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 Retail Shop Owner
Owns a stationery and gift shop with a second branch across town and about four thousand articles, many in several colours. Wants barcodes scanned at the till, stock that shows what the other branch still has, transfers between the two shops, suppliers and reorders in the same back office, vouchers that work in both branches, and the month's sales handed to the tax adviser without a USB stick.
ready2order
This judge's pick
SumUp POS
Criterion by criterion
Checkout, receipts & hardware
ready2order
The till runs on iPad, Android, Windows and Mac, and the pages list and price own terminals (readyTab with built-in printer and scanner, readyMax 2 with detachable customer display) plus named third-party gear such as the Epson TM-m30II printer, a Metapace cash drawer and a 2D barcode scanner. Digital receipts go to the phone by QR code, claimed 100 % tax-office compliant, with a paper reprint always possible, and an offline emergency mode is recorded in the TSE log and on receipts. I found no public information on scales, barcode label printing, the limits of the offline mode, or returns handling at the till.
SumUp POS
The retail set for 649 € net brings two screens, receipt printer, cash drawer and a barcode scanner, with a 13-inch merchant touchscreen and 8-inch customer display beside it; the printer (Star Micronics MCP31Ci, several at once) and drawer (ECD330, opens on cash payment) are named models, and iPads are offered as till devices. Articles with variants and modifiers, discounts, tips, split bills, refunds and printed receipts are documented. Offline operation appears only as a heading in the developer documentation without its limits, and we found no public information on digital receipts by email or QR code, or on scales.
Card payments & fees
ready2order
readyPay accepts Maestro/V PAY, Mastercard, Visa, Apple Pay and Google Pay at a published 1,23 % per transaction with no base fee, payouts land in two to three banking days from the named partner hobex, and a worked example shows a 123 € sale costing 1,51 € in fees for a 121,49 € net payout. Cashless tips are supported, the SumUp Solo terminal at 1,39 % is offered as an alternative, and the hobex contract survives cancellation of the POS subscription. I found no public information on fees broken down by card type, chargebacks, or the regulated status of the payment institution.
SumUp POS
Fees are published by card type — girocard 0,2 to 1,39 %, credit cards 0,89 to 3 %, Mastercard and Visa 0,8 to 1,19 % — with reader prices from 34 € to 169 €, Tap to Pay at 0 €, 1,39 % or 0,79 % with the Zahlungen Plus abo, and payouts by 7 a.m. the next day with the business account; the payment institutions are named and regulated (Central Bank of Ireland; FCA register number 900700). We found no public information on using a terminal or acquirer of my own choice instead of SumUp's, or on reconciling card payments to a daily closing, so the freedom-from-lock-in level is not reached.
Fiscal compliance (TSE, DSFinV-K, RKSV)
ready2order
A cloud TSE is bundled into the subscription with no extra stick, receipts carry register number, TSE number, times, check value and signature counter, data is provided in the DSFinV-K standard, ten-year GoBD retention is stated, and a cash book with daily closing exists as an add-on; Austria is covered by RKSV-conform signing via certified trust providers with a QR code on every receipt and FinanzOnline registration. I found no public information naming the TSE provider, a BSI certificate, a procedure documentation template, or what happens if the TSE fails.
SumUp POS
The TSE comes free of charge — either a cloud TSE activated via the dashboard, or a receipt printer with integrated TSE valid 30 months — with cash payments recorded tamper-proof, ten-year storage stated, and GoBD compliance with data prepared for the tax adviser. But the TSE provider is not named and no BSI certificate is published; we found no public information on a DSFinV-K export, and one capture marks printed closing reports only as coming soon — exactly what a Kassennachschau at my till would ask for.
Inventory, tables, staff & locations
ready2order
Products import by CSV — essential for my four thousand articles — with stock, reorder and minimum levels in one list, low-stock alerts, stock counts as PDF or Excel, profit per product and bestseller reports, plus staff access rights, a multi-login PIN, shift planning, an employee report, and the vendor naming one or several locations as a fit with a central product catalogue. For my two branches I found no public information on stock transfers between shops, supplier and purchase-order management, or article variants for the same product in different colours.
