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 Tax Adviser
Looks after the books of sixty restaurants, bakeries and shops and has sat in on more than one unannounced Kassennachschau. Wants the TSE named with its certificate, a DSFinV-K export that opens in the auditor's software, the § 146a registration done, a procedure documentation that exists before it is asked for, a DATEV export with the right revenue accounts, and ten years of records still readable after the client changes tills.
ready2order
This judge's pick
SumUp POS
Criterion by criterion
Checkout, receipts & hardware
ready2order
A till app for iOS, Android, Windows and macOS, an own hardware family priced one-time (readyTab, readyGo 2, readyMax 2, readyMini) plus an Epson printer, Metapace cash drawer and Inateck 2D scanner, with receipt rolls matched to named printers, a tax-compliant digital bon by QR code including reprint, and an emergency mode at internet failure documented in the TSE log. We found no public information on offline limits, returns and cancellations, scales, rentable hardware, or any uptime or status commitment.
SumUp POS
The till runs on an iPad-based POS Pro with a 13-inch merchant touchscreen and 8-inch customer display, or on the Solo terminal and smartphone apps, with articles, variants, modifiers, discounts, tips, refunds and printed receipts, plus named hardware (Star Micronics MCP31Ci printer, ECD330 cash drawer, barcode scanner, kitchen display). Offline capability appears only as a developer-documentation heading for offline payments, with no statement of how long or which payments survive an outage, and split payments on the Terminal are marked 'demnächst'. We found no public information on digital receipts by QR code or email, nor on scales.
Card payments & fees
ready2order
readyPay is integrated with the payment partner hobex named, accepting Maestro/V PAY, MasterCard, Visa, Apple Pay and Google Pay, at a published flat 1.23% transaction fee with a worked example, payouts within two to three banking days, a cashless tip function, and a SumUp Solo terminal at 1.39% as an alternative; the hobex contract continues even if the POS subscription is cancelled. We found no public information on girocard, fees differentiated per card type, chargebacks, or any acquirer beyond hobex and SumUp.
SumUp POS
Fees are published by scheme — girocard 0,2 bis 1,39 %, Mastercard and Visa 0,8 bis 1,19 %, American Express, JCB, Diners Club and China Union Pay 2 bis 3 %, girocard transactions 7 bis 12 Cent — with terminals priced (Solo Lite 34 €, Solo 79 €, Terminal 169 €), Tap to Pay at 0 €, payouts by 7 Uhr next day with the business account, and the regulated institutions named (SumUp Limited under the Central Bank of Ireland, SumUp Payments Limited FCA register number 900700). Everything runs through SumUp's own readers and acquiring; we found no public information on using a third-party terminal or acquirer, and split payments on the terminal are 'demnächst'. The payouts list with dates, fees and statuses, and the daily Sammelgutschrift, support reconciliation with the card takings.
Fiscal compliance (TSE, DSFinV-K, RKSV)
ready2order
A cloud TSE is bundled with every system, receipts carry Kassennummer, TSE-Nummer, Start-/Endzeitpunkt, Prüfwert and Signaturzähler, the DSFinV-K export is stated, a Kassenbuch exists, grouping by Tagesabschluss (Z-Bon) is offered, ten-year GoBD storage and KassenSichV conformity are claimed, and the Austrian RKSV is met via certified trust providers with QR-code signatures and FinanzOnline registration through the admin interface. The TSE provider and its certificate are not named, and we found no public information on a procedure documentation, help with the German registration, or what an auditor receives in a Kassennachschau.
SumUp POS
The KassenSichV substance is real in outline: a free cloud TSE activated in the dashboard (one year validity, renewable) or a receipt printer with integrated TSE (30 months, then module exchange), cash payments recorded manipulation-safely, the one-month registration duty acknowledged, ten-year storage of the Kassendaten stated, and GoBD compliance with a DATEV export claimed. What an auditor will ask for is not shown publicly: the captured pages name no BSI certificate for the TSE, we found no public information on a DSFinV-K export, and a daily closing or Kassenbuch is not described — printing Abrechnungen is marked 'demnächst' and we found nothing on a Verfahrensdokumentation. Austria appears only as general revenue and cash limits and deadlines, not as an RKSV capability the vendor claims to meet.
Inventory, tables, staff & locations
ready2order
Stock management with counts, reorder and minimum levels, low-stock notifications, sets and arbitrary quantities; a gastro package with table plan, wireless bon printing to kitchen and bar, courses and split bills; staff access rights, a multi-login PIN, an employee report and product statistics; and suitability for one or several Standorte with a central product catalog synchronised across channels. We found no public information on suppliers and purchase orders, a kitchen display, self-order, a cancellation log per employee, or cross-site reporting.
