Compare pet store point of sale software

A general POS tracks SKUs, price, and quantity. A pet store POS runs the workflows that actually drive repeat traffic: Astro Loyalty for manufacturer rebates, grooming and training scheduling, vaccination records for boarding and daycare, and vendor-catalog sync so you're not re-keying 800 SKUs every time a distributor changes pricing.

Clover and Square can take the payment. They can't run any of that.

Not natively.

Astro Loyalty is the dominant manufacturer's rewards program in independent pet retail, but Clover, Square, and Lightspeed don't integrate it directly.

eTailPet runs Astro inside the POS — enrollment, point tracking, and rebate redemptions in one place. On systems without it, you either run Astro as a separate manual process or leave the rebates on the table.

It depends. Square and Clover advertise low monthly fees ($0–$165/mo), but hardware, third-party grooming and loyalty apps, and processing rates stack up fast. Lightspeed Retail starts at around $89/mo (closer to $109 billed monthly) and increases with integrations.

eTailPet is priced to your setup — the Build and Price tool gives you your number.

Usually a few weeks to go live.

The variable is data migration—pulling inventory, customer records, and loyalty history from your old system. Before you sign, ask any vendor exactly which transfers (products, pricing, customer data, loyalty history, vendor catalog) you'll have to re-enter by hand.