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Budget POS for starting restaurant?

🛒 Buying Advice 👁️ 4,911 views 💬 10 replies 📅 Oct 28, 2025
Looking for recommendations:

We need something that handles restaurant operations well

Budget is around $71/month. What would you suggest?
Jonathan Park 👑 Master
1,360 points • Member since Nov 2025

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Jennifer Wright
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221 posts
Oct 30, 2025
We had the same issue. What worked for us was restarting the terminal
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Henry Martin
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196 posts
Nov 3, 2025
Great question! In my experience with Vagaro, it has been working well for us
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Robert Perez
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208 posts
Nov 6, 2025
Training took about 4 days for our staff.
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Heather Brooks
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202 posts
Nov 6, 2025
This is why we switched to Square Appointments. No regrets.
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Nancy Sanders
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217 posts
Nov 8, 2025
Had the same problem, support was responsive when I contacted them.
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Dennis Cook
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206 posts
Nov 10, 2025
This is why we switched to GoTab. No regrets.
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Willie Long
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193 posts
Nov 11, 2025
For restaurant, I'd recommend considering looking at multiple options
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Carlos Jenkins
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257 posts
Nov 15, 2025
We had the same issue. What worked for us was reinstalling the app
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Rebecca Bennett
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211 posts
Nov 17, 2025
The split check handling is definitely worth the extra cost IMO.
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Tiffany Wright
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210 posts
Nov 20, 2025
+1 to this. We've seen similar results.
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