BoostMyShop POS vs. Magestore POS (2021)

POS usability (UI/UX)

If you have once tried BoostMyShop POS and Magestore POS system, you can feel the huge difference between the two systems.

In addition to using the “Magento casual theme” for POS, Magestore also designed its own theme with a highly UX button helping staff process sales orders quickly without any doubts.

This picture shows how the Magestore POS interface looks. As you can see, the action buttons are easy-to-see and easy-to-use. You don’t have to spend much time training your staff and they still can work on the POS accurately.

Besides, this type of theme is also friendly with iPad using. So, your staff doesn’t need to control a big computer system during the transaction time. They only need a small and portable iPad to complete any orders quickly and accurately.

However, with POS backend management, Magestore seems to keep their faith in Magento 2 casual theme as they do not have much change in design.

Wrap up! Magestore front-end POS highly improves user experience (with their own UX/UI design), while the backend POS (where managers use it most of the time) still keeps the traditional Magento 2 design.

And you may now ask, “How about Boost My Shop POS interface?”

Like some other solution providers, BoostMyShop POS still gets a high belief in Magento casual themes. Of course, they got their own features (and some little designs on Magento 2 POS interface but if you take a quick glance, you can hardly realize it. Here is the image of BoostMyShop interface:

If you are a big fan of “Traditional Magento 2 UX/UI” and you feel “lazy” to try a new interface, then BoostMyShop will get a plus for your final decision.

Bonus: Download this comparison chart features 5 POS systems from Magestore, Ebizmarts, ConnectPOS, Lightspeeds, and Vend.

Offline mode in Magestore POS, not in BoostMyShop POS

The Internet now is widespread and connected all over the world. However, you cannot avoid the moment when the internet shuts down. Or if you mostly sell products at events, then the internet connection may get you mad. How to solve this annoying situation?

With more than 10 years of experience in Magento, Magestore found the ultimate solution – Magento point of sale with an offline mode. With the offline mode feature, you can sell anytime and anywhere. No more fear of losing internet connection anymore.

When you are offline, the transaction will still process normally with no interruption. Then when you are back online, all the offline data will be synced to the POS system. Even better, with the new Magestore POS, the offline data can be synced to the whole system, which means the product database in physical stores, online stores, and warehouses will be automatically updated.

Unfortunately, Boost My Shop, like many other POS providers, does not provide this brilliant feature. For more details, get a Free demo of Magestore POS for your experience.

Order processing

Order processing, in other words, time on each transaction is an essential factor to compete with other retailers. While BoostMyShop POS hasn’t given out any solution to this hard quiz, Magestore POS provided such a feature for on-hold and multiple orders.

In the checkout process, Magestore allows users (known as a salesperson) to hold on to the order. Customers can hold their order while adding or removing some products. They can keep holding until they get all their favorite items on the product list. In addition to the on-hold feature, Magestore POS also allows multiple-orders. It means your customers don’t need to wait for an “indecisive” customer in front of them. Your staff can minimize customers’ waiting time by checking the next customers while waiting for the on-hold customer.

Magestore POS can handle multiple orders at a time.

How fast it will be! Saving customer time means raising customers’ satisfaction.

Payment methods

Both BoostMyShop and Magestore support paying in cash, cash-on-delivery, credit card, or even split payment (which is also known as multiple payments).

However, Magestore also has a Custom Payment option – allowing customers to pay in various personalized methods.

For Magestore POS, besides Stripe online payment processor, Heartland payment systems, Braintree, Adyen, our POS also integrates with Authorize.net via a secure Dynamag card reader (magnetic cards only). Read on Magestore POS and terminal integration for more information.

This is a fast, secure, and effective method that most successful businesses are using.

Meanwhile, when using BoostMyShop POS, you have to build up your own payment system. It does not integrate with various payment parties as Magestore POS does.

Management is a crucial operating task that no store owners can ignore. However, Magestore and BoostMyShop have different ways to help merchants solve business management puzzles. So how different is it?

Reports

Reports are one of the most vital and reliable parts for managers. Both Magestore Magento 2 Web POS and BoostMyShop Magento 2 POS extension provide detailed reports on your POS activities.

The Magestore Magento 2 POS provides 8 report categories divided into the following groups: Marketing, Sales, Reviews, Customers, Products, Statistics, and BI.

In Staff Reports, you can view sales by staff, daily sales by staff, and order lists by staff. The same indicators are available in location reports but related to each offline location: sales by location, daily sales by location, and order list by location.

Besides, there are 4 payment reports: Sales by payment method, Sales by payment method (Daily), Order list by payment method, and Sales by payment method for location.

This is the example of the “Order list by staff” report. You can choose a time interval, a staff member, and an order status.

All reports are informative, customizable, and provide deep insights into all POS operations.

