Toast POS vs Upserve

Toast is used by tens of thousands of restaurants. Toast is cloud-based, offers real-time software updates and provides industry-leading uptime, with 24/7 support.
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Top reasons to go with Toast POS

Toast products include point of sale and kiosk in the front of house, kitchen display and inventory management in the back of house, with payroll and reporting in the back office. Toast is the platform that gives you everything you need to power your restaurant.

Built for the Restaurants

Toast software and hardware are designed specifically for restaurants. Created with tight margins in mind to maximize efficiency. Toast products are built for front of house, back of house and back office operations.

Industry-Leading Handheld Point of Sale

Toast Go™ is a fully functional point of sale in the palm of your hand. Toast Go™ can fire orders and accept payments at the table. Serve more guests, turn more tables and connect your entire restaurant in real-time with Toast Go™ .

Integrations with 70+ Technology Partners

Build your ideal technology stack on Toast. Integrations with 70+ of the most popular restaurant technology providers, including best-in-class partners for online ordering, scheduling, inventory and reservations.

Commitment to Restaurant Success

With Toast’s 24/7 customer support, resolve issues in real-time. Toast continually rolls out new product releases and offers cloud-based updates so your restaurant is always running as efficiently as possible.

Why choose Toast over Upserve?

Upserve

Reliable network with top-speed performance

Toast is cloud-based, with an industry-leading uptime. When Wi-Fi is down, Toast has an automatic, synchronous switch to offline mode. You can continue to accept credit card payments and run operations seamlessly during offline mode.

Upserve

24/7 support and services

Toast won the 2019 G2 Crowd support team of the year. Toast has a nationwide network of in-market support specialists who partner with restaurants to ensure better service and response times.

Upserve

Industry-leading handheld point of sale

Toast Goâ„¢ is a custom-built 6" handheld designed for comfort, complete with a strap to make one hand use easy. Toast Goâ„¢ syncs with all other devices in the restaurant and give servers the ability to take orders and accept payments at the table.

Upserve

Online ordering connected directly to kitchen

With Toast online orders automatically sync to Toast kitchen display screens. Your restaurant then can send guests or servers notifications when either, dine-in or online orders, are fulfilled to create a seamless guest experience.

Upserve

Training and support from Toast team

Toast has a local presence in 230+ cities across the United States. These local sales, support and implementation specialists allow Toast to support every restaurant on the platform and make sure they are getting the most value from Toast.

Upserve

Restaurants Who Switched From Upserve to Toast

The House, a full service concept in San Francisco, California switched from Upserve to Toast in 2017.

Learn why they switched to Toast.



The company we were working with [previously] started to lose its footing and we knew we needed a stronger, more supportive partner. The support is the single most important thing about Toast. I always feel like there's someone to support us in a timely manner.

Angela Tse

Co-Owner, The House

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