For larger organizations—especially restaurant chains that are heavily franchised—housing a point-of-sale (POS) software solution in the cloud is a tempting possibility. Dubbed POS-as-a-Service (POSaaS), one of the top contenders in this emerging category is PAR Brink POS, which begins at $90 per month for a SaaS model (based on a one-terminal location and is then $50 per month for terminals 2-4).
PAR Brink POS bills itself as a leading cloud offering and focuses much of its marketing verbiage on that point. But, while PAR Brink POS delivers on the cloud’s value proposition for the most part, it came up short in a couple of other areas, which is why it lost out to fellow cloud POS vendor Square for the Editors’ Choice award this POS software solution review roundup.
See how Smiling Moose expansion plans hinge on their choice of POS here.