Antique-mall tech — what's real vs. marketing

Antique-mall software is its own category — booth-based consignment with vendor splits, dealer settlements, and split-tender registers that generic retail POS doesn't model. This collection is every comparison and buyer's guide we've published: what the category does, who the named players are, and what's real versus marketing.

The named players in U.S. antique-mall and booth-based consignment software in 2026 are Vintique, Mall Sales Manager, SimpleConsign, Ricochet, ConsignPro, Liberty Consignment, and Quail. Some are 20-year desktop incumbents; some are cloud. The honest differences between them are structural — where your data lives, what a second register costs, whether vendors get their own login, what happens to your records when you leave — not the feature-checklist noise that vendor websites lead with.

Our rule for writing about tech: say what it does, not what it's "powered by." A photo-based price lookup either saves your counter staff a walk to the reference shelf or it doesn't. A comparison either names the per-transaction fee or it's hiding it. Every head-to-head in this collection was written to be checked — run the trial, ring the test sale, export your data, and see whether the claim holds up on your own floor on a real Saturday.

Start with the plain-English category guide if you're new to the space, or go straight to the 2026 buyer's guide for the full field. Once you've picked a direction, the migration hub covers getting out of your current system with your data intact — and the trade-tailwinds hub covers why this category is worth investing in at all.