--- title: "AmberPOS Reviews, Pros and Cons - 2026 Software Advice" description: "Reviews of AmberPOS. Learn how real users rate this software's ease-of-use, functionality, overall quality and customer support. Talk to our advisors to see if AmberPOS is a good fit for you!" source_url: "https://www.softwareadvice.com/retail/pacific-amber-technologies-amberpos-profile/reviews/" page_type: "reviews" language: "en" --- 1 million+ businesses helped. Get advice Get Free Advice [Home](https://www.softwareadvice.com/) / [Point of Sale Software](https://www.softwareadvice.com/retail/web-based-point-of-sale-software-comparison/) / [AmberPOS](https://www.softwareadvice.com/retail/pacific-amber-technologies-amberpos-profile/) / AmberPOS Reviews Software Advice offers objective insights based on verified user reviews and independent product and market research. When our advisors match you to a software provider, we may earn a referral fee. [Overview](https://www.softwareadvice.com/retail/pacific-amber-technologies-amberpos-profile/) Reviews [Alternatives](https://www.softwareadvice.com/retail/pacific-amber-technologies-amberpos-profile/alternatives/) # AmberPOS User Reviews ## Reviews summary - Overall rating: 4.1/5 - Total reviews: 51 ### Secondary ratings - Ease of use: 4.1/5 - Customer support: 4.0/5 - Value for money: 4.1/5 - Functionality: 4.2/5 ### Rating distribution - 5 stars: 25 reviews (49%) - 4 stars: 17 reviews (33%) - 3 stars: 4 reviews (8%) - 2 stars: 1 reviews (2%) - 1 star: 4 reviews (8%) ### Most mentioned pros - The best thing is without a doubt the support I have received from Amber Team, specially [SENSITIVE CONTENT HIDDEN] himself. ### Most mentioned cons - The software was decent, but almost no support. ## AmberPOS customer reviews Showing reviews 1-25 of 51 (page 1). ### Point of Sale decision - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Alice F. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Retail - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 2 years - Reviewed: April 2019 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered I had too many unknown transactions - as in clients now everyone goes in the system - easier to find transactions if old payment type is not know. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 3/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros Fantastic customer service. Has lots of features for the expense. #### Cons Wish I could integrate this with a booking scheduler. I have a client database that we use to sent up courses and customer service. We have to manually transfer payment to that client database. --- ### Daniel S.'s review - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Daniel S. - Product usage: Used unspecified for unspecified - Reviewed: February 2012 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered We are a small rapidly growing specialty garden store. We have used a few different POS systems since opening, about 6 years ago. All of the systems we worked with in the past had too many functionality issues for us to keep using their software for very long. Since switching to Amber POS almost 2 years ago, our system has become much more streamlined and much easier to use. We have a warehouse that we use for excess product and bulky item storage. Amber POS can accurately track ALL of our inventory in both locations. When we expand to more store locations, we can add an infinite number of additional stores, using all the existing information. No need to retype anything in! All business information is now kept in one place. It's very easy to find any information needed from product information, vendor information, customer information, to all sales history & reports. The staff at Pacific Amber has been a blessing for our business. They are always ready to help with any issues that may come up. They usually answer the phone on the first call, but if I have to leave a message, I get called back quickly. Try that with Quick books and see how you feel endlessly waiting for help that doesn’t come. We had some issues setting up our old accounting program on new computers we bought. The staff at Pacific Amber even helped us install software from another company! I'm not saying that they are supposed to or expected to, but service like that is one of the many reasons that I am extremely happy with their software and support. They care and it shows. They also got our new website up and running! They advised us which shopping cart software to use, and then integrated it to the Point Of Sale. Now we can upload, update, edit, add and remove products from our online store right from the POS window! When we sell an item online, the transaction can be downloaded into the POS without having to retype any information! I'm sure you can see how much time this can save! We can even sell on eBay though our website and not have to retype in ANY information; it all gets downloaded correctly right into the POS. All in all, this is a great system and I am very happy with it and the staff at Pacific Amber Technologies. I would highly recommend it to anyone who needs a solid POS system, from a single store with a small inventory, up to large retail companies with dozens of stores and thousands of products. This software can handle whatever you need it too. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 --- ### Support of AmberPOS support - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Kevin M. - Industry: Wine and Spirits - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used unspecified for more than 2 years - Reviewed: October 2017 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered For a stand alone POS solution, this is the one to choose. