TouchBistro Review - why 4.3 stars?

Shlomi LaviShlomi Lavi / updated: Jul 14, 2020

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What is TouchBistro?

Main category: Restaurant POS

TouchBistro is a POS management system for businesses of all sizes. Its services include paperless accounting, order management, payroll management, inventory management, and others. The software was designed and launched by TouchBistro Inc headquartered in Toronto, Canada.

TouchBistro rating -

The rating of TouchBistro is 4.3 stars out of 5 and the total score is 93 out of 100. The rating and score are based on ITQlick expert review. We publish unbiased reviews, learn more in our score and rating methodology page

Typical Customers

Customers of the software include businesses of all sizes. It has mainly been deployed in such domains as restaurants, cafes, bars, tobacco stores, liquor stores, retail stores, and other similar places. Some major customers of the software include The Beverley, Hapa Izakaya, and Brooklyn’s Grandma Pizza etc.

Features

The software facilitates quick processing of payments at the tableside instead of manual processing at the cash register. Support is offered for major payment gateways including Merchant Warehouse, Mercury, Moneirs, PayPal Mobile, and others. Paper-based billing is eliminated along with errors associated with it and bill-splitting can be managed with a single tap. Order processing is also simplified with every order being associated with individual seats on the tables.

TouchBistro offers printing and mailing of bill receipts directly from the browsers. For floor management, it offers tracking of active and seasonal staff, tracking of rates and cross-reporting, labor and food cost reporting, pre-defined and customized menu categories, inventory tracking, end-of-day reports, customizable chit and guest bills, custom floor layout, and other capabilities.

Competitors & Alternatives

Popular alternatives to TouchBistro: Lavu, Yelp Reservations, CAKE Point of Sale, POSbistro, MarketMan, Restaurant Manager, SynergySuite for Restaurants, Squirrel POS, BIM POS, Schedulefly. The full list of competitors can be found here.. The full list of competitors can be found here.

TouchBistro Pricing Information

The cost of license starting from $69 per license. On top of the total cost of licenses which is easy to calculate - what is the REAL total cost of implementation? You need to add the cost of training, customization, data migration, and other "hidden cost". ITQlick pricing score is 3.2 out of 10 (10 is most expensive). Find here the REAL total cost breakdown for TouchBistro

Questions to ask the vendor during a demo

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TouchBistro Categories

Bakery POS
Food Delivery POS
iPad POS
Mobile POS Systems
POS for Bars
POS for Resturants
Retail CRM POS
Retail Inventory POS
Tablet POS Systems
Touch Screen POS

TouchBistro specifications

ITQlick Score: 93/100
ITQlick Rating: (4.3/5)
Company: TouchBistro
Address: New York, NY 10011, USA
Pricing: Starting from $69 per license
Website:Visit TouchBistro website
Typical customers: Small business
Platforms: Desktop, Mobile, Cloud
Operating Systems: Mac OS, Windows, Linux

TouchBistro Vs. Alternatives

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Pricing score pricing Score is a 1 to 10 score, based on the TCO (cost of licences, customizations, training, hardware when relevant) Vs. alternative solutions
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TouchBistro
ITQlick rating ITQlick Rating is based on the software score (below) and aggregated online reviews
ITQlick Score
93/100
Pricing score Pricing score ranges between 1 to 10 while 1 is low TCO and 10 is high TCO (TCO - total cost of ownership: cost of licences, customizations, training, hardware when relevant) Vs. alternative solutions
3.2/10
License pricing license pricing (if provided by the software vendor)
$69 per license
Functionality score
10
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TouchBistro Vs Lavu
Lavu
ITQlick rating ITQlick Rating is based on the software score (below) and aggregated online reviews
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95/100
Pricing score Pricing score ranges between 1 to 10 while 1 is low TCO and 10 is high TCO (TCO - total cost of ownership: cost of licences, customizations, training, hardware when relevant) Vs. alternative solutions
2.4/10
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$69 per month
Functionality score
13
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Yelp
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88/100
Pricing score Pricing score ranges between 1 to 10 while 1 is low TCO and 10 is high TCO (TCO - total cost of ownership: cost of licences, customizations, training, hardware when relevant) Vs. alternative solutions
9.4/10
License pricing license pricing (if provided by the software vendor)
$249 per month
Functionality score
9
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CAKE
ITQlick rating ITQlick Rating is based on the software score (below) and aggregated online reviews
ITQlick Score
87/100
Pricing score Pricing score ranges between 1 to 10 while 1 is low TCO and 10 is high TCO (TCO - total cost of ownership: cost of licences, customizations, training, hardware when relevant) Vs. alternative solutions
2/10
License pricing license pricing (if provided by the software vendor)
$69 per month
Functionality score
7
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POSbistro
ITQlick rating ITQlick Rating is based on the software score (below) and aggregated online reviews
ITQlick Score
84/100
Pricing score Pricing score ranges between 1 to 10 while 1 is low TCO and 10 is high TCO (TCO - total cost of ownership: cost of licences, customizations, training, hardware when relevant) Vs. alternative solutions
2.8/10
License pricing license pricing (if provided by the software vendor)
$49 per month
Functionality score
3
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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.