Best European POS Software

#1 SumUp

Berlin, Germany From 1.69% per transaction Pay per transaction, no monthly fee on entry plans

Best for: Small businesses and mobile merchants wanting payments plus the surrounding tools

• Operating company. SumUp Limited
• Jurisdiction. EU (Germany)
• Where the data sits. EU
• Independent checks. GDPR, PCI DSS
• Source code. Closed source
• Replaces. Square, iZettle

SumUp is the broadest of the payment-first providers here. Card readers cover the physical side, a point of sale app turns a phone or tablet into a till, online payments handle e-commerce, invoicing covers the customers who pay later, and a business account holds the money — so a small business runs its entire financial surface through one provider rather than assembling four.

Pricing starts at 1.69% per transaction with no monthly commitment on entry plans, which suits a market trader, a mobile hairdresser or a small shop where fixed costs are the enemy and volume is uneven. The hardware is inexpensive and the onboarding is fast enough to start taking cards the same week.

SumUp is headquartered in Berlin with EU data protection and PCI DSS compliance, which matters because payment data is the most tightly regulated category a small business handles. The honest scope: at 1.69% it is more expensive than Flatpay's 0.99% at any real volume, and the POS app is a till rather than a hospitality system — for table management and kitchen displays, SumUp's own Tiller is the answer.

Standout feature. Payments, invoicing and a business account from one provider — the whole financial side of a small business in one place.

#2 Flatpay

Copenhagen, Denmark 0.99% per transaction, no monthly fees No binding contract

Best for: Small and medium businesses wanting the lowest processing rate

• Operating company. Flatpay ApS
• Jurisdiction. EU (Denmark)
• Where the data sits. EU
• Independent checks. GDPR, PCI DSS
• Source code. Closed source
• Replaces. Square, Toast POS

Flatpay's argument is a number: 0.99% per transaction, flat, with no monthly fees. On €30,000 of monthly card takings that is roughly €297 against about €507 at 1.69% — some €2,500 a year, which is more than the annual cost of any subscription till system in this category. For a business where card volume is the main cost, the comparison is not close.

The absence of a binding contract is worth nearly as much. Payment processing is a category where switching is deliberately made painful, and removing the contract means Flatpay has to keep earning the relationship rather than relying on inertia. Setup and onboarding are designed to be fast, with countertop terminals and mobile payment options covering the usual configurations.

Flatpay is based in Copenhagen with EU data protection and PCI DSS compliance, and has been expanding across European markets. The honest limits: it is a payment provider with a till rather than a full POS system, so table management, kitchen displays, stock control and multi-site reporting are not what it does; integration capabilities are narrower than the established platforms; and the flat rate is simple rather than negotiable at very high volume.

Standout feature. 0.99% flat with no contract — about €2,500 a year cheaper than 1.69%, and nothing stopping you leaving.

#3 Epos Now

Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom From £25 per month Contact sales

Best for: Retail stores and hospitality businesses wanting broad integrations

• Operating company. Epos Now
• Jurisdiction. United Kingdom (adequacy decision, outside the EEA)
• Where the data sits. UK/EU
• Independent checks. GDPR
• Source code. Closed source
• Replaces. Square POS, Toast, Clover

Epos Now is a full cloud POS covering both retail and hospitality, and its practical differentiator is the integration ecosystem — more than 100 integrations, which for a shop that also sells online and files accounts is the difference between reconciling by hand and reconciling automatically.

The core is complete: inventory management tracking stock across locations, staff management for rotas and permissions, an analytics dashboard showing what actually sells, and flexible hardware options rather than a single mandated terminal, so existing equipment can often be reused. Industry-specific configurations cover retail and hospitality differently rather than offering one compromise.

It is cloud-based, so multi-site reporting works from anywhere and the till survives the loss of a machine. Epos Now operates from Newcastle upon Tyne from £25 per month. The jurisdictional note matters here: it is UK-based under an adequacy decision rather than EU establishment, and unlike Orderbird, Ready2Order or CashPad it is not built around German TSE, Austrian RKSV or French NF525 fiscal requirements — which needs checking against the country you actually trade in.

Standout feature. Over 100 integrations — the reason a shop selling online stops reconciling its own books by hand.

