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 Skeptic
Has seen a "free" till paid for twice over in card fees, printers that work with one vendor's software only, a TSE charged by the year on top of the licence, and a cancelled contract that left ten years of fiscal journals behind a login. Reads "100 % finanzamtkonform" with no TSE provider named and "DATEV-ready" with no export format — and asks what leaving would cost.
ready2order
This judge's pick
SumUp POS
Criterion by criterion
Checkout, receipts & hardware
ready2order
A priced hardware line-up (readyTab 649 €, readyGo 2 389 €, readyMax 2 1,199 € with removable customer display), the app on iOS, Android, Windows and macOS, a named Epson printer, cash drawer and scanner, receipt rolls listed by fit, and a digital receipt by QR code claimed tax-office-compliant. An offline emergency mode is stated and said to be documented in the TSE protocol, but its limits are not, and we found no public information on scales, returns handling or hardware rental terms.
SumUp POS
A real till with named kit: iPads in three sizes, a Star Micronics receipt printer, an ECD330 cash drawer that opens on cash payment, a barcode scanner, a separate kitchen display and an 8-inch customer display, with split bills, discounts, tips and refunds documented and the hardware priced to buy rather than rent. What I could not find is an offline mode for the till with its limits stated — the only offline mention is a section heading in the developer documentation — nor scales, label printing or any uptime commitment, so I stop one step short of the top.
Card payments & fees
ready2order
1,23 % per transaction, no base fee, no minimum turnover, a worked payout example (123 € gross, 1,51 € fee, 121,49 € net within 2–3 banking days) and the acquirer hobex named with its own PartnerNet for statements. The hobex contract outlives cancellation of the till subscription and a SumUp Solo at 1,39 % is a second terminal; the fee is not broken out by card type, and we found no public information on chargeback fees or tap-to-pay on a phone.
SumUp POS
Fees are published per card type — 0,2 bis 1,39 % for girocard, 0,8 bis 1,19 % for Mastercard and Visa, 2 bis 3 % for Amex and the rest, plus a 1,39 % pay-as-you-go and 0,79 % with Zahlungen Plus ab 17 €/Monat — terminals priced from 34 € to 169 €, tap to pay at 0 €, tips and payouts by 7 a.m. next day, and the regulated institution named (Central Bank of Ireland). But every euro routes through the vendor's own acquiring: we found no public information on attaching another acquirer or terminal on equal terms, and card payments reconciled to the daily closing are not described. The free-till-paid-for-in-fees structure is at least priced openly; the lock-in is structural, not hidden.
Fiscal compliance (TSE, DSFinV-K, RKSV)
ready2order
The cloud TSE is sold with every till, the DSFinV-K export, the TSE receipt fields, ten-year GoBD archiving, a cash book, the daily closing and the Austrian RKSV signature are all documented for two markets. The signing provider appears only as unnamed 'zertifizierte Vertrauensanbieter', and we found no public information on a BSI certificate, a Verfahrensdokumentation template, help with the German registration duty, or whether the fiscal journal is exportable after the contract ends.
SumUp POS
The TSE is included at no extra charge, as a cloud TSE valid one year and renewable or a receipt printer with integrated TSE valid 30 months, with cash recorded manipulation-safely, ten-year storage and a few-clicks registration via the dashboard — but no TSE provider is named and no BSI certificate is cited; the BSI mention on the pages states the law's requirement, not their device's certification. We found no public information on a DSFinV-K export, a Kassenbuch, a daily closing or a Verfahrensdokumentation, and Austria's RKSV rules are explained as background thresholds rather than claimed as met by the product. "Finanzamtkonform" with the TSE unnamed is exactly the pattern I read with a raised eyebrow.
Inventory, tables, staff & locations
ready2order
Stock with reorder and minimum levels, stock counts with generated PDF or Excel lists, per-product profit, a central product catalogue and CSV import are documented, alongside tables, wireless ordering to kitchen and bar, split bills, staff PINs with access rights and shift plans, and use at one or several sites. We found no public information on suppliers and purchase orders, a kitchen display, self-ordering, a per-employee cancellation log or cross-site reporting.
