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- Industry: Design
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Weekly for 6-12 months
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Amazing in it's price range
Pros
I just love how much this has to offer in such a low price. Definitely better than it's competitors.
Cons
Some minor bugs needs to be fixed. Overall everything is fine
- Industry: Food & Beverages
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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Works for simple to complex operations
We have used them with two separate businesses. One was a quick service, and the current one is a full service, fine dining environment. The register works with both of these. I was surprised at how easily we were able to expand and control our in-house systems. They have become so feature-rich over the years. Staff train quickly on it. Price point is competitive. Customer service is very good.
Pros
Discounting weekly specials - set once and done
Tagging for specific printers, discounts
Loyalty program
Reporting
Time Clck and time sheets
Online ordering
Table management
Cons
ICMP readers are sometimes an issue
Wish there was an integrated reservation system
Reasons for Choosing talech
Pricing, upgradeable, customer support, flexibility.Reasons for Switching to talech
It came down to pricing and flexibility. Liked that we could run it off our iPads.- Industry: Restaurants
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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Don’t do it
Unfortunately I was forced into using this system. From the moment I unboxed it, we’ve had nothing but problems.
The initial set up was supposed to be plug & play. Not so. Our onboarding specialist failed to tell me we needed a minimum WiFi speed for the system to even work. No one could figure out why the system couldn’t communicate. After talking to 10 different reps we were finally able to get someone that asked about our internet speed. I ended up having to triple our speed just to be able to use the product.
Reporting constantly glitches. I have to have our servers go through their cash vs credit cards tips nightly to make sure their end of night deposit is accurate. We’ve had it off by hundreds of dollars, which either costs the restaurant money or the server money depending on which way the deposit is off.
For more than 6 months, during the busiest gift card time of the year, you could not sell more than one gift card per transaction. Talech didn’t seem to care about this issue but it cost my business thousands of dollars in lost revenue because of the glitch.
Printers are constantly dropping offline, so you have to go reset them & enter them back in the back office on talech.
Talech just updated their online reporting to a new experience. Problem is, the sales data doesn’t match the “classic” sales data. How can you have two different total sales figures just by switching between “classic” and “new”?
Bottom line, if you’re thinking of switching to this as a restaurant POS, take my advice and DON’T DO IT. You will have more headaches than it’s worth, your financial data will be off, and half the time you won’t be able to sell a product because of some weird glitch in their system that they’re in no hurry to fix.
Pros
Nothing. There is not one single thing that is good about this system
Cons
Everything. Reporting is off, system constantly glitches.
- Industry: Food & Beverages
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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Ease of use
The new house account stuff seems to be a benefit for someone like me. I let folks run a tab. The software has gone down on me a few times during a shift and Talech just asks you to be patient. The lack of knowledge from the help desk is frustrating.
Pros
Easy to navigate, fairly straight forward.
Cons
If there is an issue, it all goes down and customer service is not helpful usually. I have had to call other IT people in to get us up and running because help desk usually can't or they take an hour for a one button fix to a problem.
- Industry: Restaurants
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Daily for 6-12 months
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owner bar
tech was never helpfull call 3 times and its always never there fault
Pros
nothing would not even give the another chance
Cons
the system crashed to many times. not one day goes by where it works
Alternatives Considered
Toast POSReasons for Switching to talech
My banker is with us bank and asked me to try it big mistake- Industry: Restaurants
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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Marty's Restaurant & Retail Operational Review of Talech POS System
We have only solved the items under Pros. although talech systems also begins to make it easier for us to do at least retail inventory easier to determine.
However, dealing with a customer service staff who are really only there to get us off the phone as quickly as possible while attempting to fix a specific problem is frustrating. More often than not, they are not given the time to sufficiently understand the problem or issue or don't really care, and more often than not, we get instructions to go to online help, with not even what specific topic we're supposed to look under. Time and time again, when I've asked for help to create reports I want, there is not only a misconnect in understanding (my tech language is not very good) but most of the responses I have gotten in the past year is that work on the reporting features are not a priority and therefore will not be addressed in any determinable near future.
We got Talech to grow our business. While it has helped it has also been a disappointment as it is not as user friendly as we thought. And the ability of customer service to understand and help us resolve the issues we have, while lately much better on very specific items, has on more complex issues on a admin level been very disappointing. Talech customer service is good about adding techy and trendy additional features but not so good at organizing the information to manage the actual administrative business needs of business owners & managers.
Pros
1. Makes it easy for customers to check out faster
2. Makes it easy for servers to send menu tickets to the kitchen
Cons
1. Reporting features. The totals in each categories (retail, or restaurant) are never totaled. Bank settlement totals for different forms of payments, etc., are the only totals there are except Dine In, and To Go, tips, and gratuity.
We got the POS system so we could get reports on costs, profitability, in each category both in beverages (wine, draft beers and food (per menu items- quantities of items sold within each category also) and current inventory in each category, per selected periods of time. I find that we have to basically create our own templates in Excel, download the period of time we are reviewing, and copying the categories & items to our exel templates which then subtotals the categories we want to see to determine how we are doing in each category or with any particular item within the categories.
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Revel SystemsReasons for Switching to talech
Partly due to the promotional incentive of reducing our CC processing fees for a year, because it was being offered by the bank we were already working with, and we really had no prior products to compare with it.- Industry: Retail
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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Complete Junk
Absolutely no support. We have never had not one of the issues we have called about resolved. And they never call back even though every person says they will.
Pros
It used to run on an iPad I could take anywhere in the shop
Cons
The hours and hours trying to get issues resolved with customer support that knowledge of the product.
