# Vectron — POS & Checkout Systems

Vectron by Vectron Systems AG holds a panel rating of 3/5 from 6 AI judges (category median 2.5/5), as of 2026-10-30. Provenance: EU origin, foreign-owned; sovereignty: not determined.

- Vendor: Vectron Systems AG (https://www.vectron-systems.com/de/)
- Category: [POS & Checkout Systems](https://whats-best.ai/software/pos.md)
- Provenance (editorial classification): EU origin, foreign-owned
- Canonical page: https://whats-best.ai/software/pos/vectron
- Alternatives: https://whats-best.ai/software/pos/vectron/alternatives ([markdown](https://whats-best.ai/software/pos/vectron/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: Vectron Systems AG
- Headquarters: Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 1 Nov 2026
- Data hosting: Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 1 Nov 2026
- Free plan: Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 1 Nov 2026

## The panel's verdict

Vectron Systems AG of Münster sells six till models with bundled payment terminals and cloud services, installed and supported through a dealer network. The bench scores it highest where the captured pages are concrete: checkout and hardware, fiscal compliance, accounting and portability and pricing transparency cluster at 6-7, resting on published specs and monthly prices (POS Life 24,90 € mtl., Grundgebühr 34,90 € mtl.), a BSI-certified Swissbit TSE with DSFinV-K-conform archiving for ten years, and a DATEV handoff from the daily closing to the tax adviser. The low points are payments and fees and operations and locations, both at 4 throughout the score range: we found no public information on the acquirer behind the terminals, payout timing, stock and article management, staff roles or a kitchen display. Sovereignty scores 4-5; the privacy policy states processing via Zapier in the USA under Art. 44ff DSGVO, the privacy contact is privacy@shift4.com, and we found no public information on where the myVectron cloud is hosted. Criteria vary by a single point at most, and the bench computed no notable judge disagreement.

**Speaks for it:**
- Six till models from POS Life to POS 8 are documented with specs and monthly prices and described as usable during a network outage
- A public price list for Germany, Austria and further countries names till rent from POS Life 24,90 € mtl. to POS 7 inkl. Drucker 39,90 € mtl., the Grundgebühr 34,90 € mtl., hardware rentals and card fees
- The Swissbit TSE is named as BSI-certified with published retrofit lists, and daily closings are stored DSFinV-K-conform in IDEA format for ten years
- The DATEV chain is documented end to end, from the daily closing via DATEV Kassenarchiv online to the tax adviser
- The MobileApp is on App Store and Google Play with a demo mode without registration, and a Digital-Bon add-on covers receipts at the table

**Held against it:**
- The captured pages give no public information on the acquirer behind the bundled P630 and V660p terminals, on payout timing, or on using a terminal of your own
- The captured pages give no public information on stock and article management, staff logins with roles, a kitchen display, or managing articles and prices across branches
- The TSE is sold über Fachhändler and we found no public information on its price, on installation and training costs, or on minimum term and notice period
- We found no public information on where the myVectron cloud holding the ten-year fiscal archive is hosted
- The privacy policy names processing via Zapier in the USA under Art. 44ff DSGVO, and the published privacy contact is privacy@shift4.com

**Best for:**
- You run a restaurant, bakery, hotel or butchery in Germany and want the DATEV chain documented from the till to your tax adviser
- You run a single site and want published monthly prices with terminals and cloud services bundled in the package
- You want your daily closings archived DSFinV-K-conform for ten years with digital access for your tax adviser
- You value a local dealer network of more than 300 dealers for programming, installation, training and support

**Avoid if:**
- You want to choose your own payment terminal or acquirer rather than the bundled P630 or V660p
- You operate in Austria and rely on the DATEV chain: the price list states the DATEV connection is not included in the Austrian package
- You run several branches: the pages document pooling data from several tills within one branch, but we found no public information on cross-branch article, stock or staff management
- Your compliance policy rules out US transfers under Art. 44ff DSGVO safeguards: the privacy policy names Zapier processing in the USA

## 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 | 3/5 | 3.5/5 | 3.5/5 | 3.5/5 | 3/5 | 3/5 |
| Card payments & fees | 2/5 | 2/5 | 2/5 | 2/5 | 2/5 | 2/5 |
| Fiscal compliance (TSE, DSFinV-K, RKSV) | 3.5/5 | 3/5 | 3.5/5 | 3.5/5 | 3/5 | 3/5 |
| Inventory, tables, staff & locations | 2/5 | 2/5 | 2/5 | 2/5 | 2/5 | 2/5 |
| Accounting handoff, DATEV & data export | 3/5 | 3.5/5 | 3.5/5 | 3.5/5 | 3/5 | 3/5 |
| European sovereignty | 2.5/5 | 2.5/5 | 2.5/5 | 2/5 | 2.5/5 | 2/5 |
| Pricing transparency | 3.5/5 | 3/5 | 3/5 | 3/5 | 3.5/5 | 3/5 |
| **Weighted verdict** | **3/5** | **3/5** | **3/5** | **2.5/5** | **2.5/5** | **2.5/5** |

