Restaurant POS · reliability comparison
Qu POS vs Toast: which is more reliable? (2026)
Qu POS and Toast are effectively tied on reliability (52.4 vs 53.5). Over the last 90 days Qu POS reported 4 incidents and Toast reported 14, with effective uptime of 98.68% and 98.67% respectively. Toast resolves incidents faster on average (4h 28m).
Data updated Nov 1, 2026 · How we score
| Metric | Qu POS | Toast |
|---|---|---|
| Reliability score | 52.4 | 53.5 |
| Rank (restaurant POS systems) | #13 | #11 |
| Uptime (90 days) | 98.68% | 98.67% |
| Incidents (90 days) | 4 | 14 |
| Partial / major outages | 1 | 8 |
| Avg time to resolve | 18h 28m | 4h 28m |
| Outages we detected | 0 | 0 |
| Transparency score | 100/100 | 100/100 |
Where Qu POS and Toast differ
- Toast reported 3.5× as many incidents as Qu POS over the last 90 days (14 vs 4).
- Toast had 8 partial or major outages, compared with 1 for Qu POS.
- Toast fixes problems faster: 4h 28m on average, against 18h 28m for Qu POS (4.1× quicker).
- Qu POS's longest outage on record lasted 2d 1h (Aug 8, 2026); Toast's lasted 1d 7h (Sep 17, 2026).
90-day uptime
Qu POS
Toast
- No incidents
- Degraded
- Partial outage
- Major outage
- No data
Recent Qu POS incidents
- Degraded performanceNov 1, 2026 · resolved in 8h 6m
Affected: POS Functionality
- Degraded performanceSep 14, 2026 · resolved in 2h 15m
EOD report not generating correctly
Affected: POS Functionality
- Degraded performanceSep 1, 2026 · resolved in 13h 59m
Affected: Enterprise Intelligence Portal
- Partial outageAug 8, 2026 · resolved in 2d 1h
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Affected: Connectwise Automate
Recent Toast incidents
- Degraded performanceOct 27, 2026 · resolved in 25m
Affected: Sling by Toast Scheduling
- Degraded performanceOct 23, 2026 · resolved in 3h 24m
Toastweb - Toast App Performance Degradation
Affected: Toast POS app, POS Web application
- Degraded performanceOct 14, 2026 · resolved in 3h 20m
10/14/2026 - Sling Latency Issues
Affected: Sling by Toast Scheduling
- Partial outageOct 7, 2026 · resolved in 1h 5m
Affected: Card Processing
- Degraded performanceOct 5, 2026 · resolved in 8h
Affected: Deposits
- Major outageOct 4, 2026 · resolved in 5h 42m
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Affected: Deposits
Other restaurant POS systems to consider
- Shopify POS · #1 · 100% uptime
- SpotOn · #2 · 100% uptime
- Loyverse · #3 · 99.91% uptime
- Clover · #4 · 99.88% uptime