# Epos Now — POS & Checkout Systems

Epos Now by Epos Now holds a panel rating of 2/5 from 6 AI judges (category median 2.5/5), as of 2026-11-03. Provenance: provenance unknown; sovereignty: not determined.

- Vendor: Epos Now (https://www.eposnow.com)
- Category: [POS & Checkout Systems](https://whats-best.ai/software/pos.md)
- Provenance (editorial classification): provenance unknown
- Canonical page: https://whats-best.ai/software/pos/epos-now
- Alternatives: https://whats-best.ai/software/pos/epos-now/alternatives ([markdown](https://whats-best.ai/software/pos/epos-now/alternatives.md))
- Data as of: 2026-11-04 · evaluated 2026-11-03 · oldest source captured 2026-11-03

**AI-generated.** Every score, rationale and verdict here is written by a panel of AI judges from public evidence — an analysis, not a hands-on test. Every fact quotes the vendor page it was read from. No score can be bought. How scores are made: https://whats-best.ai/methodology

## At a glance

- Vendor: Epos Now
- Headquarters: Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 3 Nov 2026
- Data hosting: Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 3 Nov 2026
- Free plan: Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 3 Nov 2026

## The panel's verdict

Epos Now is a POS vendor selling into retail and hospitality; persona-weighted verdicts run from 3.3 to 4.2. Payments and fees is the strongest criterion at 4-5: card rates are published exactly — 0,69 % + 0,10 € for domestic and EWR cards, 2,79 % + 0,10 € for premium, international and commercial ones — with Apple Pay and Google Pay named and standalone payments on a separate, non-integrated terminal. Checkout and hardware and operations and locations each score 3-4, resting on offline mode with 4G fallback, cash float at login, customer credit limits, stock takes and table service; accounting rests on a QuickBooks guide and a payout report, with no public information on DATEV or a documented API. Fiscal compliance is weakest at 0: the rationales are marked "not rated", no public information having been found on a certified technical security device, DSFinV-K or daily closings. Sovereignty spans 2 to 4, judges weighing the precisely named Madrid contracting entity against no public information on hosting, subprocessors or a data processing agreement. The bench computed no disagreements.

**Speaks for it:**
- Card fees are published exactly by card type — 0,69 % + 0,10 € for domestic and EWR Visa, Mastercard and Girocard, 2,79 % + 0,10 € for premium, international and commercial cards.
- Offline mode securely stores and automatically processes transactions when the connection returns, with an instant 4G cellular fallback.
- The German imprint names the contracting entity precisely: Epos Now S.L. of Madrid, with commercial-register entry, VAT number and an appointed data protection officer.
- A QuickBooks integration guide and an accounting help article are published, alongside a back-office transaction report keyed to the payment provider's reference.
- Front-till and hospitality basics are documented: cash float entered at login, customer credit limits, stock takes, and tabs and tables.

**Held against it:**
- We found no public information on a certified technical security device, a BSI certificate, a DSFinV-K export, daily closings or ten-year storage — fiscal compliance scored 0.
- We found no public information on supported devices, printers, drawers or scanners, digital receipts, split bills, returns or cancellations.
- We found no public information on staff roles and rights, per-employee reporting, or managing several branches from one back office.
- We found no public information on where sales and customer data are hosted, on subprocessors, or on a published data processing agreement.
- We found no public information naming the payment institution behind the terminal, on payout timing, or on terminal costs.

**Best for:**
- You trade at markets or venues with unreliable connectivity and need documented offline selling with a 4G cellular fallback.
- You want fixed card rates in writing before you commit — 0,69 % + 0,10 € domestic and EWR, 2,79 % + 0,10 € premium and international.
- You run a single gastro or retail site needing cash float control, customer credit limits, tabs and tables, and stock takes.
- You keep a separate, non-integrated card terminal and want to run payments on it alongside the POS.

**Avoid if:**
- You need a German cash register that can face a Kassennachschau — fiscal compliance scored 0 and we found no public information on a certified security device, a DSFinV-K export or daily closings.
- Your bookkeeping runs on DATEV — the pages publish a QuickBooks guide but we found no public information on a DATEV export.
- Your works council or data protection officer must clear hosting location and subprocessors before sign-off — the hospitality operations manager concluded this evidence would not pass that review.
- You must budget a full annual cost before committing — only card fees are public, and judges could not compute a year's cost from these pages.

