Quantic Alternative: The Best Quantic POS Alternatives for Restaurants
Why restaurants leave Quantic
Quantic is a tablet-based POS that runs on Android. It takes orders, holds your menu, processes card payments and gives you basic reports. It's cheap to get started with, which is why small cafés and quick-service places end up on it.
The trouble starts when the business changes. You open a second site, or want a website that takes direct orders, or decide to run a loyalty scheme. Quantic wasn't built around any of those, and you find out one workaround at a time.
- Multi-site is the big one. Quantic is designed for a single location, so with two or more you're updating menus, prices and reports site by site, by hand.
- There's no own-channel online ordering. You need a third-party tool, and how well it talks to the till varies from tool to tool.
- There's no built-in loyalty programme, customer database or marketing automation.
- Connecting to accounting software, stock control or delivery platforms usually means middleware, which is another subscription and another thing that can break.
- Tablets age. Performance depends on how old the device is and whether it keeps up with updates, and that matters most on a Friday night.
What to check before you pick a replacement
Start with how you serve. Table service, counter service, delivery, or a mix? A system that does one well and the others badly will annoy you within a month.
Then look at what's sitting around your till. A separate website for orders, a card terminal from a different provider, a loyalty app, a spreadsheet for stock. Each one is another login, another bill and another place where numbers can drift out of sync.
Think about where you'll be in two years. If a second site is likely, you want menus and reports managed in one place from the start.
Look at payments as well. If the card terminal comes from one company and the till from another, you're reconciling two sets of statements and chasing two support lines when a payment fails. One provider for both is simpler to live with.
And ask what happens when something breaks mid-service. Who do you ring, and do they pick up?
Be honest about the staff, too. Turnover is high in restaurants, so whatever you pick has to be something a new starter can learn in a shift or two. A system with ten separate apps behind it fails that test.
A basic tablet POS and a full restaurant platform are different products. Work out which one you need before you start comparing prices.
Flipdish
Flipdish is a restaurant platform with a POS inside it, not a POS with extras bolted on. It's built for restaurants, takeaways, cafés, QSRs and multi-location groups that want one system instead of five. For most operators leaving Quantic, it's the right replacement.
Here's what you get, and what it changes day to day:
- A restaurant POS that handles table service, counter service and delivery in one system, with table management, modifiers, order splitting and kitchen display system routing.
- Online ordering through a branded website and mobile app. Customers order direct, there's no marketplace commission, and the customer data is yours.
- Self-service kiosks that cut counter queues and tend to lift order value. Kiosk orders and POS orders go to the same kitchen screen, so the kitchen watches one place.
- Integrated payments for in-person and online, from one provider. No separate terminal vendor and no reconciling two sets of statements.
- Loyalty and marketing: a loyalty programme, automated email and SMS, vouchers and a customer CRM.
- An AI phone agent that answers the phone and takes orders without anyone on your team stopping what they're doing.
- Multi-location management. One menu edited centrally, reporting across every site, and role-based permissions so a site manager sees their own site and nothing else.
- The Restaurant Management System, which covers inventory, staff scheduling, payroll integration and cost reporting.
- Order aggregation. Just Eat, Uber Eats and Deliveroo orders arrive on the same screen as your own orders, so nobody retypes them.
Direct orders matter more than they look. Every Just Eat, Uber Eats or Deliveroo order costs you commission. An order through your own website or app doesn't, and you keep the customer's details, so you can message them next week with a voucher instead of hoping they open a marketplace app again. Quantic can't do that without a third-party tool in the middle.
Kitchens notice the difference too. When delivery, kiosk, phone and table orders all end up on the same kitchen display, there's one queue to work through. Nobody checks a tablet on the side or shouts across the pass about an order that's been sitting on the wrong screen.
If you've outgrown a basic POS, this is the platform to move to. That goes especially for takeaways, QSRs, groups with several sites, and anyone adding online ordering or kiosks.
Other systems operators look at
Four other names come up when people search for a Quantic replacement. None of them covers a restaurant's whole setup the way Flipdish does, and each leaves a gap you'd need to fill yourself.
