Best Pizza POS Systems

On the free plan, you can add Square For Restaurants to an unlimited number of iPhones/iPads. On the paid Plus plan, each location comes with one device and you’ll have to pay an extra $40/device/month for each device you add.

On the free plan, the Square KDS (kitchen display system) app is an added fee. On the paid plan, you get an unlimited number of KDS for no extra cost.

Square integrations such as Deliverect, which aggregates online orders from all popular third-party ordering platforms so you can manage them through Square POS and Square KDS, cost an added monthly fee.

Square’s free/no monthly fee pizza shop POS features include:

• Free Online Ordering Site: Create your own custom online ordering website that syncs with your in-person orders and inventory. Allow customers to order for takeout and delivery.
• Order With Google: Integrate your online ordering site with your Google business profile so when people search for “pizza shops near me” they’ll be able to find and immediately order from your shop.
• Delivery Order Management: Instead of paying a monthly fee for delivery management, you’ll pay a flat per-order fee to manage delivery orders (including customer order status updates) or to partner with Square’s on-demand fleet of drivers. Even if you don’t have your own delivery fleet, you can still get slices out the door.
• Auto-86ing: When you turn on automated inventory tracking, the POS software will remove an item or modifier from ordering screens until the inventory is replenished. This ensures that staff will never sell a topping, side, or drink you don’t have. From POS registers and kitchen displays, staff can also manually 86 a modifier or entire item.
• Preorders: You can take preorders for birthday parties, school events, and other catering opportunities by allowing customers to schedule a pickup or delivery time in advance.

Square POS pizza delivery settings.

Square’s best paid features include:

• Delivery Platform Integrations: Use third-party delivery integrations with all major third-party delivery platforms, including Postmates, Grubhub, Caviar, and DoorDash, to get found on apps.
• No In-House Delivery Fees: If you upgrade your plan, you won’t have to pay per-order fees for using Square’s delivery software.
• Loyalty: Customizable loyalty program with varying reward structures so that customers have another reason to pick up some pizza.
• Invoicing: Advanced invoicing software so you can take deposits for catering orders and create recurring orders if your shop ends up catering events on a weekly, monthly, or custom time frame.
• Advanced Team Management: Advanced team management allows you to schedule shifts in advance, edit timecards, view timecard reports, export payroll reports or sync your timecards to Square Payroll, and start automated tip pooling.

All Square software, including POS registers, self-ordering kiosks, and kitchen display systems, runs on iPads, which you may purchase yourself or from Square.

To take credit cards, you’ll need at least the Square contactless card reader and a smartphone or iPad. You can also purchase add-on accessories, including a Square Stand iPad swivel enclosure and the connected card reader.

The Square Register, an all-in-one register and customer-facing display with integrated card reader is a cost-effective pizza shop register that allows customers to verify their orders before servers send them back to the kitchen.

All Square for Restaurants accounts include Square’s built-in payment processing. You’ll pay 2.6% + $0.15 for all in-person transactions and 2.9% + $0.30 for all online transactions.

Plus and Premium subscribers get reduced in-person rates of 2.6% + $0.10.

You cannot use a non-Square payment processor with Square for Restaurants.

All Square contracts are month-to-month with no long-term commitment required. The company also offers great POS hardware warranties, whether you purchase your hardware from Square or from a third-party seller.

Toast’s $0 upfront Quick Start Bundle plan looks like a good deal, but in order to get this deal, you have to pay much higher per-order fees, to the point where it could be worth it to purchase your POS equipment upfront and pay a monthly fee if you can afford it. If you can’t afford it, find a way to finance your purchase or switch to a paid plan as soon as you have the money to do so.

On the Core plan, you’ll have to pay an additional $75/month if you want to add digital ordering, which includes online orders to takeout and Toast delivery services. The Growth plan comes with digital ordering at no extra cost.

On the Quick Start Bundle plan, you can add the digital ordering and marketing suite (includes digital ordering, loyalty, gift cards, and email marketing) for no monthly cost, but Toast will increase your per-order payment processing fees again to a relatively high percentage.

Other popular add-ons, such as Toast Payroll, Toast Tips Manager, and Toast Scheduling, require you to get a custom quote which will be determined based on factors like the number of employees and locations you own.