## Scores by judge and criterion

Scores out of 5, each judge scoring independently against the published rubric (v1). "n/r" = not rated: the vendor publishes no price, or the judge found no public information on that criterion.

| Criterion | The Café Owner | The Retail Shop Owner | The Tax Adviser | The Hospitality Operations Manager | The Fee-Conscious Merchant | The Skeptic |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Checkout, receipts & hardware | 2/5 | 2/5 | 2/5 | 2/5 | 2/5 | 1.5/5 |
| Card payments & fees | 2/5 | 2.5/5 | 2.5/5 | 2.5/5 | 2/5 | 2.5/5 |
| Fiscal compliance (TSE, DSFinV-K, RKSV) | n/r | n/r | n/r | n/r | n/r | n/r |
| Inventory, tables, staff & locations | 2/5 | 2/5 | 2/5 | 2/5 | 1.5/5 | 1.5/5 |
| Accounting handoff, DATEV & data export | n/r | 2/5 | 2/5 | 1.5/5 | 1.5/5 | 1/5 |
| European sovereignty | 1.5/5 | 1/5 | 2/5 | 1.5/5 | 1/5 | 1.5/5 |
| Pricing transparency | n/r | n/r | n/r | n/r | n/r | n/r |
| **Weighted verdict** | **2/5** | **2/5** | **2/5** | **2/5** | **2/5** | **1.5/5** |

### The judges

- **The Café Owner** (v1.0): Runs a café with twelve tables, a counter and a terrace in summer, and closes the till herself at eleven at night. Wants an iPad till the student staff learn in one shift, orders that reach the kitchen printer, split bills and tips without arithmetic, a till that keeps selling when the Wi-Fi drops, a TSE she does not have to think about, and a monthly cost she can still read in the second year.
- **The Retail Shop Owner** (v1.0): 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.
- **The Tax Adviser** (v1.0): 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.
- **The Hospitality Operations Manager** (v1.0): 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.
- **The Fee-Conscious Merchant** (v1.0): 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".
- **The Skeptic** (v1.0): 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.

## European sovereignty — proven facts

Built only from facts on the vendor's own pages; a dimension we could not prove is left open, never scored as zero. Headline: not determined.

| Dimension | Finding | Points | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Legal entity | Not determined | — | — |
| Hosting location | Not determined | — | — |
| Hosting options | Not determined | — | — |
| Open source | Not determined | — | — |
| Data processing agreement | Not determined | — | — |
| Transfer impact assessment | Not determined | — | — |

## Key facts

Each fact is the vendor's own statement, cited to the source page it was read from ([S*n*] → Sources).

**Legal**
- Address: 28015 · Madrid · Calle de Vallehermoso 82 · Spanien [S2]
- Applicable law: Digitale-Dienste-Gesetz (DDG) [S2]
- Content responsible: 18 Abs. 2 MStV [S2]
- Copyright: Epos Now S.L. [S2]
- Copyright year: 2026 [S2]
- Dispute resolution: no [S2]
- Entity name: Epos Now S.L. [S2]
- Imprint version: März 2025 · 1.66 · Epos Now LTD · Epos Now S.L. [S2]
- Legal form: Sociedad Limitada (S.L.) [S2]
- Register: Registro Mercantil de Madrid [S2]
- Registration details: M-742232 · 41922 · 1 [S2]
- Registration number: B06803886 [S2]
- Supervisory authority germany: Bundesnetzagentur / zuständiges Gewerbeamt am Unternehmenssitz [S2]
- Supervisory authority spain: Ministerio para la Transformación Digital y de la Función Pública [S2]
- VAT id: ESB06803886 [S2]

**Pricing**
- Card fee domestic: inländische und EWR-Karten (Visa, Mastercard, Girocard) · 0.69 · 0.1 [S2]
- Card fee premium: Premium-/internationale/gewerbliche Karten · 2.79 · 0.1 [S2]

