Poynt Review

ZERO STARS, DONT KNOW WALK, RUN AWAY FROM THIS ONE. I was warned...and ignored all the bad reviews and do I ever regret it! Takes 3 days for a call back if they even decide to call back at all. Thing constantly freezes/crashes while doing any small task and the worst part is I can’t even get ahold of anybody to return the bloody thing now. Please please please do yourself a favor, move on to another system. If this is the review that changes your mind...you're welcome Ps. I’ve never written a review on any product in my entire life but felt a public duty to warn people about this piece of junk.

We thought this would solve all our problems. How wrong was I. This device is glitchy and has has a mind of its own. I double charges people sometimes and other times it completely freezes. Contacting my CC vendor that sent this device to me for a return.

Can I say I am sorry for anyone that hasn't enjoyed using the Poynt. I am an agent for a large processor and I absolutely love giving my clients this terminal. Thats right I buy the terminal for my clients with my earnings because I believe in this product so much. I agree that Poynt Customer Service they could be much better but I have a good team of tech support and my own Poynt expertise to solve most issues in about 5-10minutes remotely. As a business owner you should know what your getting. This is a credit card terminal anyone else trying to sell you this as a POS is dead wrong. Yes it can work as a POS but the functions are light and some business need just that. I love the reporting for CC it gives the office people real time data that I haven't seen before and the reporting makes it easy for companies that feel tied in with their POS to break free without losing the reports they receive with there POS. Overall, I think this system is perfect for businesses as a credit card terminal.

I don't think anyone at Poynt has ever had any experience working in a real business, restaurant, bar or cafe. I have spent THOUSANDS on these devices and they don't work. They crash while charing cards. They load slow as molasses. They are so slow you wonder if something is wrong with them, and then they suddenly crash. I have had customers get multiple pending charges on their credit cards and I'm worried they may never come back to me. Thanks Poynt! Now as for this review. First of all, NONE of their own software works. Imagine buying a car and it comes with half a steering wheel. Then the car company says, "Sorry, you have to go out and pay HUNDREDS of dollars per month to rent the other half of the steering wheel from someone else to make it work!" This is the Poynt business model. Want to do something simple like the ability to manage multiple customers' orders at the same time? Forget about it. Want to discount something 100%? Forget about it. What to get support? Forget about it. Want to return this POS after realizing you've been duped? Forget about it! I have spent hours on the phone trying to get help and Poynt support is nonexistent. At this point my only hope is that someone out there will come around and make some software for these devices that actually WORKS and can help my business do SIMPLE things. I will gladly pay monthly for it. But as it is, STAY AWAY FROM POYNT. I really wish I wasn't trapped in Poynt hell. I hope you don't get trapped.

These terminals stop working like once a week. we've never had this many issues with terminals until we got Poynt. Its thousands of dollars to use them but they dont even function and when you try to call them nobody answers. Do not buy unless you want your terminal to go down weekly. Huge inconvenience

Does not work well as a basic cash register. Does not provide amount of cash to return to customer after hitting amount received. Employee has to do the math for cash due customer. A cheap $99 register from Staples does that. When I contacted Poynt they couldn't figure out the problem so the replaced my 2 terminals. Issue still exists and Poynt now says I need to go to transactions to find amt. due customer. What a pile of BS. DO NOT ENTER INTO AN AGREEMENT OR CONSIDER THIS TERMINAL AS A REPLACEMENT FOR A CASH REGISTER. May now need to contact my attorney to void to contract.

This review is based upon owning two Poynt Terminals for 11 months... we've spent hours and hours on trying to get them functioning in our business. If it's not the registers stop working it's the forced updated changing the interface for the worse. Customer service is non existent - it's a message to a bottomless void and even when there is a response it has no value. Don't be blinded by the cool shiny design and empty promises, unless you like wasting your money!

The POYNT system has design and function flaws. The biggest frustration is that the customer service people do not know what they are talking about. They give the wrong answers to questions. We have had to figure things out ourselves, and we have spent hours in frustration. We still have many unanswered questions that they cannot answer. The people selling this device do not know a single thing about how to set it up and use it.

