Retail Express

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Overview

About Retail Express

Retail Express is a powerful cloud-based retail POS software solution. Built with advanced, enterprise-level integrations and features at a competitive price, it’s ideal for single-store, multi-store (1 – 100+) and enterprise retailers. Since launching in 2004, Retail Express has helped thousands of Australian and New Zealand retailers integrate their bricks and clicks, eliminate manual processes, increase productivity and profits, reach new customers, dramatically enhance the customer experience and rapidly grow their business. Various retail industries choose Retail Express, including furniture, fashion, footwear, pet stores, homewares, sports and outdoors, nutrition, discount variety, toys and hobbies, rural supplies and workwear. Retail Express POS Software: Retail Express is packed with smart algorithmic inventory management features. These features allow retailers to automate stock replenishment, use a Google-like predictive product search and track live inventory levels. Retail Express has powerful supply chain and fulfilment features — built to help even the most complex businesses. These features allow retailers to set up split and partial fulfilments, make special...

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Retail Express Features

Features of Retail Express
Alerts/Notifications
Barcode/Ticket Scanning
Forecasting
Inventory Control
Kitting
Multi-Channel Management
Order Management
Reporting/Analytics
Search/Filter
Shipping Management

Retail Express Integrations

Adobe Commerce logo
Adobe Commerce
Mailchimp logo
Mailchimp
Phocas logo
Phocas
WooCommerce logo
WooCommerce
Shopify logo
Shopify
Tanda logo
Tanda

Customer Reviews

See why people love Retail Express

5 Star
40%
4 Star
30%
3 Star
10%
2 Star
10%
1 Star
10%

Brad B.

Verified User

Retail · 11-50 employees

Used daily for less than 6 months
Dec 22, 2025

Retail Express Implementation for a Small Multi Sectioned Retail Business

The Overall Experience has been great very easy to transition . The On-boarding Program for Training was Great and the Access to Resources Fantastic. The Implementation Manager and other Points of Contact were all great to deal with.

What they liked
  • Modern Cloud based system that has all the Reporting Requirements needed but all the Functionality of a Modern System in a Age of Technology Advancement
  • It seems as though it has been designed for this Purpose not the " that's something we are going to develop in the Future attitude" that other Systems seem to have
Room for improvement

At this stage I believe it is still the Honeymoon Period so just " Training Training Training" to get the Most out what we can Do with Retail Express

Switched From

The Server and POS Systems we were using were very powerful and great for reporting . But was very dated and had no cloud based functionality and there was no bridge to be able to set up an online presence.

Why they chose it

"Seems like Retail Express was the best option providing all the Power in Reporting and great Cloud based Functionality and Performance with a very sleek modern styling . Best Option Hands Down."

Charles J.

Verified User

Retail · 11-50 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years
Dec 22, 2025

Customer service is horrendous

Verified reviewer

What they liked

It allows you to display images of products and you can add upsell products to the POS screen

Room for improvement
  • Too many clicks to go through a sale but far more than anything else the customer service is horrendous
  • We have had an issue with our two outlets generating wildly incorrect inventory stock value figures
  • It has been looked at by a support rep from Maropost for months now and despite continually being told the developers will look at it soon, we still have no result
  • This means we do not know what stock value we hold in our retail stores
Switched From

Our retail store manager wasn't happy with Vend. In hindsight, we wish we had never switched.

Why they chose it

"Because it was purchased by Maropost, who we use for our ecommerce store. Terrible mistake."

Stuart M.

Verified User

Retail · 11-50 employees

Used monthly for less than 6 months
Dec 22, 2025

Awful experience

Awful. The customer service team have shown no care for what occurred to our business and haven't called the allocated times we have arranged. There is no way to call anyone direct. They claim they have done what their contract has specified despite us having an unusable system and blame it on the integrator app they recommended. They have shown no care at the destruction this has caused to our business. Despite the system being unoperational and never used they continue to take their monthly fee.

What they liked
  • Nothing positive to report
  • We do not recommend
Room for improvement
  • Retail express made lots of promises
  • During the onboarding they recommended using a third party integrator app to allow us to have 3 variants
  • This app did an unauthorised upload that basically destroyed our website and deleted a significant number of our variants
  • They didnt help in any shape or form to rectify the issue which we are still recovering from/

Luke M.

Verified User

Retail · 2-10 employees

Used daily for less than 6 months
Dec 22, 2025

A Fantastic System for all Retailers, big and small

From the initial Sales manager, to the Implementation Manager.... all staff were fantastic, enthusiastic and more than capable of handling any questions/issues I had.