**Product**
- Business purpose: Vertrieb und Service von Kassensystemen (POS-Lösungen) sowie Softwareentwicklung [S2]
- Customer credit: Customers can be assigned credit limits and settle balances later via Customer Credit [S8]
- Digital wallets: Apple Pay · Google Pay · yes [S2]
- Float management: Cash float can be entered at login and adjusted via the Admin menu [S8]
- Hardwaresoftware: Hardware · Systeme · Software und Dienstleistungen · Zahlungsabwicklung [S2]
- Offline mode: yes [S5]
- Segments: Einzelhandel · Gastro [S2]
- Standalone mode 4g: 4G cellular · yes [S5]
- Standalone payments: yes [S5]
- Transaction report psp: yes [S5]
- UK shipping time: yes · 3 · 2 [S2]

## Questions

### Is Epos Now European?

Not determined: the vendor’s pages as captured do not say where Epos Now is based.

### Where does Epos Now store data?

Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 3 Nov 2026.

### Does Epos Now have a free plan?

Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 3 Nov 2026.

### What are the best alternatives to Epos Now?

As of 3 Nov 2026, the panel rates [ready2order (3.5/5)](https://whats-best.ai/software/pos/ready2order), [Square (3/5)](https://whats-best.ai/software/pos/square) and [Gastronovi (3/5)](https://whats-best.ai/software/pos/gastronovi) highest among the other 18 POS & Checkout Systems products evaluated. Ratings that look equal are rounded to half stars; the order uses the unrounded rating, then the name. The highest-rated European alternative is [ready2order](https://whats-best.ai/software/pos/ready2order) (EU-Made). Ratings are the AI panel’s opinion, formed from public evidence: [how scores are made](https://whats-best.ai/methodology#ordering). The full list, with European products first: [Epos Now alternatives](https://whats-best.ai/software/pos/epos-now/alternatives).

## What this page leaves out

- 85 product facts could not be confirmed on the vendor’s page as captured and were left out of this page and of the panel’s material.
- 11 support facts could not be confirmed on the vendor’s page as captured and were left out of this page and of the panel’s material.
- 6 pricing facts could not be confirmed on the vendor’s page as captured and were left out of this page and of the panel’s material.
- 4 data facts could not be confirmed on the vendor’s page as captured and were left out of this page and of the panel’s material.
- 4 integrations facts could not be confirmed on the vendor’s page as captured and were left out of this page and of the panel’s material.
- 1 compliance fact could not be confirmed on the vendor’s page as captured and was left out of this page and of the panel’s material.
- 1 hosting fact could not be confirmed on the vendor’s page as captured and was left out of this page and of the panel’s material.
- 1 sovereignty dimension could not be confirmed on the vendor’s own pages and is shown as unknown.

## Sources

- [S1] Vendor page: https://www.eposnow.com (checked 2026-11-03)
- [S2] Imprint — found from the homepage: https://www.eposnow.com/de/impressum/ (checked 2026-11-03)
- [S3] Checkout, receipts & hardware — found from sitemap: https://support.eposnow.com/s/article/Receipts?language=en_US (checked 2026-11-03)
- [S4] Checkout, receipts & hardware — found from sitemap: https://support.eposnow.com/s/topic/0TO7T000000TT75WAG/hardware?language=en_US (checked 2026-11-03)
- [S5] Card payments & fees — found from sitemap: https://support.eposnow.com/s/epos-now-payments?language=en_US (checked 2026-11-03)
- [S6] Card payments & fees — found from sitemap: https://support.eposnow.com/s/article/Payment-Payout-Report?language=en_US (checked 2026-11-03)
- [S7] Inventory, tables, staff & locations — found from sitemap: https://support.eposnow.com/s/article/Stock-Takes?language=en_US (checked 2026-11-03)
- [S8] Inventory, tables, staff & locations — found from sitemap: https://support.eposnow.com/s/article/Tabs-and-Tables?language=en_US (checked 2026-11-03)
- [S9] Accounting handoff, DATEV & data export — found from sitemap: https://support.eposnow.com/s/article/Accounting?language=en_US (checked 2026-11-03)
- [S10] Accounting handoff, DATEV & data export — found from sitemap: https://support.eposnow.com/s/article/Quickbooks-Integration-Guide?language=en_US (checked 2026-11-03)

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Cite as: whats-best.ai, "Epos Now — POS & Checkout Systems", AI panel analysis, as of 2026-11-04. https://whats-best.ai/software/pos/epos-now

Corrections: https://whats-best.ai/correct/1472?target=page