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 Hospitality Operations Manager
Runs operations for a group of eight restaurants in three cities with two hundred staff. Wants one menu and price list pushed to every site with local exceptions, staff rights that stop a waiter voiding his own bills, reports that compare sites by the hour, and a works council and data protection officer who can sign off what the till records about employees and loyalty guests, and where it is hosted.
ready2order
This judge's pick
SumUp POS
Criterion by criterion
Checkout, receipts & hardware
ready2order
The till runs on their own priced terminals (readyTab, readyGo 2, readyMax 2 with customer display, readyMini) or as an app on iOS, Android, Windows and macOS, with printers, cash drawer, scanner and receipt rolls listed at fixed prices, a QR-code digital receipt declared 100% tax-authority compliant, and an offline emergency mode documented in the TSE log and on receipts. We found no public information on how long offline operation lasts or how it syncs, on scales, on returns and cancellations, or on hardware rental terms.
SumUp POS
The till is real and named: an iPad-based Pro setup with the printer model (Star Micronics MCP31Ci), cash drawer (ECD330) and barcode scanner listed, a 13-inch till screen beside an 8-inch customer display, articles with variants, modifiers, discounts, split bills, tips, refunds and cancellation receipts, on device types from the Terminal to the Solo readers. Offline payments appear only as a heading in the developer documentation with no stated limits, and we found no public information on digital receipts by email or QR code, on scales, or on renting rather than buying the hardware.
Card payments & fees
ready2order
readyPay names its payment partner hobex, publishes a flat 1,23% transaction fee with a worked payout example, charges no base fee or minimum turnover, pays out in two to three banking days, supports cashless tips, and offers a SumUp Solo terminal as an alternative at 1,39% — with the hobex contract surviving cancellation of the POS subscription. We found no public information on fees broken down by card type, on chargebacks, or on reconciling card takings to the daily closing.
SumUp POS
Fees are unusually well published — girocard at 0,2 bis 1,39 %, Mastercard and Visa at 0,8 bis 1,19 %, American Express and others at 2 bis 3 %, a flat 1,39 % on the free plan and 0,79 % with Zahlungen Plus from 17 € / Monat, payouts by 7 a.m. the next day — and SumUp itself is the regulated institution behind it under the Central Bank of Ireland. Every path runs through SumUp's own readers and licence, though: we found no public information on attaching a terminal or acquirer of my own choice, and split payments on the device are marked as coming soon.
Fiscal compliance (TSE, DSFinV-K, RKSV)
ready2order
A cloud TSE is bundled (they state they sell no till without one), receipts carry Kassennummer, TSE-Nummer, Prüfwert and Signaturzähler, the DSFinV-K export is automatic, GoBD archiving for ten years is stated, and Austrian RKSV conformity is met via certified trust providers with a hardware security module and FinanzOnline registration. The TSE provider is not named, and we found no public information on BSI certificates, § 146a registration support, a Verfahrensdokumentation template, or the procedure when a TSE fails.
SumUp POS
Concretely evidenced: a free cloud TSE and a receipt printer with integrated TSE valid thirty months before module exchange, cash payments stored manipulation-safely, ten-year storage, and the one-month registration to the tax office via the dashboard. For the audit itself we found no public information on the DSFinV-K export, a daily closing or cash book, the TSE provider's BSI certificate, a procedure documentation template, or an Austrian RKSV claim — Austria appears only as an explanation of the law.
Inventory, tables, staff & locations
ready2order
The gastro package covers table plan and management, wireless ordering to kitchen and bar, courses and side dishes, split bills and happy hour, stock management includes counts, reorder and minimum levels with low-stock alerts, and staff get differentiated access rights, a multi-login pin and an hours and shift report. As an eight-site operator I cannot go higher: we found no public information on central menu and price management pushed to branches, local overrides, cross-site reporting, or a per-employee log of cancellations and voids — the vendor positions itself mainly for small businesses at one or more locations.
SumUp POS
The hospitality basics are there — floor plans, table and parked orders, a kitchen display with real-time updates, kitchen routing and an addable kiosk terminal, plus stock levels, inventory counts and per-employee sales visible to the main account by day, month, quarter or year. For my group it falls short: a cap of ten staff accounts per main account against my two hundred, finer rights only via an email to support, and we found no public information on suppliers, purchase orders, recipes, stock transfers between branches, or a central menu and prices pushed to several sites with local overrides — multi-store management is named as a feature without that detail.
Accounting handoff, DATEV & data export
ready2order
The DATEV handoff is deep: a manual export included free, a paid direct export to DATEV Unternehmen Online daily or monthly with grouping by daily closing or product groups, interim account handling for SKR 03 and SKR 04 with tax rates, BMD and RZL as further named exports, and a separate login for my tax advisor. We found no public information on webhooks or a developer portal behind the listed API interface, on booking card fees for reconciliation, or on a full export of articles, customers and fiscal journals when the contract ends.
SumUp POS
A DATEV export is claimed for the iPad till software, Xero, QuickBooks and CSV/PDF exports run automatically from the business account, and the API is genuinely public — SDKs and command-line tools, webhooks, a sandbox, a downloadable OpenAPI specification, payout lists with fees and structured receipt data. We found no public information on DATEV Kassenarchiv online or Unternehmen online, on revenue-account mapping in the export, or on a complete export of articles, customers and fiscal journals after the contract ends.
European sovereignty
ready2order
The contracting entity is ready2order GmbH in Vienna under the Handelsgericht Wien, hosting runs on Amazon Web Services in Frankfurt, and the privacy policy lists subprocessors with locations and transfer mechanisms — Cloudflare in the USA under standard contractual clauses, Domo under the Data Privacy Framework, plus an external Austrian data protection officer. For my works council and DPO sign-off, the cloud TSE provider is unnamed and we found no published data processing agreement and no ISO 27001 or SOC 2 certification.
SumUp POS
The legal notice gives me a European contracting entity to put in front of the works council — SumUp Limited, Harcourt Centre, Dublin, regulated by the Central Bank of Ireland — and a privacy policy with a notice on the EU data regulation exists. Beyond that the chain is dark: we found no public information on where till, staff and loyalty-guest data are hosted, on the subprocessors behind the cloud TSE, payment processing, receipt delivery or analytics, or on a published data processing agreement.
Pricing transparency
ready2order
Everything I need to cost eight sites is on public pages: the till subscription at 35,90 € monthly per device with annual prepayment figures stated, a one-time 99 € activation fee, the TSE at 15,90 €, gastro at 23,90 €, digital receipt and DATEV export at 7,90 € each, cash book at 13,90 €, every hardware item priced one-time, setup at 349 € and training at 199 €, card fees at 1,23 % with the SumUp alternative at 1,39 %, monthly cancellation or annual renewal with one month's notice, and prices stated excluding VAT. We found no public information on data-return terms after cancellation, which is the only piece missing from a fully computable annual cost.
SumUp POS
A single site's bill is largely computable: software at 0 € or Kassensystem Plus at 49 €/Monat, till sets at 399 € to 649 € net, readers at 169 €, 79 €, 34 € and Tap to Pay at 0 €, the TSE included free, VAT treatment and gross prices shown, no long-term contract, monthly billing and a 30-day money-back guarantee. The captured pages give different figures for the overall model — one states one-off costs of 999 € for the hardware package plus a monthly licence fee — and we found no public information on how cost scales per till or per site, on setup fees, or on priced 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.