Epos Now: point of sale software platform

Epos Now publishes a hardware offer, not a software rate card. The page served on 16 October 2026 was the UK one, and its figures are in pounds: the Complete Solution at was £849, now from £299, conditional on a 12-month payments, care and support subscription starting at £54 per month. The card processing rate is not published.

Rajat GuptaEditorial LeadReviewed 16 October 2026Pricing checked 16 October 2026 against the Epos Now pricing page (UK)

Epos Now in brief

Epos Now publishes a hardware offer, not a software rate card.

Price: Bundle was £849, now from £299; subscription starting at £54 per month · Promotional hardware bundle plus a required 12-month subscription; no published tier table
Best for: UK single sites and small chains buying till, payments and support together
Watch out for: You give up any view of the card rate, which is the line most likely to decide your annual cost.

The short answer

Buy Epos Now if you are a UK single site or small chain that wants a till, a card machine and a printer arriving as one order with support attached, and you are comfortable signing a 12-month commitment to get the advertised hardware price. The published bundle covers setup, onboarding and staff training, real-time reporting on staff, customers, sales, margin and stock, and multi-channel ordering across online, delivery and collection.

Skip it if card processing economics are the thing you are shopping on, because Epos Now says it charges one flat rate on Visa, Mastercard, Diners and Discover and a second fixed rate for American Express, JCB and UnionPay, and publishes neither. Skip it too if you need a software price you can compare line by line: the subscription tiers themselves are not published, the bundle figure is promotional and the monthly rate you are offered depends on a credit decision.

Where Epos Now fits

Epos Now fits the operator who wants the whole till problem solved by one order form. The published Complete Solution is a hardware bundle rather than a software plan: a point of sale terminal, a card machine and a printer, with setup, onboarding and staff training included. The surrounding product set is built the same way, with countertop, dual-screen, tablet and bring-your-own-device options, Air and Link card machines, and accessories from barcode scanners to cash drawers sold through the same shop. For a first-time buyer replacing a cash register, that single-supplier shape is the main attraction.

The reporting and multi-channel story is where it earns a shortlist place above a bare card reader. The page describes real-time reporting on staff, customers, sales, margin and stock, accessible from any device, and ordering across online, delivery, collection and multi-channel routes. Integrations are named rather than implied: Xero, QuickBooks, Shopify, Mailchimp, Loyalzoo, Deputy and OpenTable all appear on the site, which matters because a small operator's actual requirement is usually that the till talks to the accountant's software without manual re-entry.

Bookings is the one capability published as free, and the condition on it tells you how the company thinks. Appointments, table reservations, deposits and automated reminders are built into the till and listed as free for Epos Now Payments customers, with no third-party app and no add-on fee. In other words a feature is given away to pull you onto the payments product. For a salon, barber or restaurant that currently pays a separate booking tool, that is a real saving; it is also a reason to read the payments terms closely, because the free feature depends on them.

The commercial model is hardware-led and payments-funded, and that explains the shape of what is published. The money you can read is a one-off bundle figure and a few monthly device lines. The money you cannot read is the processing rate, which on a busy site is the largest line in the annual bill, and the subscription tiers themselves, which are described only through a footnote. A vendor that discounts hardware heavily and stays silent on the card rate is telling you where it makes its margin, and the quote conversation should start there rather than on the till price.

Where it stops is enterprise depth and price transparency at the same time. There is an enterprise line for multi-site operators, described as a centralised platform with staff and business management and 24/7 support, but no figure attaches to it. Self-service kiosks, kitchen display, order and pay, Epos Now Capital financing and Epos Now My Business money management are all listed as products with no published price. If your evaluation needs a per-site software cost you can multiply, you will be building it from a quote rather than from this page, and Loyverse is the nearest product in this group that publishes every line.

Epos Now pricing

Epos Now publishes some figures and withholds the two that matter most. Checked on 16 October 2026, the page served was the UK one, so every figure here is in pounds as published and nothing has been converted. What you can read is a promotional hardware bundle at was £849, now from £299, a footnote putting the required subscription at starting at £54 per month, and two device lines at from only £15/month and from only £19/month. What you cannot read is the subscription tier structure or either card processing rate.

