The 10 best restaurant POS systems in Canada (2026)

Of the 10 systems ranked here, 5 publish a plan price on their own website. Square has a plan with no monthly fee. The cheapest paid plan is Eats365, from $29/mo; the highest starting price is Toast, from $120/mo. Goopter, Moneris, Silverware POS, Clover and Oracle Simphony 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 2.5% (Square) to 2.65% + 10¢ (Moneris). Goopter, Eats365, Toast, Silverware POS, Clover and Oracle Simphony do not publish a card rate, so you only learn it from a quote.

Square, Shopify POS and Goopter let you leave at any time or month to month. Lightspeed Restaurant (90 days notice, renews automatically), Toast (30 days notice, renews automatically) and Clover (30 days notice) ask for notice or set the term in your quote. Silverware POS (12 months, renews automatically) and Moneris (36 months, renews automatically) tie you in for a fixed term. Eats365 and Oracle Simphony do not publish its contract terms.

On our score, Square ranks first with 9.0 out of 10: no monthly fee, all plan prices published, card rate 2.5%, 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 has a plan with no monthly fee. You pay a fee on each card payment instead.

Square, at 2.5% 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 2.8% + 30¢; Shopify POS 2.8% + 30¢; Moneris 2.85% + 30¢. Lightspeed Restaurant, Goopter, Eats365, Toast, Silverware POS, Clover and Oracle Simphony do not publish a separate rate for online payments.

Square, Shopify POS and Lightspeed Restaurant publish all their plan prices. Goopter, Eats365, Toast and Moneris publish some prices and quote the rest. Silverware POS, Clover and Oracle Simphony give prices only on request.

Shopify POS: POS Equipment is purchased outright, not leased. Lightspeed Restaurant: hardware is bought at the Order Form price; discounted or free hardware requires staying a Lightspeed customer for at least 24 months, otherwise the merchant repays the hardware plus shipping. Moneris: moneris-provided equipment stays Moneris property and is rented for a monthly Equipment rental Fee; the merchant may stop renting at any time by written notice and returning it at its own cost. The others do not publish a hardware price.

Square, Shopify POS and Goopter have no fixed term, so there is no early exit fee to pay. Lightspeed Restaurant: early Termination Fee: unpaid non-recurring fees, plus all recurring fees that would have fallen due for the rest of the Current Term, plus the difference between list price and any discounted software or hardware price. Toast: the remaining software subscription fees for the rest of the term, plus any processing fee related to software financing. Moneris: deactivation fee of $300 for each location processing with us when the Agreement ends (a general end-of-agreement charge; no separate early-exit fee found). Silverware POS: on early termination the client forfeits all pre-paid Fees, or where Fees are not prepaid pays the monthly Fee multiplied by the number of months remaining in the Term. Eats365, Clover and Oracle Simphony do not publish an early exit fee.

Square, Shopify POS, Lightspeed Restaurant, Toast, Moneris and Silverware POS renew automatically at the end of the term unless you give notice. We did not find a renewal term for Eats365, Clover and Oracle Simphony.

Square: merchant retains all rights in its Content (photos, logos, products, loyalty programs, promotions); Square gets a broad licence to use it to provide and promote the Services; transaction data ownership is not addressed in these General Terms. Shopify POS: shopify does not take ownership of the Materials the merchant provides, but requires a licence to them. Lightspeed Restaurant: merchant retains all right, title and interest in Customer Content; Lightspeed holds a broad licence to use it, including aggregate and de-identified insights. Moneris: not stated: the merchant authorises Moneris to collect, store, use and disclose merchant and transaction information; the clause says nothing about who owns it. Silverware POS: client warrants it owns or has the rights to the Client Data and grants Silverware a worldwide licence to use it to provide the Services; Silverware owns anonymised data. We did not find a data ownership term for Goopter, Eats365, Toast, Clover and Oracle Simphony.

Moneris lists 1 POS system. Silverware POS lists 1 payment provider and 1 delivery app. 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.