What is there to compare? Any program will get the job done and the cost difference is nothing short of huge! The elephant in the room is whether to pay forever for software or pay once. That's it!
The first thing you might consider doing when looking into pawn-shop software is to cross off your list every vendor who refuses to post prices on his website and insists on a phone call to simply answer "How much does it cost?". The reason is obvious: to engage you in a high-pressure sales conversation pushing you into paying forever for software. Good for 'them' - You? Not so much...
Secondly, if you abhor endless payments to a software vendor for the use of his software, then the second group of vendors to cross off your list are those offering 'web-based' programs. There is no ownership and the software will only continue to work for as long as your payments continue.
Check with your local jurisdiction and state. Some prohibit the use of web-based programs for security concerns.
The third risk is paying big bucks for a software program that is backed by one individual - usually a programmer who wrote his own program who could be gone tomorrow (along with support for his software) for any number of reasons. His disappearance would require you to purchase and learn another program and get your data converted (which often can't be done or done well because of the incompatibility between different types of databases).
Most of us want the same thing in software: a one-time payment for lifetime use and no forced annual or monthly support fees, or ongoing costs of any kind. On the other hand, it's extremely unreasonable to expect any software provider to provide software support (as opposed to customer support) for a one-off payment. If we want a software company to stick around to service our software, we should expect to pay something periodically to support the software.
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