SimpleConsign Overview
What is SimpleConsign?
SimpleConsign is a cloud-based management system for consignment stores, which includes a point of sale (POS) system, consignor access portal, and inventory management, credit card processing, customer history tracking, eCommerce integration, and consignor management capabilities.
SimpleConsign’s POS can process sales, purchases, and consignments in a single transaction, as well as supporting voids, returns, partial payments, and credit card processing for online purchases, and the ability to apply discounts to single items or whole transactions. Items can be searched for by name, ISBN, SKU, or entered manually at time of sale, and transactions can be saved and resumed later on. The system also allows users to put items on layaway, with the option to set minimum down payments and layaway expiry dates, which are tracked by SimpleConsign.
SimpleConsign allows users to manage consignors in a single screen, with inventories, account activity, payout histories, and account balances all presented in one view. Consignors can be paid individually or in batches, with QuickBooks integration allowing for check payments to consignors. Donated items can also be marked directly from the consignor view. Items can be added to consignor inventories individually or in batches, with drop-down menus for entering brands, colors, and sizes. Consignor inventories and store inventories can be tracked separately, and searched using keywords including item names, brands, categories, and colors.
SimpleConsign offers a consignor portal, through which consignors can access their accounts in real time, and view their recent items, expiring items, donations, and returned items. Users can create and store multiple contracts and assign different contracts to consignors, who can view and print these through the portal. Users can customize the consignor portal with their own logo and URL, and can also charge a monthly fee to consignors for portal access.
SimpleConsign Overview
Pricing
Pricing options
15-day free trial, no credit card required.
SimpleConsign Basic: $129 per location per month
SimpleConsign Standard: $179 per location per month
SimpleConsign Professional: $279 per location per month
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SimpleConsign Reviews
SimpleConsign Reviews
Early Adopter Here
We've been very pleased with everything about this software. Most importantly (in my book) their customer service is VERY responsive and extremely helpful. Considering how much our operations rely upon their interface, any downtime would be catastrophic. The handful of times that we have had issues, they really have dropped everything to work with us to get it resolved in short order. That means pretty much everything for our store.
Simple Consign has all the core elements we need to power our new business.
Excellent Product
Excellent. We moved from a Google Sheets entry system to Simple Consign and it has made our lives much easier.
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Pros
The software is very intuitive. We switched our software over from a piece-built Access system back in 2013, and there was a learning curve for staff, but it went very smoothly. For a high-volume consignment based store with over 7,000 consignors, I can't imagine using anything else. Additionally, being cloud-based means that when we have technological complications on one computer, we still have functionality.
Cons
There have been a few tweaks and customization changes that we have requested from the company that either haven't happened or have taken a long time to implement. Please understand, this is a minor issue, and they have become a very large company so we don't expect special treatment. The fact that this is the thing I like "least" is more testament to how great the bulk of our experience has been.
Response from Traxia
Thanks so much Eric. What a terrific review! We really appreciate you taking the time. We tweak and make changes to the system based on the number of requests we receive for a particular feature. We truly want SimpleConsign to be a customer-driven system. Believe me, we're listening to all of your suggestions. Thanks again.
Easy to Use and I know where I stand daily!
So, So glad I switched!
Pros
My store does consign and new product and simple consign handles it all! I used a different product for a number of years and keeping track of my new items was a nightmare. I love how easy Simple Consign is to keep track of all of our new inventory and to make changes. The History portion is very helpful. Simple Consign has easy integration with my online store. The fact that Simple Consign gives you a daily record of your COGS without having to pull multiple reports is one of its best features. It is so easy that I was able to get rid of my bookkeeper who waded through multiple reports on my previous software. The consignment process is easy and straightforward to use. We have always had quick and friendly technical support, even with our stupid questions. Highly recommend this software particularly if you choose to carry some new product.
Cons
I would love it the POS system integrated with your choice of a credit card company. Reports can be a challenging to figure out at first.
Response from Traxia
Thanks Michelle! We are continually looking at new processors to fit our customers needs. Thank you so much for being a great partner, and we look forward to many more years of success!
Simple Consign has all the core elements we need to power our new business.
Pros
We are a combination of consignment, resale and retail. I love that SimpleConsign supports all of these types in both POS and overall inventory management. It is also fairly easy to train our new staff on POS components of the system. Also I'm very happy with the level of customer support from the Traxia team.
Cons
Because I have a software design and development background, I am perhaps more critical than most. I find many of the workflows very clunky and some of the interfaces do not follow UX best practices -- resulting in user errors that shouldn't happen. It doesn't feel like user-centered design.
Many times when I'm trying to figure out how to get the system to support the tasks I want to do, I long for a peek at your schema and object model. The data relationships aren't always clear and results are often not what I would expect.
I would love for the software to work better with and on multiple devices.
