The corpus
Vendors
100 products across 9 peer groups. Comparison happens within a group, never across one.
Dossier records are scored on every in-scope claim and have been through an independent pass instructed to refute them. Scored records cover a headline subset. Census records are identity only. Coverage is stated on every record, so a thin record is never mistaken for a thorough one.
Mainstream commercial restaurant POS
Cloud or hybrid restaurant POS sold direct to independents and small multi-unit groups, with published self-serve pricing or a public online sign-up, and no minimum location count. Concept-agnostic rather than specialised to one service style.
278 claims in scope · 20 products
| Product | Layer | Status | Scored | Yes | Partial | No | Unknown |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CAKE POS | scored | live | 278/278 | 41 | 137 | 96 | 4 |
| Chowbus POS | scored | live | 45/278 | 9 | 26 | 9 | 234 |
| Clover | dossier | live | 278/278 | 27 | 179 | 71 | 1 |
| Epos Now | scored | live | 45/278 | 5 | 28 | 10 | 235 |
| Heartland Restaurant | scored | live | 45/278 | 15 | 22 | 8 | 233 |
| Lavu | dossier | live | 278/278 | 51 | 149 | 76 | 2 |
| Lightspeed Restaurant | dossier | live | 278/278 | 49 | 160 | 69 | 0 |
| Linga POS | dossier | live | 278/278 | 32 | 199 | 47 | 0 |
| Loyverse POS | scored | live | 45/278 | 8 | 19 | 17 | 234 |
| Owner.com | scored | live | 45/278 | 4 | 21 | 18 | 235 |
| Quantic POS | scored | live | 45/278 | 10 | 28 | 6 | 234 |
| Revel Systems | dossier | live | 278/278 | 83 | 147 | 45 | 3 |
| Rezku POS | scored | live | 45/278 | 9 | 30 | 3 | 236 |
| Shift4 SkyTab | dossier | live | 278/278 | 89 | 124 | 65 | 0 |
| SpotOn | dossier | live | 278/278 | 58 | 172 | 47 | 1 |
| Square for Restaurants | dossier | live | 278/278 | 89 | 146 | 43 | 0 |
| SumUp | scored | live | 45/278 | 5 | 33 | 7 | 233 |
| talech | scored | live | 45/278 | 8 | 19 | 15 | 236 |
| Toast | dossier | live | 278/278 | 112 | 140 | 22 | 4 |
| TouchBistro | dossier | live | 278/278 | 47 | 146 | 80 | 5 |
Enterprise & chain restaurant POS
Restaurant POS sold quote-only through a direct enterprise sales motion or a VAR/dealer channel, with a documented multi-property or corporate/franchisee hierarchy, and typically an on-premise or hybrid deployment option. Buyers are multi-unit operators, franchisors and large hospitality venues.
314 claims in scope · 11 products
| Product | Layer | Status | Scored | Yes | Partial | No | Unknown |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Agilysys | dossier | live | 314/314 | 58 | 173 | 75 | 8 |
| Digital Dining | scored | maintenance | 45/314 | 10 | 25 | 4 | 275 |
| Focus POS | scored | live | 45/314 | 16 | 25 | 2 | 271 |
| Infor | scored | unknown | 45/314 | 12 | 14 | 17 | 271 |
| Maitre'D POS | scored | live | 45/314 | 10 | 26 | 5 | 273 |
| NCR Voyix Aloha | dossier | live | 314/314 | 126 | 140 | 46 | 2 |
| Oracle MICROS Simphony | dossier | live | 314/314 | 84 | 181 | 44 | 5 |
| PAR POS / Brink POS | dossier | live | 314/314 | 72 | 196 | 43 | 3 |
| POSitouch | scored | maintenance | 87/314 | 19 | 60 | 5 | 230 |
| Qu | dossier | live | 314/314 | 30 | 161 | 87 | 36 |
| Squirrel Systems | scored | live | 45/314 | 10 | 20 | 14 | 270 |
QSR & drive-thru
Products whose primary marketed use case is quick-service throughput: drive-thru order capture and timing, self-service kiosks, or voice-AI order taking. Includes point solutions that are not full POS but compete for the QSR ordering workflow.
