Best Restaurant POS Systems (2026): Top 10 Compared

Toast builds point-of-sale and management software for restaurants, and its pricing page offers three plans. The Starter Kit targets single-location restaurants that need one or two terminals and supplies a hardware kit with no upfront cost; Toast's FAQ describes a related Pay-as-You-Go option that replaces upfront hardware and installation costs with an all-in-one platform rate. The Point of Sale plan adds a monthly software subscription with hardware the restaurant chooses, and Build Your Own is quoted for restaurants assembling the wider platform.

Beyond the core POS, Toast sells suites in layers: Digital Storefront for online ordering, delivery services and the Local by Toast app; Marketing for email, loyalty and gift cards; Team Management and Payroll for scheduling, tips, payroll and HR; xtraCHEF for invoice automation, recipe costing and inventory; and Restaurant Management Pro for multi-location management and an analytics API. Toast Care support runs 24/7 at no extra charge.

Toast states it is a payment facilitator that partners with processors, and that its services work only on devices Toast approves.

Square for Restaurants is the food and beverage feature set inside Square's Free, Plus and Premium plans rather than a separately priced product. Square's community team has stated that the legacy Square for Restaurants Plus subscription is no longer sold, so new sellers choose among the general plans and the restaurant features unlock by tier.

Square's restaurant page describes features for quick service, full service and bars: customizable order-entry screens with menu photos, auto 86 counts that mark items unavailable when stock runs out, order-ready texts, coursing, table and seat management, floor plans, check splitting by item or seat, preauthorized bar tabs and automatic gratuity for large parties. Orders from delivery partners such as Uber Eats and DoorDash can be managed alongside in-store orders, and the POS accepts card payments offline.

Square KDS connects front and back of house with ticket routing, timers and prep insights, and Square Kiosk adds self-service ordering. Both carry per-device monthly fees on top of the plan.

TouchBistro is a restaurant-specific POS and management system. Its pricing page states that the $69 starting plan includes the full POS software suite, including tableside ordering, floor plan and table management, menu management, staff management and reporting, with no features locked. Software updates and 24/7 phone and email support, including holidays, are included.

The product range is grouped into front of house (POS, payments, customer-facing display and the compact TouchBistro One device), back of house (inventory, labor management, kitchen display and profit management) and guest engagement (loyalty, marketing, gift cards, online ordering and reservations). Inventory and labor management are listed as new additions. Online ordering is commission-free.

TouchBistro works with a range of payment processors as well as its own integrated payments, which suits restaurants that want to keep an existing processing relationship. The Essentials Bundle packages software, hardware and integrated payments for a lower upfront outlay.

SpotOn sells a restaurant POS built around its own Station 15, Station 10 and handheld devices. Its restaurant page covers full service, bar and counter service, with table layouts, check management, an AI menu assistant, reporting, marketing campaigns, remote and multi-location management, scheduling, an employee app and tip-out rules.

SpotOn describes an offline mode that switches on automatically when the internet drops, keeps stations and devices connected with orders still firing to the kitchen, and syncs offline payments once the connection returns. SpotOn Order provides commission-free online ordering linked to the GoTo Place app, and delivery can be offered at a flat rate through DoorDash Drive.

The pricing page also lists a Core bundle: Profit Assist, which scans a restaurant's profit and loss for food, labor and vendor savings; SpotOn Order; and Marketing Assist for automated text, email and social campaigns. Implementation fees cover menu build, installation and training. SpotOn states that customers cannot use their own tablets or POS hardware.

Lightspeed Restaurant is Lightspeed Commerce's hospitality POS, separate from its retail product. The pricing page lists a customizable POS with menu manager, modifiers, coursing and stock management, floor plans with section layouts and table status views, Advanced Insights reporting, Lightspeed AI for plain-language questions about performance, and Lightspeed Tempo for pacing service.

Plan features step up across Starter, Essential and Premium. Pre-authorized bar mode, order and pay at table, the Lightspeed Pulse mobile app, advanced inventory management and multiple revenue center support for hotels appear on higher tiers, and Premium adds multi-location management and raw API access. Add-ons cover third-party delivery integrations, PMS integration for hotels, accounting sync and gift cards.

Pro Services on Essential and Premium provide strategic planning and ongoing consultation. Enterprise customers receive a personalized software and hardware package, unlimited launch and consultation services and a dedicated support team with a customer success manager.

