Restaurants need table management, kitchen display systems, tip handling that follows FLSA rules, menu modifiers, and delivery platform integration. General-purpose POS systems do not handle these natively.
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Use the POS Software for Restaurants list when you already know the broader category and need to narrow vendors by table management and kitchen display integration.
It skips the general category questions so you can get to side-by-side comparisons sooner.
Compare table management and kitchen display integration, tip management and online ordering, how pricing scales, implementation time, and how much admin work the product needs after go-live.
Once you are down to three or four vendors, read their software profiles, pricing pages, and head-to-head comparisons, and check the buyer guides before you book demos.
Open a profile for pricing, implementation notes and alternatives, or compare two tools head to head.
Square provides a free POS system with integrated payments, inventory, staffing, and business management tools for small businesses.
Toast is a restaurant-specific POS and management platform covering ordering, payments, kitchen display, online ordering, and restaurant operations.
Shopify POS unifies in-store and online selling with integrated inventory, customer profiles, and omnichannel capabilities for retail businesses.
Clover provides POS hardware and software for small businesses with an app marketplace for extending functionality across retail, restaurants, and services.
Lightspeed provides cloud POS and ecommerce for retail and restaurant businesses with advanced inventory, reporting, and omnichannel selling.
SpotOn provides POS and business management for restaurants and small businesses with integrated payments, marketing, and loyalty programs.
TouchBistro is an iPad-based restaurant POS with table management, menu engineering, staff scheduling, and kitchen display capabilities.
Revel Systems provides iPad-based POS for restaurants and retail with an open API, advanced inventory, and enterprise-ready multi-location management.
Epos Now provides cloud POS for retail and hospitality businesses with 100+ integrations and flexible hardware options.
Helcim offers free POS software with interchange-plus payment processing, online stores, and invoicing, with no monthly fees for the software.
SumUp provides affordable mobile card readers and POS solutions for micro businesses and solopreneurs with simple flat-rate processing.
Heartland provides POS and payment solutions for restaurants, retail, and service businesses with a focus on customer engagement and data security.
Loyverse is a free mobile POS app for small businesses with inventory management, sales analytics, and optional loyalty and advanced inventory add-ons.
Vend (now part of Lightspeed) provides cloud retail POS with strong inventory management, customer loyalty, and ecommerce integration.
Aloha by NCR is an established restaurant POS platform used by major restaurant chains for enterprise-grade table management, ordering, and operations.
