Find your fit
Who it is for
The product targets craft, boutique and outdoor stores. Startup covers a native POS/website connection and basic purchasing; Core adds multi-location and specialty workflows; Plus adds serialized items, work orders and marketing functions. A retailer should choose based on its actual product types and store operations, not the longest feature list.
The work it supports
Core capabilities
At the register, Rain can sell stock by the yard or meter, which matters for fabric and similar materials. Core's styles and options address products such as apparel with several sizes or colors. Test a fractional sale and a variant return to see how quantity, tax and receipt lines behave.
Rain describes the POS and its website as one system: ringing up a store sale reduces the quantity available online. Startup lists native website integration and ecommerce order fulfillment. For a pilot, sell the last unit in-store while an online order is being placed, and check inventory timing, pickup/shipping and what staff can do when a conflict occurs.
The purchasing workflow separates a vendor purchase order from receiving orders. One PO can lead to several receipts as shipments arrive, while a receiving order can also start without a Rain PO. That distinction helps keep ordered quantities separate from stock physically received; reconcile a partial delivery before updating availability.
Inventory records can carry quantity, cost and location. Before migration, agree on product IDs, units and store locations. Rain's launch guide warns that its final quantity sync uses matching titles and product codes, so a small test import and count is a practical safeguard; confirm that the current onboarding process still works this way.
The register guidance covers transaction-linked refunds, exchanges and voids. Rain also describes integrated payment processing versus recording a card payment taken through an outside gateway. Test both the sale and reversal path for the processor you intend to use; external card refunds may require a separate step.
Basic reports are listed in Startup and custom reports in Plus. Identify a few required daily views—sales by product, stock received versus on hand, and payment reconciliation—and verify whether the selected tier can export them in the format the accountant needs.
Understand the offer
Pricing and getting started
The pricing page displays Startup at $99 per month on an annual basis. Core and Plus show contact-led pricing rather than usable public amounts. The captured page does not clearly state currency, full annual commitment or hardware and processing charges, so obtain a written quote for the exact location, register and payment setup.
Startup's listed inclusions include native POS/website integration, ecommerce fulfillment, basic purchasing and reporting, plus unlimited users/products and phone/email support. Core adds multi-location, styles/options, consignment, classes and rentals. Plus adds serialized stock, work orders, marketing and Shopify; confirm module rights and onboarding charges before signing.
Look a little closer
Before you choose
For a controlled evaluation, load a few fabric and variant products, sell a fractional quantity, receive part of a purchase order, place one website order and process a return. Compare the register, inventory and website after each step. Test with the intended card processor because integrated and external payments have different reversal procedures.
If Shopify is essential, ask for a live connector demonstration and a written description of fees and sync direction. The current pricing page lists Shopify in Plus, but an older official help article calls it beta and an add-on, and describes limits for fractional yardage and post-setup product edits. Verify today's behavior rather than assuming the older documentation or the plan grid is complete.
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