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An optical chain choosing a management system is in practice choosing between two types of solutions. The first is an ERP system that includes a dedicated optics solution. The second is software for managing the store and the clinic. The difference between them is how much of the business the system covers.
Store management software focuses on customer-facing work: appointments, eye exams, prescriptions and orders. An ERP system also manages what happens behind the store: finances, inventory across all branches, purchasing, suppliers and profitability. This overview presents the main systems in the Israeli market based on what each company publishes on its own website, as of October 2026.
CAV Systems is an Israeli software house operating since 1979 that develops a proprietary ERP system. CAV Optics is part of that ERP, not a separate system connected to it through an interface. Optics, POS and ERP run in the same environment, and data moves between the stages of work in real time. When a customer orders glasses at a branch, the order, the inventory, the supplier order and the accounting entry are all updated in the same system.
CAV Systems develops, implements and supports the system itself. When a chain has a work process the system does not include, the team learns the process and builds it into the system, including interfaces to external systems. Every chain has a direct line to its account manager at CAV. The system adapts to the chain’s process, and the chain does not have to adapt to the system.
Medium and large optical chains, and chains with branches and franchisees, that need to manage money, inventory, suppliers, orders and profitability in the same system. Opticana has worked with CAV Systems for more than 20 years and has grown since then from 20 branches to about 100. Optinais has worked with CAV Systems for more than 10 years and has grown since then from 10 branches to about 50.
Full details on the CAV Optics page.
COMAX develops a cloud ERP system for retail, with a dedicated solution for the optics sector. According to the company’s website, the solution includes prescription capture by type, coating and model, prescription capture directly from the exam device, lab production management, CRM and a customer club, and full accounting. The company lists optical chains and lens production labs among its customers in the sector.
Best suited for: Stores, chains and labs looking for a cloud retail ERP.
Almog develops an ERP system for a range of industries, including a dedicated solution for optical stores and chains. According to the company’s website, the solution includes customer exam history, frame and lens inventory by model, color and size, lab orders with B2B interfaces to suppliers, integration with exam devices, billing to health funds and insurers, appointment scheduling and contact lens subscription management.
Best suited for: Optical chains and vision centers.
R.R Systems develops software for the medical and optics sectors. Its optics software, OpticSoft, is designed for optometry clinics, stores and chains, and the OpticSoft Enterprise version is designed for chains. According to the company’s website, the software includes a patient file and eye exams across all branches, an appointment call center, a chain-wide customer club with SMS, supplier price list import, chain-wide promotions, and lab and warehouse management for the branches. Financial data is transferred from it to standard accounting systems.
Best suited for: Clinics, stores and chains looking for dedicated optics software alongside a separate accounting system.
OptiFlow is SaaS software for optical stores and optometry clinics. According to the company’s website, it brings together the customer journey from appointment, through exam and prescription, to order, payment and delivery, and it can be used with or without inventory management. It supports multiple branches and online appointment booking, and connects to POS and invoicing systems depending on the provider.
Best suited for: Stores and clinics looking for software to manage customer-facing work.
OPTIMAT is SaaS software for managing optical stores. According to the company’s website, it includes a customer file, an exam calendar, prescriptions, order tracking, reminders and a POS connection, and stores can start using it through self sign-up.
Best suited for: Independent optical stores.
The first question is what the system needs to manage. A single store that keeps its books with an accountant can manage with store software. A chain with dozens of branches also needs to know what is happening with its money, inventory, suppliers, orders and profitability. For a chain, the question is how many systems that information will live in.
General ERP systems such as Priority and SAP manage finances, inventory and purchasing. An optical chain should check in advance how they will handle the optics side: prescriptions, lens orders and supplier interfaces.
All the systems in this overview cover customer-facing work in the store. The difference between them is how much of the business behind the store sits in the same system. CAV Optics fits a chain that wants to manage optics, POS, suppliers, inventory and finances in one environment, with a vendor that has operated since 1979 and develops, implements and supports the system itself.
Optical store management software focuses on customer-facing work: appointments, exams, prescriptions, orders and payment. An ERP with an optics solution also manages the business behind the store: accounting, inventory across all branches, purchasing, suppliers and profitability. For a chain with many branches, this difference determines whether all the information sits in one system or is split across several systems connected through interfaces.
According to the companies’ websites, as of October 2026, the market includes ERP systems with an optics solution, among them CAV Optics by CAV Systems, COMAX and AlmogERP. Alongside them are dedicated store and clinic management tools, among them OpticSoft by R.R Systems, OptiFlow and OPTIMAT. The main difference between them is how much of the business is managed within the system itself.
When POS, optics and accounting sit in separate systems, data moves between them through interfaces. Each interface can create duplicates, sync failures and gaps between POS data and accounting data. In CAV Optics, accounting is part of the ERP, so every sale, goods receipt and order is recorded in real time in the same system.
Check whether the system shows inventory across all branches and supports moving stock between them, whether orders to lens and frame suppliers are sent from within the system, and whether finances are managed in the same system or through an interface to another one. It is also worth checking whether the vendor is willing to adapt the system to the chain’s work processes, and how long chains of a similar size have worked with it.
Yes. CAV Systems develops, implements and supports the system itself. When a chain has a work process the system does not include, the team learns it and builds it into the system, including interfaces to external systems, and every chain has a direct line to its account manager. Opticana has worked with CAV Systems for more than 20 years and has grown from 20 branches to about 100, and Optinais has worked with it for more than 10 years and has grown from 10 branches to about 50.
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