6 Best Pizza POS Systems In 2023

We love that TouchBistro offers a largely self-contained pizza shop POS system that’s affordable and easy to use. TouchBistro software focuses on taking the focus off of complex server and kitchen staff technology so they can focus more on the customer experience.

The system’s built-in customizable reservations app, waitlist functions, online ordering suite, customer relationship management system, and loyalty program make TouchBistro an excellent choice for upscale brick oven and Italian food restaurants that want to offer an elevated dining experience. The system also has great upselling features and can be used for food and wine pairings. There are also great catering features so you can take catering order deposits, create delivery zones, and schedule catering orders in TouchBistro kitchen display systems.

TouchBistro also offers add-ons such as:

• Online Ordering: $50/month; includes a branded online ordering web-based app for all your restaurant locations
• Reservations: $229/month; includes reservations app that integrates with your online ordering site and Google business profile
• Gift Cards: $25/month; includes physical and digital gift card sales
• Loyalty: $99/month; includes customizable loyalty account builder that integrates with your online ordering site
• Marketing: $99/month; includes promotion, email marketing, and customer engagement reports

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 is likely to save you money every month.

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

Full-service brick ovens also focus on providing a top-tier customer experience over the cheapest pizza pricing, which is why TouchBistro offers these features:

• Reservation System: Customers can make reservations from your web app, your Google Business Profile, or 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 regularly 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. 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 makes 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 your 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 POS system, cash drawer, and receipt printer.

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 Payments, powered by Chase, offers transparent, cost-plus pricing. TouchBistro also allows you to use an outside payment processor, such as Square, TSYS, or Worldpay.

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

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

We love that Toast has an entire suite of restaurant-centric products available to help midsize to large pizzeria owners create effective menus, build a smooth online ordering experiences, manage a productive team, and streamline operations in their kitchens. Each product, from the POS system, to kitchen displays, to scheduling software, is intuitive for basic pizza shop setups but also allows you to create complex menu offerings, discount strategies, and even create multiple locations without problems.

Toast has an especially great loyalty program that’s easy for customers to sign up for and use. Most of the program runs on automations, so neither you or your customers have to put in much effort to earn and redeem points. It’s exactly the sort of thing a midsize to large independent pizzerias could use to stand out from more well-known chains like Dominos and Pizza Hut, which both have their own loyalty programs.

Last, we love Toast’s durable restaurant-grade Android hardware. All the company’s proprietary hardware, including countertop registers, mobile handheld POS systems, and kitchen display systems, are built to withstand heat, drops, and spills. No matter how busy or chaotic your pizza shop gets, Toast hardware will last.

Toast also offers a suite of add-on products such as Toast Kitchen Display System, Toast Tips Manager, and Toast xtraCHEF, an inventory analysis/cost control tool that helps pizzeria owners minimize waste and maximize profits. These products are all custom-priced, and you will get the best per-product price if you purchase multiple products at once.

Note: On the Pay-As-You-Go plan, you’ll pay an extra payment processing fee if you decide to add Toast’s digital ordering suite. While you won’t pay a monthly fee to add digital ordering, the higher payment processing fees often more than cover the monthly subscription of digital ordering from Toast.

Toast’s best pizza shop POS features include an excellent loyalty program, extensive menu and employee management, and its 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 on in-person, self-serve kiosk, tableside QR code, delivery, or takeout order, plus via 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 with a larger Italian or American food offering will definitely appreciate being able to set up sales, discounts, and changes in advance for their larger menus.

Orders from all order 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 increases productivity.

Toast’s employee management tools include an excellent employee scheduling tool. Whether you face shift gaps, have employees that 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 payments experience.

Toast POS employee scheduling software.

Toast countertop POS register, Toast Go 2 handheld POS, Toast kitchen display system, online ordering website, and Toast analytics on-screen.

Toast software only runs on Toast’s proprietary Android-based hardware.

On the Pay-As-You-Go plan and the Core plan, you may sign up for a Starter Kit, which includes a maximum of 1-2 POS terminals, a card reader, and a router. You may add on extra devices such as kitchen display systems and self-ordering kiosks for an added one-time fee.

On the Pay-As-You-Go plan, you may receive one countertop or mobile POS systems for no upfront cost and pay a reduced cost to add a second POS system. On the Core plan, you’ll pay $799 for a countertop POS or $609 for the Toast Go 2 mobile POS system.

Those on the Core, New Restaurant, Growth, and custom plans can purchase more than two POS systems for a custom price. The more hardware you purchase, the better bulk pricing you’ll get.

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

• Pay-As-You-Go: 2.99% + $0.15 per transaction; 3.49% + $0.15 per transaction if you add Toast’s optional digital ordering suite
• Core: 2.49% + $0.15 per transaction

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.

We love how customizable Revel is for large and chain pizza shops. Chain pizzeria owners can manage large menus and inventory across several locations, restrict user access across locations to allow franchise owners the freedom to manage their stores, and add features like digital signage and a branded online ordering app.