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros AmberPOS has been our retail software supplier for over 15 years. We have had great support and solutions that fit our needs. Their improvements to the POS program has helped Marquis Wine Cellars get to the next stage of growth. Support is timely and knowledgeable. Lots of reporting capabilities and the program has been very stable over all these years. #### Cons This could integrate easier with accounting software. --- ### Justin P.'s review - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Justin P. - Product usage: Used unspecified for unspecified - Reviewed: November 2011 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered I run a small business shoe store. The store has been in business for 33 years and coming into 2011 had never had any type of POS/inventory management. I came to SoftwareAdvice.com looking for assistance in locating the perfect retail software for a business that had previously never had as much as a computer. After a couple of months, I was able to narrow my search to Pacific Amber Technologies and their AmberPOS software. Despite being based out of Vancouver and having a 3-hour time difference to me on the east coast, Pacific Amber's customer service was top notch. Since they are a smaller business themselves, they seemed to understand the constraints of time and money and really worked to make sure I was getting everything I needed without spending more than I had to. In the early stages of getting all of the hardware, if they didn't have a product that I needed for a price that worked, they would direct me towards where online I could find it while maximizing my dollars. They assisted me every step of the way, from installation of software, to setup of any hardware, to getting my inventory tracking up and running. When it came time to set up my online store, AmberPOS was once again a huge help. The integration with my physical inventory and my online inventory was synced without much hang-up. As a business that hadn't used any type of inventory tracking previously, or anything digital at all, AmberPOS was relativity simple to teach to my sales staff and owner, all of who had very little computer experience. Most caught on very easily, and I definitely think that AmberPOS's layout and graphics not only make it a nice system to look at everyday, but much more inviting to someone who wouldn't be as comfortable with a system that functioned the same but looked like a spreadsheet. Over the past six months that we have had AmberPOS up and running fully in our store, any time we needed assistance we never had much issue getting in touch with their support team. Usually we could get the issue resolved within 24 hours, and they always checked back in to make sure everything was running smoothly. I cannot recommend Pacific Amber and their AmberPOS software more for a company of any size. The only reason I gave Functionality a 4-star rating is there are still a few minor issues, but whenever those are brought to their attention they are pretty quick to listen and update the software. I'll be sure to use AmberPOS for years to come! #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 4/5 --- ### Endless flexibility and functionality. Great service. - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Penny W. - Industry: Retail - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: December 2017 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros I love that the system is easy to customize and flexible. The Amber staff is always available and willing to help, and have helped me craft the system to work exactly how we need it to work for the unique needs my retail store has. They are able to remote into our computer and help us create new features or troubleshoot problems in real time. #### Cons I would normally call it a con that I have to sometimes leave a voicemail, but honestly, it's faster than going through 20 different prompts before I can reach a live person. When I do leave a message they call back right away. There are no voice prompts. It's either a live person straight away or a quick call back. And the support staff is a small team, so you can easily speak to the same person every time you call, and they know our account when we call, AND they know and understand their product, which is more than I can say for 90% of the technology vendors I normally have to deal with! --- ### Customer support is APPALLING! - Overall rating: 1/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: April 2018 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 2/5 - Value for money: 1/5 - Customer support: 1/5 - Functionality: 2/5 #### Cons Random errors. Their "fully integrated credit card processing" isn't. Sales process through credit card payments but not recorded in register. Customer service's reponse: "Just do a physical inventory of your 15,000 items to determine what sold." Half of the month of sales and receiving history disappeared randomly for no known reason. They don't care. #### Vendor response This review was mistakenly left for the wrong POS company. This is not our customer. They may have us mixed up with a Restaurant POS system with a similar name to ours. We don't sell restaurant POS systems. We sell a Retail POS system. This anonymous review is either fake or left for the wrong POS company. It claims our system doesn't store transactions in the POS database. That is simply not true. We have thousands of customers, some with transactions going back 10+ years. They must be mistaking our system for a different software. We tried