### 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).

**Compliance**
- DPA annexes: 3 [S8]
- DPA available: Auftragsverarbeitungsvertrag (AVV) with Vectron-Betreiber/-Händler available [S8]
- GDPR: yes [S7]
- Ssl: yes [S7]
- Tse BSI certified: Swissbit-TSE · BSI · yes [S3]
- Tse final deadline 2022: 2022-12-31 [S3]
- Tse fine amount: 25000 [S3]
- Tse legal deadline: 2020-01-01 [S3]
- Tse media types: microSD-Karte · USB-Stick [S3]
- US dpf: yes [S7]

**Data**
- Breach of rights: Auskunft (Art. 15) · Berichtigung (Art. 16) · Löschung (Art. 17) · Einschränkung (Art. 18) · Datenübertragbarkeit (Art. 20) [S7]
- Log retention: gelöscht oder anonymisiert nach Beendigung der Nutzung [S7]
- Retention general: bis zu zehn Jahre · drei oder bis zu dreißig Jahre [S7]
- US transfer: Art. 44ff. DSGVO · yes [S7]

**Integrations**
- Data transfer cloud: DATEV-Cloud [S4]
- Other interfaces: Tischreservierung resmio · Bestellservice restablo · BI-Schnittstelle [S4]

**Legal**
- Agb existence: AGB available as legal documents section [S8]
- Agb merchant: AGB myVectron for merchants/operators since 1 May 2026 [S8]
- Agb partner: AGB for Fachhandelspartner (Hard-/Software) [S8]
- Board members: Thomas Stümmler · Sascha Lewandowski · Stefan Brunn [S6]
- Company: Vectron Systems AG · Willy-Brandt-Weg 41, 48155 Münster [S3]
- Company: 48155 · Münster · Vectron Systems AG · Willy-Brandt-Weg 41 [S5]
- Company name: Vectron Systems AG · Willy-Brandt-Weg 41, 48155 Münster [S6]
- Consent forms: Consent forms, including one for Industriepartner [S8]
- Controller: Vectron Systems AG · Willy-Brandt-Weg 41, 48155 Münster [S7]
- Controller email: privacy@shift4.com [S7]
- Employees: 200 [S1]
- Entity: Vectron Systems AG · Willy-Brandt-Weg 41, 48155 Münster [S1]
- Entity: Vectron Systems AG · Willy-Brandt-Weg 41, 48155 Münster [S8]
- Entity address: Vectron Systems AG · Willy-Brandt-Weg 41, 48155 Münster [S4]
- Privacy policy: Datenschutzhinweise myVectron · Privacy policy myVectron · Datenschutzhinweise für Kunden und Geschäftspartner gem. Art. 13 DSGVO · yes [S8]
- Register: Amtsgericht Münster · B 10502 [S6]
- Saas service description: Service description for SaaS available [S8]
- Sqeezeout: förmliches Squeeze-out-Verlangen [S1]
- VAT id: DE 814695288 [S6]
- Weee number: DE 91733199 [S6]

**Pricing**
- Base fee: 34.9 · EUR [S5]
- Card fee: 1.29 · 1.9 [S5]
- Customer display price: 11.9 · EUR [S5]
- Drawer price: 4.9 · EUR [S5]
- Enduser price list available: yes [S5]
- List disclaimer: empfohlene Verkaufspreise · yes · yes [S5]
- Myvectron price pages: Deutschland · Österreich [S5]
- Online payment fee: 1.99 [S5]
- Orderhub price: 39.9 · EUR [S5]
- Orderhub purchase option: yes [S5]
- Pos7 monthly: VECTRON SMART · 39.9 · monthly · yes [S2]
- Pos7 price: 39.9 · EUR · yes [S5]
- Pos8 monthly: VECTRON SMART · 39.9 · monthly · yes [S2]
- Pos8 price: 39.9 · EUR · yes [S5]
- Poslife monthly: VECTRON SMART · 24.9 · monthly [S2]
- Poslife price: 24.9 · EUR [S5]
- Posm4pay monthly: VECTRON SMART · 29.9 · monthly [S2]
- Posm4pay price: 29.9 · EUR [S5]
- Pricelist digitalpaket at: Price list myVectron Digitalpaket Betreiber AT [S8]
- Pricelist digitalpaket de: Price list myVectron Digitalpaket Betreiber DE [S8]
- Pricelist myduratec: Price list myDuratec Start + Standard [S8]
- Pricelist pay: Price list 'Pay' für Betreiber [S8]
- Pricelist standard48: Price list myVectron Standard48 [S8]
- Pricelist standard countries: Schweiz · Belgium · Czech Republic · Ireland · Luxembourg · Portugal [S8]
- Pricelist start standard countries: Deutschland · Österreich · Netherlands · France [S8]
- Printer price: 9.9 · EUR [S5]
- Scanner price: 4.9 · EUR [S5]
- Tse channel: TSE via Fachhändler [S5]