Square for Restaurants has a restaurant tier with table management, basic inventory and online ordering through Square Online. Transaction fees add up at higher volumes, multi-location management is thin, and loyalty and marketing are basic.
Lightspeed Restaurant is a cloud POS for the mid-market, with table management and reporting. It doesn't include own-channel online ordering, loyalty needs third-party tools, and it costs more than entry-level systems while managing groups less well than a platform built for them.
Epos Now is a UK cloud POS with retail and hospitality versions and a large integration marketplace. Each integration adds a monthly cost, kitchen display and online ordering are paid add-ons, and multi-location management is basic.
Zettle by PayPal is a low-cost card reader with a simple POS. It isn't designed for restaurant work. Table management, kitchen display and order routing aren't there, and neither is online ordering, loyalty or marketing.
Add up the extra tools each of these needs and you're back to running several systems at once, which is the situation you're trying to leave.
Quantic vs Flipdish: feature comparison
| Feature | Quantic | Flipdish |
|---|---|---|
| Cloud POS | ✓ | ✓ |
| Table management | Basic | ✓ Full |
| Kitchen Display System | ✓ | ✓ |
| Online ordering (own channel) | Via integration | ✓ Built-in |
| Branded mobile app | ✗ | ✓ |
| Self-service kiosks | ✗ | ✓ |
| Integrated payments | Basic | ✓ Full |
| Loyalty programme | Limited | ✓ Built-in |
| SMS and email marketing | ✗ | ✓ |
| AI phone ordering | ✗ | ✓ |
| Multi-location management | Limited | ✓ Full |
| Centralised menu management | Limited | ✓ |
| Inventory management | Basic | ✓ |
| Staff scheduling | ✗ | ✓ |
| Marketplace order aggregation | Via integration | ✓ Built-in |
The cost of outgrowing your POS
A common mistake is buying a POS for the business you have today. A system that works fine for one site with no delivery quickly becomes a problem the week you open a second location or put your menu online.
Switching later costs real money. You retrain staff, rebuild menus, set up integrations again, and lose some trading time while it happens. Picking a platform that already handles several sites and several sales channels is usually cheaper than switching twice.
Say you start with one counter-service shop. Six months later you add a website, then a kiosk to ease the lunch queue, then a second unit across town. On a tablet POS that grows by patches, you'd be adding a tool and a login each time. On Flipdish each of those is something you switch on in the system you already use, and the menu, reports and customer list stay in one place.
Flipdish is built to scale. One site now or a dozen in three years, the same platform handles it. See Flipdish pricing.
How to move from Quantic to Flipdish
Switching POS is disruptive if you wing it. Done in order, it's manageable.
- Export your menu from Quantic. Most operators already have it in a spreadsheet. While you're there, check modifiers, sizes and prices, because that's where mistakes creep in.
- List every tool connected to Quantic. Accounting, delivery apps, stock, the online ordering tool. You'll want to know which ones Flipdish replaces and which you still need.
- Check your card terminal contract. If you're tied in, find the end date before you plan the switch.
- Choose your launch day. Monday or Tuesday, when footfall is lower. Not a Friday.
- Train staff before go-live. The system is easy to pick up, but a run-through before service saves you finding out mid-rush that nobody knows how to split a bill.
- Run both systems side by side for a week if your setup is complicated, such as several sites or a lot of delivery volume.
Once you're live, spend the first week checking. Compare daily takings against what the old system would have shown, make sure orders reach the right kitchen screen, and look at the first multi-site report to confirm each location's numbers add up. Tell regulars about the new website or app too, since that's where the direct orders start.
Flipdish has a dedicated onboarding team, and for standard restaurant setups new customers are usually up and running within days.
Which setup suits you
A single site that wants to add online ordering and kiosks: Flipdish. A group that needs menus and reporting managed in one place: Flipdish. A table service restaurant that needs proper table management: Flipdish. A takeaway taking a lot of orders through Just Eat, Uber Eats and Deliveroo: Flipdish, with all of it on one screen.
If you've outgrown Quantic, or you're choosing a POS for the first time and don't want to replace it in two years, go with Flipdish.
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