As of 30 Oct 2026, the panel rates Gastronovi 3/5 and LINA TeamCloud 3/5 in POS & Checkout Systems. Weighted by what each judge cares about, 4 of the 6 judges pick Gastronovi and 2 pick LINA TeamCloud. Gastronovi scores higher on 3 of 7 criteria (Card payments & fees, Pricing transparency and Inventory, tables, staff & locations). LINA TeamCloud scores higher on 4 of 7 criteria (Accounting handoff, DATEV & data export, European sovereignty, Checkout, receipts & hardware, plus 1 more). Provenance — Gastronovi: EU-Made; LINA TeamCloud: EU-Made. Ratings are the AI panel’s opinion, formed from public evidence: how scores are made.
Gastronovi and LINA TeamCloud divide the bench, and no overall winner emerges. Gastronovi leads payments and fees (6.3 vs 4.0), operations and locations (8.0 vs 7.0) and pricing transparency (7.2 vs 5.5), with six judges leaning its way on each. LINA TeamCloud leads sovereignty (5.0 vs 4.0, six judges), accounting and portability (6.2 vs 5.0, five judges) and, narrowly, fiscal compliance (6.0 vs 5.7; two lean LINA TeamCloud, four tie) and checkout and hardware (5.3 vs 4.8; three lean LINA TeamCloud, one Gastronovi, two tie). Of four published weighted totals, three favour Gastronovi — fee-conscious merchant 6.4 to 5.3, operations manager 5.8 to 5.5, skeptic 5.7 to 5.4 — and the tax adviser favours LINA TeamCloud 5.6 to 5.3. Gastronovi publishes licence tiers of 69, 59 and 49 € per month; LINA TeamCloud publishes Core ab 99 €, Pro ab 249 €, Max ab 399 € net per month.
Choose Gastronovi if
You run several branches or a franchise and want central articles, recipes and suppliers inherited to locations with local overrides — operations and locations leans Gastronovi six judges to none (8.0 vs 7.0).
Card fees decide your margin — payments and fees leans Gastronovi six judges to none (6.3 vs 4.0); its verdict credits card fees published per type and volume, while the LINA TeamCloud verdict found no published fee per card type, acquirer or payout timing.
You need published licence prices before signing — pricing transparency leans Gastronovi six judges to none (7.2 vs 5.5), with tiers of 69, 59 and 49 € per month and a 17 % annual discount.
Your priorities match the fee-conscious merchant, operations manager or skeptic profile — those published weighted totals favour Gastronovi at 6.4 vs 5.3, 5.8 vs 5.5 and 5.7 vs 5.4.
Choose LINA TeamCloud if
Your tax adviser must sign off the till — fiscal compliance leans LINA TeamCloud on two judges with four ties (6.0 vs 5.7); the verdict names both TSE routes, fiskaly's cloud TSE on Frankfurt servers and Swissbit hardware, with DSFinV-K interfaces and a GoBD-conform cash book.
You want clean hand-off to accounting or a later switch of systems — accounting and portability leans LINA TeamCloud on five judges with one tie (6.2 vs 5.0).
Procurement weighs vendor sovereignty heavily — the panel leans LINA TeamCloud six judges to none (5.0 vs 4.0); both are German legal entities, with LINA TeamCloud's subprocessor exposure listed as US CLOUD Act exposure and Gastronovi's listed as unknown.
You want a named hardware line at the till — checkout and hardware leans LINA TeamCloud three judges to one with two ties (5.3 vs 4.8); the verdict records judges split 4 to 6, the 6 scores crediting a real, named hardware line.
Your weighting mirrors the tax adviser's — that judge's published weighted total favours LINA TeamCloud, 5.6 vs 5.3.
Read this comparison as one judge. Each weighs the same scores by what they care about.
The Tax Adviser
Looks after the books of sixty restaurants, bakeries and shops and has sat in on more than one unannounced Kassennachschau. Wants the TSE named with its certificate, a DSFinV-K export that opens in the auditor's software, the § 146a registration done, a procedure documentation that exists before it is asked for, a DATEV export with the right revenue accounts, and ten years of records still readable after the client changes tills.
Gastronovi
LINA TeamCloud
This judge's pick
Criterion by criterion
Checkout, receipts & hardware
Gastronovi
The till runs on terminals, tablets and smartphones, sends receipts digitally by QR code or email to the e-invoice standard, includes a free kitchen monitor with course control and a digital table plan, and states a front-office offline mode; preconfigured payment terminals with printers, 4G and exchange service are offered. I found no public information on a hardware compatibility list for printers, drawers and scanners, the limits of offline operation, or how returns and cancellations are handled at the till.
LINA TeamCloud
The pages name real hardware — the Audrey 15,6-inch stand till, the RS10 handheld, receipt printers, payment terminals and a customer monitor — plus table plans, split and merged bills, digital e-receipts with cloud backup, and a hybrid approach of offline-capable hardware with master data in the cloud. We found no published compatibility list for printers, drawers or scanners, no statement of the offline limits, and no description of returns and cancellations.
Card payments & fees
Gastronovi
Gastronovi Pay is a fully integrated payment product covering girocard, Visa, Mastercard, Amex, Klarna, Apple Pay and Google Pay, with fees published per card type and volume tier, tap to pay on iPhone or Android without extra hardware, tip suggestions, and the amount transferred to the terminal without retyping. The regulated payment institution behind Gastronovi Pay, the terminal cost and the payout timing are not described on the captured pages.
