Reviews
Shopify POS
Shopify POS is best suited for omnichannel businesses that sell online and in person. Its solutions allow you to unify sales across all your channels with automatic inventory updates and lets you manage your stock, staff, products, and marketing from one place. However, entirely brick-and-mortar businesses and those in industries other than retail might be better off with an...
Toast
Toast stands out as an all-in-one, customizable, and scalable restaurant POS solution. It integrates multiple ordering options with robust inventory and supply chain management. With plans starting at /month, Toast caters to all types of restaurants and budgets, including multi-location businesses. Discover how Toast can streamline your operations and revolutionize your...
Square POS
Catering to restaurants, retail stores, and appointment-based businesses, Square POS is one of the most popular systems on the market – no doubt in part because of its generous free plan, packed with features that are normally found behind paywalls. While Square POS works for most businesses, online-first and omnichannel businesses might find more robust support elsewhere.
Sekure Payment Experts
Despite past hiccups, Sekure Payment Experts has refined its approach and now provides good support and customer service. Businesses on a budget can save with Sekure's zero-cost processing Edge program, plus it offers free equipment and same or next-day deposits at no charge. It’s worth considering, but make sure you carefully review your contract terms before signing.
Lightspeed POS
Lightspeed serves restaurant, retail, and golf businesses, standing out as a feature-rich POS solution with advanced inventory, multi-location, and omnichannel capabilities. It provides e-commerce functionality exclusively for higher-tier plans. This means brick-and-mortar businesses only pay for necessary features. Lightspeed is ideal for established businesses and those...
Swyft Filings
Swyft Filings promises to handle the paperwork for the formation of your LLC, and that’s exactly what it does. Good customer support and an excellent set of features makes Swyft Filings ideal for small business owners. Though there are some extra fees to be aware of, it offers good value for money overall.
SpotOn
SpotOn POS stands out with a POS platform highly customized for retail, restaurants, professional services, salons, and other small to medium-sized businesses. You can easily migrate from another system due to its personalized approach. Its free restaurant and affordable entry-level retail plan make it a good deal, provided you don’t need many add-ons. As for whether it beats...
Epos Now
Epos Now is one of the few POS solutions that provides flexible software compatible with many third-party hardware brands. You can also integrate any payment processor, but long-term contracts may be a drawback. While suitable for small to mid-sized retail and hospitality businesses, large or more complex organizations might find its features limiting.
Copy.ai
Thanks to its wide variety of writing tools for different use cases, Copy.ai is a robust AI writing platform ideal for businesses. It can generate sales copy, create long-form blog articles, and translate your content into multiple languages. It’s not perfect, but it’s worth trying out if you want to elevate your content in minutes.
Harbor Compliance
Though not as popular as some alternatives, Harbor Compliance is a legitimate company handling LLC formation and compliance services. It specializes in industry-specific licensing and offers comprehensive support for nonprofit formation. Combined with its compliance software, Harbor Compliance can save you a significant amount of time. However, it provides less value than our...
Blog Posts
41% of Companies Plan To Reduce Headcount by 2030 Due to AI
The World Economic Forum, an international non-governmental organization for public-private cooperation, has released the 2025 edition of The Future of Jobs Report. The report reveals key macro trends that will shape the job market in the next five years, based on data from 1,000 global companies that employ 14 million workers in 22 industries and 55 economies. According...
Meta Deletes Its AI Instagram & Facebook Profiles
Meta is shutting down the Facebook and Instagram profiles of AI characters it created over a year ago. Users recently rediscovered these bots, which spurred viral controversy. Meta introduced these AI-powered profiles in September 2023, modeling them after public figures like Kendall Jenner and MrBeast. In addition to celebrity-based bots, Meta debuted several AI...
The Biggest Social Media Trends for 2025
Hootsuite published a report on the biggest social media trends for 2025. The company behind one of the most popular social media management tools analyzed data from over 3,800 marketers across 99 countries and summarized its findings in its Social Media Trends 2025 report. The report groups these trends into three main categories: Content Experimentation, Social Listening,...
Upwork Named Top Job Posting Site for Employers for 2024
Consumer365, a trusted authority on technology and business insights, named the freelance platform Upwork the top job posting site for employers for 2024. This recognition underlines Upwork’s standing as a leading source of independent talent and highlights its significant role in today’s digital marketplace. Consumer365 evaluated Upwork based on factors like global reach,...
