Best Point of Sale Software in 2026

Toast is a restaurant platform that connects point of sale with management tools. Toast Now, its mobile app, gives managers live sales data, delivery channel controls for online ordering, Local by Toast and third-party apps like Grubhub, a manager log, a multi-location view, in-stock controls and team shift and tip information, while Toast Tables adds a POS-integrated waitlist and reservations solution. Toast's mobile apps are available only to Toast customers.

Lightspeed Restaurant is a cloud-based point-of-sale system for full and quick service restaurants, bars and nightclubs, hotels and cafes. It lets you run the restaurant from an iPad with menu and floor plan management, ordering and payments (send orders to the kitchen or bar, fire courses, split or combine bills, tip signatures on the iPad) and an offline mode that keeps working when the internet is down.