Migrate to a modern antique-mall POS
Switching antique-mall POS is a one-day job, not a one-year project — if you sequence it right. Export from the old system, preview the import, keep the undo path open, and open Saturday morning on the new register. The playbooks in this collection walk that sequence for each legacy system by name.
The systems operators leave are mostly 20-year desktop incumbents — Mall Sales Manager, Quail Mall Manager, and their generation — running on one aging PC next to the register. What keeps operators on them isn't love of the software; it's the data. Decades of dealer records, item history, and settlement math feel unmovable. They aren't. Every migration playbook here starts from the export, because once your data is out cleanly, the rest of the cutover is logistics.
The collection covers the three stages of a switch. Getting out: how to export everything from your current antique-mall POS, and what a complete export has to include. Crossing over: step-by-step playbooks for Quail Mall Manager and Mall Sales Manager, written to be run in an afternoon. And proof it works: West Michigan Antique Mall's story of replacing 20 years of Mall Sales Manager in a single day, told with the actual hour-by-hour timeline.
If you haven't chosen the destination yet, start in the tech hub — the 2026 buyer's guide names the whole field, and the head-to-heads cover which trials are worth running. Once you're across, the operator playbooks pick up where migration ends: running the new register like you've had it for years.
Articles in this collection
Switching from Quail Mall Manager — a step-by-step playbook for antique-mall operators
What to export from Quail, what we auto-map, how to verify the totals against your last settlement run, and how to flip the register over to a modern web POS without losing a Saturday.
How to export all your data from your antique-mall POS — Vintique's full-export workflow
Your data is yours, always. From Settings → Danger Zone, request a single ZIP archive of every booth, transaction, gift card, item, hold, setting, and audit row — ready in minutes. Here's exactly what's in the export, the 30-day grace window if you ever close the mall, and how to verify nothing's missing.
How to switch from Mall Sales Manager (or any legacy antique-mall POS) in an afternoon
A practical playbook for antique-mall operators leaving an aging point-of-sale: what to export, what to bring with you, how to preview every row before commit, and how to open Saturday morning on a modern register without losing a beat.
How West Michigan Antique Mall switched from 20 years on Mall Sales Manager to Vintique — in a day
A 75+ booth mall on the Lakeshore Antique Trail had been running on Mall Sales Manager for two decades. Here is what finally pushed them to switch — and how the whole mall went live on Vintique in a single day.
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Keep reading in other collections
Antique-mall tech — what's real vs. marketing
Antique-mall software is its own category — booth-based consignment with vendor splits, dealer settlements, and split-tender registers that generic retail POS doesn't model. This collection is every comparison and buyer's guide we've published: what the category does, who the named players are, and what's real versus marketing.
Operator playbooks for antique malls
How do you run an antique mall? Booth by booth: recruit dealers, set the splits, lay out the floor, staff one register that can ring seventy vendors' inventory, and settle everyone at month-end without drama. The playbooks in this collection walk that whole system end-to-end, in numbered steps.