Pos Systems reviews from Reddit
Summary
We analyzed 177 Reddit reviews across 26 subreddits and 39 posts to rank the best Pos Systems brands recommended by redditors, including communities like r/POS, r/smallbusiness, r/BarOwners, r/Restaurant_Managers, r/Barber. Top-rated brands include Square (4.0/5), Toast (3.8/5), Square POS (4.5/5).
Stats
Reviews177
Subreddits26
Posts39
Brands77
Products17
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#1
Square
4.0
(29)
"Square has the best rates right now."
"Square. Seriously easy and inexpensive."
"Square for sure"
"Just go with square it's versatile for anywhere."
"Absolutely industry standard where I am and it works damn well imo"
"I’m really happy with Square. Payroll can be integrated directly into the system which makes it so easy to run."
"After this sub sold me on square i cant recommend them highly enough."
"Although it wasn’t on a food truck, my previous experience using Square was great."
"Square was perfect for a small smoothie shop."
"I use Square but most of my coworkers use Gloss Genius."
#2
Toast
3.8
(17)
"Toast is the answer here."
"Toast has been a breeze for boh and foh here."
"I see a lot of small businesses using Toast as well."
"Toast is by far the best one I’ve ever used."
"Been using Toast for around 6ish years."
"Toast could be your best bet."
"Checkout Toast. We used it in our now defunct pizzeria brewpub."
"We use Toast. You can route items to different kitchen screens or printers."
"Toast is the touch screen POS I have the most experience with, and I did like it."
"It has some odd corks but does a lot on the backside that really helps."
#3
Square POS
4.5
(10)
"I’d recommend looking into systems like Square or Shopify POS. Both are reliable, easy to use, and offer features like inventory management and customer tracking."
"Square and Linga rOS are very easy to use and provide robust support for restaurants of all sizes."
"Square has been great as a mobile therapist. My clients can even tap to pay on my phone."
"Seconding square. I use the Square Stand with an IPad for my setup. It swivels around so they can tap/dip/ whatever their payment method is, and have the receipt printer as well."
"Square works well."
"Square is the best!"
"Square, light speed, shopify or clover. Those are the most popular."
"Square is your best friend and is made for You."
"Square. No monthly fee"
"Square can get pricy if you run less than 250k in transaction volume per year."
#4
Clover POS
4.1
(8)
"I definitely love this clover system. I run a Small business in a rural town and take like 15-25% card payments and the rest cash or check- not sure what your situation is but it works for me."
"Square, light speed, shopify or clover. Those are the most popular."
"We also support different brands like Clover and others, so there’s flexibility based on how you run your business."
"Honestly for the FFL merchants that are with me, they tend to go Clover."
"Clover is the easiest one to negotiate with!"
"Clover Flex and Clover Go are solid options since they’re portable, user-friendly, and don’t require a complicated setup."
"I use clover it only costs 3% of every transaction and I use my phone as a POS so I don’t have to pay for an independent system."
"Clover POS with Homebase Scheduling and Fresh KDS integrated over Clover Equipment."
#5
Clover
3.8
(8)
"Switched to clover this past year for a slightly better rate."
"Clover POS could be a great fit since it handles both retail and mobile sales, supports inventory tracking, and allows for remote management."
"Clover offers better deals for high-volume processing."
"If you want clover with the least interchange so I can help you out with that!"
"Clover as well. Like they say, they all have their pros and cons."
"Clover seemed to be similar with a smaller price tag and still does all the things I need it to do."
"Clover is something I've heard a bit about, definitely need to look into it more."
"Clover worked pretty decent for food/bottleshop/taps with fractional pricing."
#6
Shopify POS
3.2
(6)
"I’d recommend looking into systems like Square or Shopify POS. Both are reliable, easy to use, and offer features like inventory management and customer tracking."
"Square, light speed, shopify or clover. Those are the most popular."
"I've been using Shopify POS and it's been great so far. The have a free trial as well."
"If it's already Shopify, their POS would make sens to simplify reconciliation."
"The app was “updated” about 4 years ago and you will see that all the reviews since then are very bad. Most are one star."
"Shopify POS system is horribly designed and a daily headache for my staff. DO NOT RECOMMEND."
#7
Toast POS
4.5
(4)
"My restaurant group switched to TOAST and it is phenomenal for both the server side as well as for management."
"Toast. Cost, user friendly, Togo link in website, employee favorite."
"Toast is better imo, it feels cleaner and easier to navigate."
"Toast. We just did an upgrade to it last week. Lots of good things."
#8
Lightspeed POS
4.0
(4)
"Square, light speed, shopify or clover. Those are the most popular."
