merlinsoft.co.uk Reviews 2

TrustScore 3 out of 5

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Designed to fit with every aspect of your business, Merlin's easy to use point of sale (EPOS) module and powerful back office suite make it perfect for every level of user, and our 7 day support service offers you complete peace of mind. By utilising Merlin you can now have the option to sell tickets, products or BOTH at the same time, allowing you to piggyback product sales on the back of event tickets (and vice-versa), improving your add-on sales, increasing your profit margin and broadening your customer base. POWERFUL VENUE MANAGEMENT TOOLS 🔹Unify accounts and reporting, or split them between business areas 🔹Reward your members with discounts, auto-send letters to retain 🔹Sell tickets, products and memberships online with integrated sales 🔹Mitigate risk & staffing needs with access control solutions 🔹Barcoded wristbands for entry and cashless payments 🔹Print branded souvenir tickets & membership cards 🔹Easily setup tour bookings and complex ticket types


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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Steer Clear

Update - We are now 8 month in since going Live with Aptean Merlin .

The issues with daily operations get worse and the lack of support is unbelievable for the money you pay for the database. If you do manage to get Support to reply, often you are given the wrong information, fixes that are critical can take over a week.

When you do escalate issues directly to Team Managers and Area Managers, you have to chase and chase to actually get them to reply.

If you are wanting to make your business and staff suffer please use Merlin, however if you require your business to grow and have happy staff, then please avoid this disaster of a Database.

Look at the other reviews on Google in the last year for the company, they clearly indicate the same issues we have experienced, lack of support and terrible communication, there is a pattern here.

Original Post
Aptean Merlin is a terrible system, support is useless and has attitude when trying to resolve issues.

Management do not ever answer emails.

Rather than a streamline process it is full of elongated work arounds, and any changes that would benefit the whole of their customer base are not listened to and chargeable.

Please make sure you are fully aware of the issues this system will cost and cause your company. Its like stepping back to the 1980's again, whilst other systems try to work with their customers, Merlin just look to charge.

So many great systems out there please give this one a miss.

18 December 2025
Unprompted review
Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Really helpful staff

Really helpful staff, always got he extra mile to resolve issue quickly

8 June 2021
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Reply from merlinsoft.co.uk

Thank you for your feedback Tina. This is great to hear!

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