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Lease vs buy POS hardware?

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Looking for recommendations:

We need something that handles general operations well

Budget is around $151/month. What would you suggest?
Sean Stewart 👑 Master
1,410 points • Member since May 2025

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Rachel Rivera
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211 posts
Jun 5, 2025
Training took about 4 days for our staff.
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Megan Clark
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208 posts
Jun 6, 2025
Cost us about $186/month all in. Worth it.
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Jerry Rivera
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208 posts
Jun 27, 2025
Different perspective here - you might want to consider a different approach
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Jonathan Taylor
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215 posts
Aug 21, 2025
Training took about 1 days for our staff.
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Lauren Rogers
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229 posts
Aug 24, 2025
This is why we switched to PAR Brink. No regrets.
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Paul Murphy
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209 posts
Aug 29, 2025
This is why we switched to Grubhub for Restaurants. No regrets.
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Gregory Watson
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199 posts
Sep 2, 2025
Cost us about $184/month all in. Worth it.
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Raymond Harris
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198 posts
Sep 2, 2025
+1 to this. We've seen similar results.
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Joyce Chen
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204 posts
Sep 13, 2025
+1 to this. We've seen similar results.
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Elizabeth Green
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212 posts
Sep 15, 2025
Different perspective here - you might want to consider a different approach
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Chris Green
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223 posts
Sep 16, 2025
The multi-terminal support is definitely worth the extra cost IMO.
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Donna Ramos
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225 posts
Oct 9, 2025
Training took about 4 days for our staff.
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Mike Murphy
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226 posts
Oct 22, 2025
Cost us about $174/month all in. Worth it.
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Ashley Sanders
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196 posts
Nov 12, 2025
Great question! In my experience with Auto-Star, it has been working well for us
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Susan Moore
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207 posts
Nov 20, 2025
Had the same problem, support was very helpful when I contacted them.
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