Tools we recommend

The POS is the center. These are the tools that fit around it.

A thrift store does not need twenty subscriptions. It needs a POS, a way to reach customers, clean books, payroll that runs itself, a phone line, and a few things kept safe. Here is what we point stores to for each, what it costs, and how it connects to ThriftFlowPOS. Hardware lives on the Equipment page.

Reach your customers

Email and text campaigns, fed by what the POS already knows.

Connected to ThriftFlowPOS

Brevo

Email and text marketing in one place: templates, audiences, automatic welcome and win-back messages, and US texting on a toll-free number Brevo registers for you.

Free up to 100,000 contacts and 300 emails a day. Paid email plans from about $18 a month. Texts about a cent each.
Paste your Brevo key into ThriftFlowPOS and your customers flow in every night with store credit balance, last purchase, recent spend and whether they sell to you. Campaign results come back into the POS next to the sales that followed.

Keep the books

ThriftFlowPOS exports every closed day for QuickBooks, so your bookkeeper never retypes a register. Xero takes the same numbers as a manual journal.

Export built in

QuickBooks Online

The accounting most nonprofit and small-retail bookkeepers already know. Sales, tax, round-ups, gift cards and cash movements land as clean entries.

From about $35 a month. Payroll is an add-on.
The QuickBooks export mails your bookkeeper a file for every closed day, importable as-is.
Works alongside

Xero

A simpler, cheaper ledger if you are starting fresh and do not have a QuickBooks bookkeeper already.

From about $20 a month.
The daily sales summary loads into Xero as a manual journal. Ask us before you commit and we will walk through it with your bookkeeper.

Pay the team and the bills

Works alongside

Gusto

Payroll, tax filings and W-2s that run themselves, with the hourly and part-time patterns a thrift store actually has. Employees see their own pay stubs.

About $50 a month plus $6 per person.
Staff hours from the Check-In Kiosk sit in an attendance list you can export and paste into a pay run.
Works alongside

Melio

Pay vendors and the landlord by bank transfer or card from one screen, with approvals, instead of writing checks on a Friday.

Free for bank transfers. A fee for paying by card.
The vendor bills behind the purchase orders you raise from ThriftFlowPOS reorder signals are what you pay here.

A phone line and a locked door

Works alongside

Nextiva

A business phone number that rings on the counter phone and on the manager's cell, with voicemail to email and store hours built in. Customers get one number, staff keep their own.

From about $20 a month per line.
Put the store number on tags, receipts and the SOLD-tag pickup notices ThriftFlowPOS prints.
Works alongside

1Password

One shared vault for the register login, the payment processor portal, the bank and the Wi-Fi, so a manager leaving does not take the passwords with them.

About $20 a month for a small team.
Keep the ThriftFlowPOS admin login and your Brevo key here, never on a sticky note under the drawer.

Some links on this page are partner links. If you sign up through one, the tool may pay ThriftFlow a referral fee. It never changes what you pay, and nothing here is on the list because of a fee: we recommend what we would run in our own store.

Already using something else?

Tell us what runs your store today and we will say honestly whether it plays well with ThriftFlowPOS.

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