DataCandy

Expensive, but worth trying!

Comments: Quite grateful for their customer loyalty feature, it has helped my company grow rapidly. Only if they could provide free trial, it would be great to get the user of a glimpse of what he is going to get. A bit expensive but certainly worth it.

Pros:

The loyalty program is definitely something we found great to encourage our employees do better. This has drastically improved their performance. Quite helpful.

Cons:

Paystone should allow their users at least a free trial. Though it's a bit expensive, the user must be given a chance to explore what he is going to get.

Great Loyalty and Gift Card Program

Comments: I do like the monthly cost. I do like working with customer service.

Pros:

I do like how this software works with out POS System (Logivision). It does make it easy for our cashiers to activate and redeem points. Customers like the feature of saving points for future larger purchases.

Cons:

Our customers are having a hard time signing up to be able to redeem points. I have used many programs and this seems to be the worst for customer sign up. We do have an older customer base who have a hard time with emails. Most loyalty programs are phone number based. YOu do have to spend more money to change it to that style which I do think is not good.I also am not a fan of having to pay for text messages.

Unauthorized payments

Comments: Horrible

Pros:

Whatever is good about this software is buried by the fact that this company has been withdrawing money from my account since closing my terminals in August - and it is currently Feb of the following year. Most recently, they have billed me with an almost $500 bill for a terminal that I returned in September. Oh, I keep getting the runaround - "we'll fix this, we'll refund this" and every month or so, there's another unauthorized fee that I have to spend months chasing, and hours on the phone with placating sales people that assure me I'll be refunded to only be refunded months later and then have another $500 fee taken for a terminal that was returned 5 months ago. This has actually come to a point where I am actually considering closing my back account (and dealing with the enormous headache that that would be) in order to have these criminals stop taking money out of my account. Never, never, never would I recommend this company. They actually even asked me how much $$ it would take for me to remove a previous bad review I gave them. When they didn't like my answer, they withdrew another bogus $485 from my account that I now have to chase.

Cons:

see above. Or heck, I'll copy it for you here:Whatever is good about this software is buried by the fact that this company has been withdrawing money from my account since closing my terminals in August - and it is currently Feb of the following year. Most recently, they have billed me with an almost $500 bill for a terminal that I returned in September. Oh, I keep getting the runaround - "we'll fix this, we'll refund this" and every month or so, there's another unauthorized fee that I have to spend months chasing, and hours on the phone with placating sales people that assure me I'll be refunded to only be refunded months later and then have another $500 fee taken for a terminal that was returned 5 months ago. This has actually come to a point where I am actually considering closing my back account (and dealing with the enormous headache that that would be) in order to have these criminals stop taking money out of my account. Never, never, never would I recommend this company. They actually even asked me how much $$ it would take for me to remove a previous bad review I gave them. When they didn't like my answer, they withdrew another bogus $485 from my account that I now have to chase.

Amazing set up experience

Comments: Top notch

Pros:

Set up support was amazingly good Best value for money

Cons:

Required Zapier to integrate with QB desktop/enterprise but [SENSITIVE CONTENT] at Nicejob implemented a very good solution to automate, so not really a negative

Great Service, Great Value with Paystone

Comments: Great Experience, overall, recommended.

Pros:

Competative Price, very helpful sales team to make everything clear, and good service.

Cons:

CS take long some times.

Great product

Pros:

Great product. Easy to work with pick up

Cons:

Nothing I can’t complain. Very happy with what I have

Would Not Purchase Loyalty Gift Card Program Again

Comments: Negative

Pros:

Not much. What was sold to me and what is implemented are two different things. Sales makes it sound easy but the implementation support is minimal.

Cons:

Not easy to use. Triangulation between the POS vendor and Data Candy / Capstone

Review of Credit/ Debit processing machine

Comments: Frustrating, expensive and regretful.

Pros:

Gift card program is easy to use and a great option for business.

Cons:

Daily we are experiencing "not completed" transactions with debit cards and when we re-enter it, our customer may get charged TWICE for their purchases! When this happens, we have to explain to the customer that they will get reimbursed within 1-30 days. This is very frustrating if that customer does not have the funds available and even worse customers think we are intentionally charging them and assume we are stealing from them. I also feel that we are getting charged for every extra "not completed" transaction. I am a small business in a small community and cannot afford to constantly defend my reputation each time this happens. Unfortunately your service/product has negatively affected my daily operations and the damage is done. We are now encouraging cash transactions whenever possible to avoid complications like this. I have contacted customer support and I was told that "it happens" and there is" no solution" for this.

I love Data Candy

Comments: We now have information about our business that we didn't have before. We can react faster to our clients wants and needs. Thanks Data Candy!

