Austin, Texas June 25, 2024 — SelectHub, a leader in technology evaluation and software selection, today unveiled the winners of its prestigious 2024 “Best Of” Awards in the Point-of-Sale (POS) software category. These awards celebrate SelectHub’s commitment to identifying and promoting the most efficient and user-friendly solutions in the market.
Marcus Flemming, VP of Marketing at SelectHub, said, “Our ‘Best Of’ awards highlight those POS systems that stand out in our exhaustive and transparent evaluations. Our proprietary 400+ point analysis ensures that we recommend POS solutions that excel in critical areas such as transaction processing, inventory management, and customer interactions, thereby enhancing business operations.”
Sandesh Sindiri, Head of Software Solutions and Technology Research, elaborated, “Through meticulous evaluation of industry KPIs and direct feedback from users on our technology selection management platform, we’ve identified leaders in the POS space. As these industries evolve, we recognize the significant impact of trends like cloud-based systems and mobile integration on improving service delivery and operational efficiency.”
SelectHub assessed 548 vendors across 11 categories of POS capabilities, along with Analysts’ Pick and User Favorite.
- The Analysts’ Pick award recognized the top-tier software vendors in the industry with the highest scores.
- The User Favorite award honored the top 20 products that received “Excellent” user sentiment scores, based on aggregated review data from real users.
Best-in-class awards were also handed out in the following categories to the top products receiving a score of 80 or higher in SelectHub’s technology selection platform:
- Compliance and Security
- Customer Loyalty and Management
- Employee Management
- Inventory Management
- Items and Service Management
- Payment Transactions and Cash Management
- Point of Sale
- Reporting and Insights
- Sales and Marketing Management
- Store Management
- Types of POS
Analysts’ Pick
The award for the best overall POS solution went to Square POS.
User Favorites
The products that received the best user satisfaction scores, listed in order from highest to lowest, were Cova, Nuvei, Booqable, KickFin, Square Online, Marketman, Connecteam, Buku, Stripe, Apple Pay, MassageBook, SpotOn, Square POS, Slicelife, PayPal Zettle, Google Pay, Rentman, Samsung Pay, SumUp and RepairShopr.
Compliance and Security
Leading in this category were NCR Silver, MICROS, Shopify POS, Square POS, KORONA POS and Revel POS.
Customer Loyalty and Management
Square POS, NCR Silver, Hike POS and Toast earned best-in-class accolades for this category.
Employee Management
Claiming the victory for employee management were Epos Now, Square POS and SpotOn.
Inventory Management
KORONA POS, PHP POS, Square POS, Lightspeed and Lightspeed Retail were recognized as the leaders for inventory management.
Items and Service Management
The winners here were NCR Silver, Erply, Square POS, Rain POS and Lightspeed.
Payment Transactions and Cash Management
MICROS was recognized as the sole leader in this category.
Point-of-Sale
Hike POS, Rain POS and Lightspeed Retail stood out for delivering extensive POS capabilities.
Reporting and Insights
Erply, Square POS, SpotOn and KORONA POS won this category, thanks to robust reporting capabilities.
Sales and Marketing Management
Best-in-class status here went to Toast, Clover, MICROS, Shopify POS, Square POS and Lightspeed.
Store Management
Hike POS, Square POS, Toast and Clover led the way for functionality to manage stores.
Types of POS
The winners in this category were MICROS and Square POS, offering diverse setup options including traditional cash registers, mobile POS and cloud-based POS solutions.
SelectHub leverages a prescriptive approach to software selection, consolidating data collected through meticulous analysis in the SelectHub platform. This offers organizations a best-practice approach to reduce risk and find the right software for their needs.
To learn more about the 2024 awards in this category and to see a complete list of winners, please visit SelectHub’s POS software page.
About SelectHub
SelectHub has the software selection platform, data, methodology and expertise that makes selecting software streamlined, agile, collaborative, and free of bias. SelectHub supports everything from initial research to final vendor selection and price negotiation. Driven by data from detailed research and analysis, then validated from thousands of real-world selection projects, SelectHub shortcuts the selection process, ensuring more informed, accurate purchase decisions. To learn more, please visit https://www.selecthub.com.
Contact:
Marcus Flemming
SelectHub
pr@selecthub.com