Striven POS — bank compatibility

Striven POS is a point-of-sale system for retail, built by Striven. a Mitcham, Victoria company selling into Mitre 10 stores — and nothing to do with the American ERP of the same name.

Certified on Linkly, running on premise. Linkly reaches more acquirers than any other middleware in the market, which is why most POS start there.

The Linkly integration runs on premise.

Clear this up first, because it is the single most likely thing to go wrong when you research this product: there are two unrelated companies called Striven. The one accredited for Australian EFTPOS is Striven Pty Ltd, Level 1, 11 Station Street, Mitcham, Victoria. It describes itself as Australian owned and developed and carries the Australian Made logo. The other Striven is an all-in-one business platform out of Lumberton, New Jersey, developed by Miles IT (founded 1997 by Chris Miles, formerly Miles Technologies), which has nothing to do with Australia. Any review, pricing page or feature list you find for the American one is about a different product.

The Australian Striven is a retail POS for a specific trade: independent hardware, building supplies and paint. It says 15-plus years in that sector and names Mitre 10, Paint Right and Paint Spot as the banners it works with, with Atkinson Mitre 10 in WA, Barrow & Bench Mitre 10 in SA and Midstate Hardware in SA on its customers page. It integrates with Xero, MYOB and Ezidebit. Zeller's listing calls it a leading POS provider for independent hardware and paint retail, and Tyro lists the entity as Striven Software Pty Ltd.

That specialisation is the reason to look at it and the reason to be careful. Hardware retail has its own problems — trade accounts, timber in odd units, special orders, paint tinting — that a general till handles badly. But the company publishes no founding year, no founder and no owner, and we could not find an ABN or any independent coverage, so there is nothing to tell you how big or stable it is.

Striven also has Striven.