And what about BoostMyShop POS for Magento 2? It offers a more limited report system with just 4 report types: Totals, Payments, Best Sellers, and Sales by Vendor. You can select a time diapason for all reports, and there are no daily stats.

Demo from Boostmyshop

Staff management

Magestore Magento 2 POS offers a separate screen with staff. Here, you can add new managers and assign roles to the existing ones. BoostMyShop does not provide this feature.

Magestore POS feature: Create staff and manage staff.

Besides, there is a screen, where you can create roles. It is possible to set a limit on discounts a manager with the role can apply, customize resource access, and assign the role to administrators right from the grid.

Magestore POS feature: Create roles and manage staff roles.

Sales and Customers

While Magestore provides all sales data via reports, BoostMyShop has a separate page with all sales performed via their POS extension. For someone, this feature can be very convenient.

And there is a page with all customers related to the BoostMyShop Magento 2 POS extension.

Magestore does not provide a separate section for POS customers, is it a drawback? Definitely, no. It can be even a plus because all customers who are already registered on your website can be connected to the POS system.

Although both two give you an amazing experience with POS features, each has different ways to provide their solutions.

Let’s check out the difference and pros. vs cons. from each offer!

First, we will start with POS BoostMyShop.

Customize your own

BoostMyShop offers a standalone extension, which means you can buy POS BoostMyShop separately (without any other extensions). However, BoostMyShop did not get any eCommerce package so that if you want to build your Management System, you have to buy and integrate with other extensions and other providers (3rd party).

In a nutshell, you can see the Pros. and Cons. the BoostMyShop offers:

• Pros: You can customize whatever you want, integrate with whichever 3rd party.
• Cons: However, the Pros. will soon turn to be a nightmare if you want to integrate with other management modules (most of the time, you never use only POS for our business). Buying only BoostMyShop POS to integrate with other modules can cause your system to meet more bugs and get some troubles with synchronization among these extensions. Besides, you lose time to choose extensions that are compatible with BoostMyShop POS. And of course, it will raise your fee to build the system.

And that is BoostMyShop! How about Magestore?

Get a full pack of what you need

Magestore no longer offers a standalone module, which means if you buy Magestore POS system, you will get the default integration with Magestore Inventory Management.

Magestore offers a POS Commerce plan in which you can use their powerful inventory and barcode management, promotion and loyalty programs, centralized purchasing and supplier management, convenient store pickup, flexible store credits, extensive inventory reports, advanced order fulfillment, centralized dropship, etc.

Besides, you can download Magestore open-source POS if you’ve just started your business want to try it before making a purchase.

And how can you earn benefits from this offer?

• Pros: All data in your business system (especially between POS and Inventory Management) will be synchronized and updated automatically. You don’t need to enter the same information twice. You only need to pay once to get the one-stop POS solution. Besides, this also helps you reduce time to fix bugs because Magestore POS doesn’t require any 3rd party add-ons to integrate with Magento.
• Cons: Perhaps, there are still some extensions that you want to integrate with but Magestore did not provide so that you still need to find some 3rd parties. Besides, because this is a big system so that it will take time to configure it at first.

So which one sounds cool to you?

If you still wonder, then check the next part to figure it out!

In this part, we will take a clear look through the Price and Support Policy of these two amazing POS providers.

• BoostMyShop:

The price for a BoostMyShop POS Magento 2 (Community Version) is $290.00.

You will get 3-month free support.

Besides, if you want some extra services, you need to pay an extra fee. For example, with Installation Service, you need to pay $89.00 more. The fee for online training is $149.00

However, this is a small note you may remind yourself of: Recently, many BoostMyShop POS customers have complained that BoostMyShop could not customize the POS extension as what customers wanted and the fee to customize was quite expensive.

• Magestore:

The price for Magestore POS is remarkably higher, as it’s an omnichannel solution that covers all aspects of your business. Magestore offers only one POS Commerce plan. As when your business develops, you’ll need a robust POS system that can handle and meet your growing business requirements.

Furthermore, you will get a 1-year free warranty, get updates of your purchased package without extra fees, and/or our professional services ranging from customization to premium support, go-live, and more. Let’s take a look at Magestore POS Pricing for details.

Especially, you will get the ready-to-use integration between Magento MSI or Magestore’s Inventory Management and PWA POS. No more worry about choosing the 3rd party and other extensions.

After all, you may ponder a little bit about which one to buy. So here, we will wrap it all for you:

It is obvious that Magestore Web POS has more competitive benefits than BoostMyShop POS. But the big pain point here is the Price.

The selection always depends on your business plans, budget, and especially, the future of your business.

Maybe now your budget is limited but it does not mean you should choose the one with a lower POS price. As I said above, a business does not use only POS, you also need other Management Extensions, such as Inventory Management.

Whatsoever! Nothing is better than trying. So before taking to the last step, take a demo from two providers, then you will get your best answer.