SumUp POS
Articles with photos, variants and custom tax rates, stock with an inventory function, tables and floor plans, a kitchen display with real-time updates, and staff accounts — up to ten per main account, PIN access in the Plus plan, per-employee sales visible to the owner — cover most of a single shop's needs. Suppliers and purchase orders, a per-employee log of cancellations and voids, and how central articles and prices actually reach several branches are not described beyond the bare words "multi-store management", so I hold it at the middle.
Accounting handoff, DATEV & data export
ready2order
A free manual DATEV export in standard format plus a paid direct export to DATEV Unternehmen Online, daily or monthly, grouped by daily closing if wanted, interim-account handling for SKR 03/04, BMD and RZL exports and a separate login for the tax adviser are all documented. The API appears only as a menu item, and we found no public information on webhooks, a developer portal, separate booking of card fees and payouts, or a complete export of articles, customers and the fiscal journal when the contract ends.
SumUp POS
A DATEV export is claimed for the GoBD-conform iPad till software, Xero and QuickBooks receive the payment data automatically with CSV and PDF as formats, and the developer documentation shows a full REST API with OAuth 2.0, webhooks, a sandbox and a downloadable OpenAPI specification — strong on the way in. On the way out it is thin: we found no public information on a complete export of customers and fiscal journals when the contract ends, or on access to past data after cancellation, while the pages state the ten-year archive sits stored in the vendor's own arrangement. "DATEV-ready" with no format named and no exit story is the half of the promise that costs you later.
European sovereignty
ready2order
An Austrian GmbH in Vienna with a Berlin postal address hosts on named German infrastructure (Amazon Web Services, Frankfurt) and publishes a subprocessor list with locations and stated safeguards — Standardvertragsklauseln for Cloudflare, the Data Privacy Framework for Domo and Twilio — plus an external data-protection officer in Vienna. We found no public information naming the provider behind the cloud TSE, on a published data-processing agreement, on ISO 27001 or SOC 2 certifications, or on the vendor's ownership on the captured pages.
SumUp POS
The contracting entity is SumUp Limited at a Dublin address, regulated by the Central Bank of Ireland, with a published privacy policy, a separate policy for personal services and a bug bounty — that much stands on their own legal notice. We found no public information on where the till's data is hosted or who the subprocessors are — the cloud TSE, receipt delivery, analytics — and no security certification for the POS chain beyond the terminal hardware's ISO 9001:2015. Half the chain is proven European; the unproven half is the half that matters for fiscal data held ten years.
Pricing transparency
ready2order
The year is computable from public pages: 35,90 € per till monthly or 430,80 € prepaid, TSE-Paket 15,90 €, gastro 23,90 €, cash book 13,90 €, digital receipt and DATEV direct export 7,90 € each, card fee 1,23 % without base fee, every hardware item priced from the 1,05 € receipt roll to the 1.199,00 € readyMax 2, setup at 349 €, training at 199 €, a 99 € activation fee, VAT treatment stated and the annual renewal with one month's notice. We found no public information on chargeback fees or the terms for returning data on exit; the captured pages also give different trial lengths for the digital receipt, 14 and 15 days.
SumUp POS
Plans and kit are largely computable: a free tier, Kassensystem Plus at 49 €/Monat, hardware sets from 549 € to 649 €, terminals from 34 € to 169 €, card fees by type, no long-term contracts and VAT treatment shown. What a buyer cannot compute from these pages: the price of the receipt printer with the integrated TSE (only said to be orderable in the shop), any setup or support fee, and — note this — the captured pages give different figures for the hardware package, 599 € for the complete set on one page and a one-off 999 € plus a monthly software licence on another; I do not choose between them, the buyer will have to.
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.