What Is The Cheapest Consignment Software?

The 'cheapest' consignment software is the program that costs the least over the time your business uses it.

The short and simple answer to "What Is The Cheapest Consignment Software?" is Best Consignment Shop Software.

Why BCSS is the cheapest consignment software:

There are no ongoing charges for support (or anything else).
- Watch out for: 'Optional support fees'. They are there for a reason and there are ways to coerce payment of them (withholding software updates and denying service in any form).
- If you do get roped into a 'support plan' expect the fee to be increased with time. The amount to be paid in the future will also increase with the number of users, number of work stations and the number of store locations.
- Choosing a software program with any type of support plan, optional or otherwise, is tantamount to signing a blank check for futures streams of money from your store to the vendor's bank account.
Initial prices are lower.
- Prices are not packed with support prepays so they are significantly lower than competing programs. 'What if' Wilson at consignpro quoted $395 for his software and $1,000 for support for the first year? Would you buy it? Maybe is $1,395 and "free support!" more palatable.?
- Software vendors play word games trying to mask high costs with low entry fees. Liberty for example currently advertises 'free consignment software' when only the demo is free. They offer a longer demo period of 90 days hoping to get demo users 'locked in' eventually.
- "Only $99 to start!" is a pure smoke screen intended to hide the actual ongoing and long-term costs, particularly with 'web-based software'.
There are no add-on charges at checkout.
- Shipping is always free (lower 48) and there is no sales tax (except TX).
Software updates are free.
- Some software providers use updates (patches, bug fixes, minor improvements) as a tool for forcing enrollment in a 'service plan'. When an issue arises the first question asked is, 'Are you enrolled in the service plan? No? Well we won't help until you are.'
- Vendors requiring continuous payments insult us by claiming 'software updates are free!'. They aren't 'free' if payment to get them is required.

Stupid Is

Do software vendors think that we are stupid? Not really but they are very keenly aware that people starting new stores are frazzled, scattered, in a hurry - looking for a quick decision, making them vulnerable to sales pitches that appeal to greed and fear.

The 'greed' part is any sale pitch that gives the (false) appearance that selecting the software program will be the most economical or worthwhile purchase. Heard this before? 'You might find cheaper software but you won't find better software!' Nonsense.

The 'fear' part mostly employed by a couple of Florida vendors is to put lower-priced competitors' dissatisfied customers in the spot light while downplaying their own. "99% customer satisfaction!" Suffice it to say there is no consignment software worth $1,000 and more up front much less any kind of trailing fees, optional or otherwise.