#4 Tiller (by SumUp)

Paris, France From €59 per month Contact sales

Best for: French restaurants and cafés wanting an iPad POS backed by SumUp

• Operating company. Tiller (by SumUp)
• Jurisdiction. EU (France)
• Where the data sits. EU
• Independent checks. GDPR
• Source code. Closed source
• Replaces. Toast, Square for Restaurants

Tiller is hospitality-specific and iPad-based, which is the combination most independent restaurants actually want: familiar hardware, no proprietary terminal to buy, and software built around service rather than retail.

The feature set follows the shape of a shift. Table management maps the floor so orders attach to a table rather than a ticket, the kitchen display system replaces printed dockets with a screen that reflects what is actually cooking, online ordering integration brings delivery and collection into the same flow instead of a second tablet by the pass, and multi-location support covers a group rather than a single site.

It is owned by SumUp, so payment integration is native rather than a partnership, and it operates from Paris with EU data handling. Pricing starts at €59 per month, which is the upper end of the tablet-based systems here. Two considerations: it is aimed at the French market and hospitality specifically, so it is not the tool for a retail shop, and the monthly fee sits on top of card processing costs rather than replacing them.

Standout feature. Delivery orders arrive in the same flow as table orders — no second tablet propped by the pass.

#5 Ready2Order

Vienna, Austria From €29 per month Free trial

Best for: Hospitality and retail businesses operating across European countries

• Operating company. ready2order GmbH
• Jurisdiction. EU (Austria)
• Where the data sits. EU
• Independent checks. GDPR, TSE and RKSV fiscal compliance
• Source code. Closed source
• Replaces. Square POS, Toast, Clover

Ready2Order solves the problem that makes European POS awkward: fiscal compliance is national. Germany requires TSE, Austria requires RKSV, France requires NF525, and a business operating across borders otherwise faces a different till per country. Ready2Order covers fiscal compliance across several European countries in one system, which is the specific reason to choose it.

The product spans hospitality and retail rather than specialising, with cloud POS, table management, inventory tracking, online ordering integration, multi-location support, reporting and analytics, and a range of hardware options — so a group running a café, a shop and a food truck uses one system rather than three.

ready2order GmbH is based in Vienna with EU data protection, at €29 per month, which is the lower end for a full till system. The trade-offs: covering both hospitality and retail means less depth than a specialist in either, its market presence is strongest in Austria and Germany with less familiarity elsewhere, and as with all subscription tills the monthly fee sits alongside card processing costs rather than replacing them.

Standout feature. One till that is legal in several countries — the problem every cross-border operator hits and few systems solve.

#6 Zettle

Stockholm, Sweden From 1.75% per transaction Pay per transaction

Best for: Small businesses and mobile sellers wanting simple card payments

• Operating company. Zettle by PayPal
• Jurisdiction. EU (Sweden), owned by PayPal
• Where the data sits. EU
• Independent checks. GDPR, PCI DSS
• Source code. Closed source
• Replaces. Square, PayPal Here

Zettle began as iZettle in Stockholm and was a genuine European fintech pioneer, bringing card acceptance to businesses that could never previously justify a terminal. The product still reflects that: inexpensive card readers, a POS app that turns a phone or tablet into a till, invoicing, sales reporting and eCommerce tools, at 1.75% per transaction with no monthly commitment.

For a market trader, a mobile therapist or a small shop, that is a complete answer with no fixed cost and quick onboarding, and the sales reporting is genuinely useful rather than decorative — knowing what sells when is the analysis a small business rarely gets otherwise.

The fact that shapes the recommendation is ownership: Zettle is Swedish and operated in the EU, and it is owned by PayPal, an American company. For most small businesses that changes nothing practical; for anyone choosing European providers because ownership rather than operation is the point, it is the deciding detail and it is not obvious from the product. At 1.75% it is also the most expensive per-transaction rate here, against Flatpay's 0.99%.

Standout feature. The European pioneer that made card acceptance affordable — now owned by PayPal, which is the detail to know.

#7 Orderbird

Berlin, Germany From €29 per month Contact sales

Best for: German restaurants, bars and cafés needing TSE compliance

• Operating company. orderbird AG
• Jurisdiction. EU (Germany)
• Where the data sits. EU (Germany)
• Independent checks. GDPR, TSE fiscal compliance
• Source code. Closed source
• Replaces. Toast, Square for Restaurants

Orderbird is built for German gastronomy, and TSE compliance is the reason that specificity matters. Germany requires a certified technical security device signing every transaction so records cannot be altered retrospectively — a legal obligation with penalties attached, which a general-purpose till from outside the market simply does not satisfy.

