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- Industry: E-Learning
- Company size: Self Employed
- Used Weekly for 6-12 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Not just for your normal businesses.
Reviewed on 2020/06/09
As I mentioned before, Fivestars has enabled me to engage with my clients and their parents without...
As I mentioned before, Fivestars has enabled me to engage with my clients and their parents without having to make them spend a lot of money for other tutors and learning academies. They are able to enjoy the coupons and rewards while having the feeling that they can trust my abilities in teaching and tutoring. Fivestars has been easy to use and very important to my business.
Pros
I like being able to implement rewards for students that I work with to encourage them to keep on attending tutoring sessions while saving a significant amount of money compared to other starting prices for other private tutors. It is also an incentive for parents or students to push their kids to keep on developing their skills while supporting my own tutoring business.
Cons
There is nothing wrong with this software. I have enjoyed every feature and I am excited for new updates and ways to engage with my clients.
Alternatives Considered
CloverReasons for Switching to SumUp
I heard so many good things about Fivestars and one of the employees actually reached out to me which made me feel like I can trust this company.- Industry: Retail
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Weekly for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Easy to accept mobile payments
Reviewed on 2022/08/30
Love it! I take it with me whenever I do markets
Love it! I take it with me whenever I do markets
Pros
I love traveling with my SumUp reader knowing I will always be able to very easily make in-person sales. The card reader is very easy to use and keeps the customer flow moving very quickly.
Cons
Sometimes the reader stalls when processing a lot of quick transactions but is easy to re-start it to get it going again.
Alternatives Considered
PayPal ZettleReasons for Choosing SumUp
I found the SumUp reader easier to use and had better reviews rom my colleagues.Switched From
Square PaymentsReasons for Switching to SumUp
I had hear SumUp was easier to use - and I am glad I picked it!- Industry: Mechanical or Industrial Engineering
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Daily for 1-5 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 0.0 /10
Theft, Sumup are holding back £20,000 + of our funds for no reason without giving any reason
Reviewed on 2024/03/07
Pros
To start with they were great now Sumup are holding back £20,000 + of our funds for no reason without giving any reason
Cons
Sumup are holding back £20,000 + of our funds for no reason without giving any reason
- Industry: Staffing & Recruiting
- Company size: 1,001–5,000 Employees
- Used Daily for 1-5 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
great serice/proudct
Reviewed on 2025/01/15
great product easy to use. Even for people who are not tech savvy
great product easy to use. Even for people who are not tech savvy
Pros
great easy product to use having the app or the car reader
Cons
nothing as these is a very easy straight product to use
- Industry: Arts & Crafts
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Daily for 6-12 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
The word Excellent sums it up
Reviewed on 2024/09/05
Pros
This software is awesome. My customers love being able to tap their cards in order to make payments. The tap and go feature is extremely convenient when I am at craft fairs or outdoor vending events. No more keeping money in a pouch.
Cons
Sometimes the payments go through an additional layer of verification, which is understandable but can sometimes be a strain on a small business.

- Industry: Health, Wellness & Fitness
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used for 1-5 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 0.0 /10
Not Suitable for My Yoga Business
Reviewed on 2020/06/03
Customer support gave me a very difficult time
Customer support gave me a very difficult time
Pros
I did not like anything most—the only appeal that drew me in was the text message feature
Cons
Cumbersome — I have MINDBODY online software and it does not integrate with it directly
Reasons for Choosing SumUp
SMS featureSwitched From
PerkvilleReasons for Switching to SumUp
SMS feature—I canceled my Fivestars contract- Industry: Food & Beverages
- Company size: Self Employed
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Love SumUp
Reviewed on 2023/11/27
2+ years and still going, I plan on using SumUp for a long time.
2+ years and still going, I plan on using SumUp for a long time.
Pros
I am able to take payments cash or card.
Cons
Nothing to dislike at all. This service is great.
- Industry: Consumer Services
- Company size: 51–200 Employees
- Used Weekly for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10
Sum up for associations
Reviewed on 2024/09/14
Pros
Easy to use and setup, payment terminals are paperless and not expensive.
Cons
The terminal is good but it's really fragile
- Industry: Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10
A Great SOlution For Payment Processing
Reviewed on 2024/06/03
Pros
I like that it easily prevents fraud
It makes payment processing and invoice creation and management easy
I like the security features of SumUp
Cons
Zero bad experiences with SumUp. It is the very best.
- Industry: Food & Beverages
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Daily for 1-5 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Very good basic system, ideal for a young progressive company.
Reviewed on 2024/09/03
Very good initially but decreased when opting for further products and software.
Very good initially but decreased when opting for further products and software.
Pros
Ease of use, stable and the added bonus of a sim installed for external use.