SumUp POS
Variants with photos, custom tax rates, article import and export from the dashboard, real-time stock updates, multi-store management and an inventory count function are documented, along with up to ten staff accounts with separate logins, PIN access, per-employee transaction logs and reports by day, month, quarter and year, plus floor plans, a kitchen display and order routing for hospitality. For my two branches we found no public information on stock transfers between shops, or on suppliers and purchase orders in the same back office, so the multi-site picture stays general.
Accounting handoff, DATEV & data export
ready2order
The manual DATEV export is free in the subscription and a paid add-on pushes bookings automatically daily or monthly to DATEV Unternehmen Online, grouped per invoice, daily closing or product group, with BMD and RZL also named, tax rates and a technical interim account handled, receipts sendable as PDF by e-mail, and a separate login for my tax adviser without sharing my password. I found no public information on a documented developer API beyond a navigation link, webhooks, card payouts and fees booked separately for reconciliation, or a complete export of articles, customers and receipts when the contract ends.
SumUp POS
A DATEV export is named outright — GoBD-conform iPad till software with inventory function and DATEV export — data can be prepared for my tax adviser, exports run automatically to Xero and QuickBooks as CSV or PDF, and the developer site documents a REST API with webhooks, SDKs, a downloadable OpenAPI specification and a sandbox; e-commerce plugins exist for WooCommerce, PrestaShop and Wix. We found no public information on DATEV Kassenarchiv online, on a complete export of all records when the contract ends, or on access to past data after cancellation, so the month's figures reach the adviser but the exit path is undocumented.
European sovereignty
ready2order
The contract partner is ready2order GmbH in Vienna with a Berlin postal address for German customers, and the platform and backups run on Amazon Web Services in Frankfurt; the privacy policy lists its processors with names and purposes — Survicate in Poland, Twilio Ireland, but also Cloudflare and Domo in the USA and a London help-centre provider — with standard contractual clauses and the Data Privacy Framework stated as safeguards, and an external data protection officer in Vienna named. I found no public information on a published data processing agreement or the vendor's own security certifications.
SumUp POS
SumUp Limited at Harcourt Centre, Dublin, regulated by the Central Bank of Ireland with an Irish VAT number, is the entity behind sumup.de, and privacy policies exist for merchants and for personal services. But we found no public information on where till and customer data are hosted, on the subprocessors behind the cloud TSE, receipt delivery, payments or analytics, or on a published data processing agreement, so the chain beyond the contracting entity itself stays dark.
Pricing transparency
ready2order
Nearly everything I need to budget two tills is public: 35,90 € a month per till device (430,80 € prepaid yearly), a one-time 99 € activation fee, the TSE at 15,90 € a month, the cash book, digital receipt and DATEV add-on each priced, card fees at 1,23 % with the SumUp terminal at 1,39 %, every hardware item from the 649,00 € readyTab down to a receipt roll from 1,05 €, setup at 349 €, training at 199 €, free support, monthly cancellation or annual renewal with one month's notice, and all prices marked exclusive of VAT. The only piece I could not find is the data-return terms after cancellation.
SumUp POS
I can price most of a year from public pages: software at 0 € or 49 € per month with the Plus abo, hardware sets from 549 € to 649 € net with the retail set including the scanner, readers from 34 €, transaction fees of 1,39 % or 0,79 % with Zahlungen Plus from 17 € monthly, the TSE included at no charge, no rental fees, no long-term contracts, VAT shown on the prices, and instalments up to 24 months. The captured pages give different figures for the monthly software cost (one mentions 999 € once for a hardware package plus a monthly licence fee), and we found no public information on how the Plus plan scales per till or location, or on support plan pricing.
Sovereignty, side by side
Dimension
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SumUp POS
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.