Clover sells restaurant systems as bundles of hardware and software. On the full-service restaurant pricing page all three bundles use the Restaurant Growth software plan. Starter is built around the Station Solo, a 14-inch merchant-facing POS for a wait station; Standard adds the Flex handheld, which has an eight-hour battery and a built-in receipt printer, for tableside ordering and payment; Advanced adds the Station Duo with an eight-inch customer screen.

Every bundle lists table mapping, open tabs with card pre-authorization, bill splitting, discounts, QR-code order and pay, tipping, a Clover online menu page with no-fee online ordering, third-party menu integrations, stock tracking, sales and tax reporting and employee permissions. Tap and mobile-wallet acceptance depends on the bundle's devices.

Clover subscriptions include an equipment protection program, and at the end of a term the merchant can buy or return the equipment. The Clover App Market adds third-party business apps, and Clover Capital offers advances repaid through card sales.

Shift4 Dine is the current name for SkyTab, the restaurant POS that payments company Shift4 launched in 2022. Revel is now part of Shift4: the former Revel pricing address leads to Shift4's restaurant solutions page, which states Revel merchants continue to receive support.

The Dine page lists a POS workstation, handheld terminals for tableside ordering and payment, a customer display, a kitchen display system and a self-service kiosk, all with a lifetime warranty. Software features include cloud reporting, customer loyalty, customizable floor plans, check splitting by item or amount, QR ordering and payments, employee scheduling, permissions by role and gift cards.

Shift4 positions Dine against add-on pricing by including marketing and loyalty, reservations, waitlist management, a website builder and QR ordering in the platform. Support runs 24/7 by phone, chat and email from in-house staff, and certified local technicians handle installation. Online ordering can be commission-free and third-party delivery orders are managed from the POS.

Heartland Restaurant is the restaurant POS from Heartland, which its site says is transitioning to the Global Payments brand. Two plans are offered. Restaurant Essentials targets new or growing single-location restaurants from quick service to fast casual, and Restaurant Complete targets multi-location restaurants or those with more complex front- and back-of-house needs.

The pricing page lists payment processing, online ordering with a hosted website and delivery zones, offline sales mode, scan to order and pay, a customer-facing display, graphical table layout, waitlist, a guest app, coursing, order balancing, kitchen display, roles and permissions, time and attendance, tip management, tax and multi-currency support, plus Heartland Gift and Heartland Payroll+ integrations.

Mobile POS puts full POS functionality, manager approvals and table management on a pocket-sized handheld. One customer quoted on the pricing page values that Heartland does not tie processing to the POS contract, although the promotional $0 program does require Heartland processing.

Owner.com built its business on websites, online ordering and branded apps for independent restaurants, and added Owner POS to bring in-store orders onto the same system. The POS page describes in-store, online and delivery orders running through Owner on one screen, one menu, one customer list and one dashboard.

The distinguishing workflow is guest capture. During checkout, guests see loyalty points accumulating as items are added and enter a phone number to claim them; Owner says about half of customers do. Owner then texts an invitation to download the restaurant's branded app and adds the guest to existing email, text and push campaigns.

Owner states the POS ships pre-configured to the restaurant's menu, imports the online menu automatically and is typically set up within a few business days of hardware arriving, over one remote call. The company bills month to month with no long-term contracts or cancellation fees.

Oracle Simphony is Oracle's cloud-native restaurant POS, which Oracle positions for quick service, table service, cafes, bars and global restaurant brands. It connects ordering, payments, kitchen operations, inventory, reporting and guest engagement, and is built on an open API framework with more than 200 integration partners.

Components on Oracle's page include mobile order and pay with validated integrations to major delivery service providers, CrowdTwist loyalty and engagement, self-service kiosks with central control of images, prices and allergen data, and Oracle Hospitality Kitchen Display Systems that consolidate orders from waitstaff, kiosks, drive-through, apps and delivery platforms. Labor forecasting and scheduling, Simphony Front-line Manager for corporate and property-level menu control, and a business intelligence API for accounting, inventory and labor systems round out the platform.

Simphony runs on Oracle Workstation 8, Workstation 6 and Tablet 700 Series hardware. Oracle cites Cooper's Hawk Winery and Restaurants as a customer that moved from on-premises systems to centrally managed Simphony.