Best Restaurant POS Software in India 2026 — 7 Compared, With Prices

The short answer

If you run one restaurant, or a few, and you want to know the price before you sit through a demo, the honest shortlist is short: Dinelax POS at ₹149 a month for billing and ₹999 for everything, or Petpooja if you need its aggregator integrations badly enough to go through a sales call to find out what it costs.

If you run a chain, or a franchise network, or a central kitchen feeding several outlets, then Restroworks (the company formerly called Posist), Petpooja and Rista by DotPe are the three built for that, and the quote-only sales process is part of what you are buying.

Two names that turn up in every other list deserve a warning. Zomato Base is discontinued — its product page has redirected to a 404 since 2017. Dytel is still trading, but its own website carries a 2010 copyright and its milestones page stops that same year.

The comparison table

Every cell below is what the vendor publishes on its own website, checked on 6 September 2026. Where a vendor publishes nothing, the cell says not published instead of borrowing a figure from a reseller.

Checked against each vendor’s own website on 6 September 2026. Where a vendor publishes nothing, the cell says so rather than repeating a number from a reseller listing.

The pricing reality nobody puts in the headline

Six of the seven systems here will not tell you what they cost. Not on a pricing page, not in a PDF, not anywhere. Petpooja, Restroworks, TMBill, Rista by DotPe and Dytel are all quote-only; Zomato Base never published a rate card in the year it was alive.

That is worth understanding before you start ringing round, because it shapes what happens next. A quote-only vendor is not being coy for its own amusement — it is pricing you. The quote depends on how many outlets you have, how many billing terminals, which modules you take and, in at least one case, what hardware you buy alongside it. Two restaurants on the same street can pay different amounts for the same software.

Why the numbers you find online are not prices

Search for any of these and you will find figures. They come from reseller listings and comparison directories, not from the vendors, and they disagree with each other by orders of magnitude — the same product appears at a few thousand rupees a year on one site and a six-figure annual licence on another. Some are years out of date. At least one widely-repeated figure describes a product that no longer exists.

Treat them as evidence that a product exists, not as evidence of what it costs.

What to ask for, in writing

• Per outlet or per terminal? A second billing counter can double a bill or cost nothing, depending on the vendor.
• What is inside the number and what is an add-on? Kitchen display, QR ordering and the waiter app are separately priced or plan-gated on several of these.
• One-time charges. Onboarding, training, installation and hardware are often quoted apart from the monthly figure.
• Annual or monthly, and what happens at renewal. At least one vendor’s reseller listing shows a higher first-year price than the renewal.
• Is GST included? Several published figures are exclusive of it and do not say so.

Dinelax publishes ₹149 and ₹999 because a shop owner deciding at eleven at night should not have to book a call to find out whether they can afford it. The full list of what is inside each plan is on the pricing section of the homepage.

How to choose

1. Decide what happens when the internet dies

This is the question that separates these systems most, and the marketing hides it. “Works offline” can mean the till keeps billing and syncs later, or it can mean a different product runs on a server in your back office, or it can mean a sentence on a competitor-comparison page with no specification behind it. Ask precisely: with the router unplugged, can I ring a sale, print a bill and send a ticket to the kitchen? Note that on at least one system here, QR ordering explicitly stops even though billing continues.

2. Count your billing counters honestly

One till is simple. Two is where things break — bill numbers collide, and a shortfall in one drawer hides inside a surplus in the other. If you will ever run a second counter, ask how bill series and cash drawers are kept apart. We wrote up what actually breaks when you add a till separately.

3. Check the GST bill against a real one

Ask for a sample bill, not a screenshot of a dashboard. CGST and SGST should be separate lines at half each, the GSTIN should be where an inspector looks, and the total should round the way your drawer does. If you are on the composition scheme, the tax lines should come off entirely rather than printing zeroes.

4. Ask what language the kitchen slip prints in

A cook reading a Tamil slip makes fewer mistakes than a cook decoding a transliteration. Vendors are loose about this — “multi-lingual” on a website often means the website. Ask for a printed sample in the language your kitchen actually reads.

5. Work out what is genuinely included

The most repeated complaint about restaurant POS in this market is the add-on invoice: QR priced separately, kitchen display separately, loyalty separately. Get the full list of modules and their prices before you sign, not after.

6. Find out how you get your data out

Ask before you go in, not when you want to leave. Can you export bills to CSV? Does the export include the tax breakdown? A vendor who cannot answer this quickly is telling you something.

Small restaurant versus chain

What a single outlet actually needs

A mess, a tiffin kadai, a bakery or a single multi-cuisine restaurant needs four things to work perfectly and everything else not at all: fast billing at the counter, a correct GST bill, a kitchen ticket that arrives without anyone walking, and a day-close that tells the truth about the drawer.

