Toast is a great POS. We’re a whole operating system.
Toast is a US-headquartered restaurant POS giant. Excellent if all you need is best-in-class POS hardware + payments. Built for the US restaurant; arriving in Europe, but Europe is not their primary market — yet.
The quick decision.
Choose Toast if…
You’re US-based, you want a turnkey POS-first experience with their hardware, and you’re prepared for US-style transaction fees + ecosystem lock-in.
Choose Inntally if…
You’re in Ireland or the EU, you need procurement + recipes + compliance alongside POS, and you want one platform you can audit and exit on your own terms.
The honest side-by-side.
Based on publicly available product information at the time of writing. Flag anything stale: hello@inntally.com.
| Capability | Inntally | Toast |
|---|---|---|
| POS (counter / table / KDS) | ✓ | ✓ |
| POS hardware ecosystem | BYOD + your choice of card terminal | Industry-leading |
| B2B procurement marketplace | Supplier catalogues supported | — |
| AI invoice processing | IntelliFlow (Textract + GPT-4o-mini) | Limited xtraChef integration |
| Recipe engine + live food cost | ✓ | Via add-on |
| Smartphone stock count | Real-time Socket.IO sync | Via add-on |
| Reservations | Built-in | Toast Tables (US-only) |
| HACCP / Compliance | Built-in | — |
| HR / rota / tronc | HR360 | Toast Payroll (US-only) |
| Events / catering quoting | ✓ | — |
| Card payments (EU) | Acquirer-agnostic (Stripe, SumUp, Adyen, Worldpay) | Limited EU rollout |
| EU data residency | eu-west-1 Dublin only | US-primary |
| ISO 27001 / 27701 | In flight (Q1–Q2 2027) | SOC 2 only |
| GDPR-native DPA + DPO | ✓ | Standard SaaS |
| Supplier integrations | Food, beverage and operating suppliers | — |
| Accounting (Xero, Sage) | Native | QuickBooks-first |
| PMS (Opera, Mews) hotels | Via Connect | Restaurant-only |
| Transparent pricing | Published tiers + audit | Sales-led, opaque |
Four honest differentiators.
Full operating system
POS is one of 13 modules. You can run the whole venue — procurement, recipes, compliance, HR — without integrating five tools.
EU-native
EU-resident infrastructure, ISO 27001 in flight and product decisions shaped around European hospitality operations. Toast is built for the US first.
Hardware-agnostic
iPad, Android, Windows. Any printer (ESC/POS). Card terminal of your choice (Stripe, SumUp, Adyen, Worldpay, Square). No proprietary hardware lock-in.
Supplier ecosystem
Inntally connects approved food, beverage and operating supplier catalogues. Toast doesn’t provide that procurement layer.
The honest acknowledgement.
POS hardware ecosystem
Toast has the deepest POS hardware ecosystem in restaurant tech — their handhelds, kiosks, KDS are industry-leading. If POS hardware is the deciding factor, they win.
US restaurant ecosystem
For US-based restaurants, their app marketplace + payroll + delivery integrations are unmatched. They’ve owned that market for a decade.
Switching from Toast.
Menu + recipe export
Menu items + modifiers + recipes exported via Toast API; mapped into Inntally Recipe Engine.
Staff + payroll
Staff records + roles migrated. HR360 takes over rotas + tips. Payroll integration with BrightPay / Sage Payroll / Xero.
Hardware
Toast hardware is leased; we work with your timing. Replace with an iPad + the card terminal of your choice at lease end.
See how the math compares.
Free workspace, your data, 14 days. We’ll send a like-for-like cost comparison at the end.