What they liked
  • The easy to use system means my staff picked it up quickly
  • The detailed Back of House reporting is a managers dream
Room for improvement
  • The only thing I've seen missing is an ability to sell an item via weight ($$/per kg), but it's minor
  • Our previous system never had this either so we're well placed to get around it
  • Would be great in the future
Switched From

MYOB was great..... in the 90's/early 00's. We needed a POS software program that was more up to date with the current technology we use. It's allowed us to have a second register again without much effort at all.

Why they chose it

"1. Staff all have retail experience.2. Your [SENSITIVE CONTENT HIDDEN] has extensive retail history.3. Easy to use program with heaps of features."

Geoff H.

Verified User

Retail · 2-10 employees

Used daily for less than 6 months
Dec 22, 2025

Excellent product with great integration across Shopify and Xero

We have found that the lead up to going Live and the learning process has been very well supported by the Implementation Team. The tutorials are extremely helpful and very comprehensive. The responses to our emails are always very informative and the telephone conferences with an Australian based expert is ideal.

What they liked

Retail Express is easy to use and integrates well across our online platform and accounting software

Room for improvement

It would be very helpful if the accounting utilised both Cash and Accrual, not just Accrual

Switched From

We decided to change to Retail Express because it offered us a range of solutions to our existing software 1. Integration with Xero 2. Integration with Shopify 3. Multiple users and not limited by licence limits

Why they chose it

"We decided to change to Retail Express because it offered us a range of solutions to our existing software 1. Integration with Xero 2. Integration with Shopify 3. Multiple users and not limited by licence limits"

Bradley H.

Verified User

Retail · 2-10 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years
May 28, 2026

Brads Review !

It took so long to setup and move from previous system. Retail Express customer support refered us to some outdated videos to try to learn. I ended up paying a 3rd party person to come to teach me how to use it.

What they liked
  • Easy to teach new staff the POS
  • It looked like it would do the job
Room for improvement
  • It is terrible at everything thats not POS Even stock managment is wrong
Switched From

Myob was removing features and no longer served it purpose. I wanted stronger POS that was easy to teach new staff.

Why they chose it

"Had to choose one so went with retail express. The marketing team is alot better than the product designers"

Melissa B.

Verified User

Retail · 11-50 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years
May 28, 2026

Feedback

Retail

What they liked
  • easy for sales staff to raise invoices
  • easy to enter new customers
  • easy to add new staff and modify existing ones
Room for improvement
  • Have to manually do the upload to Xero each day
  • Can not give customers a 7 or 14 day account
  • Receiving stock when not all products are supplied is a nightmare
  • Can not make it compulsory to put a customer PO on an invoice
  • Can still process an invoice to a customers account when on stop credit
  • Unable to set own compulsory fields when entering new stock/customers Unable to set own preferences and shortcuts unable to setup credit card surcharge to be added automatically when we select that payment method
  • we provide service as well as sales
  • Can't set up a service item - has to be done as stock
  • Pink pricing always changing/incorrect Disabled products can still be added to PO’s Comments on invoices don’t upload to xero If an invoice that is in xero has been paid cash, and it has been rounded up it wont upload Credit Notes don’t upload to xero

Debbie R.

Verified User

Retail · 2-10 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years
May 28, 2026

Allstar Batteries love Retail Express

Verified reviewer

What they liked

Retail express in our business is quite easy to use even for those that are not computer savy

Room for improvement
  • The contacting of support by email, would be the one of the few things
  • Another would be search features for customers

Melanie F.

Verified User

Computer Hardware · 2-10 employees

Used daily for less than 12 months
May 28, 2026

Great POS Cloud System

Excellent service, quick responses to queries, very helpful support. Updates are provided via overnight uploads done automatically with no downtime to your system. New update information is provided in detail via email. They respond well to customer suggestions and are constantly improving the system.

What they liked
  • The implementation of this software is fantastic
  • A team of experts is available to help you transfer your database of stock, suppliers and customers with ease
  • Retail Express has a comprehensive knowledge database including video tutorials and instructions which all staff can access
  • The software is friendly, easy to use and navigate with email and internet integration
Room for improvement
  • Special customer orders are tricky to handle
  • We are yet to understand how to order/manage customer orders and are currently doing this through the lay by option which is difficult unless you have one staff member managing this are (IE: you can over order stock)
  • Back orders are a little cumbersome but can be adapted to suit your business needs
  • Overall though the positives of this system outweigh the small negatives

Stuart L.

Verified User

Apparel & Fashion · 2-10 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years
May 28, 2026

Life Changing

Verified reviewer

What they liked

Ease of use, Inventory management, POS layout, Back end reports, Integration with 3rd party accounting systems

Room for improvement
  • Client order history is available but could be easier to get too and under stand
  • The product will give you back exactly what you put into it so do your preparation well

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