If you plan on purchasing multiple Toast products at once, make sure to ask about a discount for bundling products.

Toast’s best pizza shop POS features include an excellent loyalty program, extensive menu and employee management, and takeout/delivery capabilities.

Toast’s loyalty program includes these unique features for pizza shops that want to compete with national pizza chain loyalty programs:

• Several Enrollment Opportunities: Customers can enroll during or after finalizing their pizza order, whether in-person, via self-serve kiosk, tableside QR code, delivery, or takeout orders, or by using a link on your website.
• Custom Account Information: Customers can sign up via text or email and receive a welcome message, plus updates on your pizzeria’s loyalty program.
• Points On Every Purchase: Customers automatically earn points with every slice of pie they purchase when they pay through a card linked to their loyalty account (which is automatically set to whatever card was used to pay for the order during signup). They may add more linked cards whenever they want and manually enter their loyalty account information on purchases made with cash or check.
• Loyalty Account Link: Customers get their own digital loyalty account link where they can view their points, see ways they can earn things like percentage discounts or free pizza, and add their birthday to get a birthday reward.
• Automated Redemption Prompts: Once customers have spent enough to earn a reward, they are automatically asked if they’d like to redeem it. This automated prompt shows up on online, takeout, and in-person orders, so customers will never forget to redeem their points at your shop.

Toast POS system loyalty program points.

Toast’s online ordering platform allows you to create a highly custom ordering experience, including custom order quote strategies based on current kitchen capacity, number of items in an order, and a preset number of maximum orders you can accept at one time. You can create custom messages for customers, such as instructions for curbside pickup and delivery, and of course, enable your loyalty program for online orders.

Toast’s extensive menu management creates an easy menu editing experience and includes the ability to bulk edit items, set time-based prices, dictate pricing by menu group, and decide which items will not show up on online/self-serve kiosk orders. This last feature is useful for pizza shops that also feature alcohol. Pizza places that serve other food will definitely appreciate being able to set up sales, discounts, and changes in advance for their larger menus.

Orders from all touchpoints (countertop POS, tableside QR code, mobile POS, self-serve kiosk, online, third-party delivery platform) are all routed to intuitive kitchen display systems that both minimize employee mistakes and increase productivity.

Toast provides an excellent scheduling tool, as well. Whether you face shift gaps, have employees who forget their shift times, or spend too much time manually approving shift changes, Toast’s employee scheduling tool can help. You can also export time sheets to Toast Payroll for a streamlined employee scheduling and payment experience.

Toast software only works with Toast’s proprietary Android-based hardware, which is more heat and spill-resistant than iPads.

Toast hardware options inclue:

• Toast Go 2 Handheld POS
• Countertop POS
• Outdoor Wi-Fi Access Point
• Kitchen Printer
• Cash Drawer
• KDS
• Self-Serve Kiosk Terminal
• Guest-Facing Display

On the pay-as-you-go Quick Start Bundle plan, you can get the handheld POS for no upfront cost and no monthly fees, as long as you agree to pay higher per-transaction payment processing fees.

In general, we do not recommend the pay-as-you-go plans because the higher per-order fees will cost you more than the original price of the hardware once you get in enough orders.

If you can, pay for your POS hardware upfront. Otherwise, look into equipment financing to help you cover the costs of the restaurant hardware you need in your establishment.

Individuals who purchase a Starter Kit are subject to the following payment processing fees from Toast’s in-house payment processor:

• Quick Start Bundle Plan: 2.99% + $0.15 per transaction; 3.49% + $0.15 per transaction if you add Toast’s optional digital ordering suite
• Core Plan: 2.49% + $0.15 per transaction (1-2 terminal limit)

Individuals on the Core, New Restaurants, and Growth plans who get a custom hardware quote will also receive a custom payment processing rate.

Toast requires at least a two-year agreement and processing contract with Toast. If you decide to terminate your contract early, you will pay hefty fees to do so. If you choose Toast,  read your contract thoroughly and make sure you understand all the fees and how long you are committed.

If you don’t use any integrations or add-ons, TouchBistro is $69/month for one register, billed annually. The Dual plan includes two user licenses. The Team plan includes five user licenses, and the Unlimited plan includes unlimited user licenses. This pricing model makes TouchBistro a cost-effective solution for restaurants that require several registers and employees.