It does not need central-kitchen production forecasting, franchise-level dashboards, or an ERP integration — and it should not be paying for them. The practical test is whether the vendor will sell you the small thing at all. Several of the systems here have no entry plan and no self-signup; the smallest unit they sell is a conversation.

Watch the entry plan carefully even where one exists. On Petpooja, the Captain ordering app and Scan and Order are both absent from the entry tier, so the plan a small restaurant can afford is not the plan the demo showed.

What a chain needs that a single outlet does not

• Central menu and price control pushed to every outlet at once.
• Consolidated reporting across outlets, and per-outlet comparison.
• Central kitchen and production planning, with inter-outlet transfers.
• Role-based access that survives staff turnover across sites.
• Deep integrations — ERP, accounting, aggregator reconciliation at volume.

Restroworks and Rista by DotPe are built around exactly this, and both lead with large-chain reference customers. If that is your problem, the enterprise sales process is not an obstacle; it is the product.

Where Dinelax sits, honestly

Dinelax is built for the first group, and is a poor fit for the second. There is no franchise console, no central production planning and no ERP connector. What it does have is the whole of one restaurant’s day in one app — billing, kitchen tickets, a waiter app, QR ordering, delivery, up to nine billing counters with separate bill series and drawers, and a blind day-close — at a price printed on the website. It runs on an Android tablet or a Windows counter PC, offline when it must, and prints Tamil. It is built in Tirunelveli, and there are pages on what that means in Tirunelveli and Madurai, and for Tamil Nadu generally.

The seven, one by one

Dinelax POS — ₹149 / ₹999, published

Aimed at single and small multi-outlet independents in India and the UAE. Billing, GST bills, kitchen tickets and daily reports at ₹149 a month; the waiter app, QR ordering, delivery, multiple counters and the full report set at ₹999. Fourteen days free with no card, and ₹1 for a new restaurant’s first month. Bills are written to the device first and reconciled to the cloud afterwards, so the counter survives a line drop. Item names print in Tamil on the kitchen slip and the customer bill. Not built for chains.

Petpooja — the widest published integration list

Its plan matrix publishes more named integrations than anything else here — Zomato and Swiggy reconciliation, Tally, SAP and ERP. Three plans, and the vendor publishes the feature matrix but not the prices. Billing works offline and there is a separate on-premise product for shops that want their data on their own server. Two things to check: the kitchen display sits under add-ons rather than in the published plan matrix, so ask whether it costs extra; and the Captain app and Scan and QR Order are both crossed on the entry plan. Support is stated as available in 18 or more Indian languages.

Restroworks — formerly Posist, renamed in 2024

If you are searching for Posist, this is it: the company rebranded to Restroworks in April 2024. Enterprise-first, sold to franchise networks and multi-location brands, with named chain customers. Modules are priced separately and hardware is quoted on top; the pricing page carries no numbers at all. The offline claim appears on a competitor-comparison page rather than in a specification, so ask for detail. Describes itself as multi-lingual but names no Indian language.

TMBill — India and the Gulf

Sells across India, the UAE and the wider Gulf, which is unusual in this list and useful if you operate in both. Cloud and offline are two different product lines rather than one product with a fallback, so be clear about which you are being quoted. No price is published anywhere — tmbill.com/pricing returns a 404 — and the only numbers online are marketplace listings that disagree with each other by two orders of magnitude. The vendor does say it offers multiple language options, but names none of them, and its own terms page mentions a one-week free trial.

Rista POS by DotPe — note the name

DotPe sells its restaurant POS under two names — its own F&B pages market a DotPe-branded POS, while a separate product page brands it Rista — so it is worth searching both. Aimed at mid-size and large chains, QSR and cloud kitchens, with large reference customers. The vendor states the POS runs offline for days and auto-syncs. Quote-only and demo-gated; a third-party listing mentions an annual maintenance contract on top, which is worth asking about directly.

Dytel (Dyne:CC) — check the date before you call

A Mumbai on-premise system with genuine back-office depth: central kitchen, recipe and food costing, cafeteria and food-court modules. The company still trades and its enquiry line is live. But its own website footer reads “Copyright © 2010”, its milestones page stops in 2010, and no product announcement or release note from this decade could be found. English only, and no QR ordering. Not a reason to rule it out if the back office is what you need, but do ask what has shipped this decade.

Zomato Base — discontinued

Announced on Zomato’s own blog in April 2015, alongside the MaplePOS acquisition it was built on. Its product page at zomato.com/base now redirects to a 404 and the last working capture in the Internet Archive is from March 2017. There is no Zomato POS app on Google Play under any package name. Zomato never announced a sunset, which is why it still appears on other 2026 comparison lists — and why one of them quotes a price for it. It is not purchasable.

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