What is Toast used for?

Toast is a restaurant point-of-sale and management platform with online ordering, payments and payroll tools for food-service businesses. It is a good fit for running orders and payments in a restaurant.

How much does Toast cost?

Toast is a paid product with no free plan.

Is Toast open source?

No. Toast is proprietary (closed-source) software and can't be self-hosted. Open-source alternatives to Toast include Open Source POS, TastyIgniter and Odoo.

What are some alternatives to Toast?

Toast competes with Square, Lightspeed and Shopify. For open-source options, see Enlisted's ranked list of open-source Toast alternatives.

Toast: features, pricing and alternatives

About Toast

Toast is a technology platform built for restaurants. Its point-of-sale system handles orders and payments in the dining room, and the wider platform adds online ordering and restaurant management tools, including payroll, so owners can run front-of-house and back-office tasks with one vendor.

Toast is a commercial product operated as a hosted platform. Specific modules, hardware options and pricing are described on the vendor's website.

Key features

Restaurant point-of-sale
Online ordering
Restaurant management tools
Payroll for restaurant staff

Good fit for

→Running orders and payments in a restaurant

Tags: pos; restaurant; point-of-sale; online-ordering; payroll; hospitality

Toast: questions and answers

What is Toast used for?: Toast is a restaurant point-of-sale and management platform with online ordering, payments and payroll tools for food-service businesses. It is a good fit for running orders and payments in a restaurant.
How much does Toast cost?: Toast is a paid product with no free plan.
Is Toast open source?: No. Toast is proprietary (closed-source) software and can't be self-hosted. Open-source alternatives to Toast include Open Source POS, TastyIgniter and Odoo.
What are some alternatives to Toast?: Toast competes with Square, Lightspeed and Shopify. For open-source options, see Enlisted's ranked list of open-source Toast alternatives.