Quantic Alternative: The Best Quantic POS Alternatives for Restaurants
What is Quantic?
Quantic is a cloud POS aimed at restaurants, cafés, pubs and some retail shops. It does till work, table management, a basic online ordering module and a set of back-office reports. It runs on Android hardware and connects to a handful of third-party tools.
Most operators pick it because it's cheap to start with and doesn't need much setup. For a single site with a short menu and mostly walk-in trade, that's a sensible reason.
Why restaurants look for a Quantic alternative
The trouble starts when the restaurant changes. A second site opens. Takeaway becomes a third of sales. The owner wants to stop paying commission on every delivery order. Quantic wasn't really built for any of that, and the gaps show up one at a time.
Online ordering is the first one. Quantic's ordering module takes orders, but it doesn't give you a properly branded website and app, built-in upselling, or loyalty tied to the customer's order history. If you want customers to order from you directly instead of going through a marketplace, you end up bolting on other tools.
Delivery marketplaces are the second. Orders from Just Eat, Uber Eats and Deliveroo should land in the same kitchen queue as everything else, without anyone retyping them or watching a separate tablet. That needs a deep, two-way integration, and Quantic's is limited.
Then there's running more than one site. Changing a price or adding a menu item across several locations is slow when each site is managed on its own. Reporting has the same problem. Quantic is fine for a daily sales summary. It's much less useful if you want to compare sites, channels and individual menu items side by side.
Support is the other thing people weigh up. When the till stops working at 7pm on a Friday, how quickly someone picks up the phone is the only question that matters. And if you want newer things like AI ordering, stronger loyalty or kiosks, you'll want to know whether the platform already has them or only plans to.
The best Quantic alternatives for restaurants
1. Flipdish
Flipdish is the best alternative to Quantic for restaurants and takeaways that want one connected system instead of a till plus a pile of add-ons.
Quantic is mainly a POS. Flipdish covers the whole order: a restaurant POS, online ordering with your own website and app, self-service kiosks, integrated payments, loyalty and marketing, and AI tools including an AI phone agent that answers calls and takes orders.
Here's how the two compare:
| Feature | Quantic | Flipdish |
|---|---|---|
| POS | Yes | Yes, full restaurant POS |
| Online ordering | Basic | Branded website and mobile app |
| Kiosks | No | Yes |
| Kitchen display system | Yes (basic) | Yes |
| Delivery marketplace integration | Limited | Just Eat, Uber Eats, Deliveroo |
| Loyalty and CRM | Basic | Loyalty, SMS, automated marketing |
| AI phone ordering | No | Yes |
| Multi-location management | Basic | Multi-site management |
| Payments | Third-party | Native, through Flipdish Pay |
| Reporting | Basic | Multi-channel reporting |
The practical difference is that every order, whether it's from the counter, the website, a kiosk or a delivery app, ends up in one kitchen queue. Managers look at one dashboard. Nobody has to add up three sets of numbers on Monday morning.
Flipdish is also built around direct ordering. Customers order from your site or app, you keep their details, and you can bring them back with SMS and automated campaigns. That's what cuts the share of orders going through marketplaces and taking a commission.
Take a typical Saturday. A customer rings at 6:30pm while the whole kitchen is flat out. Without help, that call either gets answered by someone who should be plating food, or it rings out. With the AI phone agent, the call is answered, the order is taken and it appears on the kitchen display next to the website orders. Nobody wrote it on a pad.
Kiosks work the same way. A customer orders at the screen, pays, and the ticket prints in the same queue as everything else. Queues at the counter get shorter, and the person at the till can go back to serving. Kiosks also prompt for extras on every order, which helps average order value.
On the marketing side, AI marketing and SMS campaigns run off the same customer data the ordering system collects. If someone hasn't ordered in a month, they get a nudge. You don't export a list into another tool and hope it matches.
2. Square for Restaurants
Square has a restaurant tier with table management, coursing and some online ordering. Setup is simple and a lot of people already know it.
