Compare Vend and Toast POS - Dec 2022

Shlomi LaviShlomi Lavi / Dec 28, 2022

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

Toast POS is more expensive to implement (TCO) than Vend, and Toast POS is rated higher (98/100) than Vend (78/100).

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:

Vend Vs. Toast, Inc.

Vend: Vend allows real-world retail store owners or managers to have full visibility and centralized control of one to many retail stores. The Vend POS runs in the browser and supports full online and offline modes. Although Vend runs from the Internet, it keeps running the point of sales even when there is no active internet connection.

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? Vend POS or Toast POS?

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 Vend POS and Toast POS.

Vend POS price starts at $99 per month , On a scale between 1 to 10 Vend POS is rated 2, which is much lower than the average cost of Point of sale 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 Point of sale software cost.

Bottom line: Vend POS cost is around the same cost of Toast POS.

Which software includes more/better features?

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

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

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

Target customer size

Vend POS's typical customers include: Small, medium and large size businesses, 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.



Vend POS

ITQlick rating
(4.3/5)

starts at $99 per month

Vend POS is a cloud-based Inventory Management Software that gives the user the liberty to seamlessly manage sales. It enables the customer to perform operations such as adding discounts and notes to a particul...

Categories: Digital Signature, Inventory Management, Inventory Optimization, Work Order Management.

Toast POS

ITQlick rating
(4.3/5)

starts at $165 per month

Toast POS is a simple yet powerful all-in-one point of sale (POS) software designed to supercharge the operations in a restaurant setting.

Categories: Bakery POS, Food Delivery POS, iPad POS, Mobile POS Systems, POS for Bars.

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Vend POS: 0 Features

We are working to collect the list of features

Toast POS: 0 Features

We are working to collect the information
ITQlick rating ITQlick Rating is based on the software score (below) and aggregated online reviews
ITQlick score ITQlick Score is a 1 to 100, the calculation is based on pricing, and functionality Vs. alternative solutions
Pricing score pricing Score is a 1 to 10 (10 is high cost), based on the TCO (cost of licences, customizations, training, hardware when relevant) Vs. alternative solutions
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Vend
ITQlick rating
4.3/5
Score
78/100
Pricing
2.2/10
License pricing
$99 per month
Functionality
17
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Toast PO...
ITQlick rating
4.3/5
Score
98/100
Pricing
2.8/10
License pricing
$165 per month
Functionality
10
LightSpeed
ITQlick rating
4.2/5
Score
93/100
Pricing
2.6/10
License pricing
$69 per month
Functionality
44
Clover
ITQlick rating
3.7/5
Score
91/100
Pricing
6/10
License pricing
$9.95 per month
Functionality
5
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PHP Poin...
ITQlick rating
4.7/5
Score
91/100
Pricing
2.8/10
License pricing
$28.25 per month
Functionality
19
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Shlomi Lavi is an entrepreneur and founder of ITQlick.com. He holds a Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) in Information Systems Engineering from Ben Gurion University in Israel. Shlomi brings 17 years of global IT and IS management experience as a consultant and implementation expert for small, medium and large-sized (global) companies. Shlomi’s goal is to share the best knowledge and news about information systems so you can make smarter buying decisions for your business.