With the rising popularity of third-party delivery apps like DoorDash and Grubhub, customers are starting to expect a streamlined delivery ordering experience, order updates, and delivery driver tracking. Revel offers an excellent delivery management software that will allow any pizza shop start its own in-house delivery fleet and avoid third-party platform fees.

For this pricing, you must agree to a three-year processing contract with Revel Advantage and a two-terminal minimum.

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 starting at $674. This includes a personalized setup from your own Revel representative.

One of Revel’s best features for chain pizza shops is the extensive delivery management capabilities, 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.

Revel POS register, customer-facing display, barcode scanner, cash drawer, and iPad stand.

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.

Our favorite thing about Square For Restaurants is the price tag. New pizza shop owners as well as business owners that sell pizza strictly on-location can affordably take digital payments using Square’s free and low-cost software plans and Square’s affordable POS hardware. Also, since Square offers month-to-month contracts, starter pizza businesses can start with a low-commitment POS system and get a more comprehensive system or better payment processing fees once they grow out of Square’s base restaurant offering and flat-rate payment processing fees.

On Square’s free plan, you get an unlimited number of POS software licenses, that you can use on iPads, smartphones, or Square’s proprietary POS hardware. On the paid plan, you get an unlimited number of kitchen display system software licenses, which you can also use on iPads. On all plans, business owners get their own free online ordering site for takeout and delivery orders.

These very generous and affordable plans are unmatched in the restaurant POS system industry.

Unlimited kitchen display screens are included in the Plus plan. If you choose the free plan, you can add kitchen displays for $20/device/month.

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 up “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.
• QR Code Orders: Turn your online ordering site into a QR code menu that you can place around at events or at tables in your establishment to help you take orders when you’re short-staffed.
• 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.

Square For Restaurant POS register, online ordering site, handheld POS, kitchen display system, and QR code menu stand.

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 $49 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 for $149.

The Square Register, an all-in-one register and customer-facing display with integrated card reader, costs $799. It’s 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, which has payment processing rates of 2.6% + $0.10 for all in-person transactions and 2.9% + $0.30 for all online transactions.

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.

We love that Clover is an all-in-one system that combines hardware, software, and payment processing, which makes it one of the easiest pizza shop POS systems to work with. All you have to do is pick where you want to get your hardware from, and the payment processing plus the software setup is done for you.

The software itself works like a smartphone: simply install an app to give your POS functionalities like event ticket management, employee scheduling, and kitchen display order routing. Clover also has pizzeria-specific apps such as Slice and Swift Pizza that, like Linga, allow you to sell pizza by the slice, create highly custom pizza toppings/pricing structures, and take online/phone orders.

Clover also has built-in features like an online ordering webpage, Order With Google widget, floor planning, bill splitting, and tip management. There’s also a built-in loyalty program available.

You will receive the listed pricing if you purchase your hardware upfront. Equipment leases are also available.

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.

Clover countertop POS system, handheld POS system, barcode scanner, cash drawer, and card reader.

Most pizza restaurants will want to use a Clover Mini ($799) or a Clover Station ($1,349 to $1,799) as their main register. You can also add Clover Flex tableside ordering and payments devices for $499 each.

When purchased from Clover.com, Clover charges flat rates starting at 2.3% + $0.10 for in-person transactions, and 3.5% + $0.10 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 MSPs, banks, and even stores such as Sam’s Club. Your processing contract and customer service provider will depend on where you buy your system from.

While Clover.com and other reputable 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 Clover.com or another of our recommended Clover providers.

We like that Linga POS can be considered a “budget” POS that nevertheless comes packed with features. Linga, in particular, has some features just for pizza restaurants, including a pizza builder module, which lets you add specific toppings to certain portions or even individual slices of pie.

This POS system is a good choice for dive pizza parlors that are frequented by students, late night bar crawlers, and other people looking to buy only a few slices or split a pizza with friends. Dive pizza places that don’t have a lot to spend will appreciate Linga’s transparent pricing structure and cash discount program that helps you save money on payment processing fees.

Linga offers the following base POS plans:

• Core: $39.99/register/month ($29.99/register/month with annual billing)
• Pro: $69.99/register/month ($49.99/register/month with annual billing)
• Enterprise: $109.99/register/month ($89.99/register/month with annual billing)

The pizza shop-specific add-on bundle costs $99.99/month ($79.99/month with annual billing.) The bundle 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, to specifics, to custom requests) applies for foods like pasta, salads, and desserts.

The POS also makes it easy to split up bills, either evenly or by order items, which is great for dive pizza shops frequented by students or late night bar crawlers who are looking for cheap eats and to split the bill a certain way.

You can also set 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 register, attached card reader, cash drawer, and receipt printer.

Linga POS bundles start at the $676 mobile bundle (includes iPad mobile POS, iPad case, and attached card reader) and go up to the $2,614 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, 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 also closely read the payment processing contract with Linga Pay or whatever processor you choose to determine the contract length, fees, and terms.