Shlomi Lavi /
Dec 28, 2022
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Bottom Line: Which is Better - Instore or Toast POS?
Toast POS is more expensive to implement (TCO) than Instore, and Toast POS is rated higher (98/100) than Instore (83/100). Instore offers users more features (4) than Toast POS (0).
Looking for the right Retail & POS solution for your business? Buyers are primarily concerned about the real total cost of implementation (TCO), the full list of features, vendor reliability, user reviews, and the pros and cons. In this article we compare between the two software products:
Instore Vs. Toast, Inc.
Instore: Instore is the world's easiest-to-use point of sale with an analytics backend to manage your business better. Less expensive than a cash register, and simpler than traditional systems, Instore includes credit card processing, employee management, gift cards, and a full-featured backend to view sales and manage your business. Built-in promotions an...
Toast, Inc.: Toast is an all-in-one restaurant management system.
We’re the partially brown, partially golden, never totally finished piece of toast. Our software is never going to be perfect in our minds. There will always be new features we can offer our customers, and a million ways we can continue to innovate and improve. We always strive to go above and b...
Who is more expensive? Instore or Toast POS?
The real total cost of ownership (TCO) of Retail & POS software includes the software license, subscription fees, software training, customizations, hardware (if needed), maintenance and support and other related services. When calculating the TCO, it's important to add all of these ”hidden costs” as well. We prepared a TCO (Total Cost) calculator for Instore and Toast POS.
Instore price starts at $39 per feature/month , On a scale between 1 to 10 Instore is rated 2, which is much lower than the average cost of Retail & POS software. Toast POS price starts at $165 per month , When comparing Toast POS to its competitors, the software is rated 2 - much lower than the average Retail & POS software cost.
Bottom line: Instore cost is around the same cost of Toast POS.
Which software includes more/better features?
We've compared Instore Vs. Toast POS based on some of the most important and required Retail & POS features.
Instore: Sales Management, Retail & POS, Point of sale, Retail.
Toast POS: We are still working to collect the list of features for Toast POS.
Target customer size
The software is a viable product for businesses of all sizes for the management of their POS
operations. The typical individuals of Salute POS are the business owners in the small company classification (10-200 employees) as well as medium-sized (500 to 1,000) in the service market fields requiring IT, data handling and also hosting as well as other related solutions, particularly the area of restaurants/food services and POS.