to get Capterra to correct this mistaken and misleading review but they refused even though this was not left by one of our actual customers. Replied June 2018 --- ### A robust POS for small businesses - Overall rating: 3.5/5 - Reviewer: Wayne G. - Industry: Retail - Product usage: Used unspecified for unspecified - Reviewed: October 2014 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 2/5 - Customer support: 4.5/5 - Functionality: 3.5/5 #### Pros They are responsive to requests for assistance. The software has many advanced features. The value is good. The built-in reporting is nice, with some caveats (see below). #### Cons As a former software developer with 15 years of experience, there are a few issues I have. These might not bother everyone, though. First, the reporting system is nice, but you cannot alter the format or add/remove fields from the canned reports. This means I eventually had to build my own back end reporting system. The vast majority of people won't be able to do this, so be aware that if your main goal is robust reporting, this is a pretty major issue. Lack of keyboard shortcuts. If I change a SKU I cannot hit ctrl+S to save. I have to click the save button with the mouse. It's annoying. Unable to customize screen layouts. On the customer screen, for example, I cannot choose to display only the fields I use. This means there are a ton of fields I don't care about that I can't hide. This is the same for all the screens. The software has a lot of fields because of the advanced nature of its design. Even so, I don't need all of them, so being able to hide them would be wonderful. The label design system lacks a "snap to grid" system. Actually, it doesn't have a grid system at all. This makes designing a label unnecessarily difficult Custom queries cannot be altered later. If you setup a special price rule with a custom query and later wish to modify it, you must start over. Any attempt to change it will give you an error. This is annoying and leaves you open to risk that your new rule will miss logic you built into your old rule. It rounds down on sales taxes. If you sell any item that results in a sales tax value less than a penny, it won't charge sales tax. When you move thousands of dollars a year in these small transactions, this can lead to a substantial amount of sales tax you owe that the system never collected! --- ### Excellent POS option that does not break the wallet - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Matthew D. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Recreational Facilities and Services - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 12 months - Reviewed: August 2020 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered From the start, the AmberPOS Team has walked us through setup to some minor issues we have had. The fact that they responded with expedience during a 4th of July weekend speaks volumes! The team support has truly been wonderful! Easy program that can be navigated by younger staff, and flexibility of sales ability work very well. Considering that we are a ticket booth, snack bar, and retail store, this program covers all bases for us! #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Scalability and user friendly features allow this to remain small but give the ability to increase as the business grows. #### Cons Due to our location, internet is a little slow. Although this is not a cloud based POS, it still requires updates that can bog down our internet. This is NOT an issue with the software, it is an in-house issue. #### Reasons for choosing AmberPOS Less expensive, better fit for our location/store. We weren't being sold, we were just given information from the other POS providers. AmberPOS treated us with respect and paid attention to all of our concerns during purchasing. #### Reasons for switching to AmberPOS Newer program with better abilities to suit our needs --- ### Top Notch Service ! - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Daniel A. - Industry: Museums and Institutions - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: December 2017 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered For anyone looking for a POS system, you cannot go wrong by choosing Amber. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Amber is easy to teach to my staff, remarkably easy to use on the administrative side and offers wonderful and personal support. It is an affordable system that I highly recommend to anyone looking to upgrade. From the people to the program, itself, I couldn't be happier and feel more confident that I made the right choice by choosing Amber. #### Cons I operate four separate museum stores and maintain four separate inventories within Amber. My wish is that it could be made easy to toggle between inventories without having to log out of one and into another. I'd love to be able to just log in and be able to maneuver between inventories with a bit more ease. Trust me, I can be a whiner..........and if this is my only complaint........well, Amber is doing okay by me, then. --- ### Amber is an update from an old POS system and it now allows me to couple inventory with a web site - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: lisa m. - Industry: Retail - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 2 years - Reviewed: November 2017 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered Would love to be able to have a convenient suggestion box to enter suggestions for improvement - and a newsletter emailed or on program to access letting us know what changes made and what changes you are working on to improve the program. