Brindola vs Epos Now
Epos Now or Brindola for a restaurant in London
Epos Now is a British cloud EPOS for retail and hospitality, sold in the UK as a hardware bundle from £299 with a twelve-month payments, care and support subscription from £54 a month. Brindola is a restaurant terminal priced per venue, runs the whole service with the internet down, and works with the card machine you already have.
In short
- Brindola's price is the price, £45 or £89 a month per venue, with no payments contract attached.
- Keep your own card machine and the rate you negotiated; Brindola takes no card fee.
- Orders, kitchen screens, payments and the close all keep running with the broadband down.
- Tickets, guests and payments stay on a device in your venue, not on a vendor's servers.
- Epos Now is ahead on accounting links, Deliveroo today, guest ordering at the table and phone support.
Last checked 11 October 2026 · www.eposnow.com/uk
Why venues choose Brindola over Epos Now
The service does not stop when the line does
One device in your venue runs every terminal, kitchen screen and printer over your own network. When the broadband goes at seven on a Friday, orders, payments, the close and the reports carry on for as long as the outage lasts.
Tips and service charge kept apart from your takings
A card tip is recorded on the payment, never inside the sale. An optional service charge is its own line, struck off when a guest asks, and reported apart from takings; tips are reported by member of staff and by day.
No payments contract to get the price
Epos Now's bundle price requires a twelve-month payments, care and support subscription. Brindola is a flat monthly or annual fee per venue, with no card-rate markup and no tie to any card provider.
Your tickets stay in your building
Tickets, guests, payments and margins live in one file on hardware you own. Only the day's totals leave, and only to a backoffice you connect.
Several brands from one kitchen
Separate brand tabs and catalogs, revenue by brand and channel, and one order that can carry two brands.
Runs on hardware you choose
A Windows or Linux computer you already own or buy anywhere, with Android phones and tablets joining it as terminals, order screens at the table or kitchen screens.
Epos Now and Brindola, side by side
| Topic | Epos Now | Brindola |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | A cloud EPOS for retail and hospitality; data is kept on Epos Now's servers. | A restaurant terminal that runs on the venue's own hardware and network. |
| Price | Bundle from £299, with a 12-month payments, care and support subscription from £54 a month. | Stronger here: £45 (one device) or £89 (up to eight) a month per venue, UK VAT added at checkout; a year costs ten months. No hardware bundle. |
| Card payments | Its own card machines at a fixed rate (not published), next-day payouts, tips and split bills. | Any provider's card machine alongside; the amount keyed in, its receipt number recorded. No card fee. |
| Without the internet | Works online or offline and connects to the cloud when it can; card machines take payments offline. | Stronger here: Orders, kitchen, payments, the close and reports all run in the venue, for as long as the outage lasts. |
| Where the data lives | On Epos Now's servers. | Stronger here: On the main device in your venue, in one file you can back up. Only the day's totals leave. |
| Tips and service charge | Card machines that take tips; service charge not described. | Stronger here: Tip on the payment, service charge on its own line, both kept out of takings; tips by staff member. |
| Delivery platforms | Stronger here: Deliveroo today, and Epos Now Delivery for your own drivers. | Deliveroo and Uber Eats coming soon, onto the kitchen screen. |
| Accounting | Stronger here: Sage, Xero and QuickBooks integrations. | The Z reading and the daily close; no direct accounting link. |
| Kitchen | Kitchen display, £49 a month with the screen or £19 software only. | Kitchen screens by station, a pass view and age timers, in Plus. |
| Stock | Real-time stock, wet and dry units, automated purchase orders and low-stock alerts. | Stock with lots, expiry and stocktakes, supplier orders with part deliveries, item margins. |
| Guests | Stronger here: Order and Pay from the guest's phone at the table. | Bookings that become orders, a self-service kiosk paid at the counter, a customer display. No QR ordering. |
| Several brands | Not described. | Stronger here: Brand tabs and catalogs, reporting by brand and channel. |
| Support | Stronger here: Freephone 0800 294 5945 and live chat, 9am to 6pm. | By email, with an online manual of step-by-step guides. |
What Epos Now has that Brindola doesn't
- Xero, QuickBooks, Sage and OpenTable
- Sales flow to Sage, Xero or QuickBooks, and OpenTable is in its AppStore. Brindola has no direct accounting link; its own bookings handle tables in the venue.
- Card machines from the same vendor
- Epos Now card machines and the Pro+ handheld split the bill, take tips, take payments offline and pay out the next day, so nobody keys an amount twice.
- Deliveroo today
- Deliveroo orders, or your own delivery with Epos Now Delivery. Brindola's Deliveroo and Uber Eats are coming soon.
- Guests order and pay at the table
- Order and Pay lets guests order from their own phones at the table. Brindola's kiosk takes the order and the guest pays at the counter.
- A phone line in the UK
- A freephone number, a support centre and live chat from 9am to 6pm, from a company whose home market is the UK.
- Payroll, loyalty and an online shop
- Payroll is included in every package, and Loyalzoo, Mailchimp, Shopify and Epos Now Online are in the AppStore.
- One box from one vendor
- Terminals, printers, cash drawers and scanners come in a bundle with the software.
Choose Epos Now if…
…you want one British vendor for the terminal, the card machine and next-day payouts, with Xero, QuickBooks or Sage connected, Deliveroo today, ordering at the table and a phone line to ring.
Choose Brindola if…
…a dead line must not stop a single order, you want to keep your own card machine and its rate, your tips and service charge must stay out of your takings, or you run several brands from one kitchen.
Try Brindola on your own hardware
Fourteen days on the full Plus plan, no card and no account. Load your catalog, pull the network cable, and keep serving.
The Epos Now pages we read
- www.eposnow.com/uk/pricing — 2026-10-11
- www.eposnow.com/uk/systems/hospitality-pos/restaurant/software — 2026-10-11
- www.eposnow.com/uk/store/software/apps/kitchen-display-system — 2026-10-11
- www.eposnow.com/uk/store/software/apps — 2026-10-11
- www.eposnow.com/uk/payment-processing/card-machines — 2026-10-11
- www.eposnow.com/uk/contact-us/support — 2026-10-11
Epos Now is a trademark of its owner, which is not affiliated with Brindola.