Switching guide
CenterEdge alternative: what switching actually involves
You already run CenterEdge, so the question isn’t what a POS does. It’s what happens to your history, what the box in the back office is for once you leave, how exposed you are on cutover day, and what CenterEdge does that Omni-Play doesn’t.
Still choosing between the two? Read the feature-by-feature comparison instead.
The cost of staying
What another year on CenterEdge costs you.
Priced per workstation
CenterEdge publishes $300 a month for one to three workstations, $550 for four to nine, and $800 for ten to fifteen. Adding a fourth register roughly doubles the bill. Omni-Play is one rate with unlimited devices.
Modules on top of that
Redemption adds $100 a month, integrations $50, and digital signage $50 — and the published rates depend on bundling CenterEdge Payments. Omni-Play has no module list to price.
The server is yours to keep running
A server-client deployment means hardware that depreciates and someone to patch, network, and update it. That cost never shows up on the subscription line, but you pay it. Omni-Play runs in a browser.
Your data
What comes across, and what you rebuild.
The converter has rebuilt a working venue’s full history straight from an Aluvii export, and the money reconciles to that export’s own grand total.
Comes across from CenterEdge
- Guest households
- A guardian, their children, and a second guardian, rebuilt as one household per family.
- Sales history
- Every transaction with its tenders, split payments, and refunds — so last year still reports.
- Membership charges
- Your membership roster and the charge history behind it.
- Parties and events
- Head counts, party dates, and the day each booking was actually taken.
- Product catalog
- Mapped name by name against your export. An unmapped name stops the run rather than guessing.
- Promo codes
- The codes you already run, with the usage they already have.
Set up fresh in Omni-Play
- Arcade redemption and cashless play
- CenterEdge Play cards, the redemption counter, and prize inventory have no Omni-Play equivalent. If your floor runs on them, read the last section first.
- Taxes and fees
- Omni-Play's own tax stack is authoritative, so you configure taxes here instead of importing them.
- Deposit and cancellation policy
- You write the rule once — forfeit, refund, or store credit — and the engine runs it on every cancel.
- Signed waivers
- Old waivers stay where they are. Guests sign an Omni-Play waiver on their next visit, or ahead of it by link.
- Cards on file
- Membership billing runs through Stripe, so each member’s card is captured again — at the desk, or by the member on their own guest page.
- Staff accounts
- Roles and permissions are built fresh. Staff get an emailed invite and set their own password.
The cutover
How long you're exposed, honestly.
The conversion runs offline against exports, so CenterEdge keeps taking payments the whole time. There is no window where neither system can ring a sale.
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Before you switch
The exports come off your own server
Your data is already in your building, so pulling it needs nobody’s permission and no vendor request. We convert it offline and reconcile the totals against the export before anyone picks a date.
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Setup
We build your venue with you
We stand up your database, load the history, connect Stripe and email, then sit with you to build the catalog, the pricing rules, and the deposit policies. Nothing gets installed on a machine in your office.
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Go-live day
The suite keeps running until you stop it
You pick the day. CenterEdge is untouched by the conversion, so if the first hour goes badly you still have a working register on the old system while we fix it.
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After
The box becomes a filing cabinet
Keep the server read-only for a season if your accountant wants the original records, then retire it. The recurring cost of maintaining it stops either way.
Read this before you move
Stay on CenterEdge if any of this is true.
We'd rather lose the deal than sell you a downgrade. Each of these is something CenterEdge does that Omni-Play doesn't.
Your floor runs on arcade redemption
CenterEdge Play cashless cards, the redemption counter, and prize inventory are twenty years deep. Omni-Play has no redemption module.
You need kiosks that scan ID
The Advantage Kiosk does facial recognition and license scanning at the door. Omni-Play has no kiosk product.
You’re large and multi-site on the suite
Ten workstations across two locations is where CenterEdge’s maturity earns its price. Omni-Play runs one venue, and multi-location is roadmap, not shipped.
Switching questions
What operators ask before leaving CenterEdge.
- Can I get my data out of CenterEdge?
- The exports live on your own server, so you don’t need to ask anyone for them. We convert them offline into guest households, sales, membership charges, bookings, products, and promo codes, and reconcile the money against the export itself.
- What happens to the server after we switch?
- Nothing has to happen to it on day one. Keep it powered and read-only for a season if you want the original records at hand, then retire it. Omni-Play runs in a browser, so there’s nothing to install in its place.
- How long does it take to switch from CenterEdge?
- It depends on the size of your catalog and how clean the export is, so we scope it after we’ve seen your data. What doesn’t change is the shape: CenterEdge keeps trading until the day you stop, because the conversion never touches it.
- What do I give up by leaving CenterEdge?
- Arcade redemption and cashless play cards, kiosks with ID scanning, and multi-workstation and multi-location depth. If the arcade is a real line on your P&L, that’s a reason to stay, and we’ll tell you so on the call.
Book a demo
Bring us your CenterEdge export.
We'll convert it, reconcile it against your own totals, and show you the result before you commit to a date.