# Tebi — POS & Checkout Systems

Tebi by Tebi B.V. holds a panel rating of 2.5/5 from 6 AI judges (category median 2.5/5), as of 2026-10-30. Provenance: EU-Made; sovereignty: not determined.

- Vendor: Tebi B.V. (https://www.tebi.com/de/)
- Category: [POS & Checkout Systems](https://whats-best.ai/software/pos.md)
- Provenance (editorial classification): EU-Made
- Canonical page: https://whats-best.ai/software/pos/tebi
- Alternatives: https://whats-best.ai/software/pos/tebi/alternatives ([markdown](https://whats-best.ai/software/pos/tebi/alternatives.md))
- Data as of: 2026-11-04 · evaluated 2026-10-30 · oldest source captured 2026-10-29

**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: Tebi B.V.
- Headquarters: Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 29 Oct 2026
- Data hosting: Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 29 Oct 2026
- Free plan: Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 29 Oct 2026

## The panel's verdict

Tebi B.V., an Amsterdam-based hospitality till, scores highest on operations and locations, computed range 6 to 6: one shared list for sales and stock, smartphone counting with automatic reconciliation, FIFO costs and a kitchen monitor. Fiscal compliance follows at 5 to 6, on a certified cloud TSE, a DSFinV-K export in under a minute, automatic Z-reports and a digital cashbook; the judges at 5 note no published TSE certificate or help with the § 146a registration. Pricing transparency is the low point, spanning 1 to 3: the pricing page shows only a promotion — three months of Tebi Reservations free of subscription and booking fees until 31.12.26 — and no plan, TSE, hardware or card fee, so no annual cost is computable. Payments and fees, at 3 to 4, and checkout and hardware, at 4 to 5, lose marks for an unnamed acquirer and no published receipt printers or scanners. Sovereignty scores 5 to 6: EFSTA processes fiscal data only within the EEA, Intercom hosts in Dublin, while Mailchimp and Vitally process in the United States; the till's own hosting location is not stated.

**Speaks for it:**
- The sales grid and stock list are one and the same, with real-time decrement by bottle, carafe or glass, counting by smartphone or desktop, automatic reconciliation and FIFO cost tracking.
- A certified cloud TSE signs from the first transaction with no extra hardware, and the complete DSFinV-K export is produced in under a minute.
- Z-reports, a digital cashbook and a one-click DATEV export in the format over 80% of German tax advisers use are generated automatically from daily operations, with GoBD data archivable via DATEV, the tax adviser or one's own system.
- Any iOS or Android device becomes a till and any phone becomes a terminal, each with no additional licence fee.
- The hospitality layer includes a kitchen monitor, drag-and-drop courses, QR ordering, tips at every sale and terminal-side splits per person, item or table.

**Held against it:**
- Pricing transparency scores 1 to 3 — the pricing page shows only a promotion for Tebi Reservations until 31.12.26, and we found no public information on plan prices, the TSE fee, hardware or card fees.
- The acquirer behind card payments is not named on the captured pages, and we found no public information on transaction fees, terminal costs or payout timing.
- We found no public information on receipt printers, cash drawers or scanners, or on how long offline selling holds and how it syncs.
- We found no public information on where the till's own sales and customer data are hosted, or on ISO 27001 or SOC 2 certification.
- We found no public information on multi-branch management from one back office, per-employee void logs, or a full data export when the contract ends.

**Best for:**
- You run a single-site German restaurant, bar or café and want a certified cloud TSE, a DSFinV-K export in under a minute and a digital cashbook with no extra fiscal hardware.
- Your tax adviser works with DATEV and you want Z-reports, the cashbook and the export generated automatically from daily operations.
- You sell drinks by bottle, carafe or glass and want stock decremented in real time from one shared sales-and-inventory list.
- You already own iOS or Android devices and want to add tills and tap-to-pay with no additional licence fee.

