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Lease vs buy POS hardware?

🛒 Buying Advice 👁️ 4,445 views 💬 11 replies 📅 Oct 20, 2025
Looking for recommendations:

We need something that handles restaurant operations well

Budget is around $188/month. What would you suggest?
Dennis Davis 👑 Master
1,455 points • Member since Apr 2025

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Paul Murphy
👑 Master
209 posts
Oct 30, 2025
Training took about 3 days for our staff.
Chris Wood
👑 Master
247 posts
Nov 6, 2025
The delivery tracking is definitely worth the extra cost IMO.
Miguel Rodriguez
👑 Master
189 posts
Nov 8, 2025
Check out the course management setting, that might help.
Jessica Price
👑 Master
220 posts
Nov 10, 2025
Great question! In my experience with Heartland Restaurant, it has been working well for us
Diane Adams
👑 Master
225 posts
Nov 12, 2025
Just went through this. Here's what I learned: take your time with the setup
Kyle Thomas
👑 Master
226 posts
Nov 12, 2025
We had the same issue. What worked for us was restarting the terminal
Gregory Watson
👑 Master
199 posts
Nov 13, 2025
Great question! In my experience with Presto, it has been working well for us
Scott Adams
👑 Master
238 posts
Nov 17, 2025
Different perspective here - you might want to consider a different approach
Amy Powell
👑 Master
226 posts
Nov 20, 2025
Cost us about $194/month all in. Worth it.
Eugene Nguyen
👑 Master
210 posts
Nov 20, 2025
Different perspective here - you might want to consider a different approach
Steve Hall
👑 Master
191 posts
Nov 26, 2025
I've been using Deputy for 24 months and it has been working well for us

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