Compare Toast POS and WinSale - Dec 2022

Shlomi Lavi

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

WinSale is more expensive to implement (TCO) than Toast POS, and Toast POS is rated higher (98/100) than WinSale (62/100). WinSale offers users more features (11) than Toast POS (0).

Looking for the right Point of sale 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:

Toast, Inc. Vs. Magnum Software Systems, Inc.

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...

Magnum Software Systems, Inc.: Magnum Software Systems was established in 1984. We are one of the very first to offer Point of Sale systems based on the microcomputer platform. Our original program was designed on the CPM operating system and then ported over to MS-DOS and now completely rewrittened for Windows. Magnum Software's systems have been installed in retail sites al...

Who is more expensive? Toast POS or WinSale?

The real total cost of ownership (TCO) of Point of sale 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 Toast POS and WinSale.

Toast POS price starts at $165 per month , On a scale between 1 to 10 Toast POS is rated 2, which is much lower than the average cost of Point of sale software. WinSale price starts at $349 per month , When comparing WinSale to its competitors, the software is rated 6 - similar to the average Point of sale software cost.

Bottom line: WinSale is more expensive than Toast POS.

Which software includes more/better features?

We've compared Toast POS Vs. WinSale based on some of the most important and required Point of sale features.

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

WinSale: Accounting Management, Bar Code Scanning, Customer History, Customer Management, Discounts.

Target customer size

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