What Epos Now publishes on its UK page

The Complete Solution: Was £849, now from £299 (One-off bundle price, conditional on a 12-month payments, care and support subscription)A point of sale terminal, card machine and printer, with setup, onboarding and staff training, real-time reporting on staff, customers, sales, margin and stock, multi-channel ordering and connections to payment, accounting and ecommerce apps.
Payments, care and support subscription: Starting at £54 per month (Monthly on a 12-month term; the rate offered depends on company and credit profile)Required to get the discounted Complete Solution price. Care and support are bundled in, Epos Now Payments processing is included with the rate unpublished, and Bookings is free for Payments customers.
Handheld systems: From only £15/month (Monthly per device, on top of the core system)Contactless card payments and running the business away from the counter.
Kitchen display system: From only £19/month (Monthly per integration, on top of the core system)Orders sent from front of house to the kitchen with instant order processing, sold as an integration rather than part of the bundle.

Read from the UK pricing page on 16 October 2026. A request to the generic pricing URL resolved to the UK page, so the figures are in pounds sterling as published. The bundle and device figures all carry the word from, and the page does not say what pushes any of them higher.

The published figures are the start of the conversation rather than the end of it. Four things decide what you pay.

The card processing rate, which is unpublished and is probably your biggest annual line. The page states that one flat rate applies to Visa, Mastercard, Diners and Discover transactions, with American Express, JCB and UnionPay accepted at a second fixed rate on opt-in, and gives neither figure. On a point of sale sold alongside payments, that silence is the single most important gap in the price list. Ask for both rates, plus any authorisation, terminal or minimum monthly fee, in writing.
The subscription, which is a credit decision rather than a list price. The footnote says the discounted bundle price requires a 12-month payments, care and support subscription starting at £54 per month, and that the monthly rate you are offered may differ from the representative rate shown depending on your company financial information, the finance amount and the repayment term. So £54 is a floor subject to underwriting, and the tier structure above it is not published at all.
Which devices and how many. The bundle covers one terminal, one card machine and one printer. Handhelds are from only £15/month each and the kitchen display integration is from only £19/month, a customer facing screen is an additional £79 plus VAT, and accessories such as scanners, printers and cash drawers are priced in the hardware shop rather than on the pricing page. Count the units per site before you compare anything.
Which country's price list you are reading. Only the UK page was reachable on 16 October 2026, and the site carries separate versions for the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland and several other markets. Do not convert these pounds into your own currency and treat the result as a quote. Ask for the price sheet for the market you are buying in.

What costs extra

Customer facing screen: an additional £79 plus VAT, per the footnote on the device section.
Handheld systems: from only £15/month per device.
Kitchen display system integration: from only £19/month.
Bookings is the exception and is free: appointments, table reservations, deposits and automated reminders are listed at no charge for Epos Now Payments customers, with no third-party app and no add-on fee.
Epos Now Capital financing, Epos Now My Business money management, self-service kiosks and the enterprise platform are all listed as products with no published price, as are integrations including Xero, QuickBooks, Shopify, Mailchimp, Loyalzoo, Deputy and OpenTable.

Implementation and commercial terms

The rows below are what the UK page states as of 16 October 2026. The two blanks are deliberate: a rate that is described but not quoted is not a published rate, and this record does not fill it in.

Published price: Partial. A promotional bundle figure and two device lines, with no software tier table.
Page served: The UK pricing page, so all figures are in pounds sterling.
Minimum term: The discounted bundle requires a 12-month payments, care and support subscription.
Card processing rate: Not published. One flat rate for Visa, Mastercard, Diners and Discover, a second fixed rate for American Express, JCB and UnionPay.
Implementation fee: None published. Setup, onboarding and staff training are described as part of the bundle, with care and support inside the subscription.
Free trial: A free trial form exists but collects contact details for a callback, and no trial length is published. Free demo bookings are offered on the same forms.

Budget Epos Now as three separate lines and refuse to accept one blended number. The first line is hardware, which the page advertises at was £849, now from £299 and which you should get itemised by unit, because the word from is doing work there. The second is the subscription, starting at £54 per month on a 12-month term and subject to a credit decision, so ask what happens to the price at month 13 and whether early exit claws back the hardware discount. The third is card processing, which is not published at all and will probably exceed the other two combined over a year: get the flat rate for Visa, Mastercard, Diners and Discover, the second rate for American Express, JCB and UnionPay, and any per-transaction or monthly minimum. Then run the whole thing against a vendor that publishes its processing rate, such as Helcim, and make Epos Now justify the gap.