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros After a bit of a learning period since I was not used to working with spreadsheets, I found it easy to work with. After two years I am still finding out features that I find useful. Have also found tech support friendly and helpful. Integration with Big Commerce added additional challenges that Amber seems to be trying to deal with . #### Cons Tech support feedback not 100%. Had sent a few questions that did not get answered. Would really like to have an emailed newsletter announcing what improvements and changes have been made to the program. Found out that I needed to log onto a special site that had that information after being with Amber for a few years. Although POS program seems non geek friendly this information is aimed at the techs. --- ### Great training and demos - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: abdullah e. - Industry: Furniture - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 6 months - Reviewed: September 2018 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. Overall great value and features are mostly what you need to get you off the ground and even growing. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros Really affordable, especially since they offer multi store features, if you want to expand without expanding your expense. Somewhat easy to use but their team really are quick to help and explain everything so I didn’t feel abandoned at all. #### Cons I felt the inventory could have been made easier and simpler although to be fair they did eventually help me get it right. --- ### Useful POS that allows good reporting - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Suzanne V. - Industry: Retail - Company size: 51-200 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 6 months - Reviewed: December 2016 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. Ambur is an intuitive POS system that allows you to track inventory, and run reports easily. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 2/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros Track inventory, ability to apply discounts at will, intuitive. #### Cons I'd love if ambur allowed reporting on applying discounts and coupons. Their customer service has also seriously lacked during this last year. I'd also love if they put together a closed loop gift card service that is integrated. --- ### Happy with the product, followup services. - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Mrityunjay S. - Industry: Retail - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 6 months - Reviewed: August 2018 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Really detailed and good control for inventory and very simple to use. The best part is any one can learn how to use quick #### Cons Would have been awesome if you could integrate this software with any payment processing companies. Overall good performance --- ### Emily S.'s review - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Emily S. - Product usage: Used unspecified for unspecified - Reviewed: January 2013 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered Though we have a few occasional hiccups (mostly in integrating with our online sales) overall Amber is a great system. The tech support team is on the ball, and the program itself is great for multi- or single-store use. It's aesthetically pleasing and intuitive, and the many (customizable) reports make it easy to get the exact sales data needed. We are very pleased we chose Amber and it's definitely improved the way we do business. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 4/5 --- ### If you are beyond a basic shop, move on! - Overall rating: 2/5 - Reviewer: Nathan B. - Industry: Automotive - Product usage: Used unspecified for unspecified - Reviewed: October 2014 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4.5/5 - Customer support: 1.5/5 - Functionality: 1/5 #### Pros They were quick to refund our money when the product was not a good fit for us. #### Cons It's very limited, and you have no control. They lock down all admin tools and require you to call them for changes. If you do not pay the monthly support fee, it will cost you every time you call. --- ### AmberPOS Rocks! - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Chris M. - Industry: Furniture - Product usage: Used unspecified for unspecified - Reviewed: June 2014 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Ease of use and awesome people to help at a moment's notice! #### Cons A wee bit more ability to customize would be great. --- ### Great value for the price - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Meg S. - Industry: Retail - Product usage: Used unspecified for less than 6 months - Reviewed: July 2015 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4.5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros It is easy to use and intuitive. Support is great (front end sales, telephone IT support, online manual is pretty good). #### Cons Everything so far has been good. We have only been on the system for a month. --- ### Too clunky and customer service is terrible unless you pay - Overall rating: 1/5 - Reviewer: Rachel S. - Industry: Retail - Product usage: Used unspecified for less than 2 years - Reviewed: June 2016 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 1.5/5 - Customer support: 1/5 - Functionality: 1/5 #### Pros It communicates well between 2 stores. You can set up a way to track frequent buyer cards even though it's clunky. #### Cons Getting things set up is incredibly clunky, and it's nearly impossible to predict what will go wrong. They force you to