Compared with one kind of point of sale

The profile

an all-in-one point of sale sold as integrated hardware on a monthly plan: integrated proprietary devices running the maker's own software, with a cloud back office and an app market. It is sold by the maker directly and through bank and reseller partners; the published prices are the maker's own, and resellers set theirs.

In Canada its prices are quote-only: the maker's Canadian pages and its distributor list no prices.

Public list prices, read September 24, 2026. The profile is a shape, not a brand; it is compared with us on its own, never merged with another.

The price shape, side by side

	AlmondTill	The profile
Software	$15 a month for the whole business — every feature, every user, every register, every location	$0 to about $130 a month per software plan, by trade and tier
Extra registers	none — the fee never rises when you add registers	$14.95 a month per additional register at a location
Apps	everything is in the box	a $19.95 a month app-market fee on the entry plan once third-party apps are used
Term	month to month	device subscriptions run 36 or 48 months and are non-cancelable; promotional rates require a three-year processing agreement
What comes back	$10 of the fee returns every month as 100 million kernels	nothing

Hardware

Bring your own: any modern browser device is the register — the laptop, the tablet, the printer, the scanner and the drawer you already own, from a registry of supported peripherals, and one card reader from the processor.

The profile: a proprietary lineup of countertop and handheld devices with the printer, the scanner and the card reader built in. List prices run from $199 for the handheld reader to $1,899 for the two-screen station. Devices are financed as 36- or 48-month subscriptions — for example $180 a month for the two-screen station — with a buyout at the end of the term.

The contract

Month to month; the pricing page names no term; if you ever leave, your data is yours and exportable.

The profile: device subscriptions run 36 or 48 months and are non-cancelable; promotional rates require a three-year processing agreement Early termination fees equal to the remaining balance are widely reported.

Processing

Any processor. Stripe is integrated out of the box at Stripe's published rates; the platform takes no percentage of your sales, and its own share of the processing revenue is handed back to merchants who stay. Whatever your processor charges is between you and them.

The profile: the maker's own processing only — its devices cannot be used with another payment processor. Its published rates: as little as 2.3% + 10¢ in person on the station bundles and 2.6% + 10¢ on the entry devices; 3.5% + 10¢ keyed or online; resellers vary.

Offline

Always-on by design. “We don't have an offline mode. We have a phone. An offline mode means selling on a promise and finding out three days later whether you were paid — we would rather you never have to find out.” Any phone is a hotspot; the register moves to it in under a minute.

The profile: card payments stored on the device for up to 7 days when it is offline, submitted when it reconnects. The default limits are $500 per transaction and $5,000 in total; in the maker's own words, a card that declines later is your loss. Offline payments are not available to Canadian merchants at all.

Openness

1,085 operations on one open API, every one reachable from the command line and from AI assistants over MCP. Agentic commerce is live: a buyer's AI agent can find a shop, search the catalog and complete a checkout.

The profile: a REST API with OAuth, webhooks and SDKs for semi-integration, and an app market of 483 published apps in the US.

Your data

The Data Covenant: the merchant owns the data — no selling, no advertising, no AI training, no secondary use; a permanent history on every record; full machine-readable export.

The profile: its terms let the maker continue to access, retain, use, share and combine merchant data for its permitted purposes after termination. Export is a CSV download or an export API of 1,000 objects per file over 30-day ranges, the files deleted after 24 hours.

Where the profile is stronger

• Purpose-built integrated hardware: printer, scanner, card reader and customer screen in one device, financed monthly.
• Offline card payments in the US: a seven-day device queue with the decline risk on the merchant — and none of it in Canada.
• Restaurants: tables, courses, tabs, QR order and pay, kitchen screens, kiosks and delivery integrations.
• Scale and distribution: about 900,000 merchants, sold through banks and resellers, with round-the-clock phone support.
• An app market of 483 US apps, and a $0 software entry plan with a purchased device.
• Tap to pay on a phone today; debit-network acceptance in Canada; working capital and instant deposits.

What we do not claim

A browser register today; native phone and tablet apps and tap to pay on a phone are coming, with no dates promised. No restaurant features, and none planned. Card payments at the counter on the processor's smart readers are coming. The service is in its controlled first wave, by application.

Next steps

Apply — no card, no fee. Run it beside your current till for a season, on your own catalog, and expand when you are satisfied.

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