Toast alternative — for everyone who isn't a restaurant

The Toast alternative for businesses that aren't restaurants

Name: ParallelPOS
Price: 149.99 USD

Toast is restaurant software — kitchen displays, table maps, coursing — and it charges you for all of it. If you run a retail counter, a food truck, or a multi-store operation, ParallelPOS gives you the parts you actually use: POS, inventory, CRM, HR/payroll, reporting and an AI copilot, month-to-month, no hardware lock-in.

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From $149.99/mo · billed monthly, cancel anytime · AI built into every plan.

Everything Toast charges you for — minus the restaurant parts you'd never use

✓Fast checkout on iPad, phone or the web — with an offline mode that keeps selling when the signal drops

✓No hardware or payment-processor lock-in

✓Retail-grade inventory: multi-location sync, transfers, reorder drafting

✓Built-in HR, scheduling & payroll with per-sale commissions

✓Customer CRM & loyalty included — no add-on fees

✓AI copilot on every plan · month-to-month, cancel anytime

Who switches from Toast to ParallelPOS

Retail counters & shopsStores that were quoted Toast because it was familiar — but sell products, not table service. Retail inventory, barcode checkout and payroll come standard here.

Food trucks & mobile vendorsA truck is a shop on wheels: fast item entry, offline sales when the signal dies at the market, and daily numbers on your phone. See the food-truck page.

Multi-store & enterprise operationsEvery location runs its own published-price plan; Enterprise adds warehouse, wholesale, manufacturing and a delivery fleet with driver apps. See the enterprise platform.

Honestly: still a full-service restaurant? Then keep a restaurant POS. ParallelPOS is not designed for restaurants — there is no kitchen display, no table map, no coursing, and we don't pretend otherwise. That's exactly why businesses that aren't restaurants shouldn't be paying Toast for those features.

Why businesses choose ParallelPOS

One platform, not five subscriptionsPOS, inventory, CRM, payroll, scheduling and reporting share one login and one set of data — no patchwork of tools to reconcile at month end.

AI that works for youA built-in copilot turns your live data into reorder hints, insights and report summaries — included in every plan.

No contracts, no surprisesSkip Toast's add-on fees and annual commitments. Run it on the web or the iOS app and cancel anytime.

See the math vs Toast

Add up what you spend on a POS, payroll, CRM and scheduling today — then see how much you’d save running it all on one ParallelPOS plan.

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Frequently asked questions

Is ParallelPOS a good Toast alternative for a business that isn't a restaurant?Yes — that is exactly who it is for. Toast is restaurant software with kitchen displays and table maps priced in. ParallelPOS gives retail counters, food trucks and multi-store operations the parts they actually use: POS, inventory, CRM, payroll and reporting from $149.99/month, month-to-month.

Does ParallelPOS work for restaurants?No, and we say so plainly: there is no kitchen display, table map or coursing. Full-service restaurants should keep a restaurant POS. Everyone else shouldn't pay restaurant-software prices for features they never use.

Can I leave Toast without buying new hardware?ParallelPOS runs on the web, iPads and iPhones you already own, with no proprietary hardware or payment-processor lock-in, so switching does not mean re-buying your counter.