As of 30 Oct 2026, the panel rates ready2order 3.5/5 and SumUp POS 3/5 in POS & Checkout Systems. Weighted by what each judge cares about, 6 of the 6 judges pick ready2order and 0 pick SumUp POS. ready2order scores higher on 5 of 7 criteria (European sovereignty, Fiscal compliance (TSE, DSFinV-K, RKSV), Pricing transparency, plus 2 more). SumUp POS scores higher on 1 of 7 criteria (Card payments & fees). Provenance — ready2order: EU-Made; SumUp POS: EU-Made. Ratings are the AI panel’s opinion, formed from public evidence: how scores are made.
ready2order is ahead where the lean runs 6 judges to 0: fiscal compliance (6.0 vs 4.0), sovereignty (6.3 vs 3.2) and pricing transparency (8.5 vs 7.0), with prices from 35,90 € monthly per till device to the 1.199,00 € readyMax 2. SumUp POS is ahead on payments and fees, 6.8 vs 6.7, and the bench splits: 2 judges lean SumUp POS, 1 leans ready2order, 3 tie; its verdict records the cloud TSE included at no charge and per-scheme card rates published. Checkout and hardware leans ready2order's way, 2 judges to 0, 4 ties (6.8 vs 6.5); accounting and portability leans 2 to 1 (6.3 vs 6.2); operations and locations ties at 6.0. The four weighted totals run 6.5 vs 5.3, 6.3 vs 5.1, 7 vs 5.9 and 6.9 vs 5.7, each to ready2order. Recorded jurisdictions are AT and IE; ownership, data residency and subprocessor exposure are unknown for both.
Choose ready2order if
You need German fiscal documentation at the till — the verdict documents TSE signing, the DSFinV-K export and Austrian RKSV (the TSE provider is not named), and fiscal compliance leans 6 judges to 0 for ready2order (6.0 vs 4.0).
You want the price list in full before signing — pricing transparency leans 6 to 0 (8.5 vs 7.0): 35,90 € monthly per till device or 430,80 € prepaid, TSE package 15,90 €, gastro 23,90 €, card fee 1,23 % with no base fee, hardware up to the 1.199,00 € readyMax 2.
Sovereignty carries weight in your procurement review — sovereignty leans 6 to 0 (6.3 vs 3.2), and the recorded legal entity jurisdiction is AT.
Your priorities track the tax adviser's weighting — that judge's weighted total is 6.5 vs 5.3.
Your cost focus runs to the total bill, not only card fees — the fee-conscious merchant's weighted total is 7 vs 5.9 and the skeptic's is 6.9 vs 5.7.
Choose SumUp POS if
Card acceptance is your largest running cost — payments and fees is the criterion where SumUp POS's mean is ahead (6.8 vs 6.7), with 2 judges leaning its way against 1; per-scheme rates of 1,39 % or 0,79 % with Zahlungen Plus are published.
You want the cloud TSE bundled without a separate fee — the verdict records the cloud TSE included at no charge, against ready2order's 15,90 € TSE package.
Your compliance review prefers an Irish-regulated payments entity — SumUp Limited, Dublin, is regulated by the Central Bank of Ireland, and its legal entity jurisdiction is recorded as IE (the sovereignty criterion itself leans 6 to 0 to ready2order, 6.3 vs 3.2).
You want a low-cost entry without a long-term contract — software is published at 0 € or 49 €/Monat with no long-term contracts, and the payments and fees lean (2 judges to 1) favors SumUp POS; hardware sets run 399 € to 649 €, and the captured pages give different figures for the hardware package (a one-off 999 € plus a monthly licence), with the bench reporting both.
Read this comparison as one judge. Each weighs the same scores by what they care about.
The Café Owner
Runs a café with twelve tables, a counter and a terrace in summer, and closes the till herself at eleven at night. Wants an iPad till the student staff learn in one shift, orders that reach the kitchen printer, split bills and tips without arithmetic, a till that keeps selling when the Wi-Fi drops, a TSE she does not have to think about, and a monthly cost she can still read in the second year.
ready2order
This judge's pick
SumUp POS
Criterion by criterion
Checkout, receipts & hardware
ready2order
The till app runs on iPad, Android, Windows and Mac, with own devices possible or hardware at printed prices (readyTab, readyGo 2, readyMax 2 with removable customer display, Epson printer, cash drawer, 2D scanner); split bills, side dishes, menu courses and happy hour come in the gastro package, receipts go to paper or a tax-compliant QR-code Bon, and an emergency mode when the internet drops is documented in the TSE log and on receipts. We found no public information on returns and cancellations, scales, or the limits of the offline mode such as how long it lasts and whether cards still run.
SumUp POS
The till runs on an iPad with a thirteen-inch screen and an eight-inch customer display, a named Star Micronics receipt printer, a cash drawer that opens itself on cash sales and a barcode scanner, with variants, discounts, split bills, tips and refunds all described. The offline story is only a heading called offline payments in the developer documentation with no limits, and we found no public information on scales, digital receipts by email or QR, or any uptime commitment.
Card payments & fees
ready2order
readyPay takes Maestro/V PAY, MasterCard, Visa, Apple Pay and Google Pay at a flat 1.23% with no base fee, tips can be taken cashless, payouts arrive in two to three banking days, the partner hobex is named with its own dashboard, the hobex contract survives cancelling the till subscription, and a SumUp Solo terminal at 1.39% is offered as an alternative. I found no girocard in the named card list, the fee is one flat rate rather than per card type, and we found no public information on tap-to-pay on a phone or card fees reconciled to the daily closing.
