The 10 best EPOS systems for Irish restaurants (2026)

Of the 10 systems ranked here, 5 publish a plan price on their own website. Square and SumUp POS have a plan with no monthly fee. The cheapest paid plan is Postree, from €49 per location a month; the highest starting price is Flipdish, from €119/mo, billed yearly. Epos Now, Revolut, FirstChoice ePOS, ithPOS and Foodhub for Business give a price only on request. Card fees are charged on top of the plan price; the next answer covers them.

Published in-person card rates run from 1.69% (SumUp POS) to 1.75% (Square). Postree, Flipdish, Toast, Revolut, FirstChoice ePOS, ithPOS and Foodhub for Business do not publish a card rate, so you only learn it from a quote.

Square and Postree let you leave at any time or month to month. Toast (30 days notice, renews automatically) and Foodhub for Business (4 months, renews automatically) ask for notice or set the term in your quote. Flipdish (12 months, renews automatically) and FirstChoice ePOS (18 months) tie you in for a fixed term. SumUp POS, Epos Now, Revolut and ithPOS do not publish its contract terms.

On our score, Square ranks first with 9.5 out of 10: no monthly fee, all plan prices published, card rate 1.75%, cancel anytime. The score covers published price, fees and contract terms, not features or support, so check the features you need on the vendor's own site.

Square and SumUp POS have a plan with no monthly fee. You pay a fee on each card payment instead.

SumUp POS, at 1.69% for an in-person card payment. A lower rate matters more as takings grow: on the same sales, every tenth of a percent is money kept.

Published online card rates: Square 1.4% + 25c; SumUp POS 1.69%. Postree, Flipdish, Toast, Epos Now, Revolut, FirstChoice ePOS, ithPOS and Foodhub for Business do not publish a separate rate for online payments.

Square, Postree, SumUp POS and Revolut publish all their plan prices. Flipdish, Toast, Epos Now and ithPOS publish some prices and quote the rest. FirstChoice ePOS and Foodhub for Business give prices only on request.

Published hardware prices: Square from €19. Flipdish: flipdish may provide a terminal for the duration of the Services as part of set-up fees, keeps legal ownership of it and may require its return on termination. Foodhub for Business: rental; the equipment remains the property of the Company. The others do not publish a hardware price.

Square and Postree have no fixed term, so there is no early exit fee to pay. Flipdish: termination compensation equal to the monthly average of the previous 6 months' fees multiplied by the number of months remaining in the Term. Toast: the remaining Software Subscription Fees for the remainder of the term, plus any processing fee related to Software financing. FirstChoice ePOS: remainder of the monthly payments in the initial 18 months consolidated and paid in full. Foodhub for Business: the whole of the Rental Payments that would have been payable to the end of the Rental Period. SumUp POS, Epos Now, Revolut and ithPOS do not publish an early exit fee.

Flipdish, Toast and Foodhub for Business renew automatically at the end of the term unless you give notice. We did not find a renewal term for SumUp POS, Epos Now, Revolut, FirstChoice ePOS and ithPOS.

Square: merchant's customers' and employees' personal information is processed by Square on the merchant's behalf as a service provider (data processor). Flipdish: merchant retains ownership of all content and data it provides to Flipdish. We did not find a data ownership term for Postree, SumUp POS, Toast, Epos Now, Revolut, FirstChoice ePOS, ithPOS and Foodhub for Business.

The others do not publish an integration list on the pages we read.

Every system gets a score out of 10 from four lines: prices published (2 points), entry price (3), fees (2, here the in-person card rate) and contract (3). The figures come only from each vendor's own website, read and dated, and the weights were fixed before any system was scored. Ties go to the system that publishes more of its prices.

The figures on this page were read from the vendors' own websites between 9 Oct 2026 and 12 Oct 2026. Each one shows its date when you hover it, and the sources at the foot of the page list every page and date.