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 Fee-Conscious Merchant
Sells ice cream from a shop in spring and summer and from a market stall at Christmas, mostly in amounts under five euros, and more of them by card every year. Wants the fee per girocard and credit card payment on the price page, a terminal he can choose rather than the one the till insists on, hardware that runs off a battery, no monthly fee in the closed months, and the real cost of "free".
ready2order
This judge's pick
SumUp POS
Criterion by criterion
Checkout, receipts & hardware
ready2order
The till app runs on iOS, Android, Windows and macOS and on their own devices from readyTab at 649,00 € einmalig up to readyMax 2 with customer display at 1.199,00 €, alongside a priced Epson printer, cash drawer and 2D scanner, and the digital bon by QR code is described as 100% finanzamtkonform. A Notfallbetrieb for internet outages is documented in the TSE protocol, but we found no public information on how long it lasts, which payments it covers or stated battery life for the mobile devices.
SumUp POS
The till runs on an iPad or the standalone Terminal with a rechargeable battery for a full business day — what I need at the Christmas stall — plus a 13-inch merchant touchscreen, an 8-inch customer display, a kitchen display, a barcode scanner and named printer and cash-drawer models. Orders can be parked, taken by table and printed as tickets, with refunds, tips and custom tax rates. Offline payments appear only as a section heading in the developer documentation without stated limits, and I found no public information on scales, barcode labels, digital customer receipts or a stated uptime.
Card payments & fees
ready2order
This is close to what I need at a Christmas stall: readyPay with partner hobex takes Maestro/V PAY, MasterCard, Visa, Apple Pay and Google Pay at a flat "1,23% Transaktionsgebühr" with no base fee, no minimum turnover, no cancellation needed and payout in 2–3 banking days, and the hobex contract even survives cancelling the till subscription. A SumUp Solo at "79,00 € einmalig" with "1,39% Transaktionsgebühr" gives me a second terminal choice. We found no girocard-specific figure or per-card-type fee breakdown, and no public information on tap-to-pay on the phone or card payments reconciled to the daily closing.
SumUp POS
Fees are public: 1,39 % per card transaction with 0 € a month, girocard 0,2 bis 1,39 %, credit cards 0,89 bis 3 % je nach Anbieter, Mastercard and Visa 0,8 bis 1,19 %, payouts by 7 am the next day with the business account, from SumUp itself as the regulated payment institution under the Central Bank of Ireland. For my five-euro cones the ranges are the problem: the pages give a spread rather than a firm figure per card type, and those figures sit on a separate fee page rather than the price page. The documented chain is SumUp's own terminals and acquirer, tap to pay costs 0 €, and I found no public information on using a terminal or acquirer of my own choice or on reconciling card takings to a daily closing.
Fiscal compliance (TSE, DSFinV-K, RKSV)
ready2order
The cloud TSE is bundled (no till is sold without it) at "15,90 € monatlich", receipts carry Kassennummer, TSE-Nummer, Prüfwert and Signaturzähler, the DSFinV-K export is provided automatically, GoBD archiving for ten years is stated, and Austria's RKSV with QR signature via certified trust providers and FinanzOnline registration is covered. However, we found no public information naming the TSE provider or a BSI certificate, and none on a Verfahrensdokumentation template or help with the German registration.
SumUp POS
A free cloud TSE or a receipt printer with integrated TSE is offered, activation is a few clicks via the dashboard, cash payments entered in the app are stored manipulation-proof for the ten-year retention period, and the software is called GoBD-compliant with a DATEV export. But the pages state only in general terms that a TSE must be BSI-certified, and I found no public information on a BSI certificate or an underlying TSE provider for SumUp's own cloud TSE. I also found no public information on a DSFinV-K export, a daily closing, a cash book, a procedure documentation or help with the tax-office registration; the Austrian rules appear only as general information on thresholds.
Inventory, tables, staff & locations
ready2order
Stock with Mindestbestand and low-stock alerts, Bestandszählungen with a generated PDF or Excel list, profit per product and bestseller statistics are documented, staff get access rights, a multi-login PIN and shift planning with an employee report, and the gastro package adds table plans and Funkbonierung to kitchen/bar. We found no public information on suppliers and purchase orders, a log of cancellations per employee, or central price management pushed to several branches — only a statement that the system suits one or more locations.
