricing
3.4/10
License pricing
$89.99 per month
Functionality
15
Profit P...
ITQlick rating
2.8/5
Score
85/100
Pricing
3.8/10
License pricing
$500 per license
Functionality
16

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Shlomi Lavi is an entrepreneur and founder of ITQlick.com. He holds a Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) in Information Systems Engineering from Ben Gurion University in Israel. Shlomi brings 17 years of global IT and IS management experience as a consultant and implementation expert for small, medium and large-sized (global) companies. Shlomi’s goal is to share the best knowledge and news about information systems so you can make smarter buying decisions for your business.