- Industry: Restaurants
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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Software issues after Upgrade "Low Priority"
Frustrating Frustrating... over the years, they are slow to fix any software issues.
Pros
Easy to use for entering orders and update product screens
Cons
After 9 years of being a customer the latest software issue is causing major issues with our restaurant.. custom order request line items appear on every line item from previous ticket.. after waiting 3 weeks for a fix, Customer Service told us it was a "Low Priority" for them and have no timeline when it will be fixed. This slows the order process and creates so many issues for the kitchen, customers,and servers.
Also forced us to switch and use their inhouse credit card processing and gift card services in 2022
- Industry: Food & Beverages
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Daily for 1-5 months
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Slow service, didn’t take care and helped out customer very well!
We don’t normally write a bad review but we got really bad experience with Elavon as well as Talech!
We took over the restaurant for 3 months and started to use Elavon service, everything went well at the beginning. Till last 3 weeks, I have received a call from Elavon and said there was two accounts opened under my name and they offered to close one of the account for me to avoid additional charge. Few days after that, without any care from their employees, all of the accounts under my name were locked while the business is still operating and caused us into troubles.
I have reached out to Customer Care and requested to get our accounts re-opened, then we got the issues with the gift cards payment. I ended up to contact customer service again and received a case number. In order to get the issues resolved faster, I even have reached out to Manager and asked for help, he did help by sending us over a new terminal just for the gift card purposes. After a few days, the new terminal was sent over, it still didn’t work. I reached out to Manager and customer service again. Elavon & Talech kept blaming each other and the gift card issues still here.
It’s been almost 3 weeks waiting in hopeless, we got lots of customers upset and this also hurts our business a lot. I couldn’t believe a big company like Elavon will handle customers issues without care & without professionalism like this.
Still believe there are many other organizations out there will offer better service than Elavon & Talech!
Pros
Reasonable pricing, customer service is okay
Cons
Slow service and taking too much time to handle customers issues
- Industry: Retail
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Daily for 1-5 months
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POS that works but could be better
Sales are processed more quickly and customers are happier.
Pros
My customers are happier. They get a receipt that works well with the rebate program from my supplier. We can review their previous purchases and determine if they already bought something they need. This will also be useful when they come in for their early buy sale purchases. It is nice to be able to email receipts.I can quickly review sales and inventory for what needs to be ordered.
Cons
It was shipped to me but not linked to my account so nothing worked for about 2 weeks. Hours spent on the phone with on the onboarding specialist assigned to me. They say it is 24 hr support but not for start up/onboarding. They work M-F 9-5. It is best to stick with the onboarding specialist assigned as they are most familiar with you but mine was in the Central Time zone so nothing was ever addressed until 10:30 AM EST (1.5) hours after opening I had great difficulty getting the inventory load but onboarding was very helpful. The fact the sales reports don’t capture debit cards properly is really frustrating as I had hoped it would save time and make tracking easier.The scanner never worked and has been returned because they finally admitted/determined it was a programming issue that was not going to get resolved any time soon. Inventory does not always track properly - not sure how that happens. Sometimes you get a call back for help, not always the 24/7.
- Industry: Retail
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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Owner of The 1000 Islands Cruet
Overall I think the software works great. I have one thing that would make it even better. It has to do with your discount part. You can't discount different items separately without going into each item being sold.
Example: I sell 3 size bottles of oil and vinegars. I run a special buy five and get one free on the smaller size is 60 ml. If that's all they buy it works great. The problem is running another discounts at the same time for other size bottles. (200 ml & 375 ml)
If I am running the above special (1 free bottle would be $6.95 discount) and I also am discounting all larger size oils and vinegars say 10%. The software will do the $6.95 plus the 10% all items. So the discount on the 60 ml bottle works out to be $6.95 + 10% not just the $6.95. Being able to do separate discounts for variations of each item would make it a lot better instead of having to go into each item and discount them individually when trying to keep different discounts separate. I know being a small business with a suggestion that this might not be practical cost wise. But making the modifications would also make it more attractive to any business. I would like to hear back from you if possible. I have spoken with numerous small business owners about your software and why it works so well. Keep up the great job! oh I love being able to run the reports anytime to see how sales are and what we need to do to improve them. Sincerely Tom
Pros
Ease of use, reports, layout of pages, customer service.
Cons
limited discount ability.
Response from talech
Thomas, thank you so much for writing a review and providing such detailed feedback. I have shared your feedback regarding discounting with the product team. Please continue to share thoughts with us - we love to hear from you and really value your feedback. Thank you for being a customer!
- Industry: Consumer Services
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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Great product overall
Pleasant and professional staff, which is what won us over when we first decided on the program. Love that everything is cloud-based and also can be accessed from anywhere. Menus are easy to create and modify. Great overall functionality but a few improvements could be made - offering partial refunds, for example. Also, would appreciate more prompt and regular auto-batching (we have ours set up but numerous times, it stopped working and we found out the hard way when payments weren't deposited for days; also, despite the confirmation that the setting is correct, we still have to manually auto-batch daily but we're glad to do so to ensure payment). Also, not completely sure if they are exclusive to a certain merchant service provider but at the time, in order for us to use the program, we had to go forward with that one merchant service and also had to purchase all the equipment (printer, iPad stand, etc.) we did not have a need for. In addition, being tied to that merchant also meant being tied to those fees at the rates they wanted. As far as the program itself, we find that it meets our needs, is user-friendly, offers the analytics tools we like, and is offered at a reasonable rate, especially compared to some of its competitors. We do recommend it to others. Good luck!
Pros
Please refer to review.
Cons
Please refer to review.
