Restaurant Manager Vs Lavu (Jul 2020)
Shlomi Lavi / Jul 13, 2020
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Compare specifications
Restaurant Manager Specifications
ITQlick Score: | 83/100 |
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ITQlick Rating: | (2.8/5) |
Pricing: | 2/10 - low cost |
Category: | Restaurant POS -> Restaurant Manager |
Company: | Restaurant Manager |
Pricing: | starts at $199 per license |
Typical customers: | Small businesses and start ups |
Platforms: | Desktop, Mobile, Cloud |
Links: | Restaurant Manager review, Restaurant Manager pricing, Restaurant Manager alternatives |
Lavu Specifications
ITQlick Score: | 95/100 |
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ITQlick Rating: | (3.5/5) |
Pricing: | 2/10 - low cost |
Category: | Restaurant POS -> Lavu |
Company: | Lavu |
Pricing: | starts at $69 per month |
Typical customers: | SMBs |
Platforms: | Desktop |
Links: | Lavu review, Lavu pricing, Lavu alternatives |
Compare features
Restaurant Manager: 17 Features
Lavu: 0 Features
Bottom Line: Which is Better - Restaurant Manager or Lavu?
Restaurant Manager is more expensive to implement (TCO - Total Cost of Ownership) than Lavu, Lavu is rated higher (95/100) than Restaurant Manager (83/100). Restaurant Manager offers more features (17) to their users than Lavu (0).
Looking for the right Restaurant POS solution for your business? buyers like you are primarily concerned about the real total implementation cost (TCO), full list of features, vendor reliability, user reviews, pros and cons. In this article we compare between the 2 software products:
How Restaurant Manager compares with Lavu?
Restaurant Manager : Founded in 1987, ASI has focused exclusively on providing open architecture software solutions for Restaurant Manager™, its point of sale (POS) system to the food service and restaurant industry. In 1992, the demand for Restaurant Manager led ASI to develop a reseller network that now spans the United States and Canada. Over the next few years, the...
Lavu: Lavu is a software + technology company based in Albuquerque, NM. and are the makers of the first full-featured iPad POS for restaurants available in the Apple App Store since 2010.Used in over 80 countries on six continents, our iPad POS is a modern solution developed specifically for restaurants, bars & nightclubs, quick serve businesses, and oth...
Who's more expensive? Restaurant Manager or Lavu?
The real total cost of ownership (TCO) of Restaurant POS software includes the software license, subscription fees, software training, customizations, hardware (if needed), maintenance & support and other related services. When calculating the TCO it's important to add all of these "hidden cost" as well. We prepared a TCO calculator for Restaurant Manager and Lavu.
Restaurant Manager price starts at $199 per license , on a scale between 1 to 10 Restaurant Manager is rated 2, which is much lower than the average cost of Restaurant POS software. Lavu price starts at $69 per month , when comparing Lavu to their competitors, the software is rated 2 - much lower than the average Restaurant POS software cost.
Bottom line: Restaurant Manager cost is around the same cost of Lavu.
Which software includes more/better features?
As with any business software solutions, it’s important to consider the features & functionality. The tool should support the processes, workflows, reports and needs that matter to your team. To help you evaluate this, we've compared Restaurant Manager Vs. Lavu based on some of the most important and required Restaurant POS features. Restaurant Manager: this software is considered "feature-rich" with more than 10 important features, here is a partial list: Accounting Management, Bar Code Scanning, Consignment, Credit Card Processing, Customer History, Customer Management, Exchanges, Gift Cards. Lavu: We are still working to collect the list of features for Lavu.
Target customer size
This software is ideal for startup, small, medium and large scale businesses as it is both powerful and scalable. and Lavu's target customer size include: SMBs.
Author

Shlomi Lavi
Shlomi holds a Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) in Information System Engineering from Ben Gurion University in Israel. Shlomi brings 15 years of global IT and IS management experience as a consultant, and implementation expert for small, medium and large size (global) companies.