TouchBistro also offers add-ons such as:

• Online Ordering: includes a branded online ordering web-based app for all your restaurant locations
• Reservations: includes a reservations app that integrates with your online ordering site and Google business profile
• Gift Cards: includes physical and digital gift card sales
• Loyalty: includes customizable loyalty account builder that integrates with your online ordering site
• Marketing: includes promotion, email marketing, and customer engagement reports
• Kitchen Display System: aggregates all orders from all ordering platforms to kitchen order management screens
• Profit Management: includes accounting software that allows you to track costs, optimize inventory, get profit forecasts, and more

Note: While TouchBistro’s reservations app does seem pricey at first, you get complete control over how your reservations app looks and you don’t have to pay any per-reservation fees. Creating your own custom-branded app instead of using a generic reservations app integration may save you money every month.

You are required to get a quote for TouchBistro products such as customer-facing displays.

The company also charges a one-time setup fee which includes hardware installation and software setup.

Upscale Italian restaurants that feature gourmet pizza will sometimes offer appetizer or wine pairings. Servers can easily make recommendations with TouchBistro’s dynamic upselling features, which alter recommendations in real time based on a customer’s order.

TouchBistro offers these other features:

• Reservation System: Customers can make reservations from your web app, your Google Business Profile, or via phone call. Send reminder emails/phone messages about upcoming reservations to reduce no-shows. Create floor plans specifically for managing reservations, including special arrangements for large parties.
• Waitlist: Allow customers to add themselves to your pizzeria’s waitlist online when your restaurant is currently full. Send customers SMS notifications about their waitlist status and enforce waitlist cutoff times.
• Wine Inventory Management: Track liquid sales and wastage at your pizzeria and events with TouchBistro’s Bevchek or Freepour integrations.
• Customer Accounts: If you often cater business meetings, fundraisers, or other events, you can create customer accounts. If you have regular customers, it may also make sense to create customer accounts for them. You can allow billing to customers’ house accounts with saved payment types, take partial or full balance payoffs, and allow customers to preload credits to an account.
• Customer Dining Preferences: You can ask for dining preferences/allergies when taking reservations. VIP diners are noted in customer reports, and their preferences can be saved for future orders to create a personalized dining experience.

TouchBistro restaurant POS waitlist/reservation settings.

These full-service features are what make TouchBistro one of the best bar POS systems.

TouchBistro allows restaurants to create their own branded customer web-based app where patrons can make reservations, view different locations, order online for pickup or delivery, inquire about catering, sign up for a loyalty program, and provide guest feedback. Customers can also view their order status and get notifications in your app. This creates an upscale, polished online presence, and customers don’t have to download an app to get the best experience possible.

Finally, TouchBistro offers catering-specific features such as the ability to provide a quote for pizza catering orders, require a deposit for future orders, and decide how far in advance a customer can order. You can set catering order minimums, create different catering delivery zones and fees, and give estimated arrival times. On TouchBistro kitchen display systems show catering orders and notes so that kitchen staff can prepare to fulfill specialized large orders.

TouchBistro works with most iPad models, so you can use your own if you already have these. Additional hardware options are available, and you will need to reach out to TouchBistro for a custom quote.

Since TouchBistro is locally-installed, if you need two or more iPads in your setup, you will also need a Mac Mini server to store your data and allow your iPads to “talk” to each other.

TouchBistro also supports hardware from third-party suppliers such as Chase Payments Solutions (formerly Chase Merchant Services), Square, Star Micronics, Verifone, and Epson.

Kitchen display systems will only work on MicroTouch touchscreens (15.6” or 21.5″) and you must purchase them from TouchBistro.

Check with TouchBistro before purchasing any hardware on your own to make sure the hardware models are compatible with TouchBistro software. Alternatively, you can contact TouchBistro for a quote on hardware and make your purchases through the POS company.

TouchBistro offers its own in-house payment processing solution, TouchBistro Payments (powered by Chase), which uses an interchange-plus pricing model. You have to contact TouchBistro for a custom quote.

Interchange-plus pricing can help you get the lowest payment processing rates, depending on your business size, model, and merchant account terms.