296 claims in scope · 9 products
| Product | Layer | Status | Scored | Yes | Partial | No | Unknown |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Acrelec | scored | live | 44/296 | 1 | 8 | 32 | 255 |
| Bite | scored | unknown | 44/296 | 4 | 14 | 26 | 252 |
| Bite Ninja | scored | unknown | 44/296 | 1 | 10 | 30 | 255 |
| ConverseNow | dossier | live | 182/182 | 6 | 29 | 108 | 39 |
| GRUBBRR | scored | live | 44/296 | 4 | 26 | 14 | 252 |
| Presto Automation | scored | live | 44/296 | 0 | 12 | 12 | 272 |
| SoundHound | scored | live | 44/296 | 0 | 8 | 34 | 254 |
| Tillster | scored | live | 44/296 | 1 | 22 | 16 | 257 |
| Xenial | dossier | live | 296/296 | 67 | 173 | 39 | 17 |
Pizza & delivery-led
POS that markets pizza-specific capability (fractional/half-and-half topping placement, per-section pricing rules) or operator-run delivery capability (driver roster, dispatch board, route mapping) as a headline feature rather than an add-on.
311 claims in scope · 7 products
| Product | Layer | Status | Scored | Yes | Partial | No | Unknown |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FoodTec Solutions | dossier | live | 311/311 | 21 | 188 | 49 | 53 |
| HungerRush | dossier | live | 311/311 | 56 | 178 | 71 | 6 |
| Microworks Prism POS | dossier | live | 311/311 | 38 | 140 | 129 | 4 |
| PDQ POS | dossier | live | 311/311 | 4 | 129 | 45 | 133 |
| Slice / Slice Register | dossier | live | 291/291 | 18 | 123 | 149 | 1 |
| SpeedLine Solutions | dossier | live | 311/311 | 75 | 160 | 73 | 3 |
| Thrive POS | dossier | live | 311/311 | 62 | 169 | 77 | 3 |
Bar, brewery & taproom
POS marketed primarily to bars, breweries, taprooms and beverage-led venues, typically featuring tab management, pre-authorised card tabs, pour/keg tracking or self-pour integration.
224 claims in scope · 4 products
| Product | Layer | Status | Scored | Yes | Partial | No | Unknown |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arryved | dossier | live | 224/224 | 45 | 96 | 80 | 3 |
| DigitalPour | scored | live | 41/224 | 1 | 7 | 33 | 183 |
| GoTab | dossier | live | 224/224 | 56 | 130 | 36 | 2 |
| UNION POS | scored | live | 41/224 | 2 | 27 | 10 | 185 |
Mobile & food truck
POS designed for a single mobile operator: runs on a phone or tablet with no fixed terminal requirement, tolerates intermittent connectivity, and is sold with no contract and no location minimum.
226 claims in scope · 3 products
| Product | Layer | Status | Scored | Yes | Partial | No | Unknown |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Addmi | scored | unknown | 40/226 | 6 | 25 | 6 | 189 |
| Clover Go | scored | live | 40/226 | 3 | 19 | 16 | 188 |
| Zettle by PayPal | scored | live | 40/226 | 7 | 8 | 25 | 186 |
Open source & self-hostable
Source code is publicly available under an OSI-approved licence and the product can be self-hosted without a commercial contract. Includes ERP modules that ship a restaurant or hospitality POS component.
