Open-source alternative  ·  POS Systems

Replace Lightspeed POS with UniCenta oPOS.

Self-hosted Java-based POS for retail and hospitality. Supports barcode scanning, inventory management, customer tracking, and receipt printing. No monthly fees per terminal.

You'd keep~R15 540 to ~R22 200/year

Current licence  ·  POS Systems

Lightspeed POS

~R15 540 – ~R22 200/yr

10-user estimate

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UniCenta oPOS

Self-hosted, R0 licence

You keep ~R22 200/yr

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Today's licence price

2 tiers. Lightspeed POS's prices.

Vendor-advertised pricing converted to ZAR, 10-user estimate. Pick the tier closest to what your team is on today.

Basic

R15 540/yr

R1 295/month

Per location

With UniCenta oPOS

Keep R15 540/yr

Standard

R22 200/yr

R1 850/month

Per location

With UniCenta oPOS

Keep R22 200/yr

Enterprise and negotiated pricing varies. Book a free audit for your exact number.

Five years on the books

What the spend looks like compounding.

Lightspeed POS grows around 10% per year on average. UniCenta oPOS hosting stays flat. Watch the gap open up.

R0kR10kR19kR29kR39kYear 0Year 1Year 2Year 3Year 4Year 5R35kR12k flatSalesforce (50 users, 10%/yr inflation)SuiteCRM (self-hosted, maintained)

Five-year cumulative saving

R0.10M

Salesforce alone, single tool, 50 users. Stack multiple tools and the maths compounds harder.

How this migration runs

Lightspeed POSUniCenta oPOS, in four moves.

01

Audit

Workflows, customisations, integrations, users. Mapped against the OSS feature set.

02

Plan

Migration sequence, rollback path, parallel-run schedule. You approve every step before we move.

03

Migrate

Stream the data, verify checksums, replay the audit trail. Both stacks run side by side until cutover passes every test.

04

Operate

Documentation in your repo, monitoring on your infra. We stay on as the team that maintains and grows it.

Same category

Other pos systems migrations.

Running one of these alongside? Same migration shop covers both.

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Migrate Lightspeed POS.
Keep the money.

Free audit. 30 minutes. We map your current setup, surface the real licence costs, and show you the migration in time and rand.