Legacy uniform software advertises a low base price, then meters everything a real uniform business actually does -- right down to the card processor you already have.
Picture one uniform shop that also runs a mobile unit for on-site fittings at hospitals and schools. Three registers between the floor and the back office, five people who need to be logged in at once, and a group online store serving four hospital and school accounts -- about $15,000 a month in online sales. They keep the card processor they have banked with for years. And in their first month, while they import their data and train the team, they lean on support for roughly twelve hours.
Not a chain. Not an enterprise. One store, one van, and a few group accounts -- and here is what each platform bills them for it.
The store that looked like it was saving $385/mo
Pays $7,250 more in year one
From one store and one van. And that gap widens every time they hire someone, add a register, open a group store, or have a good month online -- on top of $2,400 a year charged purely for keeping the credit card processor they already had. With Threadsourced, none of those move the bill.
1. Legacy figures are a competing uniform platform's published list prices as of August 2026: $365/mo base (their advertised rate -- see note 2), $195/mo per mobile location, $50/mo per additional station, $185/mo for their premium webstore, $20/mo per group, $30/mo per additional shop-by store, and $10 per contract (capped at $50/mo).
2. That $365 headline is the discounted rate for handing them your card processing -- their own asterisk reads "includes discount for UniformPay payment integration," though the undiscounted rate is never printed. Keeping the processor you already have costs $200/mo per store -- one store here, so $200. Threadsourced never charges you extra for using your own processor, and if you'd rather not source one yourself, we partner with some of the best merchant processors in the business -- you own the banking relationship either way, at the same subscription price.
3. Legacy platforms meter concurrent access by station, not by named user -- every register and back-office machine signed in at the same time is another $50/mo. Threadsourced counts neither stations nor users.
4. Their online-sales fee is 0.50% on monthly volume above the first $2,000 on their own webstore, and 1.00% if you run your store on a third-party platform. At $15,000/mo that's $65/mo, or $780/yr, purely for making sales. Threadsourced takes no percentage of your revenue -- ever.
5. Their plans include 2 support hours per month; beyond that it's $150/hr or $250 per 2-hour block. Twelve hours in your first month is 10 chargeable hours, billed at the better block rate. Threadsourced includes live onboarding, unlimited personalized training, and 24/7 support at every plan level.
6. Threadsourced figures are the Professional plan: $750/mo including your first store, $375/mo per additional store. Mobile, pop-up, and show stores don't count as additional stores.
