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Real published prices on both sides, the plan names they belong to, and the date each figure was checked. Every page says plainly where the other product is the better choice, because for some businesses it is.
Square runs the counter. The argument is about what happens after the sale.
If your business ends at the register, Square is the better buy. It publishes its card rates plainly, we found no per-user software fee anywhere on its retail pricing page, and it ships a staff time clock and shift scheduling in Square Shifts plus its own payroll at $35/mo and $6 per person paid — none of which UpChannels has. One caveat you should know before comparing bills: Square’s retail pricing page renders its subscription prices in the browser and gave us no monthly figure at all on 2026-09-14, so this page quotes none, and neither should anyone else who has not read it from Square. UpChannels Pro at $149/mo per store earns its price only when the sale is the beginning of the work: a delivery that has to be routed and signed for, a service or repair job with hours and parts against it, a lease-to-own or trade-in tender that has to be rung up as itself, and a month-end that has to produce a P&L and a balance sheet rather than a sales report. Buy Square if you sell it and they carry it out; look at us if your staff carries it out.
Read the comparisonLightspeed runs the counter. UpChannels runs what happens after the customer leaves with nothing in their hands.
If your business ends at the counter — a bike shop, a gift shop, an apparel or garden store where the customer carries it out and never sees you again — Lightspeed Retail Core at $149/mo is the stronger product, and it is not close: deeper retail inventory, a built-in online store, a wholesale catalog and reporting we do not match. UpChannels Pro is also $149/mo per store, and it is built for the other kind of shop: the one that schedules a delivery day, routes a truck, captures a signature at the door, sends a technician back out under warranty, and has to close the month afterwards. Watch the two price tags carefully, because they are not the same shape — Lightspeed prices by register and location and does not publish what a second register costs, while we price per store with two users included and charge separately for the delivery, portal, payments and bank-reconciliation add-ons.
Read the comparisonJobber runs the jobs. It does not run the stock you sell.
For a pure service business with nothing on a shelf — lawn care, cleaning, handyman, tree care — Jobber is the better fit, and cheaper for a crew: Connect is $139/mo month-to-month with five users included, against $149/mo plus $29 a seat for UpChannels Pro. Jobber’s own features page does not name inventory management, stock levels, purchase orders, barcode scanning or a retail point of sale (checked 14 September 2026), so a business that also sells goods runs the selling half somewhere else. UpChannels is the better choice for the business doing both — a furniture or liquidation dealer that delivers and repairs, an HVAC company that sells units as well as services them, a garden centre that installs — because the stock, the delivery and the books sit in the same system as the jobs. Be honest about headcount before you move: above about three people, Jobber is simply cheaper, and stays cheaper as you hire.
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