Response from talech
Thanks for being a customer and writing such a detailed review! I've shared your feedback regarding the partial refunds, auto-batching, and hardware with the product team. Please continue to share with us - we love to hear from you!
- Industry: Restaurants
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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Cheapseats need to approve
Hi I love the software its ease of use there are only 2 issues I have #1 that employees can delete and avoid easily and shouldn't be able to so lets say they put the order in they can slide the item over and delete/void with pass code employees shouldn't be able to delete/void ever unless they have the owners pass code..when we cant run credit cards its takes forever for your company to fix it you need a back up system ....Sat Oct 30 your system was down for like 3 hours ouch that hurts my restaurant :( get generator or something. I got to say your employees are GREAT!!! I BOW TO THEM they are nice, courteous on top of everything. So, so understanding I got to admit I have called maybe twice and I was a poop :( but your employees handle it well your are lucky to have such an awesome crew keep it up. I worked in customer escalation dept so I know how it is your bless I love you folks .... thank you for asking for my feedback I appreciate. Have a great day.
Pros
The ease of it so easy to use and understand.
Cons
It allows anyone to delete/void a product if the slide the item over so I know I have gotten lost dollars for it the system needs to require the owner pass code for this to avoid employees stealing from me.
Response from talech
Thank you for the review and feedback, Norma. We're glad to hear that you love the software. Thanks for letting us know about the 2 issues you've had - I've passed along your feedback to the team so we can continue to improve. Please continue to share with us - we love hearing from you!
- Industry: Sports
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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Overall pretty decent
Talech does what we need it to do for the most part. Price-wise, nothing else even comes close, but it lacks some really basic features that can be extremely annoying - such as partial (percentage) refunds - for example, a restocking fee.
Also, there are some long-term SIMPLE glitches that have never been figured ou,t such as the tallying of employee hours. How is that still wrong? Isn't it as simple as (hourly wage x hours worked)?
Another thing- selling a "custom item" doesn't include cost, but the item doesn't just appear out of nowhere. We sell lots of custom items, and it's very difficult to find them at the end of the year and give them all a cost. Everything must be exported to excel and then filtered out.
Sometimes it seems like we are the only ones using Talech. Customer support really has been great. They are always easy to get a hold of, and are very friendly. However, they often seem stumped by these basic quandaries.
Pros
Ease of use for admin and every day user.
Cons
All listed on previous page.
Response from talech
Hi James, thanks so much for taking the time to write a review so we know what works and what could be better. We also appreciate you taking the time to speak with us via phone to share more detail. We love hearing from you - please continue to share.
- Industry: Apparel & Fashion
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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Talech Review
Overall, I think that my Talech experience is positive. Unfortunately, we have had some really bad issues recently and that has effectively lowered my overall ratings. There has been several processing outages in the past few months, more now than the past 12-18 months. We lost some sales recently because Elavon went down for several hours and we could not process credit card transactions which is the majority of our business. We have 2 stores operating Talech and there is no business connection between stores to transfer inventory, recognize sales transactions or perform returns across multiple stores. Elavon is not the best database for capturing customer sales transactions because you can't use the data for marketing or other purposes as far as I know. I feel that the upgrades are just dumped upon the users without a whole lot of information behind what is new or has changed. There is no step-by-step business process for each and every type of potential transaction, so training is on the job.
Pros
Ease of use
Cons
Updates are a surprise and we are not well informed about the changes
Response from talech
We appreciate hearing from you, Brian. We are sorry to hear that you have not happy with the product recently. A member of our product team has reached out via email and phone to set up a time to chat and learn more about your business needs and how talech could work better for you. Please reply at your convenience. We'd love to chat and help.
- Industry: Retail
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Daily for 6-12 months
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We don't have a record of you calling...
Horrible customer service spoke with one person that promised to move it up in priority to tier 2 people and after waiting two days for a call back we called back and they had no record of the call. I lost two days waiting for a solution that no one was aware of. Now I sit and wait again. I do not recommend this service due to their customer service not really being able to resolve something. It must be a call center with prompts on their screen and when they can't resolve it then it goes to someone that actually can help. Wasted several hours trying to figure this out and lost customers and revenue to this problem. I'm going with someone else!
Pros
It looks like from the start that it would be easy to use and everything should connect without an issue and it did at first.
Cons
After a while a break down of the card readers will ruin your day very quickly. If you have a customer that needs a refund you won't be able to do it unless the card reader works. The bluetooth connection drops and there is no solution other than replacement.
- Industry: Restaurants
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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Talech for a full service restaurant and bar
It is easy to set up your menu and make changes. It is fairly easy for my employees, mostly highschool students, to learn.
The system tends to slow down during busy times. It takes too long to switch from one screen to another. It also takes a long time to sync when you first log in.
The security is not very good. It is too easy for one employee to log in with someone else's id, making the security feature essentially worthless.
Each employee should have a card to swype in order to log in. That would be a huge improvement.
The reports are nice and easy to read.
All in all a pretty good system but it needs more built in security.
Pros
easy to learn and to set up
Cons
The security features are weak. Too easy for another employee to log in with another persons id. The system tends to bog down when it gets busy. It takes too long to synch when you log in.
Response from talech
Thank you for your feedback, Bruce. I have shared your comments about security and system lag with the product team. Please continue to share feedback with us so we can work on making improvements. We love hearing from you. Thanks for being a customer.
- Industry: Wine & Spirits
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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Great POS system with top notch customer service support
I have been happy with the program and really pleased with the tech support!
