Loyverse vs RetailPOS
Loyverse
loyverse.comRetailPOS
retailpos.orgSide by side
| Figure | Loyverse | RetailPOS |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | Free | Free |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Free trial | Yes | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| Windows | — | Yes |
| macOS | — | Yes |
| Linux | — | Yes |
| iOS | Yes | Yes |
| Android | Yes | Yes |
| API | Yes | — |
| Self-hosted | — | Yes |
| Plans published | 10 | 1 |
| Spec score · Point-of-Sale Software | 9.3 (#1) | 8.3 (#35) |
| Spec score · Retail POS Software | 9.1 (#2) | 7.7 (#18) |
| Spec score · Retail Billing Software | 9.0 (#2) | 7.7 (#14) |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Inventory | Restaurant inventory features include purchase orders, composite items for produced goods and ingredients, transfers between locations, stock counts, and corrections. | Inventory syncs with the e-commerce platform and includes product variants, low-stock alerts, manual adjustments, and an audit trail. |
| Inventory management | Inventory tools track products and components, provide low-stock notifications, purchase orders, transfers, stock counts, production, barcode labels and valuation reports. | Yes |
| Product | Loyverse describes itself as a suite of mobile point-of-sale apps that helps merchants manage sales, inventory, employees, and customers. | RetailPOS is an open-source point-of-sale system for physical retail that syncs inventory, orders, and customers with e-commerce platforms. |
| Support | Loyverse states that its support team is available 24/7 via live chat and that help articles are available. | Bug reports, feature requests, and questions go through GitHub; N17 offers integration, deployment, and custom development support. |
Plans
Loyverse
- Loyverse POSPrice not published
- Loyverse POSPriced on request
- Unlimited sales history$5 a month
- Unlimited sales history$50 a year
- Employee management$25 a month
- Employee management$250 a year
- Advanced inventory$25 a month
- Advanced inventory$250 a year
- FreeFree
- Free planFree
In their own words
Loyverse
Loyverse is a suite of mobile point-of-sale apps for merchants managing sales, inventory, employees and customers. Restaurant staff can assign open tickets to tables, split or merge them, and move orders between tickets. Menus support categories and modifiers, while orders can be marked dine in, takeout or delivery. Orders can be sent to kitchen displays or printers with item details, quantities, modifiers and comments. Inventory tools cover purchase orders, composite items, stock transfers, counts and corrections. A loyalty program awards points, and customer notes can capture preferences. The free plan includes POS, essential inventory, loyalty, kitchen displays, integrations, multi-store management and reports covering the last 31 days. Longer sales history requires the Unlimited sales history add-on at $5 a month per store. Employee management and Advanced inventory each cost $25 a month per store. Loyverse supports Android, iOS, web and API access, with listed integrations including QuickBooks Online, Xero, WooCommerce, Shopify and Otter.
RetailPOS
RetailPOS is an open-source point-of-sale system for physical stores that connects store activity with e-commerce platforms. It syncs inventory, orders, and customer information with services including Shopify, WooCommerce, BigCommerce, Magento, Sylius, Wix, PrestaShop, Squarespace, and Commercefull. The system can keep working offline using SQLite, then queue orders for automatic synchronization when connectivity returns. Checkout supports barcode scanning, receipt printing, cash drawers, and card payments through listed options including Stripe Terminal, Stripe NFC tap-to-pay, Square, and Worldpay. Hardware connections include USB, Bluetooth, camera, and network. Inventory tools cover variants, low-stock alerts, manual adjustments, and an audit trail; reports provide sales summaries, payment breakdowns, cashier rankings, and CSV export. Role-based access distinguishes Admin, Manager, and Cashier. Registers in server-and-client mode share orders, inventory, and settings over a local network. RetailPOS is free: free, with no monthly fees. Security updates cover version 2.0.x; earlier versions are unsupported.