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Lightspeed Restaurant is an iPad EPOS system for restaurants and groups, sold in Basic, Core and Pro tiers. Café QR is a browser-based POS for independent cafés, restaurants and pubs, with QR table ordering built in and every price published.
Lightspeed is a trademark of its owner. Café QR is not affiliated with or endorsed by Lightspeed. Competitor details checked on 12 October 2026 from their public websites; check current terms with them.
Café QR
Price check · Café QR vs Lightspeed Restaurant
Checked 12 October 2026
FROM THEIR OWN WEBSITES
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Prices exclude payment-processing charges unless the row says otherwise. Check the linked provider pages before making a decision.
Monthly price
Card processing
Till
Kitchen display (KDS)
QR ordering
Online ordering
Table bookings
Stock
Multi-site
Contract
Hardware
Lightspeed may fit a full-service restaurant or a growing group that wants iPad hardware, handheld ordering, coursing, inventory, benchmarks and 24/7 chat and phone support from one supplier.
Its Pro plan bundles QR ordering, click and collect, delivery, third-party online ordering integrations and multi-location management, which may suit operators running several sites.
Café QR may fit an independent café, restaurant, pub or takeaway that wants one system for the till, the kitchen screen and QR table ordering, and wants to see the full price before speaking to anyone. The POS plan is £39 per venue a month and includes the till, waiter app, tabs, floor plan, bookings and your own online ordering page.
It runs in a browser on hardware you may already own, and card payments go to your own Stripe account with no Café QR platform fee. There is no contract and the first month is free.
It is not the right choice if you need to take card payments through an internet outage: offline, Café QR’s till takes only cash and your own payment types.
Ask for the sterling price of the plan you need, the card processing rate for your venue, the contract length, and the cost of the iPads, stands, printers and terminals in your setup.
Then compare that with Café QR’s plan for the same number of venues, plus Stripe’s processing on your expected card takings.
The app you’ll use
Takings, live orders, tables and what needs you now, on a laptop, a tablet or the phone in your pocket.
Switching from another till
No proprietary hardware, and no setup fee.
Sources
Ask before buying
Lightspeed’s UK pricing page says plans begin at £79 a month for the first terminal, across Basic, Core and Pro tiers. Payment rates are default or custom and not published, and hardware is sold separately. Ask Lightspeed for a written quote.
No. Café QR runs in a web browser on an iPad, an Android tablet or a laptop you already have. Card payments can be taken on a Stripe Terminal reader, or on your own card machine and recorded on the till.
Yes. Table and counter QR ordering is in every Café QR plan, from the £9.99 Order & Pay plan up. On Lightspeed it is included on Core and Pro and an add-on on Basic.
Prefer to talk it through?
Tell us about your venue and we’ll reply, usually within one working day, to plan your setup or show you round the till on a call. It’s an enquiry only: no card, no subscription and no trial started.