SumUp POS
The fees are published by card type — Girocard "0,2 bis 1,39 %", credit cards "0,89 bis 3 %", Mastercard and Visa "0,8 bis 1,19 %" — with Tap to Pay at "0 €", the terminal at "169 €", tips at the reader and payouts by seven the next morning through the business account, and the regulated institutions in Ireland and the UK are named. Every payment runs through SumUp's own readers though; we found no public information on bringing my own terminal or acquirer, or on chargeback fees.
Fiscal compliance (TSE, DSFinV-K, RKSV)
ready2order
A cloud TSE is bundled — they write they sell no till without one — receipts carry cash register number, TSE number, start and end times, Prüfwert and signature counter, data is provided as a DSFinV-K export, GoBD ten-year archiving is claimed, and there is a cash book and a daily closing that the DATEV upload waits for; Austria is covered with RKSV signatures from certified trust providers as a QR code and FinanzOnline registration in the admin interface. We found no public information naming the TSE provider or a BSI certificate, a procedure documentation, help with the German registration duty, or what happens when the TSE fails.
SumUp POS
A free cloud TSE is included that records cash and card sales tamper-proof, renewable after a year or as a printer-integrated TSE valid thirty months, with ten-year retention and a GoBD claim including DATEV export — a TSE I would not have to think about. But the pages explain the BSI requirement without naming SumUp's TSE provider or certificate, and we found no public information on a DSFinV-K export, a daily closing or a cash book.
Inventory, tables, staff & locations
ready2order
The gastro package covers my café's core — table plan and management, Funkbonierung to kitchen and bar, side dishes and menu courses, split bills, happy hour and takeaway — plus staff PINs with different rights, a multi-login pin, shift planning and an employee report, with stock counts on an auto-generated PDF or Excel list, low-stock alerts, minimum and reorder levels, sets, and bestseller and per-product profit reports, and the till is said to suit several locations. We found no public information on suppliers and purchase orders, recipes, a per-employee log of cancellations, cross-site reporting or stock transfers between branches.
SumUp POS
For hospitality this is real: table management with floor plans on the Plus plan, orders routed to a kitchen display or printed as tickets, staff accounts up to ten with per-employee sales histories and strict isolation, plus stock in the free app and an inventory function. We found no public information on suppliers and purchase orders, recipes, or cancellations and voids logged per employee.
Accounting handoff, DATEV & data export
ready2order
The DATEV handoff is real: a manual export is free in the subscription, an automatic daily or monthly upload to DATEV Unternehmen Online costs extra, bookings group per invoice, per daily closing or per product group, tax rates and an interim account (1460 for SKR 04) are handled, and my tax advisor gets their own login; BMD is named as a second booking system and receipts go as PDF by email. The API appears only as a word in the navigation with no documentation, and we found no public information on a full export of articles, customers and sales or the fiscal journal when the contract ends.
SumUp POS
A DATEV export is claimed for the GoBD-compliant till, Xero and QuickBooks are named with automatic CSV or PDF export, articles import and export from the dashboard, and there is a full developer portal with webhooks, a sandbox and payout and receipt endpoints. We found no public information on DATEV Kassenarchiv online, on booking with revenue accounts, or on a complete export if I end the contract.
European sovereignty
ready2order
The company is an Austrian GmbH in Vienna under the Vienna commercial court, the platform runs on Amazon Web Services in Frankfurt (their own line is stored on German servers), and the privacy policy names subprocessors with addresses — AWS Frankfurt, a London help-centre provider, Cloudflare and Domo in the USA secured by standard contractual clauses and the Data Privacy Framework, Twilio for SMS, plus Austrian and Italian firms — with an external data protection officer and 180-day deletion after cancellation documented. We found no public information on a published data processing agreement, ISO 27001 or SOC 2 certifications, or the identity of the TSE provider.
SumUp POS
SumUp Limited sits in Dublin, regulated by the Central Bank of Ireland, with a UK payment entity authorised by the FCA, and a privacy policy with an EU data regulation notice exists — a European face at the front door. We found no public information on where till and cloud-TSE data are hosted, on the subprocessors, on a data processing agreement or on security certifications, so the chain behind my ten years of fiscal data stays invisible.
Pricing transparency
ready2order
I can read my whole second year off the pages: 35.90 € per till per month (430.80 € prepaid), TSE package 15.90 €, gastro package 23.90 €, cash book 13.90 €, digital receipt 7.90 €, DATEV automatic upload 7.90 €, hardware from a 79.00 € drawer to a 1,199.00 € readyMax 2, cards at 1.23% with no base fee, free support, optional setup at 349 € and training at 199 €, a one-time 99 € activation fee, one month's notice on the annual plan, day and month licences, and all prices expressly excluding VAT. We found no public information on renting hardware, per-location pricing, or data-return terms after cancellation.
SumUp POS
Most of the bill is readable up front: software at "0 €" or "49 €/Monat" for Plus, hardware sets at "549 €", "599 €" and "649 €" with their contents listed, card fees by card type, the TSE included free, no long-term contracts and VAT treatment marked. The pages give different figures for a hardware package ("999 €" alongside the others), and we found no public information on the price of a second till or location or on support plans.
Sovereignty, side by side
Dimension
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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 ready2order higher: 3.5/5 against 3/5. Weighted by what each judge cares about, 6 of the 6 judges pick ready2order and 0 pick SumUp POS. 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 ready2order or SumUp POS European?
ready2order is European (EU-Made). SumUp POS is European (EU-Made). Provenance is read from each company’s own legal pages: who builds it and who owns it.
Do ready2order and SumUp POS have a free plan?
As of 30 Oct 2026, SumUp POS’s own pages state a free plan; ready2order’s pages as captured do not. Each product page links the pricing page it was read from.