Around that sits an iPad POS designed for service rather than retail: table management with floor plans so orders belong to a table, payment integration, and reporting and analytics showing what sells and when. Running on iPad means no proprietary terminal to buy and staff who already know how the hardware works.

orderbird AG is based in Berlin with German data handling, from €29 per month, which is the accessible end for a compliant till system. The scope is deliberately narrow and worth stating: it is hospitality-focused rather than retail, primarily aimed at the German market, the monthly fee sits alongside card processing costs, and its integration ecosystem is smaller than a general platform like Epos Now.

Standout feature. TSE compliance handled — the legal requirement a till bought outside Germany simply does not meet.

#8 Trivec

Malmö, Sweden Custom pricing Contact sales

Best for: Hotels, restaurant groups and event venues running high-volume service

• Operating company. Trivec
• Jurisdiction. EU (Sweden)
• Where the data sits. EU
• Independent checks. GDPR
• Source code. Closed source
• Replaces. Oracle MICROS, NCR Aloha

Trivec operates a tier above the tablet systems in this category, and it shows in what the platform includes. POS terminals built for high-volume service, self-service kiosks that take orders without staff, handheld ordering so waiters take orders at the table rather than walking to a till, kitchen display systems, and booking and reservation integration — a complete hospitality ecosystem rather than a till with features.

That combination matters at scale. In a hotel or a busy venue, the constraint is service throughput rather than transaction cost, and handhelds plus kiosks address it directly by removing the queue at the till and the walk between table and terminal. Analytics and business intelligence sit above it for groups managing several sites.

Trivec is based in Malmö with EU data protection, and it replaces Oracle MICROS and NCR Aloha — which tells you both the scale it targets and the incumbents it competes with. Pricing is custom with implementation as a project rather than a signup, which is appropriate for the deployment and means there is no way to evaluate cost without a sales conversation. It is genuinely oversized for a single independent restaurant.

Standout feature. Kiosks and handhelds together — the two things that remove the queue at the till and the walk back to it.

#9 CashPad

Paris, France From €49 per month Contact sales

Best for: French restaurant chains and food service businesses

• Operating company. CashPad
• Jurisdiction. EU (France)
• Where the data sits. EU (France)
• Independent checks. GDPR, NF525 fiscal compliance
• Source code. Closed source
• Replaces. Toast, Lightspeed Restaurant

CashPad is built for French restaurants and, particularly, for groups. NF525 compliance is the legal foundation — France requires certification for cash register software, which is not optional — and multi-site management is the operational one, letting a chain run several restaurants from one system with consistent menus, pricing and reporting.

Its cloud-native architecture is what makes that work: real-time analytics across sites rather than end-of-day reconciliation, so a regional manager sees what is happening now rather than what happened yesterday. Delivery platform integration brings orders from the aggregators into the same kitchen flow instead of a row of tablets, and kitchen management covers preparation and service.

The iPad-based interface keeps hardware costs sane and staff training short. CashPad operates from Paris with French data handling, from €49 per month. Two considerations: it is aimed at the French market with NF525 as its compliance foundation, so it is not the choice for a German or Austrian venue needing TSE or RKSV, and the multi-site orientation is more platform than a single independent restaurant requires.

Standout feature. Delivery orders land in the kitchen flow rather than on a row of tablets — the fix every busy French kitchen wants.

#10 myPOS

London, United Kingdom Founded 2014 From 1.10% + £0.07 per transaction on domestic consumer cards, no fixed monthly cost below £10,000 monthly turnover; custom pricing above that No monthly fee tier, pay only when you get paid

Best for: Small merchants wanting the cheapest domestic card rate

• Operating company. myPOS World Ltd
• Jurisdiction. United Kingdom (adequacy decision, outside the EEA)
• Source code. Closed source
• Replaces. Square, PayPal Zettle

myPOS is a London-based payment platform offering card readers and mobile POS terminals across Europe, and its headline number undercuts everything else in this category: domestic consumer cards cost 1.10% plus £0.07 per transaction, with no fixed monthly charge below £10,000 in monthly turnover.

That is cheaper than SumUp's 1.69%, Zettle's 1.75%, and competitive with Flatpay's flat 0.99% once the small per-transaction add-on is netted out at low volumes. Above £10,000 a month, myPOS moves to a custom quote rather than a published rate, which is where the comparison needs redoing.