Pros
When we do have issues with card reader or printers (which are obtained from the credit card processing vendors) it is easy to reach the Talech customer service reps to talk us through the issue and resolve the problems. It keeps up with product inventory levels and gives decent reports.
Cons
Since I am not familiar with any other POS systems I can’t comment on the cons other than it is geared to restaurants and merchandise retail and not necessarily wineries....(thinking it might be nice for it to also monitor our bulk wine products?)
- Industry: Retail
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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Stay Away
terrible
Pros
Quite user-friendly interface. Tech support is there but mostly no helpful
Cons
We worked with Talech for 4 years and our experience is horrible. First of all, card readers break frequently. You should pay for a new one. Not a problem! But a new one works for 2 weeks, and then you'll need to pay for a new one again, send the old one and so on.
We experienced difficulties with charges, and they confirmed that their software didn't work properly. The worst things there were thousands of dollars which were not deposited to our account because of their 'bug'. We accidentally found it out. If you need a safe merchant provider, stay away from Talech.
- Industry: Restaurants
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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Just missed the mark
Overall my experience is poor. I was sold on this program, that it would do everything I needed for my business. It did not live up to its end.
Pros
Once you have figured out how to use the software it is fairly easy to use and you can customize it to your specific needs
Cons
Where to begin. The software is horrible. Every time there is an upgrade something goes wrong. Be it a printer malfunctioning or part of the program not working properly. I spend hours with customer service to get nowhere. They must constantly send out patches for the problems they create.
- Industry: Retail
- Company size: Self Employed
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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This Small Business Owner Is Happy!
I have been using Elo PayPoint and Talech for almost two years and I have be 110% pleased about the choice I made. My business had grown to the point where I needed a better way to manage sales, track inventory, review reports and continue to elevate the customer experience as a whole. Talech was the solution. The system is user friendly. Customer Service support is awesome. And I am happy. There is enough stressors in running a small business, my point-of-sale isn't one of them.
Pros
Ease of use, accurate reporting, appearance
Cons
The auto-correct when entering Custom Items. It's sneaky and changes a word to a more common one so I end up with interesting items on a receipt/report.
Response from talech
We're so happy to have you as a happy and long-time customer, Ginny. Thanks for sharing what is working and what could be better for you. I have passed along your feedback to the team. Please continue to share with us. We love hearing from you!
- Industry: Retail
- Company size: Self Employed
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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I am sad to leave this review but it is the truth
After fighting tooth & nail for several months to get a general yearly tax report and all the other reporting issues I am sad to say not all of the issues have been resolved. Customer service varies depending on the person, some are great and some have very little patience for an angry customer. I would like these issues to change.
Pros
I love some of the reports provided. I like how the customer details work.
Cons
I am un happy with the insights reports, they have NEVER been accurate and I have reported this SEVERAL times. I am unhappy with being treated like I am asking for something I should not when it is something everyone would need for tax purposes. I am unhappy with the inventory management, I would like date as to when inventory originally came in and when additional stock was added.
Response from talech
Thanks for taking the time to speak, Beth. We appreciate you sharing more about your business needs and what improvements that would help talech work better for you. Please continue to share feedback - we love to hear from you!
- Industry: Retail
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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Okay, but has intermittant wierd things happen that Talech can't explain/fix.
Pros
Fairly easy to use and make product changes.
Cons
Getting Talech to fix things like problems with half cents on sales tax and half cents with discount. We had to change all of our prices that ended in .95 to .98 since discount half cents issue never has been addressed. Took them two plus years to fix the half cents sales tax issue. I reported BOTH of these issues within days of starting to use the registers/software.
The terminals are bluetoooth only; there needs to be an option for a terminal that is hardwired!!!!!
- Industry: Restaurants
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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Very good program
Works well and new features are added frequently. The interface with the credit card reader is sometimes an issue, and I am not sure if that is a ipad issue, the reader issue or and issue with Talech. Periodically the program will not connect to the card reader or gets stuck in a loop. Having to back out of the charge and sometimes the program itself and restart it. That usually clears up the issue. It would be great if this bug could be addressed as when you are busy it adds stress to the day. Customer service has always been very helpful.
Pros
Ease of programming and ease of use
Cons
No gift card availabilty and the previously mentioned credit card issue.
Response from talech
Roger, thanks so much for the review and feedback. I have passed along your recent challenges with the product team. Please continue to share thoughts with us. We love hearing from you!
- Industry: Restaurants
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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Review Source
Problems with card readers.
It’s been ok but wonder if there is better stuff out there.
Pros
Overall it’s easy to use the system.
I have nothing else to say
Cons
Concerned about security with ease of employees to take advantage of stealing.
Also we recently got new card readers and have had nothing but problems, and we are in our busy time of the year, and it slows everything down and we will loose customers!
- Industry: Food & Beverages
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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Talech is better than a lot of others out there!
100% positive experience. Have been using Talech for over 5 years and will continue to use it!
Pros
I love the ease of setting up your POS to work for your business. You can separate categories, product types, control your inventory, and so much more. Super easy to use and set up. It is easily explained to new hires and they pick it up very quickly.
Cons
I think overall Talech is wonderful. Having 24 hour support is amazing, however, sometimes the wait time is a bit long to get someone on the line.
Alternatives Considered
Toast POSReasons for Choosing talech
Cost, processing fees, and support.Switched From
Square Point of SaleReasons for Switching to talech
Cost, ease of use, and 24 hour support.- Industry: Consumer Services
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Monthly for 2+ years
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Review Source
Non-Existent Customer Service
Tried it for two years for our small non-profit business. First year had bad experiences. Talech promised they would improve their product. Tried it another year. No reasonable changes provided. Struggled for a second year. Now looking for a new POS system.