Source: the Epos Now pricing page (UK), checked 16 October 2026. Confirm current prices with the vendor before you budget.

What Epos Now gives up

You give up any view of the card rate, which is the line most likely to decide your annual cost. Epos Now describes its processing structure in some detail, one flat rate for Visa, Mastercard, Diners and Discover and a second fixed rate for American Express, JCB and UnionPay on opt-in, and publishes neither number. A bundle discounted to from £299 next to an unquoted percentage of every sale is not a price you can evaluate. Treat the hardware offer as a marketing cost the company recovers through processing, and negotiate accordingly.

You give up a list price you can trust to still be there next week. Much of the money on the page sits in rotating promotional overlays, and on 16 October 2026 several different bundle offers were live at once, including was £899, now from £149 and was £899, now from £225, each with a countdown timer. Those are campaign prices, not list prices, and this record does not present them as a rate card. The practical consequence is that what you pay depends partly on when you call, which makes a like-for-like comparison with a published-price vendor awkward.

You give up pricing flexibility for 12 months to get the advertised figure. The footnote ties the discounted bundle to a 12-month payments, care and support subscription starting at £54 per month, and says the rate you are offered may differ based on your company financial information, the finance amount and the repayment term. So the headline is conditional on both a term and an underwriting decision. Ask what the subscription costs at renewal, since the first-year price is the one being advertised.

You give up the ability to size a multi-site rollout from the page. The enterprise offering is described as a centralised platform with staff and business management and round-the-clock support, with no figure attached, and self-service kiosks, order and pay, Epos Now Capital and Epos Now My Business are all listed without prices. A chain opening its fourth site cannot work out from this page what the fourth site costs, which is exactly the number a chain needs. That belongs in a written per-site quote.

You give up currency clarity unless you are in the UK. The reachable page on 16 October 2026 was the UK one, reached when a request to the generic pricing URL resolved to it, and the site runs separate versions for the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland and other markets. Converting £299 or £54 into your own currency and treating the result as an expected price is the mistake to avoid: regional pricing in this category rarely tracks exchange rates. Ask for your market's sheet instead.

How Epos Now compares

The useful first cut in point of sale is whether the vendor publishes a card processing rate, because that line usually beats the software line over a year. Across this group almost nobody does: Epos Now describes its rate structure without quoting it, Lightspeed could not be reached at all, and only a minority publish anything checkable. Every price below comes from that vendor's own pricing page as checked on 16 October 2026, in the currency that page served, and nothing unpublished has been estimated.

Tool	Best for	Price	Where it breaks
Epos Now	UK single sites wanting till, card machine, printer and support on one order	Bundle was £849, now from £299, with a subscription starting at £54 per month	Promotional pounds-only figures, a 12-month tie-in, and no published card rate
Loyverse	Operators who want free software on hardware they already own	Free core product; add-ons at $9, $5 and $25 per month	No processing of its own, and free reporting stops at the last 31 days
Square	Buyers who want the software fee and the card rate published together	$0, $49 or $149 per month per location, card present from 2.4% + 15 cents	Flat-rate processing can cost more than interchange plus on debit-heavy volume
TouchBistro	Restaurants that want a starting software figure before a sales call	Point of Sale from $69/month; Essentials Bundle from $119/month	Every add-on is quote-only, and hardware, payments and implementation are charged on top
Lightspeed	Multi-site retail and hospitality operators prepared to run a sales process	Could not be accessed on 16 October 2026	The site blocked automated access, so no plan, figure or trial term could be verified

What to test in an Epos Now demo

The free trial form on the site collects contact details for a callback rather than opening a self-serve trial, and no trial length is published, so plan for a demo and a scoped pilot. Because the two biggest numbers are unpublished, half the agenda is commercial rather than technical.