Pros:

I have definitely gained clients by offering rewards and gift options using Data Candy solutions. Customer support is great. Everyone is so accommodating.

Cons:

Unfortunately the gift cards are not integrated with our POS system however integration is coming.

A Small Business' Best Friend

Pros:

The simplistic and colorful interface is easy to read, you can go as in-depth with the data as you want, multiple pricing options

Cons:

I wish that there was a mobile or tablet app, so it would be easier to access or connect to

Gift Cards used in a High School

Comments: It was the best option we provided students

Pros:

The system is an accordance with our accounting procedures and very easy to track

Cons:

There's nothing that I don't like about this program

Very Satisfied

Comments: Our overall experience has been great and like that we have human support when we need it

Pros:

Very user friendly even for the technically challenged staff

Cons:

there was nothing really that bothered me

Loyalty that your customers would enjoy!

Pros:

Paystone's loyalty and gift card program is extremely easy to use. Integrating into our existing point of sale software was painless, and their support team are an actual joy to work with. From the signing of the initial contract to the execution of our first loyalty transaction, Paystone held our hands to ensure that it was a seamless process. With constant updates to the software, new features are always being released, allowing us to stay fresh and relevant with our customer base. Our top 5 features: 1) Real-time security and fraud prevention 2) Branded customer loyalty and gift card portals 3) Customizable merchant dashboard 4) Flexible options for loyalty earn & burn 5) Multi-tiered Loyalty benefits, allowing us to better reward our most loyal customers.

Cons:

We would like to see a deeper integration into the POS for inventory items.

Paystone is good enough but there is better available

Comments: Pretty good once you get used to it.

Pros:

The ability to reward my regular clientele, collect contact information for our newsletter and offer a trackable gift card that is easy to use for my staff and clientele.

Cons:

The dashboard is not very clear and the fact that it's not a one card fits all is a bit problematic and costly as you need one card for the gift card and one card for the loyalty program.

Great product

Comments: Good

Pros:

Easy to use when making a transactions.

Cons:

Not much. I didn’t have a wireless terminal to start.

Press'd Paystone Review

Comments: Very happy with Paystone and especially the customer service they offer. They are always available to hear us out if we have issues or questions and we feel very well taken care of.

Pros:

The gift car functionality is easy to use from loading gift cards all the way to customer redemption. The reports are easy to run and they allow you to easily mine all relevant data, quickly.

Cons:

We would like to sell digital gift cards that could be emailed out to our customers instead of having to mail them physical cards. This function is available but seemed a bit expensive for us. That said, we are a smaller operation so it could be priced fairly for the market.

Secure

Comments: Our experience with Paystone has been great! Customer service has also been great we honestly didn't had any issues

Pros:

Secure, quick and easy. Customer support amazing

Cons:

Maybe working and searching for other banks to be their provider for online business purposes.

It Works

Comments: Good

Pros:

I like that we get paid the next day.Customer Service has been excellent, fault pinpad was replaced immediately.Semi-Integrated with our POS

Cons:

The pinpads are confusing and very techy. Setup was difficult.

Paystone Review

Comments: So far very good just a little getting used to because I was with monaris so long

Pros:

Your product is very easy to use and the machines look very good

Cons:

I find the print out at the end of the day og all transactions are printed very small hard to read

Review

Pros:

Very easy to use and always technical support available

Cons:

I don't know what to say. I'm not a tech persona. So what can I say, but that I like this company.

Review

Pros:

it is simple to use. The quality of the product is nice

Cons:

i think the gift cards are a little expensive. Especially since they are not reloadable

Gift Card Program

Comments: Cards are nice and professional

Pros:

Easy set up; great customer service when registering and setting up account

Cons:

It’s too many steps. It should print out either 2 redemption slips for server and customer, or automatically print a redemption and balance slip. Too time consuming to have to swipe again and do the process over again in a busy restaurant setting

New User Review

Comments: Great customer support and easy access. Patients and customers are loving the system and the ability to impact the environment in a small way with allowing emailOr text receipts

Pros:

We love the ease of deployment into the office and simplicity of the set up

Cons:

No cons this far except a minor glitch of double charges however customer support dealt with it beautifully

Copper Branch

Pros:

Simple and intuitive backend Connected and integrated to our POS Simple to use for employees and customers Good customer support

Cons:

New features could be explored and developed.

Amazing service!

Pros:

I used Datacandy for two years and it's been amazing. Before then we couldn't track any giftcards that was sold by an employee. Their system really helped to make sure there wasn't any fraud.

Cons:

It took us a little while to understand all the options that come with the system, but when you get a hold of it it's great.