What Tenderfoot Software does

Tenderfoot Software, LTD. is a privately held U.S. software vendor founded in 1994 and headquartered in Lakewood, Colorado, that develops point-of-sale (POS) and back-office store management software for retail operators, primarily convenience stores and pharmacies. Its product architecture is a two-tier system: the Store Manager Work Station (SMWS) operates at the store level collecting sales, time-and-attendance, invoice, lottery, and vendor data, while the Corporate Work Station (CWS) suite consolidates that data at headquarters via dedicated modules for Accounting (A/P audit, sales audit, lottery audit, general ledger), Human Resources, Marketing (price zoning, promotions, gondola/margin reporting), Operations (ROMEIS, for daily store-level monitoring by district/regional managers), and an Executive Information System dashboard. The platform supports deployments from a single terminal/store up to 100 lanes across 100 stores, and integrates with TSYS for payment processing, holds SIGIS certification for automated fuel dispenser payments, and connects with TruAge for age verification and Skip Checkout for frictionless checkout.

The company sells through an enterprise field-sales motion with demo-driven, consultative cycles; pricing is not publicly disclosed and is structured as a subscription/licensing arrangement scaled to terminal and store count. GTM is direct (phone, email, website demo request) with no self-serve channel, no reseller program, and no disclosed marketing spend or sales infrastructure beyond its website. Customer logos listed on the company website are HJB Convenience, JAG Convenience, and Russell's Pharmacy, and the privacy policy identifies the underlying entity as HJB Convenience Corp dba Russell's Convenience, suggesting a closely-held vendor-customer relationship. The company has 11-50 employees, no disclosed funding, no parent company, and no acquisitions, partnerships beyond integration certifications, or leadership changes documented in available data.

Name

Tenderfoot Software

Legal name

Tenderfoot Software, LTD.

Website

https://tenderfootsoftware.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1994

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Tenderfoot Software, LTD. is a U.S.-based, privately held vendor of integrated POS and back-office store management software for retail operators (primarily convenience stores and pharmacies), using a two-tier SMWS-to-CWS architecture with 30+ years of operating history.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Retail Point-of-Sale Software

NAICS

Software Publishers (513210)

SIC

Services-Prepackaged Software (7372)

akta.pro primary industry

POS Payment Software & Middleware (Terminal OS, Apps, Device Management) (FSAMADAC)

akta.pro secondary industry

Payroll, Contractor Payments & SME HR Finance (FSAGAJAI)

Keywords

• Retail point of sale
• Store management software
• Back office software
• Convenience store software
• Corporate retail audit

Headquarters

HQ city

Coushatta

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Operations, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Software Licensing/Subscription: Software solutions sold to retail businesses with customizable deployment from single terminal to multi-store operations. Pricing likely varies by number of terminals/stores and modules selected. No publicly disclosed pricing structure.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

Tenderfoot Software develops and sells integrated point-of-sale (POS) and back-office store management software for retail operators, primarily convenience stores and pharmacies. Its two-tier architecture links a store-level Store Manager Work Station (SMWS) to a corporate-level Corporate Work Station (CWS) platform that consolidates accounting, HR, marketing, operations, and executive reporting. The suite scales from single-terminal, single-store deployments to multi-store chains of up to 100 stores and 100 lanes.

Product overview

Tenderfoot Software offers a platform-plus-modules architecture centered on retail store management solutions. The core offering consists of Retail Point of Sale (POS) systems, Back Office Management, and Corporate Software for audit services. The main platform is the Corporate Work Station (CWS), a suite of modules including the Accounting Module, Human Resources Module (HRS), Marketing Module, Operations Module (ROMEIS), and Executive Module (CWS-EIS). Each store location runs the Store Manager Work Station (SMWS) module which connects to the corporate CWS platform. The system supports operations ranging from 1 terminal to 100+ terminals across single or multiple store environments.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Retail Point of Sale (POS)

Quantifiable outcome

• Reduces audit processing time through automated general ledger entry creation
• +1 more outcomes

Named customers3 records

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration3 records

Feature7 records

Partnerships

Two partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• TSYScoreTechnology or IntegrationTSYS provides integrated credit card processing services. Tenderfoot Software integrates TSYS payment processing into its POS solutions, enabling retailers to accept credit card payments seamlessly through the store management system.
• SIGIScoreTechnology or IntegrationSIGIS (Self-Service Gasoline IS) certified integration. Tenderfoot Software's POS solutions are SIGIS certified for automated payments at retail fuel locations, enabling compliance with payment card industry standards for gasoline dispensers.

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Broad incumbents

• Epicor Software: Epicor offers retail ERP and POS solutions for mid-market retailers, providing a broader alternative for chains evaluating integrated store-management platforms.
• Verifone: Verifone is a payments and POS hardware/software incumbent with broad retail and fuel-retail presence, competing tangentially through integrated commerce offerings.
• NCR Voyix: NCR Voyix (formerly NCR Retail) is a long-established enterprise POS and retail management vendor with significant presence in convenience and fuel retail, competing for the same multi-store chains Tenderfoot targets.

Direct peers

• PAR Technology: PAR Technology provides restaurant and retail POS solutions (including the Brink POS platform), competing in similar mid-market retail deployments.
• Gilbarco Veeder-Root: Gilbarco provides POS and back-office solutions tightly integrated with fuel dispenser hardware and SIGIS payment certification, overlapping with Tenderfoot's convenience/fuel retail footprint.
• Lightspeed Commerce: Lightspeed provides cloud-based POS and retail management software to SMB and mid-market retailers, competing head-to-head for new retail software procurement cycles.
• LS Retail: LS Retail provides unified POS and ERP software for retail and hospitality verticals, with comparable multi-store management functionality to Tenderfoot's CWS/SMWS suite.
• PDI (Professional Datasolutions): PDI is a direct competitor specializing in convenience store and fuel retail software, including POS, back office, fuel management, and loyalty. It is the most direct vertical peer to Tenderfoot's convenience store focus.
• Square (Block): Square offers an integrated POS and payments platform widely adopted by SMB retailers; it competes for single-store and small-chain retail deployments Tenderfoot also serves.

Emerging players

• Toast: While primarily restaurant-focused, Toast's cloud-native POS platform and aggressive expansion into adjacent retail segments makes it an emerging competitive threat to traditional on-prem retail POS vendors.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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