**Product**
- App data collection: IP-Adresse · IMEI, UDID, IMSI, MAC-Adresse · Zahlungsinformationen · Kassensystem · yes [S7]
- App log retention: 7 [S7]
- Benefits: weniger Aufwand beim täglichen Kassenabschluss · Entlastung bei der manuellen Nachfassung · Steigerung der Datenqualität · gesetzeskonforme Archivierung · vereinfachte Datenverarbeitung · Daten mehrerer Kassensysteme aus einer Filiale kumu… [S4]
- Bonvito reservation limit: Complete Smart [S5]
- Cloud lab terms: Terms of participation for myVectron Cloud-Lab [S8]
- Cloud services included: Digitalpaket Standard · Inhouse-Ordering · Online-Ordering · Online-Checkout · Tischreservierung · Order Hub · Gutschein · Reporting · BI-Schnittstelle [S5]
- Company experience: 250000 · 35 [S1]
- Data transfer flow: Kassenabschluss an der Vectron-Kasse · Upload in myVectron Cloud, DSFinV-K-konform im Fiskalarchiv im IDEA Format für 10 Jahre gespeichert · Konvertierung in Taxonomie-Format und Übermittlung an DATEV Kassenarchiv online · Übergabe an DATE… [S4]
- Datev archive auto transfer: DATEV eG, Nürnberg · automated transfer of fiscal POS transaction data to DATEV Kassenarchiv online [S4]
- Datev forwarding: DATEV Unternehmen Online · DATEV Kassenbuch online [S4]
- Datev not in austria: AT · yes [S5]
- Experience market position: 30 [S2]
- Finance office compliant: yes [S2]
- Financially compliant pos: Finanzkonforme Kassen (fiscal-compliant POS systems) [S8]
- Included services: kassen, transparentes payment, kostenloses zubehör, cloud-dienste inklusive, service vor ort [S1]
- Industries: Gastronomie · Bäckerei · Hotellerie · Metzgerei [S2]
- Interfaces: yes [S2]
- Mobileapp: MobileApp for order taking and payment transactions [S2]
- Mobileapp demo: App Store · Google Play · yes [S2]
- Mobileapp digital receipt: Digital receipt add-on enables receipt printing at table [S2]
- Mobileapp free in smart package: MobileApp · Digital-Bon · VECTRON SMART [S2]
- Myvectron integrations: DATEV Kassenarchiv online · bonVito · Vectron Commander [S5]
- Newsletter: Vectron newsletter with news and POS-expert tips [S8]
- Newsletter consent basis: yes · Art. 6 Abs. 1 S. 1 lit. a DSGVO [S7]
- Newsletter double opt in: yes [S7]
- Offline capability: yes [S2]
- Package availability: myVectron Start · myVectron Standard · yes [S4]
- Payment methods: yes [S1]
- Payment terminals included: P630 · V660p [S5]
- Pos7 pc variant: yes [S2]
- Pos8 offline: yes [S2]
- Pos life payment addon: yes [S2]
- Pos life software updates: yes [S2]
- Pos m4 pay specs: 5.5 · Vectron POS · 1.5 [S2]
- Quote configurator available: yes [S5]
- Scalable solutions: individuelle branchenspezifische Lösungen vom Einzelbetrieb bis zum Filialisten [S1]
- Second brand duratec: Duratec [S2]
- Smart bundle: VECTRON SMART · Kasse · Payment · Cloud · Service [S1]
- Tax advisor access: yes [S4]
- Tech specs displays: 1920 x 1080 · 15 · 1920 x 1080 · 15.6 · 1280 x 800 · 10.1 · 1920 x 1080 · 11.6 · 1440 x 720 · 5.5 · 1366 x 768 · 14 [S2]
- Tech specs mounting: Pole/wall mounting available for POS Touch 14 Wide, POS 7 Mini, POS 7, POS 8; not for POS Life and POS M4 Pay [S2]
- Tech specs network failure: All six models network-capable, fail-safe and tax-office compliant [S2]
- Tech specs pc variant table: Only POS 7 available as PC variant [S2]
- Tech specs ram: 4 GB · 4 GB · 2 GB · 4 GB · 3 GB · 1 GB [S2]
- Tse booking option: VECTRON SMART Paket [S3]
- Tse delivery volume: 2019-12 [S3]
- Tse functions: yes · yes · yes · yes [S3]
- Tse hardware since 2019: late 2019 [S3]
- Tse local and cloud copy: myVectron Digitalpaket · yes · yes [S3]
- Tse local network sharing: yes [S3]
- Tse non retrofittable models: Vectron POS SteelTouch · Vectron POS Mini (64 Bit) · Vectron POS Vario · Vectron POS ColorTouch (64 Bit) · Vectron POS Modular · Vectron POS MobilePro · Vectron POS MobileXL · Vectron POS MobilePad · Vectron POS Micro2 [S3]
- Tse offline capable: yes [S3]
- Tse retrofittable models: Vectron POS Mini · Vectron POS Mini II · Vectron POS Vario II · Vectron POS Touch 12 · Vectron POS Touch 12 II · Vectron POS Touch 15 · Vectron POS Touch 15 II · Vectron POS MobilePro II · Vectron POS MobilePro III · Vectron POS PC · Vectr… [S3]
- UI features: Gesture control (swipe), custom images and icons, predefined high-resolution fonts [S2]

