September 2026 snapshot · 72 AI answers Contested

Retail POS & Store Management: AI Visibility Ranking

Point-of-sale and store management software for retailers covering checkout, inventory, and customer management. Right now, Shopify POS is the brand AI assistants recommend most, with a Visibility Score of 79 and the #1 spot in 35% of answers. Head-to-head: Shopify POS vs Square →

These rankings are measured from what the three models know from training, not a live web search. When the models DO search the web, see which sources they cite. Methodology.

Square and Lightspeed Retail are virtually tied at the top.

Square and Lightspeed Retail share the same mention rate at 61% of answers, separated by less than 1 point in score, with no brand pulling away. What makes this more interesting is how differently the models vote: ChatGPT strongly prefers Lightspeed Retail with a score of 75, while Claude and Gemini both favor Square above 60. Clover shows up in 49% of answers but never earns a first pick, meaning it gets recognized without being trusted to lead.

AI-generated analysis of the September 2026 measurements.

#	Brand	Visibility Score	Mention rate	Avg. position	#1 pick rate	Models
1	Shopify POS	79 ±2.5	88%	2.0	35%	ChatGPT #3 Claude #1 Gemini #1
2	Square	74 ±2.4	86%	2.4	35%	ChatGPT #1 Claude #2 Gemini #2
3	Lightspeed Retail	71 ±2.9	82%	2.4	15%	ChatGPT #2 Claude #3 Gemini #3
4	Clover	30 ±5.5	49%	4.9	0%	ChatGPT #4 Claude #4 Gemini #4
5	Toast	9 ±4	14%	4.8	0%	ChatGPT #8 Claude #5 Gemini #7
6	Loyverse	5 ±2.3	7%	3.2	0%	ChatGPT Claude #11 Gemini #6
7	Vend	5 ±3.9	11%	6.3	0%	ChatGPT #5 Claude #14 Gemini #9
8	Helcim	5 ±2.3	7%	4.0	0%	ChatGPT Claude Gemini #5
9	Revel Systems	4 ±3.7	8%	5.7	0%	ChatGPT #7 Claude #8 Gemini
10	Aptos	4 ±2.2	7%	5.2	0%	ChatGPT #6 Claude #12 Gemini
11	Oracle Retail	4 ±0.3	4%	1.3	3%	ChatGPT Claude #6 Gemini
12	Manhattan Associates	4 ±1.4	6%	3.8	0%	ChatGPT Claude #7 Gemini #12
13	Microsoft Entra ID	4 ±3.5	4%	1.7	3%	ChatGPT Claude #9 Gemini #8
14	Okta	4 ±3.1	4%	2.7	0%	ChatGPT Claude #10 Gemini #10
15	Smile.io	3 ±3.2	4%	4.3	0%	ChatGPT #9 Claude #13 Gemini #11

The ± under each score is the reliability band: how much the number would move if we re-ran the identical measurement. It is tight because each prompt is sampled multiple times. It is not the same as how much the ranking depends on which prompts we ask — a separate, wider figure shown on hover.

Just below the cutoff: Oracle NetSuite (2.8), NCR Voyix (2.6), AWS (2.6), Ping Identity (2.2), SumUp (2.1). 65 brands were scored in this category; the leaderboard shows the top 15.

Visibility Score: position-weighted presence across all measured answers, 0 to 100. A score of 100 means the brand was the first recommendation in every answer. Every point in a trend line is a live monthly measurement; there is no modeled or backfilled history. Full methodology.

Openness 21/100: the share of this category's recommendation weight not held by the leader.

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Do the models agree?

Per-model Visibility Scores for the top 10. A long gray bar means the three assistants disagree about the brand. Hover a row for exact values.

ChatGPT Claude Gemini

Where they land in the answer

When a brand is mentioned, where does it appear? Box shows the middle 50% of positions, the thick line is the median, whiskers are the extremes. Hover a row for the detail.