Cons
We opted for the basic card reader and charger which functioned excellently during our early days at our busy little cafe. When attempting to opt for a POS system, we found a little resistance and limited customer service.
- Industry: Apparel & Fashion
- Company size: 51–200 Employees
- Used Daily for 1-5 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10
Great summarising software
Reviewed on 2024/11/20
Overall a great experience, let’s you do lots of checkouts
Overall a great experience, let’s you do lots of checkouts
Pros
It simplifies all the checkouts which is great
Cons
Does not work with some kind of transactions
- Industry: Automotive
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Weekly for 1-5 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Sum Up - A user-friendly solution
Reviewed on 2024/05/20
Excellent. The solution works everytime and can be operated by two people with aren't tech-savvy....
Excellent. The solution works everytime and can be operated by two people with aren't tech-savvy. Just what the business needed!
Pros
It was VERY easy to set up and the online dashboard gives you all the information you could ever need.
Cons
The online support chat function was lacking but I only had to use it once as the system as so user-friendly.
- Industry: Real Estate
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Weekly for 1-5 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
SumUp - I'll never use any other merchant!
Reviewed on 2024/11/06
SumUp has made the impossible possible. I can generate business transactions on the go, getting...
SumUp has made the impossible possible. I can generate business transactions on the go, getting full payment and peace of mind at the time of sale.
Pros
SumUp is so easy to use, you can begin to take payments immediately!
Cons
Whats not to like about something that makes yor life so much easier!!
- Industry: Management Consulting
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Weekly for 1-5 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Great Auto Marketing Partner!
Reviewed on 2023/12/01
This product is a great useful partner for my business, we deliver some of our marketing materials...
This product is a great useful partner for my business, we deliver some of our marketing materials to our loyal customers with this. It's easy, quick, and professional. Thank you FiveStars.
Pros
I use FiveStars for our business weekly and monthly newsletters, reward programs, referral programs, and survey forms to find new customers and keep our current loyal customers happy. It's so easy to do automation marketing with this product.
Cons
The product is amazing, but I still would love to see new tools in it.
- Industry: Information Technology & Services
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Weekly for 1-5 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 2.0 /10
Good software that rewards its customers
Reviewed on 2023/11/28
Pros
Loyalty programs strengthen the relationship between customers and the company, enticing customers to return to enjoy the rewards. By offering incentives, these programs encourage customers to make repeat purchases, which can contribute to sales growth. Loyalty programs allow businesses to collect data on customer purchasing preferences and habits, providing thus useful information to personalize offers better understanding customers, companies can target their marketing efforts more precisely, thus improving the effectiveness of their campaigns.
Cons
Setting up and managing a loyalty program may incur costs, particularly for issuing rewards, managing the associated technology and promoting the program.
Programs that are too complex can discourage customer participation if they find it difficult to understand the rules or keep track of their rewards. Some customers might be loyal primarily because of rewards, which can make loyalty less stable if rewards are changed or removed. In some industries, many loyalty programs coexist, which can dilute the impact of each and make differentiation more difficult.
- Industry: Food & Beverages
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Weekly for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
SumUp Does The Job
Reviewed on 2023/07/23
Pros
I like the fact that SumUp is mobile. All I have to do is download the app to a device with the internet, pair the NFC reader, and go about my business. I don't have to charge the NFC often either. It lasts for days before needing a charge, so if I forget to charge it, I'm still good to go.
Cons
There is nothing at this time that I don't like about Sumup. It does the job.
- Industry: Accounting
- Company size: 5,001–10,000 Employees
- Used Monthly for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Fivestar is great!
Reviewed on 2023/09/14
Pros
I use fivestar quite a bit when going to Once upon a child to buy gently used clothes for my kids. It is based off of a points system and occasionally get coupons to certain places on it.
Cons
I wish more business would join fivestars. I feel that we are in a society now that a lot of people like having a rewards program and it's a good business builder for smaller businesses as well.
- Industry: Arts & Crafts
- Company size: Self Employed
- Used Monthly for 1-5 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 0.0 /10
Find a different POS system
Reviewed on 2023/11/26
Bought one of these devices. When it arrived I got a message saying they needed to verify my...
Bought one of these devices. When it arrived I got a message saying they needed to verify my identity. So I sent copies of licence and.....nothing. Zip. Nada. Wrote to "customer service" and got back ... nothing, zip, nada. Don't waste your money on this
Pros
The device looks ok. Not heavy enough to be a paper weight though.
Cons
Zero customer support. Ignored all communication from me.