Alternatively, you may use third-party payment processors such as Square, TSYS, Worldpay (a company we don’t typically recommend), or TB Payments to process payments.

TouchBistro requires an annual commitment as standard procedure. However, monthly, biannual, and quarterly payment options are available with a higher monthly cost.

You will be charged an early termination fee for canceling early, so take this into consideration when deciding your initial contract term length.

For this pricing, you must agree to a three-year processing contract with Revel Advantage, Revel’s in-house payment processor, and a minimum of two terminals installed.

Pizza shop owners who want to integrate features such as their own in-house delivery solution, self-ordering kiosks, or online ordering platform will pay an extra monthly fee.

The cost for onboarding and implementation is a one-time implementation fee. This includes a personalized hardware and software setup from your own Revel representative.

One of Revel’s best features for chain pizza shops is its extensive delivery management toolkit, which includes:

• Branded Online Ordering Platform: You create your own custom web-based online ordering app for takeout and delivery. Your platform will mimic a third-party delivery app without requiring customers to download yet another mobile app.
• Delivery Order Receiving: Kitchen staff get a notification on kitchen display systems when new orders come in, along with any modifiers or special requests. You can customize takeout and delivery order routing to certain kitchen display systems and give custom color codes to these order types.
• Customer Communication: Customers get SMS updates when their order is ready, when a driver has picked it up and is on route, and when they’re close. Customers can even view a driver’s location on a map in real time and get up-to-date delivery times.
• Driver Management: You can assign drivers to orders based on how close they are to one of your chain locations, view where drivers are and how long their car remains idle, view order completion times, tip information, and more.
• Driver App: Drivers can use their own web-based app to see customer orders, accept new orders, view delivery preferences, call your store if needed, and get an optimized delivery route using Google Maps, Apple Maps, or Waze. You get information on the driver’s route, which can be used to measure driver performance later on.

Revel POS pizza shop delivery driver dispatch.

For chain restaurants specifically, Revel allows you to duplicate and edit location settings, change menus and pricing across locations, grant different levels of access permissions to shop managers and employees, have employees pick up shifts at different locations, and transfer stock between locations.

Inventory ordering/transfers also include item tracking from vendors or other chain locations, partial order receiving, and automated purchase ordering to designated par levels.

Chains with high ordering volumes or staffing issues will appreciate Revel’s self-ordering kiosks and customer order-ready screens. Order-ready screens show customers their order progress on an Android TV so they know when to pick up their takeout order at the counter.

Revel also offers great third-party software integrations for things like security cameras, digital signage (to show off your brand and menu), and liquid inventory management for pizza shops that also sell alcohol.

All Revel software, including POS systems, kitchen displays, drive-through ordering screens, and self-ordering kiosks, run on iPad hardware. Customer order-ready screens run on Android TVs, and you can purchase digital menu boards from third-party software providers such as Delphi Systems.

You may choose to get a personalized hardware quote on iPads and accessories such as card readers, iPad stands, cash drawers, barcode scanners, and card readers from Revel.

Alternatively, you may purchase your POS hardware on your own with express written permission from Revel. This requirement is in place so that pizza shop owners don’t accidentally purchase Revel-incompatible hardware.

Revel offers its own in-house payment processing solution, Revel Advantage. You can get a custom payment processing rate or, for an added monthly fee, integrate your POS system with outside merchant accounts and payment gateways, including Moneris, Adyen, USAePay, and others.

We recommend shopping around for the best payment processing rates. If you bring a lower payment processing rate quote to Revel representatives, you can most likely get Revel to match that proposed rate. If not, the extra monthly fee may be worth it.

Revel requires a three-year processing contract to get the lowest monthly rate, and even if you don’t choose this package, your contract will likely be at least a year long.

The company does charge an early termination fee for early cancellation, so make extensive use of product demos and consider getting a shorter contract until you’re sure Revel is the right POS system for you.

The pricing above is available if you purchase your hardware upfront from Clover.com.

If you decide to pay for your Clover hardware over time, you’ll be charged one monthly fee for your Clover hardware/software package.

We strongly discourage paying monthly for your hardware since you don’t actually own your hardware while using it, and in general, you end up paying more over time.