SumUp POS
The software manages sales, payments, stock levels and reports with an Inventurfunktion, article import and export from the dashboard and an AI catalog built from a photo of the menu; hospitality gets tables and floor plans in the Plus plan, parked orders, routing to the kitchen and a kitchen display, and a kiosk order terminal is an add-on. Staff get individual accounts (up to ten per main account) with transaction logging and per-employee sales views by day, month, quarter and year, and multi-store management is claimed for retail. We found no public information on suppliers, purchase orders, recipes, per-employee cash differences or cross-branch reporting.
Accounting handoff, DATEV & data export
ready2order
A manual DATEV export is included free, and a paid DATEV Direktexport transfers automatically daily or monthly to DATEV Unternehmen Online once the day or month is fully closed, with grouping per Z-Bon or product group, booking data including tax rates and payment types, a configurable technical interim account (SKR 03 1360, SKR 04 1460) plus a reverse-charge account, BMD and RZL exports, and a separate access for the tax adviser. We found no public information on webhooks, a developer portal, or a stated full export of articles, customers and sales when the contract ends.
SumUp POS
A DATEV export is claimed for the GoBD-konforme iPad-Kassensoftware, the business account exports automatically to Xero and QuickBooks in CSV or PDF, and articles carry custom tax rates. The developer portal is public and substantial: a REST API with OAuth, webhooks, SDKs and CLI, a sandbox, a downloadable OpenAPI specification, endpoints for payouts with dates and fees, receipts as JSON, and named shop plugins (WooCommerce, PrestaShop, Wix, Medusa, Vendure). We found no public information on DATEV Kassenarchiv online or Unternehmen online, on booking to revenue accounts, or on a complete export including the fiscal journal when the contract ends.
European sovereignty
ready2order
The contracting entity is ready2order GmbH in Vienna (Firmenbuch FN 437331i, Handelsgericht Wien) with a Berlin postal address; hosting is on German servers, with Amazon Web Services in Frankfurt named, and the subprocessors are listed with locations and transfer mechanisms, including Cloudflare in the USA under standard contractual clauses, Domo and Twilio under the Data Privacy Framework, HelpDocs in the UK, Survicate in Poland and DATO in Italy. We found no public information on security certifications, a published data processing agreement, or the location of the cloud TSE provider and hobex.
SumUp POS
The contracting entity is SumUp Limited, Dublin (Business-ID 505893), regulated by the Central Bank of Ireland, with a German Impressum, support in Berlin, a privacy policy and an EU data regulation notice. The rest of the chain stays unproven: we found no public information on hosting location, on the subprocessors behind the cloud TSE, payment processing and receipt delivery, on a published data processing agreement, or on ISO 27001 or SOC 2 — the only certification listed for the terminals is ISO 9001:2015. The payments entity in the chain, SumUp Payments Limited, is authorised by the UK FCA rather than an EU regulator.
Pricing transparency
ready2order
Every module is priced publicly: the Kassensystem-Abo at 35,90 € monthly per Kassengerät, TSE-Paket 15,90 €, Gastro-Paket 23,90 €, Kassenbuch 13,90 €, Digitaler Beleg 7,90 € and DATEV Direktexport 7,90 €, alongside a 99 € activation fee, one-time hardware prices, readyPay at 1,23 % and SumUp Solo at 1,39 %, setup at 349 € and training at 199 €, free support, notice periods (monthly cancellable, annual with one month's notice) and prices excluding VAT. We found no public information on data-return terms after cancellation or chargeback fees.
SumUp POS
Nearly the whole bill is public: software at 0 € or Kassensystem Plus 49 €/Monat, hardware sets priced net and gross (Kasse 399 €, Starter-Kit 549 €, Komplettset 599 €, Einzelhandel-Set 649 €), terminals (Solo Lite 34 €, Solo 79 €, Terminal 169 €), the cloud TSE at no charge, card fees by scheme with the 1,39 % headline or 0,79 % ab 17 € / Monat, VAT treatment stated, instalments up to 24 months, no long-term contracts and a 30-day money-back guarantee. The annual cost still cannot be computed cleanly: the scaling rule for the Plus plan per till or location is not stated, support plans are unpriced, and above 60.000 € Jahresumsatz the transaction fee becomes an individual sales quote. The captured pages also give different hardware-package figures — 999 € plus a monthly licence on the GoBD page against the set prices above.
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.