The Best Quantic POS Alternatives for Restaurants

What is Quantic?

Quantic is a cloud-based POS for small hospitality businesses in the UK. It takes payments, prints to the kitchen and gives you some basic reports. If you run one small café or restaurant and just need a till that works, it does that job and it's cheap.

The trouble starts when the business gets bigger. Quantic has no built-in online ordering. It isn't set up to run several locations. And it doesn't plug into many of the tools a growing group ends up using for accounting, staff or delivery. At that point most owners start looking for something broader.

Why restaurants leave Quantic

Here are the reasons that come up most.

Online orders have nowhere to go. Quantic has no ordering product of its own, so delivery and collection orders end up on third-party marketplaces or in a separate system. Marketplaces take a commission on every order. A separate system means someone retyping orders or checking two screens during a rush.
Second site, double the work. There's no central menu and no combined reporting. Change a price at one site and you change it again at the next. Add up the weekly figures across locations and you're doing it in a spreadsheet.
Reports are thin. They're fine for a quick look at yesterday's takings. They won't tell a finance or operations person much about food costs, staff performance or how sales split between channels.
No loyalty or CRM. You can't run a points scheme, send a voucher or text customers who haven't ordered in a month.
Few integrations. Quantic doesn't connect natively to much of what a restaurant group uses outside the till.

If two or three of those sound familiar, it's time to compare options.

The best Quantic POS alternative for restaurants

Flipdish: POS, online ordering and marketing on one platform

Flipdish is built for restaurants, takeaways, cafés, QSRs and multi-location groups. Quantic covers in-venue payments and basic order handling. Flipdish covers that and everything around it: how customers order, how they pay, how they come back.

This is what Flipdish does that Quantic doesn't.

Online ordering through your own branded website and mobile app. Orders come straight to you with no marketplace commission.
Self-service kiosks that suggest add-ons while the customer builds their order, which takes pressure off the counter at busy times.
AI phone ordering that answers calls and turns them into orders, so nobody has to leave the pass to pick up the phone.
Loyalty and marketing tools: automated campaigns, vouchers and SMS.
A centralised POS that handles several locations, with combined reporting and menu management across every site.
Integrated payments, so the card terminal and the till come from the same place and you aren't reconciling two systems at the end of the day.

Think about what you'd do with Quantic to get the same result. You'd need a separate ordering provider, a separate loyalty app, probably a kiosk supplier, and someone to make them all agree with each other. With Flipdish dine-in, takeaway, delivery, kiosk and marketing run from one login.

It suits independent restaurants that are about to open a second site, groups that already have several, takeaways that want their own ordering channel, and any operator tired of paying commission on every delivery order.

What the commission difference looks like

Say a restaurant takes £10,000 a month in orders through a marketplace that charges 25%. That's £2,500 a month handed over, £30,000 a year. Move even half of those customers to your own branded app and website and a good chunk of that stays with you. The rate varies by marketplace, so plug in your own numbers. For a lot of operators this is the single biggest reason to move off a till that can't take direct orders.

Running more than one site

Multi-site is where Quantic struggles most and where Flipdish is strongest. You build the menu once and push it to every location. You can still change a price or hide a sold-out item at one site without touching the others. Reports roll up across locations, so a regional manager or finance lead can see all sites together or drill into one. Nobody has to merge exports on a Monday morning.

Other systems people look at

You'll see the same few names come up when you search for a Quantic replacement. None of them gives a restaurant what Flipdish does.

Square for Restaurants has a clean interface, clear pricing and decent hardware. It suits a small single-site café that wants a modern till. Online ordering is an add-on and the CRM is basic. Reporting across several locations is limited, and the loyalty and marketing tools don't go as far as Flipdish's. A single-site operator would be fine for a while, but a group will outgrow it, which puts you back where you are now.

Lightspeed Restaurant is built around table service, with menu engineering and floor plans. It costs more and takes longer to set up. If you run a mix of formats, say a sit-down room, a takeaway counter and delivery, it's less flexible than Flipdish, which handles all of those from one platform.

Epos Now is a UK cloud POS with a big hospitality customer base and an app marketplace. Most of the restaurant-specific features, online ordering and multi-channel management included, come from third-party add-ons rather than one native product. Add-ons are priced separately, so the monthly bill climbs as you add them, and you're back to managing several vendors.

Zettle by PayPal is a card reader with a simple POS, made for market stalls and pop-ups. It's simpler than Quantic, so it's a step sideways for a permanent restaurant.

How to choose

Before you speak to any supplier, answer five questions.

How many locations do you run now, and how many in two years? If the answer is more than one, you need central menu control and combined reporting from day one. Retrofitting that later is painful.

Do you take online orders? If you do, and they go through a marketplace, work out what you pay in commission each month. If you don't, ask yourself why not. Often it's because the current till can't do it.

Do you want a loyalty scheme? That needs a customer database inside the system, not a separate app that has to be kept in sync.

Do you want kiosks? A kiosk that's part of the same platform shares your menu, your prices and your reports. A bolt-on kiosk from another supplier doesn't, and you end up updating two menus.

What does the next three years look like? Pick the system you'll still be using then. Changing POS twice is far more disruptive than changing once.

The more channels you sell through, the stronger the case for one platform. A restaurant that sells dine-in, takeaway, delivery, kiosk and phone orders gets the most out of Flipdish, because every one of those lands in the same place.

What switching from Quantic involves

Any POS change means moving your menu, setting up hardware and training staff. The part owners worry about most is downtime, so ask for a go-live date that avoids your busy periods.

With Flipdish, a dedicated onboarding team runs the process.

Menu migration. Your menu is rebuilt in Flipdish with modifier groups, prices and photos.
Hardware. POS terminals, printers and card readers are installed and tested before you rely on them.
Staff training. Front-of-house and kitchen teams learn the interface, ideally before opening day rather than during service.
Go-live. Most Flipdish customers are live within a few weeks.
Online ordering. Your branded website and app are configured so direct orders can start coming in straight away.

Flipdish has a support team based in the UK and Ireland. Growing accounts also get a dedicated customer success manager, so you have a named person to ask when something looks wrong in week two.

One practical tip: don't switch in your busiest week. Pick a quiet stretch, go live at one site first if you have several, and roll out to the rest once the team is comfortable.

Quantic vs Flipdish at a glance

Feature	Quantic	Flipdish
Cloud POS	✓	✓
Online ordering	✗	✓
Branded app	✗	✓
Self-service kiosk	✗	✓
AI phone ordering	✗	✓
Loyalty & CRM	✗	✓
Multi-location management	Limited	✓
Centralised menu management	✗	✓
Integrated payments	✗	✓
Kitchen display system	✓	✓

Quantic matches Flipdish on the basics: a cloud POS and a kitchen display. Everything else in the table is where a growing restaurant spends its time.

The bottom line

Quantic is fine for a very small business that wants a basic till and low overhead. It stops being fine when you start taking orders across more than one channel, want a loyalty programme, or plan a second location.

Flipdish is made for that stage. It brings restaurant POS, online ordering, kiosks, loyalty and AI tools together, so you stop paying for and managing five separate suppliers.

To see how it works for your restaurant, visit flipdish.com and request a demo.