A Toast alternative built for food trucks

GetFoodTruckPOS suits owners who want month to month terms, their own card processor with 0% taken by the POS, and a phone or tablet they already own. Square and Clover are also common picks for trucks wanting bundled processing with lighter commitments. Compare total cost on /savings-calculator/ with your own sales numbers.

Owners often mention contract length, hardware costs, add-on fees for features like online ordering, or wanting to choose their own processor. Others simply need less than a full restaurant platform. Toast is a capable system, and big operations with brick and mortar sites may be well served by it. It comes down to fit and cost.

That depends on your Toast agreement. Read the term length, notice period, early termination terms and who owns the hardware. Ask Toast for the details in writing before you plan your switch date. GetFoodTruckPOS is month to month, so you can start the 30-day free trial now and line it up with your Toast end date.

Toast devices are built to run Toast's software and processing, so plan on using a phone, tablet or laptop for GetFoodTruckPOS and a reader from your chosen processor. Many network or Bluetooth thermal printers can be reused. If your Toast hardware was leased, check what must be returned. See /hardware/.

Yes. GetFoodTruckPOS generates an online store from your menu on every plan, with a today's spot post showing where you are parked and your hours. Customers can order ahead for pickup where you turn that on. If you want a fully custom site, add the managed website at /managed-website/.

Be clear on this before switching: GetFoodTruckPOS does not have an offline mode and needs a data connection to ring sales. Toast documents an offline mode. If your spots have reliable 4G or 5G, a hotspot and a backup SIM cover most owners. If you regularly park with no signal at all, weigh that carefully.

GetFoodTruckPOS is built for the UAE and Pakistan as well as the USA, with local currency, UAE VAT or Pakistan provincial sales tax, Arabic and Urdu right to left screens and receipts, and local payment methods recorded as custom methods. See /uae/ and /pakistan/ for city guides and local pricing.

Possibly, if you use Toast's deeper restaurant tools such as advanced kitchen display setups, payroll or large-group reporting. GetFoodTruckPOS focuses on what a truck needs: quick menu, modifiers, sold out, cash register, close-out report, stock and commissary transfers, loyalty and an online store. List the Toast features you use weekly and check them on /features/.

Export your menu and customer data from Toast, or ask Toast support for an export if you cannot find one. Clean the spreadsheet, import it into GetFoodTruckPOS, add modifiers and taxes, and ring a test sale. Download your sales reports from Toast before access ends. Our guide is at /help/import-your-menu/.