The product covers the same ground as the other payment-first entries here: card readers, a point of sale app, online and card-not-present payments, and a business account, so a market trader or small shop runs payments and reporting from one login. myPOS has been trading since 2014 and is authorised and regulated in the UK by the Financial Conduct Authority, with country-specific legal agreements covering merchants across the EEA.

What it does not offer is a hospitality-specific till: no table management, no kitchen display, nothing for a restaurant that needs fiscal compliance rather than a card reader.

The jurisdictional position is the detail to weigh. myPOS is a UK company operating under the UK's GDPR adequacy decision rather than EU establishment — the same position as Epos Now in this category, and one step behind the EU-incorporated processors like SumUp or Flatpay.

For a business that mainly cares about the lowest processing rate and a straightforward card reader, that distinction rarely matters in practice; for one that specifically wants an EU-established processor, SumUp or Flatpay remain the closer fit.

Standout feature. The lowest published per-transaction rate in this category, with no monthly fee below £10,000 in turnover.

#11 L'Addition

Bordeaux, France Founded 2012 Custom pricing via an online configurator (iPad, printer, payment terminal, ordering tablets) — no published rate Online quote instead of a trial

Best for: French restaurants wanting a configurable, quote-priced iPad till

• Operating company. Adstellam SAS
• Jurisdiction. EU (France)
• Source code. Closed source
• Replaces. Toast, Lightspeed Restaurant, Square for Restaurants

L'Addition markets itself as the leading till for French cafés, hotels and restaurants, and after more than a decade in the Bordeaux market — its publisher Adstellam was founded in 2012 — it has the CHR-specific feature set to back that up: order taking, payment, table reservations and online ordering in a single iPad and iPhone application, built for French hospitality rather than retail.

Coverage extends to France's overseas territories as well as Switzerland, Monaco and Luxembourg, broader reach than the other France-only tills in this category.

Where L'Addition differs from Tiller, CashPad and Innovorder is pricing transparency: there is no published rate. The site runs an online configurator instead — pick an iPad or iPad Pro, a wired or wireless printer, a payment terminal, mobile ordering tablets — and a quote comes back based on the combination chosen. That suits an operator who wants hardware and software bundled and priced together, and works against anyone trying to compare costs across providers without picking up the phone.

Adstellam is registered in Bordeaux under French law, which places it inside the EU alongside Tiller, CashPad, Innovorder, Orderbird and Ready2Order rather than with the UK or Swedish-but-PayPal-owned entries here. The honest limits: no published pricing means no quick comparison, the product is built around CHR rather than retail, reach beyond French-speaking Europe stops at Switzerland, Monaco and Luxembourg, and an operator outside those markets should look at Trivec, Epos Now or one of the German tills instead.

Standout feature. No published price: L'Addition quotes hardware and software together instead, the only till here that works that way.

#12 Innovorder

Paris, France Founded 2014 Starter from €79/month (1 point of sale, NF525-compliant till); Growth from €299/month (2–10 points of sale); custom pricing above 10 sites or for collective catering Contact sales

Best for: Fast-food chains, foodcourts and multi-site restaurant groups

• Operating company. Innovorder SAS
• Jurisdiction. EU (France)
• Independent checks. NF525 fiscal compliance
• Source code. Closed source
• Replaces. Toast, Clover, Lightspeed Restaurant

Innovorder is a Paris-based restaurant platform built for volume rather than a single dining room: self-service ordering kiosks, QR-code table ordering, delivery and click-and-collect integration, and connected refrigerated units for round-the-clock sales.

Founded in 2014, it targets fast-food chains, franchises, food courts, dark kitchens and collective catering — hospitals, schools, corporate cafeterias — a customer base that looks more like CashPad's chain focus than Tiller's independent-restaurant one, but built around self-order hardware neither CashPad nor L'Addition offers on their own product pages.

Pricing is published and tiered by scale: a Starter plan from €79 per month covers a single point of sale with one NF525-compliant till, and a Growth plan from €299 per month covers two to ten points of sale with kiosks, online ordering, loyalty, kitchen display and order-distribution systems included.

Above ten sites, or for collective catering specifically, pricing moves to a custom quote — the same pattern as the enterprise tier at most till vendors in this category, from CashPad's chain pricing to Trivec's venue-scale one.