"Light speed has woocommerce integration."
"Lightspeed."
"I'm most familiar with Lightspeed POS for hospitality. The menu programming is easy but there are limitations."
#9
Shopify
4.0
(4)
"You might want to have a look at Shopify POS"
"Shopify is a great platform for e-commerce, though its POS is a bit basic."
"Shopify is a great choice for websites."
"I’m about to try out Shopify."
#10
Apple
4.7
(3)
"Tap to Pay allows iPhone users to accept payments without needing a terminal."
"Adyen allows you to use your iPhone as the POS, making transactions seamless."
"The iPad POS is cheap and effective for small businesses."
#11
Aloha
4.0
(3)
"HotSauce and Aloha are solid choices, especially for restaurants needing robust inventory and payment features."
"Aloha and square good. Dont touch toast it fucking blows."
"Aloha over Toast"
#12
TapMango
5.0
(2)
"A Boba tea place that saw a huge increase in visitors when the integrated Tapmango's earn loyalty points by posting about us on your Facebook/instagram feature. It's really a gamechanger."
"TapMango by far, also after reading everything you are looking for in your other posts, they should be able to accommodate."
#13
SumUp
5.0
(2)
"I use SumUp and I love it. Super simple, reliable and instant payouts on request."
"I've seen many pop-up shops, food carts, and other temporary places use a small bluetooth thing that I think is called SumUp."
#14
SkyTab
4.5
(2)
"SkyTab can do retail, food service, goods and services."
"It’s called SkyTab but I also believe Toast does it as well."
#15
Breadcrumb
4.5
(2)
"I LOVE Breadcrumb! They were recently bought by Upserve, too, so they're looking like they're about to be even better."
"Breadcrumb is more suited for fine dining use."
#16
TouchBistro
4.5
(2)
"TouchBistro would be perfect for you."
"TouchBistro is a solid option for restaurant management."
#17
POSlavu
4.0
(2)
"POSlavu works well and is easy to update!"
"POSLavu has been great for me."
#18
Autoleap POS
4.0
(2)
"We’ve been using Autoleap which has POS built in and ties everything urm like estimates, payments, repair orders together in one place."
"About a year ago we switched to a system that has its own POS built in. We use autoleap."
#19
MassageBook
4.0
(2)
"Massagebook/square . Make sure your busjness is set up correctly on square to accept FSA, HSA cards."
"We use MassageBook/ Square."
#20
Korona POS
4.0
(2)
"Korona could work well for your auto shop, certain places can set it up for free but the POS would work great for inventory and processing."
"I’d suggest Korona, they have a specific build out for auto-industry verticals."
#21
LYNQD POS
4.0
(2)
"LYNQD works for multiple locations and is fully integrated."
"Check out www.LYNQD.com. They have some very niche POS/Payment systems and helped out business tweak their POS to fit us."
#22
Vagaro
4.0
(2)
"We chose Vagaro because it does booking and checkout, and allows you to put up a no-show/cancellation policy and send invoices to clients that break those policies."
"Vagaro. Bu far. We tried Booksy and Resurva before"
#23
Arryved
3.5
(2)
"We use Arryved for this with 3 crust options, 5 cheeses, 5 sauce, and 27 different toppings."
"We went with arryved because it’s cheaper on processing."
#24
Lightspeed
2.5
(2)
"Lightspeed is a good fit for businesses focused on retail sales and inventory management."
"It’s terrible. The support is nonexistent and the 'onboarding' we paid for was useless."
#25
Moneris PayD
5.0
(1)
"Swear by Moneris PayD"
#26
Stripe Terminal
5.0
(1)
"I recommend trying Stripe Terminal for its seamless integration of online and in-person payments."
#27
CitiXsys
5.0
(1)
"I have heard good things about this solution for multiple store locations."
#28
Redde
5.0
(1)
"Easy to manage multiple locations under one log in."
#29
SalesVu
5.0
(1)
"It works well for F&B, retail stores, and multi-location retailers. It helps with inventory management and reporting."
#30
Focus
5.0
(1)
"Great for speed and high volume as well as customizable for modifiers and recipes."
#31
BLogic
5.0
(1)
"No contract, no fees, no early cancellation fees, no obligation, and same/next day funding."
#32
DAPL
5.0
(1)
"It's the fastest way I've seen them replaced."
#33
BitPay
5.0
(1)
"If you want a traditional POS look at soft touch POS which uses BitPay."
#34
Best
5.0
(1)
"I am happy with the Best system that has 32 years under their belt and is strictly built with Pool Halls, Bars and Restaurants in mind."
#35
GoTab POS
5.0
(1)
"GoTab is wonderful!!!!!!"