Pros
Easy to use. Can use iPhone or iPad as entry devices.
Cons
Reporting is okay but you cannot customize any reports and balancing at the EOD is nearly impossible. Tech support and customer support are on two different plantes and CS has no clue what they are talking about, how the product works, or how to treat customers. Very poor!
- Industry: Food & Beverages
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Daily for 1-5 months
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Lost 500/day.
Very bad experience. Clover is bad but this one is more worset.
Pros
I don’t like nothing about it. Need to click 5 times Just to go to 1 table to another table.
Cons
This not for restaurant industry. I am a busiest restaurant. Not able to add tips later in the time.
- Industry: Accounting
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Monthly for 1+ year
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Decent program for small business
Pros
Easy to use
Easy to enter inventory
Reports easy to produce
Cons
Nothing really, it works just fine for my small business.
- Industry: Retail
- Company size: Self Employed
- Used Monthly for 2+ years
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Cannot depend on Taltec
Not good at all. “We’re really sorry”…………
Pros
It’s small & usually works. Sometimes the Unit doesn’t work in metal buildings. Have to go to outside door.
Cons
During week I could call Regions Bank (where I purchased unit) & get questions answered. A bit diff if on weekends & selling product at a sales event. The battery goes DEAD & no way to get one put in unit!!! You have to sent unit back to Taltec…… yes, you are DEAD in SALES!!! I had 6 sales & then asked for CASH!!!Wonder how much money I lost -me too.
- Industry: Environmental Services
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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Beware! Do not waste your money purchasing this device!
It was NOT AT ALL a good experience. I have several other POS apparatus. If I have to keep them for backup for Talech then why bother? I have discontinued my Talech. And the initial purchase cost is WAY TOO HIGH! Go elsewhere!!
Pros
Nothing. The only pro was you are assigned a live, local representative that can help you.
Cons
The difficulty of use, the time and complexity of entering client info. The lack of signature. The fee payback process at the beginning of the next month all make balancing , recording and tracking money very difficult. And the POS apparatus rarely worked!
- Industry: Sporting Goods
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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Talech, simply HORRIBLE software if you have a lot of products!
Works well for a front end register, but getting issues resolved with tech support just NEVER happens. The people that answer the phone are clueless. This is coming from someone that works in IT for 20+ years and have dealt with and worked in call centers/tech support.
Pros
Its has a nice register app and is pretty easy to use and learn the register
Cons
The instability of Talech.com (where I as the owner do 98% of my work). Time outs and logs you out about every 15 minutes. Stock take dont save after timeout loosing everything. Have you ever tried to count thousands of products to have them all deleted over and over......
- Industry: Sporting Goods
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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Quality Software for Small-Scale Inventory Mgmt./POS
Our Fishing Tackle/Outdoor storefront started small (less than 1,500 different product SKU's).
When we first launched, Talech served our needs well, and would have continued to serve our needs. However, our business grew and we now maintain 8,000+ product SKU's. Unfortunatly for our situation, Talech's inventory management systems didn't grow with our company's growth. Large reports are difficult to obtain, and when we require special reports, it can be challenging to acquire them.
This software is great to use if you do not plan to continually carry large quantities of inventory (Under 2,000 SKU's).
This is not a hard rule of course, just our experience with this software product.
Pros
Talech can easily tackle small-scale inventory management and POS needs. User-friendly, and is easy to train new staff members to operate proficiently in.
Software interface is minimal and easy to navigate.
Cons
Inventory reports are difficult to customize, but can be done by calling/emailing Talech directly. Would like to see Talech improve in their report system with more features and user-customizable reports.
- Industry: Food & Beverages
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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Talech Stealing Money Because they Were not Processing Credit Cards Properly
Good until recently... Now critically terrible They were preauthorizing credit cards.... but when the tab was closed,,, their software could not do so because of card information corrupted (although the software states they are pre-authorized).
This resulted in over $500 in tabs that cant be closed... not even by Talech themselves... So, they blamed everyone, including my internet provider, the credit card bank etc. They are unable to resolve... In summary, there was $500+ dollars of free beer credit card customers drank at our expense!!! We had to switch (otherwise we would have continued to lose money) and Talech will not even refund our monthly charges to help offset their error. Not only is this bad service... but stealing!!!
Every Talech user must be aware of this and RUN!!!
Also associated with this was a company called AVANT GARD... if you are dealing with these people also be aware,,,
Pros
The POS software works in most cases. The reporting is ok as well. Don't have experience with others besides square... but seems to work... However the majority of this software is to successfully collect money for exchange of products.... this is where it fails!!!!
Cons
Customer service to resolve critical issues with mis-handling credit card information, not admitting a problem and even accusing everyone else for our loss of money.
- Industry: Sporting Goods
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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Talech POS System for a Retail Store
Pros
Talech is very adaptable to a retail store in sales transactions, inventory tracking and management, and accounting reports. It is very quick and easy to speak with a Customer Service Agent should you need it, and the Team is very proactive in assisting.
Cons
There are features within inventory management that could be added to improve inventory tracking and management. For example, when performing an EOY inventory count, it would be very helpful to be able to freeze inventory numbers and then unfreeze them to update the quantities. Currently, to update inventory numbers, a stock take must be done which is a lengthy task if a business has more than 2,000 products. A second feature is to have the ability to manipulate employee access to certain information within the software including inventory updates, and sales reports. You can lock employees out of these things, but when done also locks them out of key features they need to perform their other tasks.
- Industry: Apparel & Fashion
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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Software user since 2016
I have used many different accounting systems with inventory. Overall this software shows real potential as an easy to setup and easy to use system.
