How Retavon compares
What a pool and spa dealer pays for today, vendor by vendor, beside what Retavon does in one system. Prices are the vendors' published or reported figures as of October 2026, each with its source below. Where a vendor publishes no price, the table says so.
The vendors and their prices
| Vendor | What it covers | Price | Terms to read |
|---|---|---|---|
| Retavon | Point of sale, inventory, delivery, service, outreach, the books, and each person's ChatGPT or Claude | One flat price per store per month | Month to month. Your card processor, with no markup. No sign-up fee. Full export whenever you ask. |
| Evosus LOU | Point of sale, inventory, service | $79 to $99 per seat per month; sign-up fee $1,999 or $4,999; API access $99 per month extra 1 | Evosus Legacy support ends December 31, 2029 2 |
| RB Retail and Service Solutions Retavon vs RB | Point of sale, inventory, service | Not published; $785 per user, one time, in an older directory listing 3 | Owned by Fullsteam, a payments company; RB Smart Pay bundles the software with processing and terminals 4 |
| Lightspeed Retail | Point of sale, inventory | $89 to $289 per month 5 | A monthly fee to use an outside processor; its own terminals required 6 |
| Square for Retail | Point of sale, inventory | $0 to $149 per location per month 7 | Square processing only 7 |
| Podium | Texting, reviews | $399 to $599 per month 8 | Annual contract |
| Birdeye | Texting, reviews | $299 to $449 per location per month 9 | Auto-renewing contract; onboarding per location |
| ServiceTitan | Service dispatch | $245 to $500 per technician per month, plus implementation, by quote 10 | Contract |
What to ask each of them
The questions that separate a system built for a dealer from a system sold to one, with Retavon's answer to each.
| Ask | Retavon | What to look for elsewhere |
|---|---|---|
| Can my team's ChatGPT or Claude work in it? | Yes. Each person plugs in their own, it acts with their permissions, and its work is in the audit trail. | An API at all, and whether it costs extra. Evosus charges $99 a month for API access. |
| Can I keep my card processor? | Yes. Stripe today, your processor next, and never a markup on the processor's rate. | Whether the vendor owns or resells processing, and the fee for using someone else's. |
| Is a spa a serial number or a quantity? | A serial number, from the purchase order to the backyard, then the customer's equipment for service and warranty for years. | Whether service history attaches to the unit or just the customer. |
| When does a sale count? | At hand-over. Deposits are held as deposits; revenue, tax, cost and commission date from delivery. | Whether a deposit shows as revenue the day it is taken. |
| Do the books balance? | Every sale, delivery and stock move posts its journal entry as it happens, and a built-in check proves the books agree with QuickBooks. | Whether accounting is a nightly export someone reconciles by hand. |
| Can I leave with my data? | A full export, one file per table, whenever you ask. | What an export contains, and what a migration between the vendor's own products drops. |
| What hardware do I buy? | None from us. Any computer, tablet or phone in the browser; card readers from the processor. | Terminals tied to the software, and what happens to them if you switch. |
| Can I try it with my own numbers? | A sandbox whose clock moves forward on demand: a sale, a delivery, a warranty claim and a month-end in an afternoon. | A demo led by a rep, with no trial. |
Sources
Read on October 9 and 14, 2026. A vendor's own page where it publishes a price; a directory or price survey where it does not.
- Evosus, LOU pricing: evosus.com/lou/pricing
- Evosus, "Where we stand: Evosus Legacy": evosus.com/lou/blog/where-we-stand-evosus-legacy
- Capterra listing for RB Retail and Service Solutions, the one-time per-user price: capterra.com/p/158830
- Patio and Hearth Products Report, "RB Pool and Spa offers new Smart Pay": patioandhearthproductsreport.com
- CostBench, Lightspeed Retail pricing: costbench.com
- CBC News on Lightspeed's fee for outside processors: cbc.ca/1.7010951
- NerdWallet, Square for Retail pricing: nerdwallet.com
- CostBench, Podium pricing: costbench.com
- CostBench, Birdeye pricing: costbench.com
- OneCrew, ServiceTitan pricing: getonecrew.com
A vendor that publishes a price we have wrong, or a price we have missed, can write to hello@retavon.com and the table will be corrected.
See it with your own store in mind
Retavon is in open beta for pool and spa dealers. Write to us with your store's name, how many locations you run, and the system you use today.