Point Purchasing vs RetailScan
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Point Purchasing
Scan incoming packages, capture shipping labels, and submit receipt notifications directly to your business's instance. Streamline your logistics and ensure accurate tracking of all deliveries.
- Scan incoming packages
- Capture shipping labels
- Submit package receipt notifications
- Integrates with Point Purchasing instance
- Streamline logistics
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Point Purchasing™ mobile application for scanning incoming packages, capturing shipping labels, and submitting package receipt notifications to your Point Purchasing™ application instance.
RetailScan
Streamline retail deliveries with this mobile app. It facilitates efficient scanning of goods, ensuring accurate inventory management and delivery confirmation. Designed for professionals in the retail logistics sector.
- Retail delivery scanning
- Inventory management
- Delivery confirmation
- Mobile scanning solution
- Logistics efficiency
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Mobile application used for retail delivery scanning
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Point Purchasing at 5.0 against RetailScan's 2.5. Point Purchasing also leads on iOS requirement (10.0 vs 14.0). RetailScan's advantage is update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 20 months) and ratings volume (13 vs 2). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Point Purchasing holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: RetailScan has 13 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Point Purchasing ships an update every 20 months, RetailScan every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on June 1, 2026 and August 29, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Point Purchasing | RetailScan |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better | 2.5 (13 ratings) |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 13 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 20 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 10.0 — better | 14.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 13 MB | 98 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Point Systems, Inc. | The Descartes Systems Group |
Customer experience
Point Purchasing
RetailScan
In-app purchases
Point Purchasing
No in-app purchases
RetailScan
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Point Purchasing free?
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