Some Clover apps, like Swift Pizza, cost an added monthly fee.

Clover’s best built-in pizza POS features include:

• Customizable loyalty program that allows your customers to earn points on every purchase and automatically prompts them to redeem points
• Easy-to-navigate online ordering page with a customizable online ordering menu
• Order With Google integration with your online ordering page, so people can order from your Google business profile (great for picking up orders from people searching “pizza shops near me”)
• Third-party online ordering integrations with platforms like DoorDash and Grubhub

Clover’s most unique software feature is its huge app market full of general and pizzeria-specific apps that you can use to customize your base POS software. One of Clover’s best pizza shop apps is Swift Pizza, a custom pizza builder software that allows servers to visually build a pizza sale, and allows customers to order pizza online on a user-friendly online ordering page.

Clover pizza POS app Swift Pizza POS user interface.

Additionally, you can add other free and paid Clover apps such as Homebase employee management software, retail item sales apps, event ticket management apps, and sales management apps. With Clover, you can even host a fundraiser for organizations such as nonprofits and schools, and create the right tax rules for these types of events.

We also like Clover’s line of proprietary POS hardware. You can use the Clover Flex mobile POS to take tableside orders, the countertop POS to take orders at the counter, and choose the Clover Mini POS if you have a small counter.

Most pizza restaurants will want to use a Clover Mini  or a Clover Station  as their main register. You can also add Clover Flex tableside ordering and payment devices.

When purchased from Clover.com, Clover charges flat rates starting at 2.3% – 2.6% + $0.10 per transaction for in-person transactions, and 3.5% + $0.10 per transaction for card-not-present transactions (includes online orders, third-party delivery orders, and phone orders where you take cards over the phone.)

However, your payment processing contract may be structured differently depending on your Clover hardware/merchant services provider (the entity you actually buy your Clover system from).

Clover is sold by numerous different merchant services providers, banks, and even stores such as Sam’s Club. Your payment processing contract and customer service provider will depend on where you buy your system from.

While some providers offer affordable, month-to-month pricing, other Clover resellers could lock you into an expensive, multi-year contract. So be sure to purchase your POS directly from one of our recommended Clover providers.

Linga offers three base plans ranging from $29.99-$89.99/month billed annually.

There is also a pizza shop-specific add-on bundle which includes a loyalty program, caller ID, scheduling, a web-based ordering platform, and alerts for things like employee updates and low-stock notifications.

Like Toast, Linga offers an entire range of restaurant management products. Linga’s pizza shop-specific features include:

• Custom pizza builder with quarter-by-quarter pizza portioning/toppings
• Custom number of pizza slices per pie and custom pizza sizes
• Tiered pricing for toppings (e.g. “first two toppings are free, each additional one costs $0.75”)
• Custom delivery zones with estimated arrival times
• Accept phone orders with caller ID (paid add-on)
• Accept custom requests (e.g. “no salt”)
• Branded mobile pizza ordering app and loyalty program (paid add-on)

Linga POS pizza inventory customization.

Linga’s POS interface is built specifically for taking pizza orders, with an intuitive flow from pizza size, to crust, to toppings, to special requests. This same order flow (size, specifics, and then custom requests) applies to foods like pasta, salads, and desserts.

The POS also makes it easy to split up bills, either evenly or by order items.

You can set up kitchen display systems to route certain order types to different stations. For example, you can route bar section items to drink servers, and items like fries to the fryer.

Linga POS has a mobile bundle (includes iPad mobile POS, iPad case, and attached card reader) and a Zen customer display bundle (includes iPad mobile POS and iPad customer display on a dual display stand, receipt printer, and card reader.)

Linga offers an in-house processing service called Linga Pay, though you will have to reach out to the company for a pricing quote. Linga also integrates with a number of outside processors, including EVO, First Data, Worldpay, Bank of America Merchant Services, Global Payments, and others.

You’ll have to commit to Linga for one year to get the best deal (though month-to-month contracts are available). Make sure you closely read the payment processing contract with Linga Pay or whatever processor you choose to determine the contract length, fees, and terms.

There is no warranty on Linga POS hardware. You may return POS hardware within 30 days of receipt if it is in proper condition, and the company will keep 30% of the purchase price as a restocking fee.