NF525 compliance is native, the same legal requirement CashPad and Tiller meet, so a French operator is covered whichever of the three they choose. Innovorder is registered in Paris under French law, placing it inside the EU.

The honest scope: it is built for chains and high-volume formats rather than a single independent restaurant, the Growth tier's jump to €299 per month is a real step up from the entry price, and a solo café is better served by Tiller or L'Addition.

Standout feature. Self-service kiosks and connected vending units for round-the-clock sales — a combination no other French till here offers.

#13 Gastronovi

Bremen, Germany Founded 2008 From €69/month for the first licence, €59/month for licences 2–5, €49/month from the 6th licence; weekly tariff of €25 also available Contact sales

Best for: German hospitality businesses wanting an all-in-one cloud till

• Operating company. Gastronovi GmbH
• Jurisdiction. EU (Germany)
• Source code. Closed source
• Replaces. Orderbird, Toast, Lightspeed Restaurant

Gastronovi started, by its own account, above a friendly restaurant in Bremen, when four friends built a cloud till around their frustration with complex gastronomy software.

Founded in 2008 and part of the Transgourmet Group since 2017, it has grown to roughly 150 employees while staying an all-in-one product: the till itself, table reservations, inventory management, staff scheduling, marketing tools and Gastronovi Pay for integrated payments, plus a kitchen monitor bundled into the till at no extra hardware charge — a broader default bundle than Orderbird's.

Pricing is licence-based and published in full: €69 per month for the first licence, €59 each for the second through fifth, and €49 each from the sixth — a structure that rewards multi-terminal venues more than a flat per-site fee would, plus a weekly €25 tariff for seasonal spikes without committing to a full month.

That puts the entry price above Orderbird's or Ready2Order's €29, but it bundles reservations and inventory that both charge for separately or not at all, which narrows the real gap for a venue that would buy those modules anyway.

Gastronovi is a German GmbH based in Bremen, operating under EU jurisdiction alongside Orderbird and Ready2Order. The trade-off against those two: Gastronovi's own pages do not make the same explicit TSE fiscal-compliance claim that Orderbird and Ready2Order do, so a German operator should confirm that directly before assuming it is covered. What Gastronovi does offer that neither does is reservation and inventory modules built into the core product rather than bolted on, plus a weekly tariff neither publishes.

Standout feature. Reservations and inventory built into the core till rather than sold separately — the most bundled all-in-one here after Ready2Order.

#14 unTill

Wemeldinge, Netherlands unTill Air from €21.85/month (Basic), €33.85/month (Standard), €44.85/month (Hospitality Extra), excl. VAT with 15% off annually; unTill Prime on custom pricing 14-day free trial (unTill Air), no payment details required

Best for: Venues wanting a self-serve or enterprise POS tier

• Operating company. unTill Software Development Group B.V.
• Jurisdiction. EU (Netherlands)
• Source code. Closed source
• Replaces. Toast, Lightspeed Restaurant, Oracle MICROS

unTill is a Dutch till and payments platform sold under two names: unTill Air, a cloud POS on tablet or phone with built-in payments and no installation cost, and unTill Prime, a customisable enterprise system for larger or more complex venues.

Between the two, unTill covers ground Trivec covers at the top end and Ready2Order covers in the middle, but does it as one company offering both a light and a heavy tier rather than picking a single position, which is unusual in a category where most vendors specialise in one.

Pricing for unTill Air is published and tiered: €21.85 per month for Basic, €33.85 for Standard with kitchen and bar ticket printing, and €44.85 for Hospitality Extra with table layouts and course-based serving, all excluding VAT with a 15% discount for annual billing and a 14-day free trial requiring no payment details. unTill Prime, the enterprise tier, is quoted individually rather than published, the same pattern as Trivec's custom pricing for its top-end platform, so the two tiers are transparent and opaque in exactly the places you would expect.

unTill Software Development Group B.V. is registered in the Netherlands, with more than 25 years of history, over 8,000 clients served through a reseller network, and more than 125 integrations with other hospitality software. It is EU-established under Dutch jurisdiction.

The honest scope: Air is a lighter product than Ready2Order's or Orderbird's fiscal-compliance-first tills, and Prime's custom pricing means the enterprise tier cannot be compared on cost without a quote, the same limit CashPad's and Trivec's top tiers share — and this is the first Dutch entry in the category.

Standout feature. The only company in this category selling both a budget self-serve till and a custom enterprise one under one name.