It suits small independent restaurants and cafés. Where it falls short of Flipdish is multi-location control, delivery integration and online ordering, which is harder to customise and brand the way you'd want.
3. Lightspeed Restaurant
Lightspeed is a cloud POS with floor plans, split billing and detailed menu setup, and it connects to a number of delivery platforms and accounting tools.
It's a POS first. It doesn't come with the native online ordering, kiosks or AI ordering that Flipdish does, so those would need to come from somewhere else.
4. TouchBistro
TouchBistro is a restaurant POS for iPad, with table management, staff management and basic reporting.
It has online ordering and loyalty features, but they're thinner than what Flipdish includes, and it's aimed at independents and small groups rather than operators building up a direct ordering channel.
5. Epos Now Hospitality
Epos Now is a UK hospitality POS with a long list of add-on integrations, and it's well known with small businesses.
The pricing is modular. Each integration you add for delivery, loyalty or reporting adds to the monthly bill, so a setup that does what Flipdish does out of the box ends up costing more to assemble.
What to check before you leave Quantic
Whichever system you move to, a few questions are worth answering before you sign anything.
Can customers order from your own website and app? If the answer is a marketplace page with your logo on it, you don't own the relationship. Flipdish gives you a branded site and app.
What happens to orders once they come in? Look at how order management works across channels, and whether a kitchen display system puts them all in one place or leaves you with a stack of tablets.
Do you get customer data? You want to know who ordered, how often, and what they spent, and to be able to send them an offer without a separate loyalty app.
What if you open a second site? Ask whether you can change a menu once and push it to every location.
Who processes your payments? When payments run through a separate provider you get a second set of fees and a second set of reports to reconcile. Native payments avoid that.
How much of the AI side is built in? AI phone ordering and AI marketing are the two worth asking about. Flipdish has both natively.
What it costs to switch
Most of the cost of switching isn't money. It's the hours someone spends rebuilding the menu, and the nerves around a go-live. Plan for both.
On the money side, compare the whole bill rather than the till subscription. With Quantic you may be paying for the POS, a separate online ordering tool, a separate loyalty tool and a payment provider, each with its own invoice. Add those up before you look at any other quote. With Flipdish they sit under one platform, so the comparison is one number against a stack of smaller ones.
Delivery commission is the bigger line for many restaurants. If a fifth of your orders come through a marketplace at a commission on each one, moving even some of those customers to your own app or site can do more for your margin than a difference in POS pricing. That's why the ordering side of the platform matters more than the till.
Switching from Quantic to Flipdish
Moving off Quantic is a lot easier than moving off an old on-premise system, because there's no heavy hardware or contract tangle to unpick. You're mostly moving a menu.
- Write down your menu before you do anything else. Items, modifiers, prices, and any different pricing for dine-in and delivery.
- Build the menu in Flipdish. The onboarding team helps with this, and it's usually the longest step.
- Set up your ordering channels: the website, the app, and any kiosks or marketplace connections.
- Set up payments with Flipdish Pay.
- Train staff. Counter and floor staff usually need only a few hours on the POS.
- Go live on a quiet day, and keep Quantic available for a short while in case you need to fall back.
Before go-live, place a few test orders through every channel you're turning on. Send one from the website, one from a kiosk if you have one, and one as a marketplace order. Check each one shows up on the kitchen screen with the right modifiers and prints correctly. It takes twenty minutes and finds most of the problems that would otherwise appear on your first busy night.
Flipdish's onboarding team stays involved through the whole process, so you aren't left to do the first week on your own.
Why Flipdish
Quantic is a decent POS for a small restaurant that takes most of its money over the counter. If that's you and nothing is changing, you may not need to move.
If you want orders from your own website and app, one queue for all channels, kiosks, your own payments, loyalty and an AI phone agent that picks up when the staff can't, Flipdish does all of it in one system. You pay one supplier, learn one dashboard and get one place to call when something breaks.
Request a Flipdish demo and see how it compares to your current Quantic setup.