Lease vs buy POS hardware?

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Looking for recommendations:

We need something that handles food_truck operations well

Budget is around $183/month. What would you suggest?

Janet Park 👑 Master

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Frank Walker

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Sep 26, 2025

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

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Kevin Watson

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Sep 27, 2025

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

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Paul Graham

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Oct 4, 2025

For food_truck, I'd recommend considering looking at multiple options

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Dennis Perry

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Oct 11, 2025

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

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Carol Reed

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Oct 13, 2025

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

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Kevin Rogers

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Oct 15, 2025

Cost us about $146/month all in. Worth it.

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Joyce Davis

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Oct 22, 2025

Cost us about $148/month all in. Worth it.

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Sean Stewart

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Oct 22, 2025

Had the same problem, support was excellent when I contacted them.

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Frank Walker

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Nov 2, 2025

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

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Kevin Watson

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Nov 2, 2025

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

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Rebecca Rogers

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Nov 4, 2025

This is why we switched to Foreup. No regrets.

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Melissa Walker

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Nov 4, 2025

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

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Marcus Bradley

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Nov 24, 2025

Had the same problem, support was knowledgeable when I contacted them.

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Amy Powell

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Nov 27, 2025

We had the same issue. What worked for us was restarting the terminal

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