I grew up in my dad's pawn shop.
I built the software he never had.
The entire industry runs on software owned by one company. One option is cloud-only. One is on-premise. Neither was built for how you actually work.
Bravo is cloud-only. Internet goes down, your shop stops. You lose transactions. You lose customers. You lose money.
The chains have had proprietary data and technology for two decades. Independent shops have been left with gut instinct and Google.
"I grew up at Capitol Loans, my dad's pawn shop in Seattle, established in 1992. I watched every software company ignore this industry. So I came back with a Data Science degree from Cal and built what should have existed ten years ago."
Michael Chandler — Founder, PawnSight
Pawnbroker's son. UC Berkeley, Data Science.
Capitol Loans is still open today.
PawnSight runs on your hardware. Internet drops, you keep working. Your data never lives on someone else's server. No vendor lock-in. No hostage situations.
Real-time pricing intelligence at the counter. Know what every item is worth before you make an offer. Stop Googling comps on your phone while the customer waits.
Police reporting, hold periods, ATF, IRS 8300, OFAC screening, state regulations — all handled automatically. Run your business, not paperwork.
AI-powered customer scoring based on transaction history, redemption patterns, and behavioral signals. Every employee makes decisions like your best employee.
Digital pawn tickets with QR codes. Customers pay online, extend loans, check their balance. You get paid faster with less counter time.
When an item forfeits, PawnSight's AI generates the title, description, category, and pricing from your intake photos. You click publish. That's it.
Everything you need to run one shop. Core pawn, inventory, sales, compliance.
AI pricing, SMS reminders, invoicing, layaway, online payments. The full toolkit.
Multi-location ready. AI counter assistant, pricing analyst, and priority support.
Everything. Every feature. Every integration. White-glove onboarding.
Founding members lock in today's price forever. No contracts. Cancel anytime. Free data migration from PawnMaster or Bravo.
Not cloud-with-a-cache. Not on-premise-with-a-subscription. Your data lives on your hardware, works without internet, and syncs when you're ready. No other pawn software gives you this level of independence.
Our AI isn't a feature that got added last quarter. Pricing intelligence, customer scoring, and item authentication were designed into PawnSight from day one. It's how the software thinks, not an add-on you pay extra for.
PawnSight is bootstrapped and self-funded. We don't answer to a corporate parent or private equity. Our only customer is you. When we build features, it's because shop owners asked for them — not because a board meeting decided it.
We respect the tools that came before us. Bravo and PawnMaster serve thousands of shops. We just believe independent pawnbrokers deserve software built on their terms — local-first, AI-native, and without compromise.
If you're one of the thousands of PawnMaster shops pushed into a migration you didn't ask for, we built a free data migration tool for you. Your data, your timeline, no pressure.
Talk to Michael directly →Founding shops helping shape the product every day.
We're hand-picking the first 20 founding shops. Founding members lock in today's pricing forever and help shape the product.