Excellent Product
Excellent. We moved from a Google Sheets entry system to Simple Consign and it has made our lives much easier.
Pros
Easy to install and set up. Lots of flexibility in use. Keeps track of hundreds of consignors and thousands of products
Cons
Limited search options - i.e. in layaway. No fuzzy logic - for example, if a product name is misspelled, the program will not find it.
Love it but not the price hike
Pros
The customer service is fantastic. Any trouble I’ve had, which is rare, is immediately solved. They’ve also helped me a great deal just with setup and occasionally with reports I’d like to run.
Cons
It’s pricey. I was fine with the original
Price of $199 but it jumped to $279 a month. Not much you can do about that after your whole business is setup and that’s a pretty big hike.
Response from Traxia
Hello Molly! Thank you for your honest review, it is our goal to continually improve our core software, and our shopify plugin, so that every user feels that our software is a great value.
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SimpleConsign Pricing
SimpleConsign Pricing
15-day free trial, no credit card required.
SimpleConsign Basic: $129 per location per month
SimpleConsign Standard: $179 per location per month
SimpleConsign Professional: $279 per location per month
15-day free trial, no credit card required.
SimpleConsign Basic: $129 per location per month
SimpleConsign Standard: $179 per location per month
SimpleConsign Professional: $279 per location per month
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SimpleConsign Features
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Additional information for SimpleConsign
Additional information for SimpleConsign
Key features of SimpleConsign
- API for eCommerce integration
- Automatic data backups
- Consignor access portal
- Consignor management
- Contract management
- Custom URL
- Customer Notes
- Customer buying habit tracking
- Dealer Remote Item Entry
- Discount management
- Individual and batch consignor payments
- Individual and batch inventory entry
- Integrated credit card processing
- Inventory keyword search
- Inventory management
- Layaways
- Multi-location support
- Open API available in our Standard and Professional Plans
- Point of sale (POS) system
- QuickBooks integration
- Reward points system
- Saved transactions
- Stores customer transactions
- eCommerce Options
Benefits
The point of sale allows users to buy, sell, and consign items in a single transaction, with options for split payments, voids, returns, and single item or whole transaction discounts.
View consignor account balances, payout histories, inventories, and account activity in a single screen, with the ability to add inventory items and pay consignors individually or in batches.
Inventories can be searched using name, brand, category, color, and other keywords, with the ability to track store and consignment inventories separately.
Track and store customer transactions, including customer names, email addresses, mailing addresses, and any notes or special instructions.
Items can be put on layaway, with the option to set minimum down payment percentages and standard layaway lengths, with SimpleConsign tracking expiration dates.
Loyalty system offers reward points based on dollars spent, with the ability to specify reward tiers.
Consignor credit and store credit can be used across multiple store locations.
SimpleConsign FAQs
SimpleConsign FAQs
Below are some frequently asked questions for SimpleConsign.
Q. What type of pricing plans does SimpleConsign offer?
SimpleConsign offers the following pricing plans:
Starting from: US$129.00/month
Pricing model: Subscription
Free Trial: Available
15-day free trial, no credit card required. SimpleConsign Basic: $129 per location per month SimpleConsign Standard: $179 per location per month SimpleConsign Professional: $279 per location per month
Q. What are the main features of SimpleConsign?
SimpleConsign offers the following features:
- API for eCommerce integration
- Automatic data backups
- Consignor access portal
- Consignor management
- Contract management
- Custom URL
- Customer Notes
- Customer buying habit tracking
- Dealer Remote Item Entry
- Discount management
- Individual and batch consignor payments
- Individual and batch inventory entry
- Integrated credit card processing
- Inventory keyword search
- Inventory management
- Layaways
- Multi-location support
- Open API available in our Standard and Professional Plans
- Point of sale (POS) system
- QuickBooks integration
- Reward points system
- Saved transactions
- Stores customer transactions
- eCommerce Options
Q. Who are the typical users of SimpleConsign?
SimpleConsign has the following typical customers:
Small Business, Non Profit, Mid Size Business
Q. What languages does SimpleConsign support?
SimpleConsign supports the following languages:
English
Q. Does SimpleConsign support mobile devices?
We do not have any information about what devices SimpleConsign supports
Q. What other apps does SimpleConsign integrate with?
SimpleConsign integrates with the following applications:
QuickBooks Online Advanced, Shopify
Q. What level of support does SimpleConsign offer?
SimpleConsign offers the following support options:
Online Support, Phone Support, Video Tutorials, FAQs, Forum, Knowledge Base
We've been very pleased with everything about this software. Most importantly (in my book) their customer service is VERY responsive and extremely helpful. Considering how much our operations rely upon their interface, any downtime would be catastrophic. The handful of times that we have had issues, they really have dropped everything to work with us to get it resolved in short order. That means pretty much everything for our store.