Pros
This software is easy to setup and use.
Customer support is great. I’ve only had to contact them a couple of times and the problems were fixed very quickly.
The description field is large enough to allow a proper description of my products.
The tags and categories give me breakdowns on the reports so I can determine what is selling and what not to purchase again.
The markup field makes it easy for me to determine sale prices of my products.
The inventory log helps me find a customer sale so I can do proper return prices for my customers.
Cons
I wish the tags were listed in alphabetical order.
I wish the sales tickets were available for more than 2 months so I could do returns to credit cards instead of having to give my customers cash.
When I have trouble with my internet connection and it get dropped after it hits the gateway, there is no way for me to determine that the charge went through. I’ve had at least a dozen instances of this happening. It then shows only 1 sale on my system and my customer has 2 charges on their credit card.
I then have to credit the sale so it credits my customers card, and then I have to renter the sale as cash so I can balance inventory and sales amounts.
I wish the sales tax list would indicate which tax code I have currently marked.
I have never been able to get the jewelry labels to print.
- Industry: Sporting Goods
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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Very stressful.
The register fails regularly and randomly will not print receipts or open the cash drawer.
Pros
I chose this software as it integrates sales and inventory tracking. When it works it is brilliant unfortunately it fails regularly.
Cons
I have had this system operational for approximately one year, at this point we’ve got about 16 to 18 hours troubleshooting on the phone. Plus countless more hours of trying to figure out how to make it work on our own when it fails. It will suddenly not take a credit card payment, it has never done a return for us even while on the phone with support trying to make it happen, suddenly the cash drawer won’t open, or it won’t print receipts. We end up trying to reboot the machine turning things off turning things back on disconnecting reconnecting sometimes after two or three tries it works also there’s a couple of different methods that we have made notes on, we spend far too much time trying to keep this thing going.They have totally dropped the ball on me as a client. Their support technicians are excellent and are doing their very best but they don’t know have much to work with. I’ve had to send countless clients to the bank machine, or send them away with a promise to come back and pay another time, we are a small business and can’t afford to do this, some people just don’t get around to coming back. I’ve been trying for a full week to talk to an actual upper level representative of the company to try to figure out if we can solve this or I need to toss the whole system out and go with another company. They just can’t be bothered to make a real effort to get in touch with me. I provided them my direct phone number & have not received a call back.
Be wary!!
- Industry: Food Production
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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I'm considering switching to a different POS system
At first, we all loved our new Talech POS. It is very easy to use and train new hires on. Then all these updates rolled in and some of the features didn't work for us. First, employees were able to print out their daily time sheet that included their sales for the day. This was not a good thing for our company, because we work as a team and we have people on the sales floor making the sales and then people processing orders at the end of the day. Of course, processors would seem like they made the most money that day. I have tried to get this changed, but was told it couldn't happen in the near future, but it was noted. Then, we experienced some glitches in the discount button. last week, we tried to apply a 10% discount, and it would register as giving a discount in the $1000's. This was really frustrating and I haven't had a chance yet to call tech support. Shortly there after on a busy Thursday, we were unable to process credit cards because that option was down in the system. Luckily, we had an analog credit card machine that we were able to use. I tried calling tech support for 4 hours, and couldn't get through. We had to wait to process orders until the next day when the system was up and running again. Another thing we have issues with is finding tickets to reference an open order. Apparently, it purges from the system after 3 months and we have to call tech support to retrieve it. There are a few other issues that I have that I am unable to articulate right now, but that is the bulk of my frustration with the program. Please take these responses into consideration. Having my concerns addressed and fixed would be amazing as I love this program and I want it to succeed so that my business can succeed as well. Thank you for taking the time to read my review. Please contact me to discuss further.
Pros
That it is cloud based and we use apple ipads
Cons
It is glitchy at times, the time sheet with individual employee sales needs to go.
Purging 3 month old tickets and we can't find them unless we call tech support.
Response from talech
Thanks for sharing the feedback and chatting with us about your experience. We are checking on some features and will get back to you soon.
- Industry: Retail
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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Video Game Store Owner Review
We have loved Talech since we got it. It's got a lot of great features that other POS's don't have or utilize as well as Talech. Keeping with cash or orders is made simple, though my only real complaint is that as a video game store, we take in a lot of used items purchased from customers. When we pay out in cash, it's fine. Talech keeps up with that, but there isn't a really great way of doing it other than doing a transaction as "store credit", hitting the payment as other, and then refunding it to that customers account. Other than that major complaint, everything else has been pretty smooth other than the actual card swiper. I wouldn't recommend that to anyone. It frequently has problems, and can never really be relied on. It will only update during a transaction and I have had several occasions where that lasts up to 15 minutes with a then irate customer afterwards.
Pros
I love the ease of use, and how within minutes of using it, I already had the hang of it. There weren't any features that I wasn't made aware of by the software immediately, because it's all out in plain view rather than some backdoor menu. It's responsive and I love the fact I can keep up with my customers, and their data with it including sending out emails to them periodically.
Cons
I really hate during a transaction that if you accidentally add an item or have a customer remove one from their cart that you have to trash the entire order. That slows the process, and keeps the customer from having a smooth checkout process. Honestly, it feels like sometimes due to the credit card machine that we are known as those guys who might be having problems today. That sucks lol. That's almost been enough where I have wanted to switch because its not our POS software but just one we use.
Response from talech
Thank you for your review and feedback, Spenser. I've shared your product feedback with the product team. Please continue to share your thoughts with us - we love to hear from you. Thanks for being a talech customer.
