Switching from J3 POS

Keep the power of a system built for your business. Run it the modern way.

J3 was built for the store of the 90s. Rundoo is built for the hardware, lumber, and building-supply store of the 2020s: the same industry-specific approach, in a modern web-based system.

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Vidhan Agrawal
Vidhan Agrawal Product Manager
A Rundoo sale for a decking and railing package with several line items, one already fulfilled through a separate sub-order while the rest stay open, each showing contractor pricing and a per-line subtotal

Why stores switch

Three reasons stores make the move

Rundoo's Staff App on a phone, listing the day's sales with the amount, the staff member and the location for each.

Run your store from anywhere.

Sales, margin, and stock on your phone or your desk, with the same numbers at both. See the Staff App.

Rundoo search for 2x4x8 listing eight matching products across different SKU schemes, from a kiln-dried SPF stud to PT ground contact, plus two transfers that mention it.

Find what you need fast.

Search products by what they are, not by SKU or UPC. Keep moving. See the Web App & POS.

Dooey answering “What were my top-selling products this week?” with a ranked table of products by revenue.

Ask Dooey. Don’t click around.

Ask for stock, a report, or a draft replenishment order in plain English. A person reviews it. See Dooey.

Feature comparison

The same daily jobs. A much more modern way to do them.

Rundoo J3 POS
Built for hardware and lumber — contractor pricing, special orders, units of measure
Charge accounts — aging, statements and finance charges, with payments applied to the invoice you choose
QuickBooks sync — sales, payments, and receivables post automatically
Support included — US-based, 96% of cases resolved within 24 hours
Multi-location — stock, transfers and per-location pricing
Purchasing — reorder points, suggested orders, receiving and vendor EDI
Use Rundoo anywhere — browser-based, plus Staff and Customer apps Windows software at each register
Customers pay online — see the balance and the aging, pay from a phone No comparable customer portal
Search like Google — products, customers and sales by any word Limited keyword-based searching
Reporting — a library of built-in reports and dashboards, on your phone or at your desk Traditional reporting tools
Ask Dooey in plain English — get answers, build reports, draft orders No AI assistant
Integrated card processing Card processing through a separate terminal
Loyalty included — points at the register, plus brand programs Loyalty is a paid add-on

Data migration

What we bring over from J3 POS

Our data team maps your J3 exports into Rundoo and reviews them with you before go-live. Here is what comes over.

✅ Products and SKUs with categories and min/max
✅ UPCs and barcodes where J3 exports them
✅ Pricing and costs retail, last and average cost
✅ Inventory on hand
✅ Customers and contacts with pricing tier
✅ Vendors accounts and contacts
✅ Customer / AR balances from your aging report
— Sales history only when J3 can export it

Bring the data you need. Leave the clutter.

J3 product files can contain years of stocked, non-stock, inactive, and distributor-catalog items. We review what should actually come over before go-live.

Review before migration Non-stock itemsInactive productsDistributor catalog productsUPCs / barcodesSpecial pricing

Stores that switched

J3 switchers on Rundoo

River Valley Supply

Ryan · Douglass, Kansas

"Overall, I like Rundoo much better than J3. J3 was powerful software, but old. You had to open three or four different programs and transfer back between them."

Superior Building Supply

Leah · Yates Center, Kansas

"They never made any improvements to the system. It was basically the same when we started as when it ended. On Rundoo, we log in and we're like, wow, that looks different today."

The process

How switching works

1

You get a person

A dedicated implementation manager works with your team.

2

We migrate your data

We bring over the J3 data our parser supports and review the product file with you.

3

Train and go live

Your team learns Rundoo before launch, with support through go-live.

Want the full story? Read our deep dive on what happens when you switch, or the ROI of switching.

Frequently asked questions

Is Rundoo a good alternative to J3 POS?
Yes, for the businesses J3 was built for. Rundoo is purpose-built for hardware stores, lumber dealers, and building-supply stores, with charge accounts, contractor pricing, special orders, multi-location inventory, purchasing, and delivery as core workflows rather than add-ons, in a modern web-based system your team can use from the counter, the floor, or anywhere else.
Does Rundoo work for more than lumberyards?
Yes. Hardware stores, lumber dealers, and building-supply stores run on Rundoo, along with paint, farm and feed, and lawn and garden retailers. Lumber depth is there when you need it, BF and MBF on the product and mixed-length tallies on one line, and a hardware store never has to look at it.
Can Rundoo handle multiple locations?
Yes. Stock at every location shows while the rep writes the sale. A sale written at one location can be fulfilled from another, or the stock can be transferred, and anyone with the transfers permission can get a text, an email, or an in-app notice the moment a transfer is requested. Both locations see the same deliveries, so a shipment can leave from the one that has the product.
What happens to my J3 data?
Our data team maps what J3 exports into Rundoo: products and SKUs, UPCs where the export carries them, pricing and costs, inventory on hand, customers with their pricing tier, vendors, and open customer balances from your aging report. You review it in a sandbox before go-live. Sales history comes over only when J3 can produce a usable export, which it has not for most stores so far, and we go through the product file together so non-stock, inactive, and distributor-catalog items don't come along for the ride.
What if J3 does something we rely on?
Show us the workflow. If Rundoo doesn't handle something your business depends on, we should find that out before you switch, not after. Bring the real thing to the demo, a kit you sell, a report you run every Monday, the way you receive a truck, and we will run it live.

Ready to make the switch?

Bring us the J3 workflow your team uses every day. We'll show you how Rundoo handles it.

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