LINA TeamCloud
Integrated payment is documented in detail — EC and credit cards, Apple Pay and Google Pay, QR-code and contactless payment, card at the table, and payment directly on the mobile till without a separate terminal — and packages are priced with and without payment. But we found no public information naming the acquirer or payment institution, no transaction fee per card type and no payout timing; paying only the actual payment costs is not a fee an operator can audit in advance.
Fiscal compliance (TSE, DSFinV-K, RKSV)
Gastronovi
The cloud TSE is offered with fiskaly named and priced including transaction tiers, receipts are signed to KassenSichV, a digital cash book is a priced module, and Austria is covered with A-Trust signing plus registration of the till at FinanzOnline. For a German audit I found no public information on the DSFinV-K export, the BSI certificate of the TSE, the daily closing, a procedure documentation or ten-year GoBD storage.
LINA TeamCloud
The German fiscal core is there and named: cloud TSE by fiskaly with servers in Frankfurt am Main, Swissbit hardware TSEs in USB and SD variants, DSFinV-K-conform interfaces, an automatic cash book with daily closing, support for the registration and receipt-obligation duties, and data exportable at an audit. What I still want before a Kassennachschau: the BSI certificate for either TSE is not named, TSE failure handling is not described, no ten-year GoBD storage is stated, no procedure documentation is offered, and no second country's fiscal rules appear.
Inventory, tables, staff & locations
Gastronovi
This is deep hospitality operations: stock with suppliers, purchase orders and mobile stocktaking, recipe costing priced per ingredient, procurement portals such as Transgourmet, Selgros and METRO wired in directly, a free kitchen display, QR self-ordering, individual user roles, and central articles and menus pushed to branches with local overrides and cross-site reporting, plus a headquarters module for franchise structures priced per control centre. I found no public information on a log of cancellations and voids per employee or cash differences per staff member.
LINA TeamCloud
The stock module is the real thing — suppliers and article management, automatic reordering against target stock levels, digital inventory counts, recipes and calculations, live stock and contribution margins — joined by a kitchen monitor with course control, station routing, pickup and dispensing monitors and self-ordering, staff roles and rights, editable table plans, and multi-location monitoring of all TSEs. We found no description of a per-employee log of cancellations and voids, and cross-site reporting beyond TSE monitoring is not described.
Accounting handoff, DATEV & data export
Gastronovi
There is a free DATEV format interface with cumulative and single-booking export, an ETL ADHOGA export with its own chart of accounts, and a long list of named integrations including Nesto for staff data and nineteen hotel systems. I found no public information on a documented API or webhooks, DATEV Kassenarchiv online or DATEV Unternehmen online, or a complete export of articles, customers, sales and fiscal journals when the contract ends.
LINA TeamCloud
For the books this is strong: a GoBD-conform cash book with preconfigured DATEV exports, the DATEV Rechnungswesen pro file generated automatically, digital receipt images passed to the Belegbilderservice DATEV, and an interface to DATEV MeinFiskal and the DATEV Kassenarchiv online. We found no public information on a documented API or webhooks, and no stated complete export of articles, customers, sales or the fiscal journal when the contract ends; the portability right quoted is the GDPR one for personal data.
European sovereignty
Gastronovi
The contracting entity is Gastronovi GmbH in Bremen, registered at Amtsgericht Bremen, with an external data protection officer in Bremen, and the privacy policy names subprocessors: rapidmail in Freiburg, Atlassian in Australia for the status page under EU standard contractual clauses, and LogMeIn as an Article 28 processor with clauses available on request. Where the till and fiscal data are hosted I found no public information, and no security certification is stated anywhere on the captured pages.
LINA TeamCloud
The imprint names a German GmbH registered at the Munich court with a German VAT ID, data is stated as stored lawfully in Germany with the fiskaly cloud TSE on Frankfurt servers, and a processing agreement under Art. 28 GDPR is concluded. But the hosting provider is described only as possibly an unnamed external service provider, no subprocessor list is published, and WhatsApp communication runs through Meta Platforms Ireland Limited under a US parent; we found no stated security certifications.
Pricing transparency
Gastronovi
Licences are priced per till with published volume tiers from 69 € down to 49 € per month, every module from cash book to time tracking carries a monthly and annual price, the cloud TSE is priced with its transaction tiers, card fees per type are published, setup fees, minimum terms and notice periods are stated, and annual payment saves 17 percent. Terminal and hardware prices and the VAT treatment of the listed prices are not published, and support for Switzerland is quoted only on request.
LINA TeamCloud
Three packages are priced publicly, net per month — Core ab 99 €, Pro ab 249 €, Max ab 399 €, each with the without-payment price stated — and the scaling rule is explicit: one, two or three POS licenses per package, each further license 49 €, an order kiosk 75 €, kitchen or bar monitor 49 €. We found no public prices for the TSE, hardware, card transaction fees, or setup and support; the FAQ names a minimum-contract-term topic, but no term figure appears on the captured pages.
Sovereignty, side by side
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Legal entity
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Hosting location
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Hosting options
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Open source
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Data processing agreement
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Transfer impact assessment
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Facts, side by side
Only facts both products carry under the same definition — anything else would not be a fair row.
As of 30 Oct 2026, the panel rates both 3/5. Weighted by what each judge cares about, 4 of the 6 judges pick Gastronovi and 2 pick LINA TeamCloud. Which one fits depends on the criteria that matter to you; the table on this page shows both side by side, and each judge’s reading has its own page. Both were scored by the same AI bench under the same rubric, from public evidence only, as the methodology describes.
Is Gastronovi or LINA TeamCloud European?
Gastronovi is European (EU-Made). LINA TeamCloud is European (EU-Made). Provenance is read from each company’s own legal pages: who builds it and who owns it.