- Industry: Retail
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Daily for 6-12 months
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WORST PIECE OF TECH AND CUSTOMER SERVICE IVE EVER ENCOUNTERED
HORRIBLE AND INCOMPETENT
Pros
SAVE YOURSELF, WHATEVER YOU DO, DO NOT PURCHASE TALECH OR POYNT FOR YOUR POS SYSTEM. I have never in my life experience such INCOMPETENCE and trouble with a system and with customer service. One day the system decides to work and the next it's broken. I easily refunded my customers the first couple of months with this system and now the system doesn't allow me to. Whenever a MAJOR problem occurs, (every day) I go to call customer service and get the same agent who has absolutely no clue what he's talking about and puts me on hold for hours at a time to google what I've already tried to look up on my own. I know more about the system then the own company does. Not to mention when I first received this system my rep told me I would be receiving a bar code scanner, cash drawer, bar code printer, etc. I received NOTHING except a piece of junk tiny little screen and they continue to charge me for this "bundle package" that doesnt exist. I can not stress anymore how HORRIBLE this system and the customer service is as equally bad. For your own sanity, DO NOT PURCHASE!!!!!!
Cons
something new breaks every day on the back end and when I call customer service they are unable to help me and instead of resolving it, they tell me there is a glitch in my system and that theres nothing they can do.
- Industry: Food & Beverages
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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Excellent Platform, Easily Manageable
We have been using Talech for about 2 years now to run our Tasting Room attached to our brewery's production area. The overall experience has been very positive, and the platform is excellent for managing the menu list, structure, and for culling information for reporting from a distance.
I myself (the primary managing owner) operate the platform from Omaha, NE. My business is in Washington State, some 1600 miles away. And the ease of use of Talech, the customizability, and the adaptability of the team running the program from the Talech side are splendid.
The only real issues we've had tend to be more related to the specific processor used (we use Elavon), or the local internet connectability.
The reporting available in the system is very powerful, and new little tweaks are coming out on a constant basis to improve the utility of the system for the needs of the small business owner.
Talech support is also available 24/7 on the phone, which is very helpful for businesses like mine that are open late into the evening.
If you have any questions, please let me know - I have now ample experience with the system and would be happy to discuss its qualities.
Pros
Flexible, easy to understand, intuitive, easy to modify, easy to pull reports, manageable from a distance, continuously improving and updating.
Cons
Inability to have a common pool of inventory for different categories to pull from with respect to inventory management; new beta interfaces have splendid reporting capacity but need to become the standard rather than the tested exception.
Response from talech
Thanks for writing such a nice, detailed review, John. We're so glad that talech is working so well for you and your business. I have passed along your feedback, especially regarding inventory management, with the product team. We really appreciate feedback like that! Please continue to share - we love to hear from you!
- Industry: Restaurants
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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Not happy with update
The 4.0 update is horrible!! Not user friendly at all. Settings that were avalible are now not. Staff can not find orders as easy as they could. To many screens for staff to choose from. Program used to be very very easy. New staff and non technology efficient staff could use older versions with ease. The new update is hard to follow and staff keeps losing place and orders. Looking at other pos system. To many issue lately with software and other things with TALECH. Ive told many people to go with this product before this later update. I wish I would not have. Im losing my trustabilty with colleagues.
Pros
Older versions were wonderful. Easy to use, easy for people who didnt know much about technology to use. Easy to find what the staff needed or orders
Cons
New version is aweful. To many screens, to many buttons, buttons and options that were there are now not, easy to change orders you dont need to be in.
Response from talech
Amy, thank you for sharing your feedback about the recent update. We're so sorry to hear that you've been having issues with the updated app. We'd love to connect to hear more about what's not working and how we can help. Our Head of Product has reached out and would love to chat with you personally. And as always our support team is here to help. Either way, we'd love to hear from you and help make things work the way you want.
- Industry: Food & Beverages
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
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Potentially good system that misses the mark
I was given a great presentation for the Talech system and purchased it. After purchasing it I had to install it myself, I figured it would be easy. No... It took eight hours just to get the thing running, then another 3 weeks with an onsite IT tech everyday to get it to work. Worst nightmare ever. System constantly crashed. Printer errors. Anytime there was an update the app would fail. That's just the install. My other great issue is functionality. The app must be more user programamble. There are so many minor tweaks that need to be changed to make it run faster that they don't listen too. This system is not for a quick serve busy restaurant, more like a mom and pop flower shop. Even when I call with a major complaint the the app doubling the taxes. They say we can't fix that. Are you kidding me. It's illegal. Customer support is great if you ever get around to talking to someone. When there system crashes about twice a month and you call their 800 number. They tell you they will call you back because they are experiencing a high volume of calls. I wonder why? Their devices disconnect with the credit card readers constantly as well. The only good thing about the system is the ipads, but the app doesn't work well on them, go figure. If you need a a system for a fast paced business, DO NOT BUY THIS ONE
Pros
It turns on
Cons
Name it
Response from talech
Randy, thank you for the review and candid feedback here and on the phone. It was very helpful to learn more about what's been challenging and how talech can be better for you and your business. If there is anything else you'd like to share, please don't hesitate to reach out and let us know. Thank you for being a customer.
- Industry: Restaurants
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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Talech Pros and Cons
Talech has been a good transformation from old style cash registers for our business. I think it would do Talech good to look into what reastaurants actually need for the system to really be an asset to us. While I like Talech its ease of set up for my business was very complicated and Talech support nor boomtown could really help with what I needed. I was able to figure it out but it was a long process. I have been able to help another pizzeria more streamline there system do it works better for their needs. Both Talech support and boomtown are great, they are always trying to help and most times they can this was just a new area for them. I have never had anything but an exceptional experience from either customer support. I do love the fact that Talech does listen to customer feedback and is continually improving their product.
