The Clover Alternative

On Clover? You're renting a pile of apps to fake a real POS.

Clover is a payments terminal with an app store bolted on — pushed by banks to land your card processing. Insight is a full-featured POS: one company, hardware and software, everything built in. No apps needed.

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34 years building retail POS  ·  Hardware & software from one company  ·  No apps needed

A Clover register crossed out with a red no symbol — the app-store POS Insight replaces

No apps needed

Clover is an app store.
Insight is a full-featured POS.

Every capability on Clover is a separate app with its own bill and its own login — and the app-community era is over: it bloats the final cost (a tobacco or c-store operator commonly pays $70 to $200+ a month in add-on apps alone, before Clover's software, processing, and hardware) and fractures the solution. Insight is one full-featured POS. Everything built in, one bill.

Don’t take our word for it — export your own Clover data and read the columns. Here’s exactly what it reveals →

Clover — an app store
Insight POS — full-featured
Scan data, loyalty, inventory, discounts — a separate paid app for each
✓All of it, built in — one system, one bill, one login.
$70–$200+ a month in add-on apps, on top of Clover's software and processing
✓No app tab. The capabilities are the product, not extras you rent.
Some apps just patch what Clover can't do — a "negative tender" to fake a payout
✓A real retail POS does payouts, deposits, and returns natively — nothing to fake.
Wait for the platform to maybe add a feature — or never (it has no invoicing)
✓We ship what operators ask for in days — and build what your store needs.
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Go see the parts.

The register, the back office, the hardware, the customer side — open any one and see what you'd be switching to.

The POS App
Watch a real sale ring — scan data, discounts, and loyalty stacking automatically at the lane.
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Cloud Back Office
Price book, reporting, EDI, inventory — the whole back office, on one login.
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The POS Workstation
The hardware we build — and you own — made to run the software as one system.
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Customers & Loyalty
Your own loyalty, invoicing, and customer records — built in, not an add-on app.
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The math, for real

One store's switch, line by line.

Here's a store that just left Clover for Insight — same store, real numbers. Cheaper every month, a lot more in the box, and the hardware is actually theirs.

On Clover
Clover software $45 / mo
Add-on apps (loyalty, multipacks) $50 / mo
Every month$95 / mo
Hardware: "free," no lease — but it’s tied to Clover’s processing, and you ship it back when you leave. It was never yours.
Still losing the scan-data rebate money, hassled by the error emails — and short a stack of features.
On Insight POS
Cloud Essentials + 1 POS lane $59 / mo
Altria scan data (automated weekly) $19 / mo
Every month$78 / mo
Hardware: $1,000 over two payments — yours to keep. The pin pad is free with Insight Payments.
Plus inventory, invoicing, loyalty, and the rest — all built in.

$17 a month cheaper, more in the box, payments matched — and the hardware is actually yours.

One store's real switch (2026). The Clover software and app figures are that store's actual bill; Insight pricing is published on our pricing page. Processing rates matched. Your numbers depend on your setup.

What Clover makes you work around

The stuff a real store runs on —
bolt-on, workaround, or missing.

Clover is built as a general payments terminal, so the functions specific to running an independent retail store are either a paid add-on, a hacky workaround, or missing entirely. Here's what operators hit — and what's simply built into Insight.

  • Invoicing & house accounts
    Clover has no real invoicing — a store that bills customers or runs charge accounts is stuck. A real gap that made Drinx leave; Clover "never would" add it. Built into Insight.
  • Payouts & negative transactions
    Clover doesn't properly support a negative/payout function — the workaround is a paid "negative tender" app that fakes it. A real retail POS just does a payout.
  • Zombie billing
    Clover bills you monthly for what you're not using — a terminal fails, you order a replacement, and they keep charging for the dead one too. With us it's one company and one honest bill.
  • Features at your speed
    Wait quarters for the platform to maybe add something — or never. We ship customer-requested features in days, and build what your store actually needs.
The switch

Drinx ran on Clover. Then they added it up.

Drinx Wine & Liquor Warehouse storefront
Drinx Wine & Liquor Warehouse — off Clover, onto Insight.

Very costly — the stacked monthly fees kept climbing. And it couldn't do invoicing, a basic need for a store that bills its customers; Clover was never going to add it. On top of that came a pile of other shortcomings. So Drinx left for one system that just does it all — hardware, software, and every capability, on one bill.

Leave the app store behind.
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One company. Hardware, software, and every capability Clover makes you rent — built in.

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