buy a subscription to their customer service help, so at that point, it adds on to the price. And if you don't, you get absolutely no help getting their software to really work for you. Most of the problems we have had are entirely THEIR fault and they still won't help you without the "customer service" package. a) we keep getting a message that says "duplicate entry or something is wrong" and they won't/can't fix it unless we pay. We can't rearrange the order of the point system items without literally going in one at a time and hitting "up up" until it gets to where you want. This takes HOURS. You can't delete one transaction that you've "held" (or "parked" in their terms) without deleting ALL parked transactions. The frequent buyer program/points system is clunky and hard to manually fix anything.. I guess it's trying to prevent fraud, but... for instance, I'm a pet food store... we do a buy 12 get 1 free program on our bags of dog food. If a person buys 6 bags of one food, and then switches to a different line of foods but the first 6 bags might sort of count (like they buy 15# bags, then buy 30# bags) you can't transfer the points from the first 6 bags at all... there is no way to "force" the free bag and deduct points. If you comp the bag manually, the customer gets one more point, not 6 less points. There is no report that I can find that tells you how many returns you've done in 1 month, or from 1 vendor, or from 1 customer, etc.. no way to track returns at all as far as I can tell. Sales per day of the week is also not found. In order to do my taxes each month, I have to run 2 separate reports... 1 to find service sales (non-taxable) and another to find tax exempt sales (like for government orgs). shall I go on? #### Vendor response I’m sorry our software didn’t work out for you Rachel. I hope you find something you’re more happy with. We do not force customers to purchase a subscription to our support and updates program – it is completely optional, but the vast majority of our customers do decide to go with the plan as it’s such a great value for your money. We offer unlimited support and complete software updates for just CAD $29/m which ensures that your software is always up-to-date and any new versions of the software are installed free of charge. The program IS entirely optional as well, and some of our customers decide not to purchase the program and instead just pay for tech-support if they need it. We also do include up to 6 hours of training, converting data and importing of inventory from an old POS system at no extra charge. As for our “Try before you buy” program, we have a full 90 Day 100% Money Back Guarantee for anyone who purchases our software licenses, so if for any reason they are not 100% completely satisfied with our software, they can receive a full refund no questions asked. Replied August 2016 --- ### been using this for four years and it is VERY reliable. like all new software programs, you need to adjust to all new bells and whistles - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Annette G. - Industry: Retail - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: February 2017 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered We are a unique company with three locations and use retail and layaways. looked at a TON of different software programs and this is the only one that could customize our Layaways for what we needed. Do you have to wait sometimes for answers? well yes, who doesn't? The majority of the time I get through right away. However, when my server went down and I needed them ASAP, THEY ANSWERED VERY QUICKLY! I was up and running withing an ' hours' and it took me over a week to get my server back. (wasn't Amber's fault it was default hardware). We were still able to run the program on computers/registers without a server. (not many software companies can boast that) I have dealt with another retail software program in the past where SQL was ALWAYS BREAKING DOWN (for days) then all of our stores were literally down. This system (AMBER) has a great SQL structure and database. There is no perfect software company but Amber has always been kind, considerate and helpful whenever I called for issues. The problems have always been fixed (some require patience which in today's world- no one wants to wait). the most important thing is to have a stable system AND having someone in your company who can help train those who are computer illiterate. it is up to you to make the changes in your company. there are SOOO many reports to choose from that I still haven't used all of them. the best part is having all the customer history and all this history of purchases, sales etc that you can use. Amber does a great job of tracking individual items, so you can easily see who purchased them. Exporting is great to excel spreadsheets. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Customer History and product history. this software tracks EVERYTHING that you do with a product. #### Cons glitches that come occasionally with updates. --- ### Outstanding support - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Viviane N. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Sporting Goods - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: March 2021 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered Great experience. