Moving from Lightspeed to CirclePOS – A Review

Moving from Lightspeed to CirclePOS – A Review

May 29, 2025By Claire van den BroekBookstore Interviews, News Articles, Reviews

Huxley and Hiro is an independent bookstore in Wilmington, Delaware. Named after the owners’ Maine Coon cat Huxley and Shiba Inu dog Hiro.
The move to CirclePOS came after using a modified version of Lightspeed for some time. There were quite a few reasons for our move: Lightspeed is similar to Square: fantastic interface, easy to learn, etc but not intended for books and therefore cannot pull information by ISBN for example. We were wasting massive amounts of time modifying spreadsheets from Edelweiss, trying to get as much data as possible, and if a price increased over time (happening a lot now with inflation), the system wouldn’t know.

Bookstore Inventory Software & Organic Traffic

Bookstore Inventory Software & Organic Traffic

June 30, 2022By Warwick SchafferNews Articles

Driving Organic Traffic to your Online Bookstore with Bookstore Inventory Software With ecommerce firmly on the rise, it’s more important than ever to have a reliable bookstore inventory software to handle the increased number of people preferring online shopping over going out to a physical store for their requirements. Consumer requirements and shopping behaviour are influenced … Read More