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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    MicroBiz

    Score8.1 out of 10
    Small Businesses (1-50 employees)
    MicroBiz is an eCommerce retail management solution butil around features such as inventory management, payment gateway, and purchase orders / receiving tracking.

    $60

    per month

    TouchBistro

    Score6 out of 10
    N/ATouchBistro is a complete mobile POS solution on the iPad for the restaurant industry. It allows users to manage reservations, view the menu, take orders and review sales reports with a few simple touches. Instead of servers repeatedly moving between customers and terminals for order management, servers can remain with customers and instantly submit orders to the kitchen and bar. Servers no longer need to write down an order and then enter it into a distant terminal. TouchBistro's single entry…

    $25

    per month

    Pricing
    MicroBizTouchBistro
    Editions & Modules
    MicroBiz Cloud
    $60
    per month
    Gift Cards
    $25
    per month
    Online Ordering
    $50
    per month
    POS License
    $69
    per month
    Reservations
    $229
    per month
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    MicroBizTouchBistro
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup Fee$200 per installationNo setup fee
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    MicroBizTouchBistro
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    MicroBiz LLC
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    88%
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    88%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    88%
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    88%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    63%
    Implementation went as expected
    5 Answers
    User Ratings
    MicroBizTouchBistro
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.3
    (2 ratings)
    8.1
    (14 ratings)
    Usability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
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    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    MicroBizTouchBistro
    Likelihood to Recommend
    MicroBiz LLC
    Suitable for small and mid sized retail businesses. Many features to automate operations (bar code scanning throughout application, auto generate POS based on mix/max, stock look-up). May not be ideal for large retail stores. Lacks integrations with ERP systems such as SAP or Oracle. Missing some specialty features such as serialized inventory.
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    TouchBistro
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    Pros
    MicroBiz LLC
    • Ring up transactions and take payments
    • Manage inventory
    • Management Reporting
    • Discounts and promotions
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    TouchBistro
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    Cons
    MicroBiz LLC
    • Missing a couple helpful features (such as a free loyalty program)
    • The formatting on some screens is whacky and the font can be small
    • It could be easier to email receipts (need to set this before the transaction)
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    TouchBistro
    • One of my biggest (and only) issues with Touch Bistro is that it doesn’t integrate well with the credit card processing systems we use. Currently, we use Square and while the two systems do communicate, there are some instances, such as paying with gift cards, that take a few extra steps, which can be a pain when you have a long line of customers!
    • Because my credit card processing is separate from Touch Bistro there are a few things that are hard to track. Square does a great job of marketing and tracking the marketing, but it’s not accurate for me due to the fact that I use Touch Bistro as a POS and not Square.
    • I’d love for Touch Bistro to offer more marketing techniques that are easy to use.
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    Usability
    MicroBiz LLC
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    TouchBistro
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    Support Rating
    MicroBiz LLC
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    TouchBistro
    First of all, I hardly ever need support for Touch Bistro, that’s how well it works. In the very instances over the years where I did need to call, customer support was easily accessible and fast and accurate with their responses
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    Alternatives Considered
    MicroBiz LLC
    It was close but we just liked some of the features in microbiz better. Plus it was cheaper
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    TouchBistro
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    Return on Investment
    MicroBiz LLC
    • Really amazing value for the monthly fees. Less expensive than other serious cloud POS applications
    • Synch with QBO allows us to save time manually entering financial data into our accounting system
    • Bar code scanning in both the front end and back end saves time and money
    Incentivized
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    TouchBistro
    • The software is easy to understand and use
    • We could not find a case for the iPads that would also fit the third party card reader so we went without. This resulted in card readers breaking off in the charging port rendering the iPad useless.
    • Reports were available in real time, so it was extremely easy to see sales and make quick decisions.
    Incentivized
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    ScreenShots

    MicroBiz Screenshots

    Screenshot of MicroBiz Cloud runs on iPads, Macs and PCsScreenshot of Register Screen - Ring Up Sales Quickly and Easily.  Quickly scan items into the register using bar codes – or add items with one touch. Discount individual items, groups of items or the entire transaction. You can do price checks and check inventory. It’s so intuitive that employees will be able to use the POS application with almost no training.Screenshot of Register Screen  - Add any items to a transaction with one touch – even non-inventory items such as service and delivery charges. The keys can be set to prompt for the price or the size or color of an item. You can set up an unlimited number of Quick Pick Panels, use colors to highlight keys and arrange them in any order that you choose.Screenshot of Customer Order Dashboard - Manage Layaways, Work Orders, Deliveries and Phone Orders. Use the Orders in Progress capabilities in MicroBiz to manage layaways, phone orders and orders in progress.  You can collect a deposit and set whether the order will be fulfilled via store pick-up, shipment or delivery.Screenshot of Filtered Product Search - Use multiple ways to search for products and add them to a transaction. In addition to the top product search bar, MicroBiz Cloud features a flexible advance search feature.  This feature allows you to search by item name, SKU, style, UPC or Alternate ID.  Search results can be displayed in table format or as product tiles.  Advanced filters allow you to view results by category, vendors, brand, color, size or other attribute.Screenshot of Product Record - Simple and Matrix Products and Flexible Pricing Schemes.  Products records are critical to a retail system – as the sale of products and services drives revenue.  Our product records make your job easier by offering all kinds of flexibility and capabilities around product type (simple products, matrix products, prompt for price, services, etc) and pricing strategies (discounts, promotions, customer-based pricing, quantity-based pricing).