Letter to the Editor: Retailers Should Have Freedom to Choose

Letter to The Editor

To the Editor, I own Tower Systems, a local Aussie software company serving several hundred bike retailers with locally made and supported software. I was disappointed to discover that Specialized has advised retailers that the new version of their electronic invoice platform will only link with the Lightspeed and Vend software products. Lightspeed recently bought…

Two Bike Shop Related Software Businesses Recently Acquired

Point of sale company Vend has recently been acquired by a competitor in this marketplace, Lightspeed.  We recently posted a company feature about Vend which you can read here. The Auckland-based independent company has an office in Melbourne and a significant user base of bike shops in both Australia and New Zealand.  Lightspeed is also well…

Here’s a Great Way to Gain a Competitive Advantage for your Store

– Sponsored Content – Many leading bicycle retailers have been running a computerised POS (point of sale system) for years. But until now it’s been very problematic to integrate this with a workshop management system, all hosted in the cloud. Covid has made workshops busier and more important to bicycle retailers than ever before. So…