Lease vs buy POS hardware?

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Sharing my experience in case it helps others.

We recently made some changes to our setup

Has anyone else seen this?

Adam Young 👑 Master

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Chris Wood

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Oct 4, 2025

Make sure you're on the latest version. That fixed it for us.

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Harold Nguyen

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Oct 5, 2025

Cost us about $71/month all in. Worth it.

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Samantha Green

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Oct 9, 2025

Training took about 5 days for our staff.

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Carol Reed

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Oct 12, 2025

We had the same issue. What worked for us was reconfiguring the network settings

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Robert Garcia

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Oct 30, 2025

Agreed with the above. Also worth mentioning you should also check the settings

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Eric White

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Nov 7, 2025

+1 to this. We've seen similar results.

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Sharon Richardson

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Nov 11, 2025

For cafe, I'd recommend considering looking at multiple options

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James Mitchell

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Nov 15, 2025

Check out the tip management setting, that might help.

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Margaret Davis

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Nov 15, 2025

Great question! In my experience with Stax, it has been working well for us

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James Mitchell

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Nov 19, 2025

This is why we switched to Cake POS. No regrets.

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Frances Davis

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Nov 21, 2025

Had the same problem, support was very helpful when I contacted them.

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Rebecca Rogers

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Nov 22, 2025

The time-based pricing is definitely worth the extra cost IMO.

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Sharon Walker

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Nov 24, 2025

Cost us about $59/month all in. Worth it.

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Benjamin Turner

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Nov 25, 2025

Had the same problem, support was hit or miss when I contacted them.

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Jerry Davis

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Nov 28, 2025

Make sure you're on the latest version. That fixed it for us.

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