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Epos Now vs Shopify POS: which is more reliable? (2026)

Shopify POS is more reliable than Epos Now, scoring 99.6 vs 85.9 out of 100. Over the last 90 days Epos Now reported 6 incidents and Shopify POS reported 1, with effective uptime of 99.86% and 100% respectively.

Data updated Nov 1, 2026 · How we score

Epos Now

85.9/100

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Shopify POS

99.6/100

Operational

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MetricEpos NowShopify POS
Reliability score85.999.6
Rank (restaurant POS systems)#5#1
Uptime (90 days)99.86%100%
Incidents (90 days)61
Partial / major outages20
Avg time to resolve2h 30m—
Outages we detected00
Transparency score100/100100/100

Where Epos Now and Shopify POS differ

  • Epos Now reported 6× as many incidents as Shopify POS over the last 90 days (6 vs 1).
  • Epos Now had 2 partial or major outages, compared with 0 for Shopify POS.
  • Epos Now's longest outage on record lasted 7h 9m (Jul 23, 2026); Shopify POS's lasted 42m (Oct 29, 2026).

90-day uptime

Epos Now

Aug 4, 2026 – Oct 2, 2026: no incidentsOct 3, 2026: 99.45% uptime, 1 incident (Partial outage)Oct 4, 2026 – Oct 19, 2026: no incidentsOct 20, 2026: 93.92% uptime, 1 incident (Major outage)Oct 21, 2026: 94.83% uptime, 2 incidents (Degraded performance)Oct 22, 2026 – Nov 1, 2026: no incidents
90 days ago99.869% average daily uptimeToday

Shopify POS

Aug 4, 2026 – Nov 1, 2026: no incidents
90 days ago100% average daily uptimeToday

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