CardPointe vs SimpleConsign Photo
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
CardPointe
Process and manage all major credit card payments seamlessly. Accept card-present transactions on the go, manage products, and gain insights with a live reporting dashboard. Streamline your business operations with robust transaction management and customer profiles.
- Virtual Terminal for credit card processing
- Mobile card reader for on-the-go payments
- Product catalog management
- Signature capture
- Customer profile management
- Live reporting dashboard
- Transaction management (void, refund, reprocess)
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The CardPointe app lets you process and manage payments with ease. With live transaction data at your fingertips, CardPointe will become a critical tool in running your business. Features • Virtual Terminal: Process payments for all major credit cards. • CardPointe Mobile Card Reader: Accept card-present payments on the go. • Accept Tips: Enable customers to select preset tip amounts. • Catalog: Organize and manage your products, pricing, and discounts. • Signature Capture: Allow customers to use their fingertip to sign for transactions. • Customer Profiles: Save customer profiles to run future transactions. • Reporting Dashboard: View your business data at a glance. • Transaction Management: Void, refund, reprocess, or resend receipts for existing transactions. • Notifications: Get alerts for important events, like chargebacks, refunds, and declined transactions. • Compatible Printer: Use a supported Bluetooth printer to print receipts or food orders. • Support for CardPointe Integrated Terminals: Connect to your countertop CardPointe Integrated Terminals to accept card-present payments with PCI-validated point-to-point encryption. CardPointe can also be accessed via any browser, complete with additional features including recurring billing and custom reporting.
SimpleConsign Photo
Easily capture and upload photos of consignment items, inventory, and customers directly to your cloud-based account. This tool streamlines the process for store employees and managers, allowing for efficient organization and retrieval of visual data.
- Cloud photo upload
- Item search and barcode scanning
- Batch photo capture
- Customer photo management
- Background image uploads
- Re-order item images
- Set primary customer image
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The SimpleConsign Photo app is offered exclusively for SimpleConsign customers on the Professional plan. Using the SimpleConsign Photo app makes it easy to take pictures of your consignment and inventory items, as well as pictures of your customers. Pictures already on your device can also be uploaded to items and customers. The photos are automatically saved into your Traxia SimpleConsign account on the cloud. Please note this app is for store employees and managers, and not for consignors or vendors. Features: - Photos automatically uploaded to SimpleConsign on the cloud - The Items tab lets you search for Items just like in SimpleConsign - The Items tab lets you scan barcodes to find an item quickly by SKU - The Batches tab lets you take pictures of all items in a batch - The Customers tab lets you find and take pictures to store with your customer's data - Review all photos of an item or customer - Supports taking photos for each of your Professional-level stores - Secure access using your existing SimpleConsign user credentials - Upload images taken from your device's photo storage - You can re-order inventory item images - You can choose the Primary Image for a customer - Pair your device using a QR code (available in SimpleConsign Settings) - Images upload in the background allowing you to get more done
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: SimpleConsign Photo at 5.0 against CardPointe's 2.6. SimpleConsign Photo also leads on iOS requirement (9.0 vs 15.0). CardPointe's advantage is ratings volume (31 vs 3). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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.
SimpleConsign Photo holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: CardPointe has 31 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two.
CardPointe ships an update every 5 months, SimpleConsign Photo every 6 months. The most recent releases landed on August 11, 2026 and June 1, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | CardPointe | SimpleConsign Photo |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.6 (31 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 21.2% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 31 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months — better | Every 6 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 9.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 61 MB | 31 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | CardConnect, LLC | Traxia |
Customer experience
CardPointe
SimpleConsign Photo
In-app purchases
CardPointe
No in-app purchases
SimpleConsign Photo
No in-app purchases
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