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Amber is easy to use on a daily operations. The best thing is without a doubt the support I have received from Amber Team, specially [SENSITIVE CONTENT HIDDEN] himself. Always professional, supportive, willing to listen to any issues and help solve them. #### Cons The system is local server base and and not cloud, which required higher cost on IT services and hardware maintenance. #### Reasons for choosing AmberPOS Local company #### Reasons for switching to AmberPOS Sadly, our needs have expanded needing and we were unable to stay with Amber : ( --- ### Works - Overall rating: 3/5 - Reviewer: Judy S. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Retail - Company size: Self-Employed - Product usage: Used daily for less than 2 years - Reviewed: June 2017 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 3/5 - Value for money: 1/5 - Customer support: 1/5 - Functionality: 3/5 #### Pros Everything is there and many reports Scans products and works well with the credit processing Can preform queries on data #### Cons only had a few credit processing to use that would work with the system Ability to scan DL to get age verification still haven't been able to figure this out. When it scans, you get the driver's license number, not the birth date. very costly better off to purchase the software as the support they refer you to the online manual anyway. Once into your second year, your system will be paid for. make sure your data is the way they load into the system or you could be in big trouble with inventories not right. --- ### We have been very happy with Amber POS - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Genevieve E. - Industry: Retail - Company size: Self-Employed - Product usage: Used unspecified for less than 6 months - Reviewed: October 2014 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 3.5/5 - Customer support: 2.5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros The reporting feature is awesome! We can provide all the relevant information our bookkeeper needs quickly and easily. Our training technician was extremely helpful and gave us a very useful orientation. We also really like the integration with a second back room computer, freeing up the POS for sales while inputting new inventory. #### Cons The software was a bit overwhelming as first. It would be ideal if there was a simplified version available for smaller businesses that could be unlocked and expanded as needed. Free technical support should be appreciated. The support subscription is expensive and the cancellation fee is disappointing. #### Vendor response Our technical support fees are some of the most affordable in the industry at just $29/m per system, which covers our customers for unlimited technical support and includes ongoing software upgrades at no extra charge. While most software manufacturers force you to re-purchase a new version of the software every few years, our customers enjoy the benefit of getting all updates included for FREE with our support & updates subscription. Not only does this mean they don't have to incur additional major costs every few years, it also means they are always getting the most up-to-date version of our system, and their staff can always contact us for unlimited support. We do not charge a cancellation fee for the monthly support subscription. However, if a customer decides to opt-out of our monthly support and software updates program for an extended period of time, and for example if two years later they are running an older, out-of-date version of our software because of that decision, we do charge a small re-activation fee to complete all the necessary updates on their systems. However there is never any fee to cancel our support program. Replied October 2014 --- ### AmberPOS a Perfect Fit for our Complicated Business - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Laura W. - Industry: Farming - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 2 years - Reviewed: October 2017 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros AmberPOS solved our complicated retail business's problems. We sell live animals as well as merchandise, both online and at our brick and mortar. Only AmberPOS could handle our complicated inventory needs and reporting, along with the usual POS issues. Hands down the absolute best customer support we could ask for! #### Cons AmberPOS is complex so its interface is a bit complicated. After training and daily use we were able to get comfortable with AmberPOS and use it to its full potential. --- ### AmerPOS - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Irvin Z. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Retail - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 6 months - Reviewed: September 2022 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered None, anymore. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 3/5 - Value for money: 3/5 - Customer support: 1/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros The Rental Program, which QBPOS does not offer. #### Cons The software was decent, but almost no support. #### Reasons for choosing AmberPOS Ease of use. #### Reasons for switching to AmberPOS Rental Program & Better Inventory Management. --- ### The Best POS I have ever used - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Betty S. - Industry: Arts and Crafts - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: January 2018 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Easy to use, adjust inventory, The support staff is just wonderful. I have never waiting more than 45 minutes for a call back. Prompt and professional. The set up was easy and all updates have been without a hitch. Love working with them and this product ## More reviews [Next reviews](https://www.softwareadvice.com/retail/pacific-amber-technologies-amberpos-profile/reviews/?page=2) --- AmberPOS Reviews, Pros and Cons - 2026 Software Advice