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Lease vs buy POS hardware?

🛒 Buying Advice 👁️ 4,846 views 💬 14 replies 📅 Jun 14, 2025
Quick question for the community:

We're trying to figure out the best approach for our retail

Would love to hear from others who've dealt with this.
Rebecca Anderson 👑 Master
1,665 points • Member since Mar 2025

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Jack Henderson
👑 Master
224 posts
Jun 18, 2025
Cost us about $112/month all in. Worth it.
Joyce Ross
👑 Master
198 posts
Jul 16, 2025
+1 to this. We've seen similar results.
Kevin Watson
👑 Master
216 posts
Jul 21, 2025
I've been using TouchBistro for 18 months and it has been working well for us
Nancy Park
👑 Master
227 posts
Aug 13, 2025
Different perspective here - you might want to consider a different approach
Joyce Davis
👑 Master
206 posts
Aug 17, 2025
We had the same issue. What worked for us was reconfiguring the network settings
Susan Johnson
👑 Master
225 posts
Aug 30, 2025
I've been using Toast POS for 18 months and it has been working well for us
Brenda Park
👑 Master
231 posts
Aug 31, 2025
Training took about 2 days for our staff.
Carlos Jenkins
👑 Master
257 posts
Sep 14, 2025
I've been using Lightspeed Restaurant for 9 months and it has been working well for us
Henry Martin
👑 Master
196 posts
Sep 14, 2025
Agreed with the above. Also worth mentioning you should also check the settings
Justin Young
👑 Master
217 posts
Sep 17, 2025
Make sure you're on the latest version. That fixed it for us.
Elizabeth Mitchell
👑 Master
203 posts
Oct 7, 2025
Different perspective here - you might want to consider a different approach
Brittany Kim
👑 Master
187 posts
Oct 27, 2025
For retail, I'd recommend considering looking at multiple options
Eugene Bennett
👑 Master
205 posts
Nov 10, 2025
Make sure you're on the latest version. That fixed it for us.
Jennifer Carter
👑 Master
236 posts
Nov 19, 2025
For retail, I'd recommend considering looking at multiple options

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