Lease vs buy POS hardware?

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Sharing my experience in case it helps others.

We recently made some changes to our setup

Has anyone else seen this?

Rebecca Anderson 👑 Master

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Angela Reed

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Jun 26, 2025

I've been using Lavu for 10 months and it has been working well for us

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Helen Martinez

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205 posts

Jul 17, 2025

Training took about 5 days for our staff.

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Diana Carter

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225 posts

Aug 13, 2025

The reservation system is definitely worth the extra cost IMO.

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Angela Baker

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Aug 21, 2025

We had the same issue. What worked for us was contacting support

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Catherine Wilson

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206 posts

Sep 11, 2025

Cost us about $139/month all in. Worth it.

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Amber Reed

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Sep 13, 2025

The menu management is definitely worth the extra cost IMO.

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Joyce Davis

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Sep 22, 2025

Make sure you're on the latest version. That fixed it for us.

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Eugene Rogers

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Oct 1, 2025

We had the same issue. What worked for us was checking the cable connections

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Donna Alexander

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212 posts

Oct 11, 2025

Training took about 1 days for our staff.

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Amy Simmons

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226 posts

Oct 20, 2025

Agreed with the above. Also worth mentioning you should also check the settings

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Adam Bennett

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Oct 27, 2025

+1 to this. We've seen similar results.

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Rachel Barnes

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204 posts

Oct 29, 2025

Great question! In my experience with Olo, it has been working well for us

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Nicole Thompson

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Oct 31, 2025

Different perspective here - you might want to consider a different approach

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Kenneth Scott

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Nov 2, 2025

The reservation system is definitely worth the extra cost IMO.

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