#36
SpotOn
5.0
(1)
"In 2025, for a full-service restaurant, I would pick SpotOn, their new hardware and handhelds are amazing and their customer service is second to none."
#37
Aloha POS
5.0
(1)
"Aloha POS. Been using it 10 years with no problems."
#38
Tabit
5.0
(1)
"Within less than 2 minutes"
#39
Micros
2.5
(2)
"It’s a decent system and scalable. The new systems are really good."
"Micros is awful; please never use micros."
#40
QuickBooks
2.5
(2)
"I am going to ride QBPOS as long as I can."
"No need to pay QB ripoff. Just buy a few cheapies and try them out."
#41
Upserve
4.0
(1)
"Upserve pos"
#42
Shoptiques
4.0
(1)
"Shoptiques is great, cheap, and easy to use"
#43
Union
4.0
(1)
"Check out Union. We're being forced to change ours and right now they're in the lead."
#44
WooCommerce POS
4.0
(1)
"Woocommerce POS and Square are two of the primarily used tools for this."
#45
iZettle
4.0
(1)
"I was using Izettle which was really user friendly, easy to program, works on phone or tablet with a portable reader or direct pay on my phone."
#46
AirPOS
4.0
(1)
"I’ve used AirPOS in the past. They were pretty good."
#47
NCR Counterpoint
4.0
(1)
"NCR Counterpoint if you ask me"
#48
Shopwired
4.0
(1)
"I've recently moved my online shop to Shopwired and I'm finding it great."
#49
Infotouch
4.0
(1)
"Good for brick and mortar stores with multiple locations."
#50
Keyhut
4.0
(1)
"Keyhut's Cash Register POS is a well-known free, standalone POS application."
#51
Toshiba
4.0
(1)
"The new black Toshibas run much better and are smoother than the old IBM's."
#52
Revel
4.0
(1)
"Revel is another good choice for food service."
#53
HotSauce
4.0
(1)
"HotSauce and Aloha are solid choices, especially for restaurants needing robust inventory and payment features."
#54
Oliver POS
4.0
(1)
"You should try Oliver POS, it syncs with WooCommerce, works offline, and doesn’t need to be a plugin."
#55
Heartland POS
4.0
(1)
"Heartland has a nice POS also, not sure if it has woocommerce integration, but I know many of them do."
#56
Coreware POS
4.0
(1)
"I'd recommend Coreware!"
#57
Loyalzoo
4.0
(1)
"If not I would recommend loyalzoo."
#58
diniqa
4.0
(1)
"I recommend web cloud based pos system... just $439, I recommend diniqa."
#59
Stove
4.0
(1)
"Stove is good. Powerful, easy to use. Good support."
#60
Gloss Genius
4.0
(1)
"Most of my coworkers use Gloss Genius."
#61
Booksy
4.0
(1)
"I use Booksy for appointments and Square for CC processing."
#62
Squire
4.0
(1)
"Squire has been doing well for me also square was great before."
#63
Retail Plus Point Of Sale
4.0
(1)
"It's easy to learn, has a ton of features, and is not expensive."
#64
FTx
4.0
(1)
"A POS System, like FTx POS, offers real-time inventory tracking, custom UPCs, easy barcode scanning, and remote management."
#65
Shift4 POS System
4.0
(1)
"Make sure whatever system you get has EMV pre-authorizations."
#66
Fintech Integration
3.0
(1)
"Fintech integration is close to right but still not perfect."
#67
Loyalty Program
3.0
(1)
"The loyalty program lacks flexibility and insight into customer spending."
#68
Mitchell1 POS
3.0
(1)
"Mitchell1 perhaps"
#69
LightspeedRMS POS
3.0
(1)
"I’ve poked around with lightspeedRMS. It’s geared towards motosports rather than automobiles but it may fit what you need for now."
#70
Microsoft
2.0
(1)
"Old programs running on XP can be risky and hard to maintain."
#71
POS Nation
2.0
(1)
"POS Nation offers flexibility for dual payment and cash discounting, but lacks necessary integrations."
#72
Gift Cards
2.0
(1)
"Gift card processing is costly and not managed well."
#73
Dinerware
2.0
(1)
"Dinerware is a distance second."
#74
IBM
1.0
(1)
"The 1998 IBM's are complete shit and need to be replaced."
#75
EPOS Now POS
1.0
(1)
"Oh shit...you mentioned EPOS Now??? Dear god, whatever you do DO NOT go with them!"
#76
Revel Systems
1.0
(1)
"Beware Revel Systems. They are predatory and do not work billing or money issues over the phone."
#77
Infor
1.0
(1)
"It sucks."
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