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Upserve vs Toast

Considering a switch from Toast? Put Upserve through your service.

Upserve is built for full-service restaurants, combining an easy-to-use POS with guest, menu, and server insights to help create regulars and grow your business. See the workflows, then compare the setup, costs, and move from Toast.

See Upserve for your restaurant.

Tell us a little about your business. Then choose a time to explore the workflows and switching questions that matter to you.

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Who are you?

New or existing customer
Exploring, comparing, or switching
Help, another location, or an upgrade

Pick the one that fits.

Trusted by restaurants and hospitality groups.

Upserve vs. Toast: Go beyond restaurant reporting.

Both platforms can run your restaurant and report on overall performance. Upserve goes deeper to answer questions like which dishes bring guests back, who your regulars are, and how your servers are performing.

What matters
Toast
Guest insights

Guest Book builds history around guest visits, their spend, preferences, and more. Shift Prep brings that context into your pre-shift meetings.

Toast

Guest CRM brings orders, visits, and reservation data together

Menu decisions

Menu Insights connects item performance with repeat-guest behavior to show which dishes drive loyalty.

Toast

Restaurant reporting and cost-management tools; review the menu analyses in your package

Server performance

Compare server performance over time to identify top performers, spot trends, and inform your coaching.

Toast

Reporting includes employee productivity and server-level sales and item data.

Workflows for full-service hospitality

Designed for complexity of full-service shifts. Manage tables by service zone, assign servers by section, keep service moving with visual floor plans and tableside ordering and payments.

Toast

Supports table management, coursing, handheld ordering, and tableside payments.

Hardware and cost

Published software tiers; hardware separate; processing and setup require review

Toast

Approved hardware required; implementation and payment options depend on package

Less time on the busywork.
More room for your business to grow.

+15%
Increase in sales
Malted Barley
10%
Decrease in time to table
PRESS BISTRO

Make the next shift a more informed one.

Upserve Guest Book showing a returning guest visit history

Recognize the return visit.

Give the team guest history and preferences they can use before the first order.

Upserve Menu Insights highlighting dishes tied to repeat visits

Find the menu's quiet favorites.

Explore the dishes associated with repeat visits, including the ones a bestseller list can overlook.

Restaurant team reviewing service notes before a shift

Turn the numbers into a better briefing.

Use menu and server insight to focus the next team conversation.

Make the move from Toast a considered one.

Your team has habits. Your restaurant has requirements. Map both before replacing the system they know.

This is an evaluation and planning sequence, not a guaranteed implementation schedule.

1

Map what matters.

Bring your current POS, devices, integrations, and the service details you need to keep.

2

Put Upserve to the test.

Walk through the workflows that matter to your team. Review the proposed setup and costs.

3

Plan the move.

Confirm configuration, training, installation, and what data can transfer before setting a go-live date.

Personalized onboarding

A specialist rebuilds your menu, modifiers, and floor plan with you, so day one feels familiar, not foreign.

Professional installation

Terminals, handhelds, printers, kitchen screens, networking. Our team configures all of it. You run service, we run cables.

Training Mode

Give your team hands-on practice with your actual menu and POS workflows, without affecting live service or reporting.

24/7/365 restaurant support

Chat, phone, or email, any hour. Real people who have worked a rush and know what we are slammed means.

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Plans and pricing

One quote, built around your restaurant.

Three plans, priced per location, from a single room to a growing group. Your quote depends on your locations, your hardware, and how you run service.

Core

Best for owners running one or two locations

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Includes

Cloud POS on iPad
Tableside handhelds
Offline Mode, up to 24 hours
Menu, modifier and floor plan configuration
24/7/365 support
Pro (Most Popular)

The full stack for operators who want the guest and inventory side too.

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Everything in Core, plus

Guest Insights and Guest Book
Inventory
Online Ordering
Loyalty
Multi-location dashboard
Menu Intelligence and server scorecards
Pro+

For larger groups, central kitchens, and tech-forward operators.

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Everything in Pro, plus

Multi-unit and central kitchen tooling
Custom reporting
Dedicated account team

Payments on every plan, hardware quoted separately. You will see your full quote on the call, itemized. Ask about setup support on your call.

Have your Toast quote or statement handy. Compare the same devices, required tools, and payment assumptions.

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Questions before switching

How do Upserve and Toast compare on guest insights?

Both platforms provide guest profiles. Upserve brings that data into daily service, so your team can see who’s coming in, review past visits and preferences before the shift, and understand which menu items create regulars.

How should I compare the cost of Upserve and Toast?

Look at the capabilities you’d need to run and grow your business, not just the starting software price. Upserve keeps software pricing simple with subscription packages and clear sets of included features. Bring your current quote or statement and compare the complete setup.

What if we rely on other Toast products?

We’ll map the tools your restaurant relies on today against what’s built-in with Upserve as well as supported integrations. You’ll know what can stay and what would change before you make the switch.

Put Upserve to the test before you switch.

See the workflows your team would use, review the setup, and get a clear picture of the move.

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