278 claims in scope · 14 products
| Product | Layer | Status | Scored | Yes | Partial | No | Unknown |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chromis POS | scored | maintenance | 45/278 | 6 | 19 | 19 | 234 |
| ERPNext / Frappe POS | dossier | live | 258/258 | 31 | 79 | 148 | 0 |
| Floreant POS | scored | dead | 45/278 | 4 | 22 | 18 | 234 |
| Kriolos POS | scored | live | 45/278 | 5 | 11 | 28 | 234 |
| NexoPOS | dossier | live | 257/257 | 26 | 54 | 173 | 4 |
| nutrixpos / pos | scored | live | 45/278 | 1 | 17 | 27 | 233 |
| Odoo POS + pos_restaurant | dossier | live | 278/278 | 34 | 131 | 111 | 2 |
| Open Source Point of Sale | dossier | live | 257/257 | 24 | 39 | 194 | 0 |
| POS Awesome | scored | unknown | 45/278 | 1 | 19 | 24 | 234 |
| Reference platform reference | scored | live | 107/278 | 27 | 0 | 80 | 171 |
| SambaPOS | dossier | maintenance | 278/278 | 27 | 144 | 105 | 2 |
| TastyIgniter | dossier | live | 278/278 | 24 | 83 | 171 | 0 |
| uniCenta oPOS | dossier | maintenance | 278/278 | 15 | 71 | 190 | 2 |
| URY | dossier | live | 278/278 | 26 | 71 | 181 | 0 |
Adjacent encroachers — ordering, middleware & back-office
NOT point-of-sale systems. Products that integrate with or route around a POS — first-party ordering, delivery middleware, reservations, loyalty, labour, inventory and back-office platforms, and payment terminals sold without a POS. Tracked because they take capability territory from the POS, and compared only against each other.
255 claims in scope · 24 products · categories out of scope: order-capture, kitchen, hardware
| Product | Layer | Status | Scored | Yes | Partial | No | Unknown |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7shifts | scored | live | 36/255 | 1 | 10 | 25 | 219 |
| Adyen | scored | live | 36/255 | 3 | 13 | 20 | 219 |
| Chowly | dossier | live | 235/235 | 20 | 97 | 101 | 17 |
| ChowNow | dossier | live | 255/255 | 26 | 92 | 135 | 2 |
| Crunchtime | scored | live | 36/255 | 6 | 9 | 20 | 220 |
| Deliverect | dossier | live | 255/255 | 37 | 113 | 105 | 0 |
| Fourth | scored | live | 36/255 | 2 | 12 | 22 | 219 |
| Fresh KDS | scored | live | 36/255 | 4 | 6 | 25 | 220 |
| ItsaCheckmate | scored | live | 36/255 | 7 | 17 | 12 | 219 |
| MarketMan | scored | live | 36/255 | 6 | 8 | 22 | 219 |
| Nash | scored | live | 36/255 | 2 | 5 | 27 | 221 |
| Olo | dossier | live | 214/214 | 34 | 119 | 50 | 11 |
| OpenTable | scored | live | 36/255 | 1 | 15 | 20 | 219 |
| Otter | scored | live | 255/255 | 45 | 109 | 101 | 0 |
| Paytronix | scored | live | 36/255 | 5 | 18 | 12 | 220 |
| Punchh | scored | live | 36/255 | 4 | 11 | 21 | 219 |
| QSR Automations | scored | live | 36/255 | 2 | 8 | 23 | 222 |
| Restaurant365 | dossier | live | 190/190 | 45 | 58 | 87 | 0 |
| Resy | scored | live | 36/255 | 2 | 8 | 25 | 220 |
| SevenRooms | scored | live | 36/255 | 3 | 12 | 21 | 219 |
| Stripe Terminal | dossier | live | 173/173 | 32 | 52 | 87 | 2 |
| Thanx | scored | live | 255/255 | 21 | 86 | 148 | 0 |
| Uber Direct | scored | live | 36/255 | 2 | 9 | 25 | 219 |
| UrbanPiper | scored | live | 255/255 | 18 | 137 | 94 | 6 |
Regional & international
Restaurant POS whose primary market is outside the United States, evidenced by a non-US headquarters plus localisation the US vendors do not ship — local fiscal compliance, regional payment rails, or non-English product UI.
312 claims in scope · 8 products