{"id":2306,"date":"2025-07-29T21:40:57","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T21:40:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/home.ordercounter.com\/?p=2256"},"modified":"2025-12-10T20:27:54","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T20:27:54","slug":"ordercounter-wins-gold-at-retailnow-2025-secures-back-to-back-community-leadership-honor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/home.ordercounter.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/29\/ordercounter-wins-gold-at-retailnow-2025-secures-back-to-back-community-leadership-honor\/","title":{"rendered":"OrderCounter Wins Gold at RetailNOW 2025, Secures Two Honors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2312\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Award-Photo-1024x635-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"635\" srcset=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Award-Photo-1024x635-1.jpg 1024w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Award-Photo-1024x635-1-300x186.jpg 300w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Award-Photo-1024x635-1-768x476.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>PENSACOLA, Fla. \u2014 July 29, 2025<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u2014 OrderCounter, the hybrid point-of-sale company known for its fiercely processor-agnostic approach, announced today that it received two major honors from the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gorspa.org\">Retail Solutions Providers Association (RSPA)<\/a> during this year\u2019s <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/web.cvent.com\/event\/565621f3-f055-468f-b439-73ea5b5e19d8\/summary\">RetailNOW 2025<\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> event in Las Vegas.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>Vendor Award of Excellence <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2013 Gold in the Software Category.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>Retail IT Community Leadership Award <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2013 Software (back-to-back winner).<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The <strong data-start=\"912\" data-end=\"943\">Vendor Awards of Excellence<\/strong> are the only honors in the retail tech industry voted on exclusively by resellers. RSPA invited all reseller members to vote on vendors delivering the best service and support in six categories. OrderCounter moved up from silver in 2024 to take gold in the <strong data-start=\"1218\" data-end=\"1251\">Software category,\u00a0<\/strong>a clear signal of rising partner trust and satisfaction.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe Vendor Award of Excellence means everything to us because it comes straight from our partners,\u201d said Thomas Barrineau IV, CEO and co-founder at OrderCounter. \u201cWe&#8217;re proud to build with them, support them, and stay true to what matters most: choice, reliability, and real relationships.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <\/span><b>Retail IT Community Leadership Award<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> recognizes vendors who demonstrate exceptional support and engagement in the retail IT channel over the past 12 months. OrderCounter was the inaugural winner of this award in 2024 and has now been honored with it two years in a row in the independent software vendor (ISV) category.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Also recognized was <\/span>Crystal Barrineau<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, creative director at OrderCounter, who was named to the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gorspa.org\/nextgen-rising-stars-2025-2026\/\">RSPA\u2019s 50 Under 40 Rising Stars<\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> list. This marks the third consecutive year an OrderCounter team member has received the distinction, highlighting the company\u2019s sustained investment in talent and leadership within the channel. Previous Rising Stars include Scott Dickens, CTO and co-founder, and Thomas Barrineau IV, CEO and co-founder.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With hybrid POS technology that combines the flexibility of the cloud with the reliability of in-house infrastructure, OrderCounter is trusted by independent restaurants and retail shops nationwide to deliver uptime, control, and freedom without being tied to a specific processor.<\/span><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2314\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/25-7-RETAILNOW-2025-AWARDS.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/25-7-RETAILNOW-2025-AWARDS.png 800w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/25-7-RETAILNOW-2025-AWARDS-300x113.png 300w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/25-7-RETAILNOW-2025-AWARDS-768x288.png 768w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/25-7-RETAILNOW-2025-AWARDS-130x50.png 130w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2315\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/VAE-Comm-Award-min-1-1024x683-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/VAE-Comm-Award-min-1-1024x683-1.png 1024w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/VAE-Comm-Award-min-1-1024x683-1-300x200.png 300w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/VAE-Comm-Award-min-1-1024x683-1-768x512.png 768w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/VAE-Comm-Award-min-1-1024x683-1-750x500.png 750w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>About RSPA<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Retail Solutions Providers Association (RSPA) is North America\u2019s largest community of value-added resellers (VARs), software developers, vendors, and distributors serving the retail, restaurant, grocery, and cannabis verticals. The RSPA empowers its members through education, certification, advocacy, legal and business resources, and its signature events: <strong data-start=\"2776\" data-end=\"2790\">RetailNOW\u00ae<\/strong> and <strong data-start=\"2795\" data-end=\"2807\">Inspire\u00ae<\/strong>. Learn more at <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gorspa.org\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\" data-start=\"2823\" data-end=\"2863\">www.GoRSPA.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><b>About OrderCounter<\/b><b><br \/>\n<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Founded in 2007, OrderCounter\u2122 is a multi-vertical hybrid point-of-sale provider delivering solutions that combine the convenience of the cloud with the reliability of in-house systems. Designed to give businesses real freedom and flexibility, OrderCounter is fiercely processor agnostic and proudly serves independent restaurants and retailers, as well as fast-growing brands and multi-location businesses across the country.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2317\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/25-7-RETAILNOW-2025-AWARDS-2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/25-7-RETAILNOW-2025-AWARDS-2.png 800w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/25-7-RETAILNOW-2025-AWARDS-2-300x113.png 300w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/25-7-RETAILNOW-2025-AWARDS-2-768x288.png 768w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/25-7-RETAILNOW-2025-AWARDS-2-130x50.png 130w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PENSACOLA, Fla. \u2014 July 29, 2025 \u2014 OrderCounter, the hybrid point-of-sale company known for its fiercely processor-agnostic approach, announced today that it received two major honors from the\u00a0Retail Solutions Providers Association (RSPA) during this year\u2019s RetailNOW 2025 event in Las Vegas. Vendor Award of Excellence \u2013 Gold in the Software Category. Retail IT Community Leadership<a href=\"https:\/\/home.ordercounter.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/29\/ordercounter-wins-gold-at-retailnow-2025-secures-back-to-back-community-leadership-honor\/\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2313,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,13,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all","category-news","category-spotlight"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/home.ordercounter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2306"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/home.ordercounter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/home.ordercounter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/home.ordercounter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/home.ordercounter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2306"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/home.ordercounter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2318,"href":"https:\/\/home.ordercounter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2306\/revisions\/2318"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/home.ordercounter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/home.ordercounter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/home.ordercounter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/home.ordercounter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}