Best POS for pizza restaurants: how to choose for half-and-half, delivery and phone orders

No POS is best for every pizzeria. Choose by three jobs that set a pizza shop apart: pricing and printing toppings by half, running your own delivery drivers, and taking phone orders fast with caller ID. HungerRush, Toast and Slice Register describe tools for all three on their own pages. Square covers toppings and local delivery on its paid plans.

Our HungerRush pricing guide prices one pizza POS in detail, and our guide to pizza shop phone systems covers lines and hold queues. This page compares the pizza features across systems and prices what phone orders cost in card fees.

What does a pizzeria need from a POS?

Need	Why it matters in a pizza shop	How to test it
Toppings by half, priced right	The oven crew must see which side gets what, and the price must follow	Ring a large with pepperoni on the whole pie, mushrooms on one half and olives on the other
Prices that change with size	A topping costs more on a large	Add toppings, then change the size, and check each upcharge moves
Caller ID with order history	Regulars reorder by phone	Call from a saved number and time how long until the last order shows
Delivery zones and dispatch	You run your own drivers	Enter an address outside your zone, then send two orders out with one driver
Delivery apps in one queue	A tablet for each app gets missed at the rush	Send a test order from each app you use
A cap on online orders	The oven sets how many pies you can make in an hour	Set a cap and place orders past it

Which POS systems print pizza features?

These details come from each vendor's own US pages. Hardware, tax and add-ons are extra unless a cell says so.

POS	Toppings by half	Delivery and phone orders	Price as printed	Start here if
HungerRush	Not on its pricing page	Delivery management and dispatch, online ordering, Uber Eats and DoorDash links and caller ID hardware in the base package; Driver Track and OrderAI phone ordering by quote	HungerRush base package: $149/month, all-in, $0 down, 36-month agreement; flat card rate by quote	You run delivery with your own drivers and want one monthly price for hardware and software
Toast	Order screens for half-and-half pies; its platform guide lists the portions feature as limited release	Delivery zones, Orders Hub for direct and app orders, caller ID, and Toast Delivery Services drivers at a flat fee per order	Toast plans: Starter Kit from $0/month on a 2 year agreement; Point of Sale from $69/month; card rate by quote	You want pizza tools inside a full restaurant POS with kiosks and handhelds
Slice Register	Built for "half toppings," with no need to type the request	Caller ID with order history; delivery batching, dispatch and time estimates; delivery-app orders into the POS	Slice Register: delivery-app integration $75/month; ask Slice for the POS price; Slice runs your in-store card processing	You run one pizzeria and want app orders and phone orders on one screen
Square	Advanced modifiers with "smart sequencing for things like toppings" on Plus and Premium	Local delivery with your staff or couriers; delivery-app orders in one Orders tab	Square plans: Free $0/mo., Plus $49/mo., Premium $149/mo., per location; typed-in cards 3.5% + 15¢	You want printed prices and no contract

Sources: HungerRush pricing; Toast's pizza POS page and pricing page; the Slice Register page; Square's restaurant pricing page.

How does each system handle a half-and-half pie?

Toast's pizza page says its order screens make "complicated half-and-half orders a breeze," and its online ordering lets guests split toppings too. Toast's portions overview says a half portion of a topping can go on the first or second half of a pizza, and marks the portions feature as limited release. Ask Toast whether your account will have it.

Slice says its Register takes orders like "full pepperoni with mushrooms on one side and olives on the other" without typing notes. Square's advanced modifiers give step-by-step flows for toppings on Plus and Premium; its pricing page does not mention halves. HungerRush's pricing page does not mention halves either. For Square and HungerRush, ring a half-and-half pie in the demo and read the kitchen ticket.

What do phone orders cost in card fees? A worked example

The figures are made up. A pizzeria takes 1,200 phone orders a month at $32 each, $38,400 in all, every one paid by card. The table compares reading the card over the phone, which counts as typed in, with tapping the same cards at pickup or at the door.

Setup	Card typed in on the call	Card tapped at pickup or the door	Monthly gap
Clover.com restaurant bundle	Clover typed in, 3.5% + 10¢: $1,464.00	Clover tapped, 2.3% + 10¢: $1,003.20	Clover gap: $460.80
Square Free	Square typed in, 3.5% + 15¢: $1,524.00	Square Free tapped, 2.6% + 15¢: $1,178.40	Square gap: $345.60
SpotOn POS Essentials	SpotOn keyed, 3.45% + $0.15: $1,504.80	SpotOn card present, 2.45% + $0.15: $1,120.80	SpotOn gap: $384.00

In this example, tapping the card at pickup or the door costs $345.60 to $460.80 a month less than typing it in during the call. Rates come from Clover's quick-service pricing, Square's pricing page and SpotOn's pricing page.

HungerRush says its flat rate is the same at the counter, online and over the phone, so the gap does not apply there. Get that rate in writing and run the benchmark sum in our HungerRush guide. Toast quotes its rates, and Slice's Register page gives none, so ask each for the typed-in rate and the tapped rate.

How should you test a pizza POS?

1. Send your menu with sizes, crusts and every topping price a week ahead, and ask the vendor to load it.
2. Ring a large half-and-half with one whole topping and two half toppings. Check the price and that the kitchen ticket shows each side.
3. Add toppings, then change the size. Check that every upcharge moves.
4. Call the shop from a saved number. Time how long until the guest's address and last order appear.
5. Take a delivery order outside your zone, then send two orders out with one driver and print the driver's slip.
6. Send an order from each delivery app you use, and one from your own site.
7. Set a cap on online orders for the rush, and place orders past it.
8. Ask for the card rate for phone, online and counter payments in writing, and the cost to leave in month 12.

Where does phone ordering fit?

If calls back up on a Friday, the pizza phones guide works out how many lines and people you need. HungerRush sells its own OrderAI phone ordering as a quoted add-on.

Maple Pro takes phone orders into the POS systems on its integrations page, including Toast, Square, Clover and SkyTab (now Shift4 Dine). HungerRush and Slice are not on that list, so check it before you pair a phone tool with a pizza POS.

Published by Maple. This AI-assisted guide combines HungerRush, Toast, Slice, Square, Clover and SpotOn product, pricing and help pages with an original needs table, a card-fee example using made-up sales, and a test plan. It does not include a quote from any vendor, report hands-on testing of any POS, or name a best system.