Pros
It's easy to see my monthly/weekly/daily sales
The ability to print which catafories you want in the kitchen
It's ease of use and ability to train new employees on
Cons
it doesn't have the functionality for a pizza reststaurant.
No delivery option
Don't have the ability to add store credit without doing a refund.
Response from talech
Kari - thank you so much for being a customer and writing a review with such detailed feedback. We love hearing from customers like you! I have shared your feedback with the team so we can continue to make improvements to help you and your business. Please keep it coming!
- Industry: Retail
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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The 3 Weird Sisters
I feel overall the customer service is lacking. When a recording says "we are sorry for the long hold", that tells me you are not only aware of the problem but doing little to fix it. I have to schedule a call to get simple answers asked to be told they will have to look into and get back to me. I am usually not available to receive that call when and if it comes because I'm either not at work, driving or at home with my children at that point. It takes far too long to get simple issues resolved with this company . customer service has improved since I first started with them by way of polite people getting questions answered seems to take three times as long now. and when I do get a wrap to walk me through and show me what I need to do it often doesn't work like it should even after they've checked all the settings and they have to go back to the design and again no resolution on my end
Pros
The cloud storage
Cons
Can not reach help when needed and I feel like I get a runaround
Response from talech
Thanks for being a customer and writing a review, Beth. I am sorry to hear that support has been difficult to reach and that the hold times have been so long. I've passed along your feedback to the support team so they can continue to work make improvements. Thanks for being candid and letting us know.
- Industry: Hospitality
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Daily for 1-5 months
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Not fully baked for a full service restaurant
Can order from the table.
Pros
I like that the software utilizes iPads at table side, enabling orders to get entered and executed more rapidly than with a stationary POS.
Cons
I don't like that it is not ready for use in restaurants, and that our training session was with someone who barely knew the basics of the software. There are so many features that are missing that are basic to restaurant utility. It is not solid like 2touch, the software we were using previously. We have had to struggle through problems, some of which have been addressed and fixed by the developers and some of which have not.
Training was poor, and there's no manual, just isolated pages. After months we JUST learned that we can void a payment by swiping left on the payment. Perhaps there should be some visual clue to show this possibility.
We are using EMV, and there's no way to swipe to start a tab for a customer. Even if it doesn't use the credit card for charging, being able to swipe to start a tab with the customer's information would be helpful in our busy bar.
The chip readers and the iPads are daily becoming unsync'd (bluetooth) for no good reason and have to be re-sync'd.
There is no way to schedule or send a daily emailed report at closing time, and there's no way to customize a report for our team.
Comps have not been thought through. We were told to use house accounts, which did not work correctly for tax reasons, then told to use discounts, which we are now using. Party deposits have not been thought through. We were told to create a product and a discount for deposits, but will be using house accounts.
There's more but I'm at limit.
- Industry: Food & Beverages
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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Worst customer support
Software has worked fine. Support - worst I've dealt with. Some reps are helpful, most just want you off the phone.
Pros
Software is relatively simple to use. We're using it for a fast service, and it does quite well.
Cons
The support is HORRIBLE. While they say they offer 24X7 support, pretty much every single call in has been told that it's 48 hours to get any resolution. Anything after hours is pretty much nothing.
Something as simple as opening a seasonal store results in HOURS of getting passed around trying to figure out how to get it working.
Having support cloning a menu between locations resulted in a completely messed up menu, and then we were told oh, nobody here can fix it until Monday. As if being completely down for the entire weekend is acceptable!
With a POS system, it needs to work NOW. Not in 48 hours.
- Industry: Sporting Goods
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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talech Review
so so
Pros
the theory of it. the thought that i could do everything i was told it could easily and a low cost.
Cons
versatility or lack of versatility. i run into issues with contacts and open orders when i try to make changes. the website seems to be very touchy.
Reasons for Choosing talech
i was sold on Talech doing more, but frankly i was lied to. it might be capable of more but i was told it was all one low price.Switched From
QuickBooks EnterpriseReasons for Switching to talech
IDK- Industry: Restaurants
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Daily for 6-12 months
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Good product for the price
Pros
I like how easy it is to customize the interface of the iPad app. I can easily color coordinate sections and subsections, rearrange everything to fit our needs. I also love the online ordering system, we take on average a dozen online orders a day. There are of course things I wish we could change about the system, but overall, it does the job, and does it well!
Cons
Not a fan of the online ordering setup. If I wish to have a product hidden on our online store, it also hides it on our iPad, which does not work too well. The program is also very laggy when you first try to login, takes 5 seconds or so every time - just freezes. Also, if someone tries to tip us with a custom tip amount, sometimes the text box covers up the amount section - and we've had people almost tip us $2,000 multiple times - the box needs to be moved.
Alternatives Considered
Square Point of SaleReasons for Switching to talech
Because we knew one of the sales reps.- Used Daily for 6-12 months
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Very functional, great backend reporting, quite user friendly
Pros
Ease of use is it's strong point for sure! I've trained a volunteer to use it in a matter of minutes. It really takes the feel of a standard cash register, compatible with all sorts of Bluetooth devices for card readers, scanners, and printers. Looking up previous sales and daily totals by various segmented data is great, no needing to log into a separate program or computer interface.
Cons
It can be a little bit of a pain when trying to work with both a keyboard and a Bluetooth device, or if you are using multiple terminals close to one another. I also dislike the open order feature, it defaults to saving any order you've started prior and just lists them for days.