**Avoid if:**
- You need a firm annual budget before committing — pricing transparency scores 1 to 3, and the pricing page shows only a reservations promotion valid until 31.12.26.
- You must know the cost of a card sale in advance — ask the vendor: the public pages we read do not show it
- You run several branches and need one back office with cross-site reporting or stock transfers — ask the vendor: the public pages we read do not show it
- Your data policy requires all processors inside the EEA — ask the vendor: the public pages we read do not show it

## 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 | 2.5/5 | 2/5 | 2/5 | 2/5 | 2/5 | 2/5 |
| Card payments & fees | 2/5 | 2/5 | 2/5 | 2/5 | 1.5/5 | 2/5 |
| Fiscal compliance (TSE, DSFinV-K, RKSV) | 2.5/5 | 3/5 | 3/5 | 3/5 | 3/5 | 2.5/5 |
| Inventory, tables, staff & locations | 3/5 | 3/5 | 3/5 | 3/5 | 3/5 | 3/5 |
| Accounting handoff, DATEV & data export | 2/5 | 2.5/5 | 2/5 | 2/5 | 2/5 | 2/5 |
| European sovereignty | 2.5/5 | 2.5/5 | 3/5 | 3/5 | 3/5 | 2.5/5 |
| Pricing transparency | 1/5 | 1/5 | 1/5 | 0.5/5 | 0.5/5 | 1.5/5 |
| **Weighted verdict** | **2/5** | **2.5/5** | **2.5/5** | **2.5/5** | **2/5** | **2/5** |

### 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).

**Compliance**
- CCPA: yes [S8]
- Cloud tse: yes · no [S2]
- Dsfinvk export: under one minute · yes [S2]
- Gobd: yes [S2]
- Pci dss: yes [S8]
- Tax authority conform: Tax authority compliant (Finanzamtkonform) [S4]

**Data**
- Children: no [S8]
- Dnt: no [S8]
- Payment card storage: no [S8]
- Retention: nur solange für Zwecke der Richtlinie erforderlich [S8]

**Integrations**
- Inventory migration import: yes [S5]
- Platform sync: yes · yes [S5]

**Legal**
- Address: Amsterdam · Oosterdoksstraat 114, 7e · Niederlande · 1011 DK [S7]
- Change notice: per E-Mail und/oder Hinweis auf dem Dienst vor Inkrafttreten [S8]
- Company name: Tebi B.V. · 2026 [S5]
- Country: Niederlande [S8]
- Entity name: Tebi B.V. [S7]
- Last updated: 2026-09-02 [S8]

**Pricing**
- Reservations promo: Abonnement · Buchungsgebühren · Tebi Reservations · 3 · 2026-12-31 [S6]

**Product**
- Any device no license fee: yes · yes · yes · no [S2]
- App: Tebi [S8]
- Automatic stock update: yes [S5]
- Bulk import export: yes · yes · yes [S5]
- Cloud tse: yes · yes · no · yes [S3]
- Counting options: yes · yes · yes [S5]
- Customizable grid: Sales grid customizable in groups, bundles or tabs, editable on-the-fly in real time [S2]
- Datev export: yes · yes [S3]
- Datev export: DATEV export in one click for tax advisor import [S2]
- Digital cashbook: yes · yes [S3]
- Discount refunds: Discounts, modifications and refunds in a few taps [S4]
- Dsfinvk export: yes · yes [S3]
- Flexible courses: Courses can be added on-the-fly via drag-and-drop; supports shared dining [S2]
- Gift cards: Sell gift vouchers via POS or reservation widget [S4]
- Gobd data: DATEV · Steuerberater · eigenes Buchhaltungssystem · yes [S3]
- Goods receipt: yes · yes [S5]
- Guest preferences: Allergy info and guest preferences can be sent directly to the kitchen [S2]
- Integrated payments: Payments synced everywhere, from reservations to orders to tips [S4]
- Invoicing: Integrated invoicing with trackable invoices [S4]
- Kassennachschau: All data and exports available at any time for unannounced cash inspections [S3]
- Kds module: Kitchen monitor (KDS) module [S2]
- Offline: POS works even if WLAN fails [S2]
- Payment methods: cash · card · invoice · QR payment · gift voucher [S4]
- Pos inventory same list: yes [S5]
- Product insights: yes [S5]
- Qr ordering module: QR ordering system for orders and payments [S2]
- Quickpay: QuickPay: take orders and settle in seconds from the terminal [S2]
- Realtime stock tracking: Echtzeit-Kontrolle über Warenbestand, Zählen per Smartphone, Verkauf glas- oder flaschenweise [S5]
- Realtime sync: Real-time management of prices, products and stock; remote order/revenue checks [S2]
- Selling by size: Flasche · Karaffe · ganzes Glas · halbes Glas · yes [S5]
- Service charge customizable: Service charge adjustable by area or service type [S4]
- Split and tips flow: per person · per item · per table [S4]
- Split payments: Split payments by item, per person or custom amounts from payment terminal [S4]
- Stock add in app: Smartphone · Desktop [S5]
- Suite: Point of Sale · Küchenmonitor (KDS) · Payments · QR-Bestellsystem [S4]
- Tap to pay: Turn any phone into a full terminal · yes [S4]
- Target business types: Restaurants · Bars & Clubs · Cafés & Bäckereien · Quick Service · Events & Venues [S5]
- Tips: Custom tip amount options at every sale [S4]
- Tracking all products modifiers: yes · yes · yes · yes · yes [S5]
- User roles: User profiles with different permissions can be created [S2]
- Z reports: Z-Berichte, Kassenbuch and DATEV-Export generated automatically from operations [S3]

