Restaurant POS, KDS & Payment Processing
Modifier logic, offline card modes, processing fees and hardware contracts: Square, Toast, Lightspeed.
Toast POS Early Termination Fee and Hardware Buyout: What Leaving Actually Costs (2026)
How Toast's early termination fee is calculated under Merchant Agreement section 8.4, what happens to Toast hardware and Easy Pay balances when you cancel, and the one clause that lets you leave without the fee.
Toast 7.6 · Square for Restaurants 8.1
Lightspeed vs Square POS in Australia After the Card Surcharge Ban (2026)
Card surcharges on eftpos, Visa, Mastercard and Amex ended on 1 October 2026. What that means for Australian cafes and restaurants comparing Lightspeed Restaurant and Square for Restaurants: published plan prices, Square's 1.6% rate, and the Lightspeed rate you need to beat it.
Square for Restaurants 8.6 · Lightspeed Restaurant 8.2
Square for Restaurants vs Toast for Pizzerias: Half-and-Half Modifier Logic (2026)
How Toast portions and Square modifier sets handle half-and-half pizzas, topping pricing, sequence pricing and nested crust choices, based on both vendors' current documentation.
Toast 8.8 · Square for Restaurants 8.1
Deliverect vs Otter: How Fast Do Menu Changes Reach the Delivery Apps? (2026)
What Deliverect and Otter actually document about menu publishing, item snoozing and sync status, including Deliverect's up-to-30-minute queue note and Otter's published add-on prices. No invented latency numbers.
Deliverect 8.5 · Otter 8
POS Offline Mode Compared: Card Limits and Upload Deadlines on Toast and Square (2026)
What happens to card payments when the internet drops: Toast's offline transaction limit and manager approval vs Square's US$1–US$50,000 per-transaction cap and 24/72-hour upload windows, from each vendor's current help pages.
Square for Restaurants 8.5 · Toast 8.5
ChowNow vs Square Online: What 'Zero-Commission' Ordering Really Costs (2026)
Commission-free doesn't mean free. ChowNow's US$229+ plans and 2.95% + 29¢ versus Square's US$0 / US$49 / US$149 plans and 3.3% or 2.9% + 30¢ online rate, with a worked monthly cost example.
Square Online (with Square for Restaurants) 8.6 · ChowNow 8.2