A Comparison of POS Systems: atVenu vs. Square

Your point of sale system is the most engaged piece of technology at your event. Therefore, it is crucial to ensure that you have the one that works best for. While all POS systems can process payments, what additional functionalities can yours offer?

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In this post, we've included a comparison chart to showcase how our built-in features handle event tasks, not only saving you time and helping maximize your sales during your event, but reduce the manual entry you have to do. Events today look for not only a solution that can be cashless, but also is built to be an event pos payment solution with the features designed specifically for events.

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More detail on some of the features highlighted above

• real-time sales reporting
• RFID Payments accepted
• customized coupons, discounts, promotions, and more:
• custom sponsorship tile at checkout
• payouts by event
• vendor and artist settlements:
• offline mode
• auto-advance merch lines:
• stand/location inventory distribution:
• automated settlement summary emails:
• ship to home integrated into point of sale:

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Some of the most common questions we get asked when talking about atVenu vs. Square are:

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Can you take transactions offline?

Yes. We can take all transactions offline: RFID wristband payments, Tap To Pay, credit card swiping, chip reader insert, Apple Pay, Google Pay, and more. Our product always has an offline mode as a feature that is available to you. Not all POS providers allow Offline Mode for all their plans/products, so make sure you are reading your provider's fine print when they say 'offline mode'.

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Why do you say you have real-time sales reporting by location but not Square?

Within our POS, you can not only create stands/locations quickly, but you can also add all your inventory to quickly distribute it to the various locations by volume or percentage and monitor all sales in real-time on a single dashboard. Square doesn't have a dashboard set up allowing you to distribute counted-in inventory evenly between your stands. You have to go to each individual ‘location’ within their platform to look at the necessary sales.

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What does your gear or product come in? With Square we get the product ina box and we assemble It is it a similar set up?

If you are using our gear and we are shipping it to you, it comes in ready-to-go pelican cases (1, 5, 10, and 20-size cases), where the Registers are charged and ready to go. Cables, chargers, and readers are included and ready to quickly grab and go. They are also easy to store/move throughout your venue, festival, fair, etc.

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If you have additional questions on what other feature sets we have get a free demo of our product from one of our account managers or learn more about atVenu Register here.

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