- Industry: Hospitality
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Monthly for Free Trial
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- Likelihood to recommend 7.0 /10
FiveStars
Reviewed on 2023/11/17
Pros
I like that Fivestars focus on environmental issues
Cons
Actually I don’t have something to complain about FiveStars

- Industry: Restaurants
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10
Daily user
Reviewed on 2023/04/28
Pros
Easy, reports are available, filters are useful
Cons
connection sometimes is not so good, but mostly no problem
- Industry: Health, Wellness & Fitness
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Good all round payment system, highly recommended
Reviewed on 2023/01/13
Very good and easy use for first time users.
Very good and easy use for first time users.
Pros
Good all round payment system, highly recommend for small/first time business owners. Also larger business owners too. Charges are inexpensive and the system is small, compact, easy to use and the battery is good and lasts me about 3 days before needing a recharge.
Cons
Not really many cons to look at unless you are paying for both this system and a booking system which also takes payment.... Then it's double charges. Other than this all good.
- Industry: Retail
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 0.0 /10
Lies and then more lies
Reviewed on 2019/02/25
Horrible
Their rep made promises and now that he is gone they will not honor anything or even...
Horrible
Their rep made promises and now that he is gone they will not honor anything or even acknowledge my issues
Pros
It is super easy to use, anyone can figure out how to use it from the front or back end
Cons
The representative who signed us up told us it was a year contract. At the end of that year we could cancel, he promised there would be no new charges after the prepaid year. He no longer works for them. Shortly before payroll was due Fivestars pulled $2400 from our account. We had no warning. I called them, they set up a phone appointment. They never showed for two of those phone appointments. I finally spoke with Silvana who told me they would refund the $2400 if and only if I signed a new contract promising to pay them monthly for the next year We did not want to continue the service, but if i didn't sign that, they would not give me the $2400 back. Even after I signed it, it took them over a week to give the money back. It has been 10 months and we received an email stating that we needed to let the know if we don't want to renew next year. We never received that email the first year, but all the same I clicked on the link to let them know there was no way we were renewing. Guess what? They set up a phone interview, you can't cancel on their website. I got the call from them today and I was able to terminate the contract for two months from now, when the 12 month contract i signed under duress expires. But then, she told me we have to mail back the two tablets. I was quite sure we paid for those becuase that's what their rep who signed us up told me. So now we were told we paid for those up front, but we have to send them back, we even have to pay for t
- Industry: Pharmaceuticals
- Company size: 5,001–10,000 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10
Payment solution
Reviewed on 2023/03/16
Liked it
Liked it
Pros
Easy to use and customer can easily understand the peocess
Cons
Improvement at customer support service feature
- Industry: Retail
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 6.0 /10
The good and the bad.
Reviewed on 2018/12/12
Pros
Fivestars is an excellent software that is easy to use and is great for rewarding current clients. You can customize the rewards you give to current clients very easily. The text out feature is also nice to get your current promotions out.
Cons
When you sign up for the program they sell you on the business matching (marketing) for people that are on the app and near your business. You can create specials that pop up when people that use the app are near by. The problem is they don't switch on business matching for you unless you sign up 20 new fivestars members a week. I operate a spa that sees a lot of repeat clients and we don't always have 20 new clients a week which makes it very hard to be able to utilize this part of the service. I think smaller businesses should know this before they pay the big price tag for the hardware and service. Or they should find a way to include smaller businesses more effectively.
- Industry: Retail
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 0.0 /10
Loyalty Program
Reviewed on 2016/10/25
I signed up with 5 stars to help with repeat traffic in my resale store. It started out pretty good...
I signed up with 5 stars to help with repeat traffic in my resale store. It started out pretty good until we needed to make changes to customers accounts. Phone numbers could not be changed by us. Customers were frustrated because some people do change numbers. They ask me to give them name and numbers to be changed and they would do it on their end. Once i gave them the numbers they said it was too many to change.
The system would go down or Freeze on several occasions and every time they would call it was hard to get through and when we did they said the would look in to it and call us back. Most of the time they would never call back.
We would type in a customers phone number and someone else name would come up. Causing confusion.
I have customers complain including my self (business owner) that could not receive emails or text messages. They said they would look in to it. I ended up giving them another email because they didn't know why.
It began to get hard for my employees to call for support because they would be on the phone a very long time for Fivestars to say the cant fix our problem but will look in to it and call back. They would not call back and we would have to start over calling.
This was suppose to help my business, but when customers can not receive the emails, text or change phone numbers, they get mad.
After 2 years of trying to make this work with them i told them i wanted to cancel my service. They ask why i told them to look at my file and see all the problems i have had that they couldn't fix. He looked and said yes he understood. A few days later i got a call from Fivestars saying they think they have fixed most of my problems and they would drop my monthly fee by about $75. At this point i told them i do not trust them and wouldn't use them if it was FREE.