Allvio vs Toast: Toast Covers More of the 43, Here's the Full Table

Toast covers more of these 43 capabilities than Allvio does, and you should read that here rather than work it out later. Thirty six rows are a yes for Toast against 34 for Allvio. Two rows are partial, two are a no, and three sit outside what the product does, which describes its scope rather than counting against it. Allvio does part of the job on nine rows, and on seven of those Toast is a full yes. This is a wide, mature restaurant pos system australia is now being sold into, with the longest module list in hospitality, so the honest case for us is not breadth. It is that Toast was built for the United States market, that it is in its first year of selling here, and that three rows below sit outside what it does.

Where Toast is ahead of us, said plainly

Toast is a yes on online payment and split bills, upsells and promo codes, floor plan and table assignment, deposits and no show protection, ticketed events and set menus, a staff app on their own phone, and reporting on your phone. Allvio does part of the job on all seven. We take online payments but cannot split a bill online yet. We run promo codes, vouchers and bundles but do not prompt an upsell. We assign tables per booking with sections, capacity and status, but there is no visual floor plan designer. We take a deposit at booking but do not charge a no show fee automatically. We run set menus, functions and classes but do not sell tickets in pricing tiers. Staff and managers use a phone browser rather than a native app.

Its selling and payment block is a full set apart from one row, and its bookings block is a full set of eight, which is unusual for a point of sale. Customers and marketing are nearly complete, and rostering, clock in and out, timesheets and leave are all included. That breadth is real and it is not a brochure claim.

The 43 rows in full

The rows that change your week

Stock counts and low stock alerts is the clearest gap in the table. Toast is a no. Allvio does part of the job: sales take stock down, returns put it back, though a full stocktake at the register is not in yet. If you are watching spirits or beans, part of an answer at least tells you what moved.

One customer record is the second. Toast does part of the job. Allvio keys a single contact record on email and phone, uses that same record at the till, in the diary and on the ordering page, and can find and merge duplicates, with visits, lifetime spend, allergies, preferences, occasions and VIP flags on it. When a regular rings on a Thursday to move Sunday's table, that is the difference between a name on a screen and a customer somebody knows.

Then the three rows outside what Toast does: invoices and quotes, payroll and payslips, and GST and BAS figures. One Allvio subscription covers invoicing, pay runs and the books, which is what a pos system with payroll is supposed to mean. Of those three, the one that bites soonest for a venue doing functions is invoices and quotes: a deposit invoice for a wedding in March, a monthly account for the builder up the road, a statement chased on a Tuesday. That work does not disappear because the till does not do it.

The fourth thing is not a row at all. Toast's product decisions are made for American restaurants, its Australian pricing is not published so finding your number means booking a demo, and its local support network is in its first year of being built. Australia has Sunday and public holiday surcharges, GST tax invoices, and owners who ring someone at 8.40pm on a Saturday. None of that is in the table, and it is worth several rows.

What the totals do not tell you

Thirty six against 34 is a fair count and a shallow one. It says nothing about how a capability behaves on your floor, how long its setup takes on a Tuesday night, or who answers when the kitchen screen goes dark mid service. A wide product with three rows outside its scope is not worse than a narrower one, and a narrower product is not automatically simpler to run. The question no table can answer is who buys, sets up and runs the rest of what your venue needs, and how many of your evenings that takes.

Who should choose Toast

A growing restaurant or quick service group, hospitality only, with somebody whose job includes the software, should talk to Toast. If you want the longest capability list on the market and you have the operational depth to use it, they are a serious product with serious backing, and the breadth in the table above is genuine rather than padded.

If you are one owner with one or two venues in Australia, and what decides your week is whether Sunday's surcharge behaves and whether the person on the phone understands what a bistro is doing on a Saturday night, price us next to them. Allvio Complete is $399 per month ex GST for one location and $299 per month for each extra location, with every app switched on and no per app or per user charge. Hardware is bought outright, $1,499 ex GST for a single station and $2,499 for the restaurant setup, and the trial is 30 days with no card.

Every cell above comes from each vendor's own published material, checked in August 2026. Products change constantly: always confirm current capability directly with each vendor before deciding.