Paloma365 vs SpotOn Restaurant

Paloma365 is cloud software for retail, food service, and service businesses that combines checkout, inventory, and reporting. Its food truck offering brings together tablet point of sale, card and QR payments, kitchen functions, and stock management; sales can continue offline and sync when connectivity returns. Staff can take orders by phone, show customers their order on a customer-facing screen, and offer QR menus or order-ahead pickup. Sales automatically deduct ingredients and packaging from stock, and recipe cards calculate food cost. Startup includes a product catalog, sales management, customer base, access rights, reports and analytics, staff tools, and discounts. Higher plans add warehouse functions, recipes, production, or booking features. Each listed plan includes one location and one workstation, with unlimited users and printers; extra workstations and sales points cost separately. Startup is listed at $23 a month, or $20/mo when paid yearly. The product runs on Android, iOS, web, and Windows, and includes API AuthKey for data exchange. A 15-day trial offers full access without feature limits and free technical support during launch.

SpotOn Restaurant is a cloud-based restaurant management system combining point-of-sale, online ordering, reservations, labor management, AI-powered P&L analysis, and integrations. Its POS includes table layouts, menu management, ordering, payments, reporting, and employee tools. SpotOn presents options for full-service restaurants, bars and pubs, and counter service, as well as casual and fine dining, breweries, quick service, fast casual, cafes, and bakeries. The dashboard adds an AI menu assistant, dynamic reporting, marketing campaigns, remote management, multi-location tools, and employee tools. SpotOn Order connects commission-free online ordering to SpotOn POS and the GoTo Place app. Direct delivery integrations include DoorDash and Uber Eats; other delivery platforms are supported through Deliverect. Offline mode is designed to keep stations connected and orders flowing to the kitchen during internet outages, then sync payments when connectivity returns. Users can access the dashboard from a browser on any device. SpotOn says its restaurant POS uses proprietary hardware, so customers cannot use their own POS hardware or tablets. Pricing includes POS Essentials at $55 per station per month, plus implementation, hardware, and processing costs. Support is available 24/7/365 at no extra cost.