CellStore Software's Blog is Finally Live
Welcome!
Hi I’m Alvin, founder of CellStore Software.
As a cell shop owner, you face real problems running, managing, and growing your business. Your shop is an important part of your life and your community. You provide valuable services to customers, and your business supports your local economy and the families of the staff that you employ.
Your days are busy. From the time you start in the morning until your close your doors at night, you move, serve, inform, teach, fix, help, count, market, file, and more. Running your store is the most important thing you’ll do most days. And when you are home or with friends, your cell shop is with you. You are thinking about how to bring in more customers, how to improve your services, and how to sell more.
CellStore vs RepairDesk: Which Is Right for Your Repair Shop?
Both CellStore and RepairDesk help you run a cell phone repair shop. But they're built differently and priced differently.
CellStore is $39/month flat — no tiers, no per-user fees, no ticket limits. It's purpose-built for cell phone repair and retail, and it's been serving shops like yours for over 10 years.
CellStore vs RepairShopr: Which Is Right for Your Repair Shop?
CellStore and RepairShopr both help repair shops manage tickets, customers, and sales. But they're on different trajectories.
CellStore is $39/month with no ticket limits. It's 100% focused on cell phone repair and retail, and the team behind it is dedicated to this one market.
Can CellStore handle device buybacks and trade-ins for a phone shop?
Short answer: Yes — CellStore is used by phone and electronics repair shops to buy devices from customers (buybacks) and take trade-ins, using its purchase and customer workflow with store credit or a negative sale line. It's not a separate "one-click trade-in" module; it's a workflow built from the tools shops already use every day, at $39/month per store.
Repair shops in the CellStore base register a buyback as a purchase from the customer, then either issue store credit or apply a negative sale price to offset a repair or a resale. It's the same customer, inventory, and invoicing records they use for repairs — so the device you bought flows straight into resale stock. Shops that sell pre-owned phones alongside repairs run their whole buy-low / sell-used cycle this way.
GDPR for European Cell Phone Repair Shops
If you own a cell phone shop within the European Union GDPR (General Data Protection Regulations) will affect how you keep and manage your customers personal information.
Coming into effect May 25th 2018, GDPR regulations will change how cell phone shops acquire, store and use their customers personal data. The following is a list of questions surrounding the GDPR and how the new rules will affect your business.
GDPR stands for General Data Protection Regulation and it is a new European regulation aimed at improving the way personal data is used and protected. GDPR will replace the existing European Data Protection Directive which was adopted in 1995.