**Subprocessors**
- Efsta: EFSTA IT Services GmbH · Österreich · steuerliche Konformität und elektronische Transaktionsaufzeichnung [S8]
- Efsta DPA: yes [S8]
- Efsta residency: yes [S8]
- Firebase: Firebase · Analysedienst [S8]
- Google analytics: Google Analytics · no [S8]
- Google tag manager: Google Tag Manager · Besuchsverfolgung durch Google Ads-Berater [S8]
- Intercom: Intercom · Kundensupport [S8]
- Intercom certification: EU-US Data Privacy Framework · UK Extension · Swiss-US Framework [S8]
- Intercom hosting: yes · Dublin, Irland · yes [S8]
- Mailchimp: Mailchimp · Marketing-E-Mails [S8]
- Mailchimp details: Intuit Inc. · yes · USA · EU-US DPF · UK · Schweiz [S8]
- Plausible: Plausible Analytics · Web-Analyse ohne Cookies und ohne Speicherung von IP-Adresse/User-Agent [S8]
- Vitally: Vitally Inc. · USA · Kundenbeziehungs- und Produkt-Nutzungsanalyse [S8]
- Vitally transfer: EU-Standardvertragsklauseln [S8]

**Support**
- Help center: FAQ section plus help center / contact for further questions [S3]
- Help center: Help Center and contact available alongside FAQ [S2]
- Help center: yes · yes [S5]
- Help center available: FAQ plus Help Center and contact option [S4]

## Questions

### Is Tebi European?

Yes. whats-best.ai classifies Tebi as EU-Made.

### Where does Tebi store data?

Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 29 Oct 2026.

### Does Tebi have a free plan?

Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 29 Oct 2026.

### What are the best alternatives to Tebi?

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: [Tebi alternatives](https://whats-best.ai/software/pos/tebi/alternatives).

## What this page leaves out

- 10 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 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.
- 2 legal 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 sovereignty dimension could not be confirmed on the vendor’s own pages and is shown as unknown.
- 6 of the readings below were written against an earlier fact sheet — a fact has been corrected, added or pulled since. Until the panel next runs on this product you are reading the older judgement.

## Sources

- [S1] Vendor homepage: https://www.tebi.com/de/ (checked 2026-10-29)
- [S2] Features page (till): https://www.tebi.com/de/point-of-sale (checked 2026-10-29)
- [S3] Features page (fiscal compliance): https://www.tebi.com/de/finanzamtkonform (checked 2026-10-29)
- [S4] Features page (payments): https://www.tebi.com/de/payments (checked 2026-10-29)
- [S5] Features page (stock): https://www.tebi.com/de/warenwirtschaft (checked 2026-10-29)
- [S6] Pricing page: https://www.tebi.com/de/Preisgestaltung (checked 2026-10-29)
- [S7] Legal notice: https://www.tebi.com/de/impressum (checked 2026-10-29)
- [S8] Privacy policy: https://www.tebi.com/de/privacy/privacy-policy (checked 2026-10-29)

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

Corrections: https://whats-best.ai/correct/1187?target=page