Shlomi Lavi /
Mar 22, 2022
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Bottom Line: Which is Better - Anthology POS or Apple Pay?
Anthology POS is more expensive to implement (TCO) than Apple Pay, and Anthology POS is rated higher (92/100) than Apple Pay (90/100). Anthology POS offers users more features (9) than Apple Pay (0).
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:
ANTHOLOGY Inc. Vs. Apple
ANTHOLOGY Inc.: Anthology was founded more than a decade ago when Asian Books, a seller of fine and scholarly books on Asia and the Islamic world, became the first Harvard Square bookstore to computerize its operations. In 1989, Anthology Inc. was organized to provide booksellters with a powerful, easy-to-use, and inexpensive bookstore management system. Founder ...
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? Anthology POS 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 Anthology POS and Apple Pay.
Anthology POS price starts at $260 per user/month , On a scale between 1 to 10 Visual Anthology is rated 4, which is 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: Anthology POS is more expensive than Apple Pay.
Which software includes more/better features?
We've compared Anthology POS Vs. Apple Pay based on some of the most important and required Retail & POS features.
Anthology POS: Bar Code Scanning, Customer History, Customer Management, eCommerce, Gift Cards, Inventory Management, Layaways & Quotes, Price Lookup.
Apple Pay: We are still working to collect the list of features for Apple Pay.
Target customer size
The software is a viable product for small and medium retail businesses as well as large multi-
location ventures. and Apple Pay's target customer size include: Small, medium and large size businesses.