Compare Lumos and Toast POS - Feb 2023

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Bottom Line: Which is Better - Lumos or Toast POS?

Toast POS is more expensive to implement (TCO) than Lumos, and Toast POS is rated higher (98/100) than Lumos (79/100).

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:

LUMOS Point of Sale Vs. Toast, Inc.

LUMOS Point of Sale: LUMOS Point of Sale was founded in 2013 and is a state of the art full service Point of Sale application that runs on an iPad. Our developers have fused their experience in both software design and retail to produce a POS system specifically for the small to medium sized business. Our easy-to-use software puts you in control of your business by gi...

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? Lumos 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 Lumos and Toast POS.

Lumos price starts at $29.95 per month , On a scale between 1 to 10 Lumos 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: Lumos cost is around the same cost of Toast POS.

Which software includes more/better features?

We've compared Lumos Vs. Toast POS based on some of the most important and required Retail & POS features.

Lumos: We are still working to collect the list of features for Lumos.

Toast POS: We are still working to collect the list of features for Toast POS.

Target customer size

Customers of the software mainly include small and medium retail businesses of a variety of types. 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.