POS Variable Priced Products and Singleton | Verify Customers, while both listed under the 'Pricing' category on Shopify, address fundamentally different business needs. POS Variable Priced Products caters specifically to brick-and-mortar retailers who sell items with prices that fluctuate at the point of sale, such as florists or vintage clothing stores. Its strength lies in enabling variable pricing directly within the Shopify POS system, maintaining accurate inventory and reporting. Singleton | Verify Customers, on the other hand, focuses on access control and customer validation. It's designed for stores that need to restrict pricing and purchasing access to specific customer groups, perhaps due to wholesale pricing or exclusive product offerings. The primary difference between the apps is their core function. POS Variable Priced Products enhances the in-person sales experience by simplifying variable pricing, while Singleton | Verify Customers optimizes the online customer access and registration process. Therefore, their target audiences are distinct: one targets businesses with variable priced items at the POS and the other targets businesses needing to gate content or pricing. POS Variable Priced Products seems easier to use if variable pricing is the need since it simply builds that functionality in. The value proposition of POS Variable Priced Products centers around efficient and accurate variable pricing, while Singleton’s focuses on customer validation and controlled access.
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Enable variable priced selling by changing product prices when using POS
Verify all registered customers and allow or disallow them to see prices and "add to cart" buttons
| Rating | 4.9/5 | 5/5 |
Rating POS Variable Priced Products4.9/5 Singleton | Verify Customers5/5 | ||
| Reviews | 16 | 78 |
Reviews POS Variable Priced Products16 Singleton | Verify Customers78 | ||
| Core Function | Variable Pricing at POS | Customer Verification and Access Control |
Core Function POS Variable Priced ProductsVariable Pricing at POS Singleton | Verify CustomersCustomer Verification and Access Control | ||
| Target Merchant | Retailers (e.g., florists, vintage stores) | Businesses needing customer validation (e.g., wholesale, exclusive products) |
Target Merchant POS Variable Priced ProductsRetailers (e.g., florists, vintage stores) Singleton | Verify CustomersBusinesses needing customer validation (e.g., wholesale, exclusive products) | ||
| Key Feature 1 | Adjust product prices at POS | Approve/decline customers |
Key Feature 1 POS Variable Priced ProductsAdjust product prices at POS Singleton | Verify CustomersApprove/decline customers | ||
| Key Feature 2 | Automatic inventory adjustment | Hide prices for unapproved customers |
Key Feature 2 POS Variable Priced ProductsAutomatic inventory adjustment Singleton | Verify CustomersHide prices for unapproved customers | ||
| Reporting | Vendor, product type, product cost (COGS) included in sales reporting | N/A |
Reporting POS Variable Priced ProductsVendor, product type, product cost (COGS) included in sales reporting Singleton | Verify CustomersN/A | ||
| Registration Form Customization | N/A | Yes, unlimited custom fields. |
Registration Form Customization POS Variable Priced ProductsN/A Singleton | Verify CustomersYes, unlimited custom fields. | ||
| Value Proposition | Efficient and accurate variable pricing at the point of sale with detailed reporting | Controlled access to products and pricing through customer validation |
Value Proposition POS Variable Priced ProductsEfficient and accurate variable pricing at the point of sale with detailed reporting Singleton | Verify CustomersControlled access to products and pricing through customer validation | ||
The choice between POS Variable Priced Products and Singleton | Verify Customers depends entirely on the merchant's specific requirements. If the primary need is to easily manage variable pricing within a physical store environment using Shopify POS and maintain accurate inventory and sales reporting, POS Variable Priced Products is the clear choice. Its feature set is designed explicitly for this use case.
Conversely, if the focus is on controlling access to pricing and products based on customer validation, such as for wholesale customers or exclusive product offerings, then Singleton | Verify Customers is the better fit. Its ability to customize registration forms and restrict access to specific customer groups provides the necessary control and validation features. In essence, if you are selling at a POS with variable pricing, choose the former; if you need to gate prices/content, choose the latter.
POS Variable Priced Products is the better choice. It is specifically designed to handle variable pricing at the point of sale, which is crucial for businesses like florists where prices fluctuate.
Singleton | Verify Customers is designed to handle wholesale pricing by allowing you to only show prices to approved customers, presumably those who are wholesalers. POS Variable Priced Products doesn't directly support wholesale pricing features.
The app description focuses solely on Shopify POS functionality. There's no indication it works with online sales, only in-person sales. If you need online variable pricing, this is likely not the app for you.
Based on the app descriptions, POS Variable Priced Products seems inherently simpler to set up and use, as it directly addresses a single, focused task. Singleton | Verify Customers, while powerful, involves more configuration due to its broader functionality of customer validation and access control.
With Singleton | Verify Customers, unapproved customers and visitors will not see product prices or "Add to cart" buttons, but will instead see a message you define. They can also be redirected to a login page.
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