Very upset that suddenly, without notice, they don't deposit my CC transactions on Friday at all until Monday afternoon! They say they are having issues and that has last 3 weeks. About to search for a new company.

I used Poynt for about three weeks through Mindbody software. This is what Mindbody decided to partner with for our new chip readers. The issue is, the reporting is separate than the pos reports through Mindbody. It would not let me do a manual batch on the Poynt because of Mindbody, so the batch is a separate batch and takes longer to hit your bank account, as well as makes bookkeeping harder. The worst and final straw was the day it charged a client, then the following day it charged the same client again, but a random different amount. Also we checked out a client, she paid, and it shows that she never paid on our end, even though days later she was charged when her card settled, yet we never received the money. This machine was also notorious for telling people to reswipe, yet every time they looked at their bank account every swipe was a pending charge which freaks the customer out. The design is sleek and there were things I liked which is why I gave it two stars however it has too many bugs when handling money, and beyond all that is its main purpose.

I ordered my Poynt terminal from MINDBODY, my business software provider. It works really well at my front desk and looks great. I would recommend it to other salon owners

What a steaming pile. You would think it would at least do the same job as a traditional machine but better? Nope. It has tons of bells and whistles but can't do very basic tasks. I got mine today and spent four hours back and forth on the phone conference calling with tech support and my Elavon salesman and I still can't use it for my very basic needs. Run, don't walk, away from this product.

I have a mobile business. I have had the system, which I bought through Costco, for 4 months. I have had zero problems, it processes credit cards in seconds through a mobile hotspot. My only small complaint is that the catalog buttons in the register get jumbled sometimes, we enter everything by size and color and the buttons sometimes get out of order and I have to log back in and organize them.

My local Thai place has this device and I was pleasantly surprised at how small and sleek the device was, but more importantly-- how fast! Working for a processor, I notice these things especially.

The product had potential, it looked beautiful, but as soon as it arrived in the office it wouldn't print receipts. Lots of bugs in the software. I have had to do 5 hard restarts on the phone with product support today, and it's only the first day. I have a lot of buyer's remorse. I have spent hours on hold, we have tried every troubleshooting attempt, but Poynt has decided that even though the terminal is not working the problem is mine. They will not replace this unit. They say everything looks good on their side so the broken terminal is my issue. I bought it today from them!!!!! It wont print receipts or process credit cards consistently and Poynt says too bad. DO NOT BUY!!!! BAD COMPANY.

There are already problems with my terminal, and I have only had it for less than a month. When I called customer service, not only were they no help, they also gave a phone number that when I tried calling, no one answer. It was my biggest mistake to spend so much money on this useless device. If you are considering getting this, I would definitely not recommend this company.

I started using the brand about a month ago and all of a sudden it wouldn't accept my customers' cards saying it's invalid or it's declined. I called the company, waited two hours to actually get some help, which didn't even help me. They did not know what was going on with the machine. So they gave me a number to call, I called them but they didn't pick up. Its only been a month, no, less than a month, the machine should still be working. They do not want to give me a refund or even try to see what the problem. This is a waste of your money, do not get it! If I could give it a zero starred rating, I would.

First issue, if you have any connection issues (which happen all the time), your POYNT terminal will not function properly and slow down the checkout process for customers. There is no option for programming the POYNT POS terminal for unit pricing, only items. They recommend using their partner app Ehopper, which is TERRIBLE and charges for a service that should not be out of beta testing, in my opinion. You cannot discount an order ticket 100%, again they recommend their terrible partner app Ehopper. These are basic POS functions, POYNT needs to be developed further before its release to the market place. Do not waste your money on this POS! There are so many better options out there on the market right now.

I have spent at lest 10-15 hours watching videos, calling and emailing for how-tos for my retail store set up. After watching the web ex and speaking to 2 different sales reps through Costco I felt assured that they understood my exact needs. Unfortunately for me they did not. Kudos to their customer service for always being very polite and professional and working hard to try and find a resolution. I am still not sure this product is the best for my business but I still would recommend it.

Not recommended. Service is really bad!! I tried to call 3 times for 10-15 min and always put me on hold, after I wait so much they just hang up the phone.