“Godfather of AI” Predicts Apocalypse in the Next Decades
Artificial intelligence could wipe out humanity in the coming decades, the “Godfather of AI” warns, adding that the promising technology he helped create is developing “much faster” than he expected. Professor Geoffrey Hinton, along with David Ackley and Terry Sejnowski, laid the foundation for modern AI in the 1980s. Their method recognizes properties in data and...
Italy Fines OpenAI €15 Million for Violating GDPR
The Italian Data Protection Authority, Il Garante, fined OpenAI €15 million for violating the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). This is the first major punitive action a Western country has taken against the ChatGPT maker. Il Garante opened an investigation into OpenAI in March 2023, when it banned ChatGPT amid privacy concerns. The investigation revealed that...
Fiverr’s Introduces AI-Backed Approach To Finding Freelancers
Freelance platform Fiverr introduced Dynamic Matching, an AI-powered tool that aims to improve talent sourcing for businesses that hire on Fiverr. Both businesses and freelancers can opt in to use Dynamic Matching to search for potential partners or to get discovered themselves. The tool is currently in beta for PRO users, and Fiverr expects to launch it officially in early...
Upwork: AI Is Democratizing Opportunities Across Various Fields
Between 2020 and 2023, Upwork examined thousands of job post titles on its freelance platform to understand how AI work spans different categories and transforms workflows. The research based on Upwork data shows a 268% year-over-year growth in AI-related jobs in non-technical fields like translation, marketing, and design in 2023, fueled by the launch of ChatGPT in late...
Wix Launches On-Site AI Chatbot Feature for Customer Support
SaaS website builder Wix introduced a new AI feature: AI Site-Chat, an on-site chatbot that acts as a virtual customer support agent. The AI Site-Chat is available only for Wix Editor and in English. It’s free, but users can upgrade to a Premium Plan for unlimited usage. “Our latest AI feature, the native AI Site-Chat, provides SMBs an enterprise-level tool to assist how...
Google CEO: AI Development Will Slow Down in 2025
Speaking at The New York Times’ Dealbook summit, Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai announced the next generation of AI models and said he expects AI progress to slow down in 2025 because “the low-hanging fruit is gone” and “the hill is steeper.” While he doesn’t “fully subscribe to the wall notion,” Pichai noted that the “small barriers” companies have yet to overcome...
Fiverr Launches First-Ever Nonprofit Hub
Freelance platform Fiverr launched its first nonprofit hub, Fiverr for Nonprofits. The hub offers nonprofits discounts on services, access to specialized freelance talent, and practical resources to support their growth. Data from Fiverr shows that in 2024, freelancers on the platform fulfilled 127,000 orders for 35,000 nonprofit clients. Fiverr created this hub to address...
Wix Releases Pantone Color of the Year 2025 Web Capsule
Wix Studio and Pantone released a web design asset collection themed around the Pantone Color of the Year 2025, PANTONE 17-1230 Mocha Mousse. The capsule collection featuring the warm brown hue is the first of its kind and is exclusively available to Wix Studio customers for a limited time. Laurie Pressman, Vice President of the Pantone Color Institute, describes Mocha...
ChatGPT & Other LLMs Use Deceptive Web Design Patterns
A study by computer scientists from the University of Glasgow, the Technical University of Darmstadt, and the Humboldt University of Berlin found that large language models (LLMs) tend to integrate deceptive design practices when asked to build web pages. Participants first presented themselves as web designers to ChatGPT, prompting it to generate pages for an e-commerce...
Upwork: Green Freelancers Are on the Rise
Freelance platform Upwork reports a new trend in the independent talent landscape is on the rise: green freelancing. The company noticed a skyrocketing demand for green freelance jobs. According to its data, searches for sustainability experts rose by 500% between 2019 and 2023. A Boston Consulting Group study shows that the rising number of companies incorporating ESG...
Wix Reports Third Quarter 2024 Results
SaaS website builder platform Wix reported its financial results for the third quarter of 2024. The company saw notable growth across all areas and is exiting Q3 with an optimistic outlook for 2024. Wix’s bookings reached $449.8 million in the third quarter, resulting in a 16% year-over-year (y/y) growth. The biggest growth contributors include Wix’s platform for agencies...