Petpooja vs Toast

Updated November 2026 · AppBreakup editorial

Petpooja

Cloud restaurant POS from India covering billing, inventory, online orders and reports.

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Toast

Restaurant point-of-sale platform with its own hardware, payments, online ordering and payroll.

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The short answer

Petpooja and Toast are both restaurant POS systems, but they serve different markets. Petpooja is built for Indian restaurants, pulls Zomato and Swiggy orders straight into billing and runs on hardware you may already own. Toast is aimed at US restaurants and bundles its own terminals, handhelds, payment processing, online ordering and payroll from one vendor. Location largely decides between them.

Petpooja or Toast: our take

Petpooja, from Ahmedabad, covers billing across several terminals, menu management, inventory and recipe costing, a customer database and 80+ reports. Its biggest draw in India is that Zomato and Swiggy orders land in the same billing screen, so staff don't juggle separate tablets. It runs on Windows, Android and iOS devices and works with ordinary receipt and A4 printers. Plans come in Basic, Core, Growth and Scale tiers, from single outlets up to chains with a central kitchen, and extras such as a kitchen display, captain app for waiters, QR ordering and loyalty are paid add-ons. Prices aren't public; you book a demo for a quote. It is built around Indian delivery apps and GST, which makes it less suited to other markets.

Toast, based in Boston, Massachusetts, is made only for restaurants, from counter service to fine dining, and sells its own rugged Android-based terminals and handhelds so servers can take orders and payments at the table. Online ordering, delivery, gift cards, loyalty, payroll and team management are part of the same system, and developers can connect other tools through its APIs and partner integrations program. The trade-offs: card processing is tied to Toast, most pricing needs a sales quote, hardware is a separate cost, and it mainly serves the US and a handful of other countries.

Both are paid, quote-based systems with web back offices. For a restaurant in India taking many delivery-app orders, Petpooja fits the local setup and lets you reuse existing devices. For a US restaurant that wants POS, payments, handhelds and payroll from a single vendor, Toast is the more complete package. Few restaurants will realistically choose between them, since each is built for its home market.

Choose Petpooja if…

Restaurants in India and nearby markets that take many Zomato and Swiggy orders
You need Windows, which Toast doesn't list
Pulls Zomato and Swiggy orders into the same billing screen
Runs on Windows, Android and iOS hardware you may already own

Choose Toast if…

US restaurants that want POS, payments, online ordering and payroll from one vendor
Built only for restaurants, from counter service to fine dining
Handhelds let servers take orders and payments at the table

What is Petpooja?

Petpooja is a restaurant point-of-sale system built in Ahmedabad and used mainly by Indian restaurants, cafes, bakeries, cloud kitchens and chains, with a growing presence in the Gulf and Southeast Asia. It handles billing across several terminals, menu management, inventory and recipe costing, a built-in customer database and dozens of sales reports. A big part of its appeal in India is that it pulls orders from Zomato and Swiggy straight into the POS, so staff don't juggle separate tablets. Add-ons cover a kitchen display, a captain ordering app for waiters, QR ordering, a loyalty program and a restaurant website. It runs on Windows, Android and iOS devices and works with ordinary receipt and A4 printers. Plans are sold as annual or monthly subscriptions in tiers, but prices aren't listed publicly; you book a demo to get a quote. The same company also sells GST billing, payroll and task apps for other kinds of small business.

What is Toast?

Toast is a point-of-sale platform made only for restaurants, from quick-service counters and cafes to full-service dining rooms and multi-location groups. It combines rugged Android-based terminals and handhelds with software for ordering, menus, kitchen display screens, online ordering, delivery, gift cards, loyalty and reporting, plus optional payroll and team management. Payments are processed by Toast itself, so card fees and software come from the same company. Restaurant owners manage everything from a web back office and a mobile app, and developers can connect other systems through Toast's APIs and partner integrations. Pricing is a mix of monthly software plans, card processing rates and hardware bought up front or financed, and most plans are quoted after a call with sales. Toast is based in Boston and mainly serves restaurants in the United States, with operations in a few other countries.

Side by side

Attribute	Petpooja	Toast
Pricing	Paid	Paid
Open source	No	No
Self-hostable	No	No
Platforms	Windows, Android, iOS, Web	Android, iOS, Web
Best for	Restaurants in India and nearby markets that take many Zomato and Swiggy orders	US restaurants that want POS, payments, online ordering and payroll from one vendor
Status	Active	Active