Open the call by asking for both processing rates in writing. The page says one flat rate covers Visa, Mastercard, Diners and Discover and a second fixed rate covers American Express, JCB and UnionPay on opt-in. Get both figures, any per-transaction charge, any monthly minimum and any terminal or authorisation fee, then apply them to a real month of your own card volume before you look at a single feature.
Get the order itemised to the unit. Ask what the from £299 bundle contains exactly, what the next configuration up costs, and what each extra item adds: a handheld at from only £15/month, a kitchen display integration at from only £19/month, a customer facing screen at an additional £79 plus VAT, plus any scanner, printer or cash drawer. A bundle price tells you nothing about a second till.
Pin down the subscription and the term. Confirm what the starting at £54 per month buys, which tier you are on, how the credit decision changes the figure, what happens at month 13 and whether leaving early claws back the hardware discount. Also confirm what Bookings being free for Payments customers depends on, since that feature is tied to the payments relationship.
Test the till against your own awkward cases, not a scripted basket. Run a split bill, a refund to a different card, a discount a manager has to approve and a stock item sold by weight or in components. Then check the reporting the page advertises on staff, customers, sales, margin and stock, and confirm you can answer a question you ask each week.
Verify the integration you depend on, with your own data. Xero, QuickBooks, Shopify, Mailchimp, Loyalzoo, Deputy and OpenTable are named on the site, so push a day of sales through to your accounting system and check the entries yourself rather than accepting a feature tick. Ask about data export rights for sales and customer records on cancellation at the same time, since that is cheapest to settle before you sign.

Frequently asked questions about Epos Now

How much does Epos Now cost per month?

The only published monthly figure is the required subscription, starting at £54 per month on a 12-month term, read from the UK pricing page on 16 October 2026. The tier structure above that is not published, and the rate you are offered depends on your company financial information, the finance amount and the repayment term.

Is Epos Now software free?

No. The advertised hardware price of was £849, now from £299 is conditional on a 12-month payments, care and support subscription starting at £54 per month, so there is a recurring software and support charge. One feature is free: Bookings is listed at no cost for Epos Now Payments customers.

Can you use Epos Now without a subscription?

Not at the advertised price. The footnote on the UK page, read on 16 October 2026, ties the discounted Complete Solution to a 12-month payments, care and support subscription starting at £54 per month. Whether any unbundled option exists is not published, so ask sales for it in writing before assuming it does.

What is in the Complete Solution bundle?

A point of sale terminal, a card machine and a printer, shown at was £849, now from £299 on 16 October 2026, with setup, onboarding and staff training included. The surrounding software covers real-time reporting on staff, customers, sales, margin and stock, plus online, delivery, collection and multi-channel ordering.

What does Epos Now charge for card processing?

It does not say. The UK page states that one flat rate applies to Visa, Mastercard, Diners and Discover transactions, with American Express, JCB and UnionPay accepted at a second fixed rate on opt-in, and publishes neither figure. On a busy site that unpublished rate usually exceeds the software and hardware lines combined.

What do the add-on devices cost?

On 16 October 2026 the UK site lists handheld systems from only £15/month and the kitchen display system integration from only £19/month, with a customer facing screen at an additional £79 plus VAT. Accessories such as scanners, printers and cash drawers are priced in the hardware shop rather than on the pricing page.

Why are the prices in pounds?

Because the page served was the UK one. A request to the generic pricing URL resolved to the UK pricing page on 16 October 2026, so every figure recorded here is in pounds sterling as published. The site runs separate versions for the United States, Canada, Australia and other markets, so ask for your own market's sheet.

Is there a free trial of Epos Now?

Not a self-serve one. The site carries a free trial sign-up form, but on 16 October 2026 it collected contact details for a callback rather than opening an account, and no trial length was published. Free demo bookings are offered through the same forms, so expect a sales conversation first.

What integrations does Epos Now support?

The site names Xero, QuickBooks, Shopify, Mailchimp, Loyalzoo, Deputy and OpenTable, alongside its own Epos Now Online, Delivery and Order and Pay products, with an app store for the rest. None of the integrations carries a published price. Test the one your accountant depends on with real data during the demo.

What should you check before cancelling or signing?

The term and the exit. The advertised hardware discount depends on a 12-month payments, care and support subscription, so confirm what the subscription costs at renewal, whether leaving early claws back the hardware discount, and what export rights you have over sales and customer records when the account closes.