**Subprocessors**
- Cloudflare: Cloudflare Germany GmbH · Content Delivery Network · München, Deutschland [S7]
- Datev mymarketing: Laudert GmbH und Co. KG / Geneon GmbH · datev-mymarketing.de, Bedarfsanalyse und Kundenansprache [S7]
- Eqs: EQS Group AG · Investor-Relations-Management-Tool [S7]
- Jsdelivr: Prospect ONE Developments Ltd. · JsDelivr, Redesign von Seiteninhalten, Web-Speicher · Cardiff, Großbritannien [S7]
- Linkedin: LinkedIn Ireland Unlimited Company · Page Analytics · LinkedIn Ads · Insight Tags [S7]
- Onetrust: OneTrust, LLC · Consent Management · Atlanta, USA [S7]

**Support**
- Channel: Fachhändler [S5]
- Dealer network: 300 [S1]
- Hardware exchange: yes [S5]
- Implementation: Fachhändler [S5]
- Onsite service: persönliche Betreuung durch Fachhändler vor Ort, feste Ansprechpartner [S1]
- Qa pc conversion: FAQ topic: converting a PC into a Vectron till [S2]

## Questions

### Is Vectron European?

Partly. whats-best.ai classifies Vectron as EU origin, foreign-owned.

### Where does Vectron store data?

Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 1 Nov 2026.

### Does Vectron have a free plan?

Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 1 Nov 2026.

### What are the best alternatives to Vectron?

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: [Vectron alternatives](https://whats-best.ai/software/pos/vectron/alternatives).

## What this page leaves out

- 3 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.
- 3 subprocessors 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.
- 3 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.
- 2 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.
- 1 legal 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.
- 3 sovereignty dimensions could not be confirmed on the vendor’s own pages and are 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.vectron-systems.com/de/ (checked 2026-10-29)
- [S2] Features page (till hardware): https://www.vectron-systems.com/de/hardware/kassensysteme/ (checked 2026-10-29)
- [S3] Features page (TSE): https://www.vectron-systems.com/de/service/service/fiskalische-vorgaben/tse/ (checked 2026-10-29)
- [S4] Features page (DATEV Kassenarchiv online): https://www.vectron-systems.com/de/myvectron/digitalpaket/myvectron-anbindung-datev-kassenarchiv-online/ (checked 2026-10-29)
- [S5] Pricing page: https://www.vectron-systems.com/de/preisliste/ (checked 2026-10-29)
- [S6] Legal notice: https://www.vectron-systems.com/de/impressum/ (checked 2026-10-29)
- [S7] Privacy policy: https://www.vectron-systems.com/de/datenschutz/ (checked 2026-10-29)
- [S8] Terms, price lists and data processing agreement (myVectron): https://www.vectron-systems.com/de/myvectronlegal/ (checked 2026-10-29)
- [S9] Security / trust page — found from the homepage: https://www.vectron-systems.com/de/myvectron/digitalpaket/sicherheit/ (checked 2026-11-01)

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

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