SumUp POS
Articles with variants, photos and custom tax rates, stock with an inventory function and real-time updates, floor plans with orders routed to a kitchen display, delivery integrations, an add-on kiosk order terminal, and separate staff logins — up to ten — with per-employee sales tracking from daily to yearly on a shared device with individual attribution; multi-store management is listed as a retail feature. The depth under that list is thin: I found no public information on suppliers, purchase orders or a per-employee log of cancellations and voids. Granting staff more rights means contacting support, and custom roles exist only as beta API endpoints.
Accounting handoff, DATEV & data export
ready2order
DATEV is deep here: the manual export is included at no cost, the "DATEV Direktexport" transmits daily or monthly to DATEV Unternehmen Online with grouping by Z-Bon or product groups, interim accounts for SKR 03/04 are explained, BMD and RZL are named, and the tax advisor can get separate access to the till and admin backend. We found no public information on webhooks or a developer portal behind the listed API, or on a full export of articles, customers and sales when the contract ends.
SumUp POS
A DATEV export is named, Xero, QuickBooks and spreadsheet programmes receive the data automatically in CSV or PDF, over a dozen further integrations are listed including payroll and staff tools, and there is a documented REST API with webhooks, SDKs, a CLI, a sandbox and endpoints for transactions, payouts with their fees, and structured receipt data. For the books what remains open: I found no public information on DATEV Kassenarchiv online or DATEV Unternehmen online, on booking card payouts and fees into revenue accounts, or on a complete export of customers and fiscal journals when the contract ends.
European sovereignty
ready2order
An Austrian GmbH seated in Vienna with a Berlin postal address, data "auf deutschen Servern" at Amazon Web Services in Frankfurt, an external Viennese data protection officer, and a privacy policy naming subprocessors with their addresses. Cloudflare (CDN, USA), Domo (analytics, USA) and Twilio sit in the chain, covered by Standardvertragsklauseln or the Data Privacy Framework, and support documents run through a UK provider; we found no public information on ISO 27001 or SOC 2 certifications, a published data processing agreement, or where the cloud TSE itself operates.
SumUp POS
The contracting entity is SumUp Limited at Harcourt Centre, Dublin, regulated by the Central Bank of Ireland, and payments run through the same group, so entity and payment institution are European. The rest of the chain stays dark: the hosting location of the till data and the free cloud TSE is not stated, subprocessors are not listed, and I found no public information on a published data processing agreement or on ISO 27001 or SOC 2 certification; only an ISO 9001:2015 quality certificate for the terminals appears.
Pricing transparency
ready2order
I can almost compute my year from the price page alone: the Kassensystem-Abo at "35,90 € monatlich" or "430,80 € pro Jahr bei jährlicher Vorauszahlung" pro Kassengerät, a one-time 99 € activation fee, TSE-Paket at "15,90 € monatlich", gastro, Kassenbuch, digital bon and DATEV add-ons each priced monthly and annually, every device and accessory from 79,00 € to 1.199,00 €, setup at 349 € and training at 199 €, free support, stated notice periods, prices excl. VAT, and day and month licences for my closed season. What keeps it short of full computability: we found no published chargeback fees and no data-return terms after cancellation.
SumUp POS
Nearly everything I need for a year's sum is public: the till software at 0 € a month or 49 € with the Plus plan, hardware sets from 399 € to 649 €, the Terminal at 169 €, the TSE included at no charge, 1,39 % per transaction or 0,79 % with Zahlungen Plus ab 17 € / Monat, no long-term contracts, VAT shown net and gross, free shipping, a 30-day money-back guarantee and instalments up to 24 months. Two things blur the sum: girocard and credit-card fees are published only as ranges je nach Anbieter, and the captured pages give different figures for the hardware and software costs — one describes a 999 € hardware package plus a monthly software licence beside the one-off set prices. I found no public information on setup or support fees or on data-return terms at cancellation.
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.