ZingCheckout Review - why 3 stars?

Shlomi Lavi / updated: Oct 24, 2019

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What is ZingCheckout?

ZingCheckout is a point of sale system that can help users to run reports easily, receive payments and manage inventory from anywhere. The software can be used from any web-enabled device and doesn’t require facing maintenance and backup problems. The multi-platform supported POS system offers reporting functionality, inventory management features and is completely cloud-based.

ZingCheckout was founded back in 2011 with a view to offer social features focused Point of Sale solutions that can help retail businesses to grow faster. The Texas based company develops their solution based on four concepts: flexibility, platform agnostic, ease of use and growth.

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Who is it best for?

ZingCheckout is perfect for small and mid-size businesses. The software is intended for in-store retail sellers and it takes only less than two minutes to get started with this POS system. Fixx, Red Chapter Clothing and HopeKids are some of the clients of ZingCheckout.

Main features and functionalities

The key features of ZingCheckout are point of sale solutions, reports, orders, products and categories, users and social listing. The point of sale part offers flexible tax system with multiple levels, attaching customers to order, keeping track of money using cash drawer feature, uploading product images, barcode scanning, multiple-currency, printing and sending receipts and order lookup. The report part offers tracking sales by user, category and product and drill down, range reporting by time, exporting them to CSV, Excel and mobile ready reports.

The order section offers detail order management, modifying orders, printing receipts and invoices and breaking down order by day. Users can control other people’s access and ability to do things with 4 different accounts with predefined roles: Master, Manager, Cashier and Summary. The software also focuses on social listing and offers instant website, theme-able and social support to instantly share your business on Twitter and Facebook.

What is the actual cost?

The cost of license starts at $49 per user/month. ITQlick pricing score is 2.4 out of 10 (10 is most expensive). Access ITQlick pricing guide for ZingCheckout.

Pros

• ZingCheckout is specifically designed for small size, non profit and mid-size businesses
• ZingCheckout is compatible with almost all the operating systems and devices out there
• The freemium version of ZingCheckout can be used forever with most of the standard features included
• The POS solution focuses on social listing features unlike other point of sale tools
• The customer support is very helpful and offers knowledge base, online and phone support

Cons

• ZingCheckout is available for a large number of countries but only supports English language as of this time
• ZingCheckout is not good for service or hospitality industries as it lacks some inventory management features
• The customer support of ZingCheckout doesn’t offer any 24/7 live phone support
• Features like customer birthday tracking and digital punch cards are not available in this tool
• The free version only supports cash transactions and offers limited transactions and products

How it stacks up?

Access a head to head analysis of ZingCheckout vs alternative software solutions.

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