DINO by NukkadShops vs Open Source Point of Sale

DINO by NukkadShops is a point-of-sale suite and analytics platform for restaurants, cafés, QSRs, cloud kitchens, and food courts. Its reports cover menu-item sales volume, revenue, and recipe-based margins, along with day-part sales, channel mix, and comparisons between outlets. Billing supports dine-in, takeaway, and delivery, including table-wise and split bills and GST-compliant invoices. Confirmed orders from the counter, table, QR, or aggregators can reach kitchen stations as timed KOTs; kitchen displays show live orders and preparation status. When a dish is billed, recipe ingredients are deducted from stock, and their cost feeds its margin report. DINO integrates with named EDC payment terminals and SAP, with API connections for other ERP or accounting systems. It runs on Windows PCs and laptops, Android devices, and the web, and supports offline billing with later data sync. Pricing is quoted based on store count and configuration. The maker offers a 30-minute demo tailored to a store format.

Open Source Point of Sale is a web-based sales and inventory system written in PHP, with MySQL or MariaDB for its data store. It handles stock for items and kits, supports multiple locations, and includes a register that logs transactions, quotations, invoicing, and VAT, GST, customer, and multi-tier taxes. Other operating tools cover expenses, cash up, receivings, gift cards, rewards, and restaurant tables. Users can print or email receipts, invoices, and quotations, and create and print barcodes. Multiple users can have permissions, with reports for sales, orders, expenses, and inventory status. Listed integrations include MailChimp and SMS messaging. The project supports different installation methods and lists PHP 8.2 to 8.4, MySQL 5.7 or MariaDB 10.x, and Apache 2.4 as server requirements. The software is free at free. It uses MIT terms with a requirement to keep its visible footer signature on every page. Security patches cover versions 3.4.2 and later.