Compare Retail Pro and Toast POS - Dec 2022

Shlomi Lavi

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Bottom Line: Which is Better - Retail Pro or Toast POS?

Retail Pro is more expensive to implement (TCO) than Toast POS, and Toast POS is rated higher (98/100) than Retail Pro (80/100). Retail Pro offers users more features (20) 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:

Retail Pro International, LLC Vs. Toast, Inc.

Retail Pro International, LLC: Retail Pro International, LLC is a leading global provider of Point of Sale, Store Operations, Merchandising, Business Intelligence, and Multi-channel software applications. For over 20 years it has been helping specialty retailers achieve their full potential by providing a unique, scalable, reliable, and highly customizable retail management solu...

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? Retail Pro 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 Retail Pro and Toast POS.

Retail Pro price starts at $11,000 per license , On a scale between 1 to 10 Retail Pro is rated 4, which is 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: Retail Pro is more expensive than Toast POS.

Which software includes more/better features?

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

Retail Pro: this software is considered "feature-rich" with more than 10 important features, here is a partial list: Bar Code Scanning, Buy X, Get Y Pricing, Cancellation, Coupons, Credit Card Processing, Customer History, Customer Management, eCommerce.

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

Target customer size

Retail Pro is a flexible product which can be used by retail businesses of all sizes from very small companies to large enterprises with multiple stores. 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.