Start with PowerEPOS itself, because it is a good till. Triniteq is Sydney based with a national installer network, which matters when a terminal dies on a Friday. Their documentation is the kind you want: a published guide for end of day and a Z report across several terminals, refunds handled from the POS by item or whole transaction, permissions defining which staff can process refunds and voids, kitchen display screens with automatic backup printing, and Follow Pages that prompt staff to offer a side with a main. If you want a till that behaves, this one behaves.
PowerEPOS, and the list beside it
Then there is the list. Some of what a venue needs is in the base product. Some sits beside it as a separately priced module of Triniteq's own. And some is not a Triniteq product at all.
Stock is a good example of the shape. Stock Countdown is base functionality, available across all installations. A proper stocktake sits higher up. Gift cards are the same story: Gift Card Manager is Triniteq's own module and it does the job well, but it is a priced add-on rather than part of the till. Customer visit and spend history arrives with PowerEPOS Loyalty, another Triniteq module, priced per site per month on top of the software.
Online ordering is a different matter again. PowerEPOS has no ordering channel of its own. It arrives through named partners, so the ordering menu and the online payment live in another company's product with its own contract, back office and login.
Turning on loyalty
Say the front bar is quiet on Wednesdays and you start a loyalty program. This is where the ladder gets real.
Loyalty is Triniteq's own module, so at least you are dealing with one company. It is priced as an add-on per site per month, and their material is fair about what you get: every transaction tracked, all customer touchpoints recorded automatically. Real module, real work done.
What happens next is the part nobody demonstrates. The loyalty module now holds a list of customers. Your booking diary holds a different list, because bookings are not what PowerEPOS is for, so the diary is somebody else's product. Your ordering partner holds a third, gathered from everyone who has scanned a QR code. The same regular is now three people in three places, and when she changes her mobile number she is corrected in one and wrong in two.
Then you want to use it. You want to email your top hundred members a Wednesday offer. Email campaigns are not what PowerEPOS is for, so that is a fourth product, a fourth signup, a fourth monthly bill and a fourth list, which only stays current if somebody exports one and imports the other most weeks. A booking that took a deposit is the same problem in reverse. The diary knows the deposit was paid. The till does not, so somebody charges the full amount and you refund it on Monday.
One price change, two companies
The chicken schnitzel goes up a dollar before the weekend. PowerEPOS takes the change once, properly. Then you open the ordering partner's back office and make the same change again, because that menu was built separately by a different company. Then the price is on your website, so that is a third edit. Forget the second and a guest ordering from their phone at table nine pays last week's price while the couple at the counter pays this week's.
Trading hours for a public holiday work the same way. The till, the ordering partner, the diary and Google all have to be told separately. That is not a hard job. It is a five minute job you will do again in three weeks, and again after that, for as long as you own the venue.
What the ladder costs by month twelve
Triniteq does not publish prices. Their site invites you to build a monthly software estimate through a quote or a demo, which means you cannot sit down tonight and work out your own number. Month one is hardware, an install and the base software. Month twelve is that, plus gift cards, plus loyalty, plus the ordering partner, plus a booking diary, plus a marketing tool. Six line items, four vendors, and none of them get cheaper.
Allvio's numbers are on our own site in Australian dollars. Complete is $399 per month ex GST for one location, plus $299 per month for each extra location, with every app switched on and no per user charge. Build your own starts at $20 per month per app if you only want a few. Hardware is sold outright, from $1,499 ex GST for the single station up to $2,499 for the restaurant station. The trial runs 30 days with no card. Invoicing, payroll and the books are in the same subscription.
Triniteq | Allvio | |
|---|---|---|
What you are actually buying | A pub and club till, with modules and partner products beside it | One AUD subscription with every app on, and more apps coming, so you can get on with the business |
Changing a price or a menu item | Once in PowerEPOS, then again in the ordering partner's own back office | Once, and the till and your ordering page both show it |
Changing your trading hours | The till, then the ordering partner, then whatever holds your bookings | Once, and sessions, ordering and the diary all follow |
Keeping a customer's details right | Loyalty holds one list, the ordering partner another, a diary a third | One contact record keyed on email and phone, with dedupe and merge |
Turning on loyalty | A priced module per site per month, on top of the software | Points, tiers, rewards, stamp cards and memberships already included |
Taking online orders | Delivered by a named partner, so a separate contract, setup and login | Your own commission free ordering page, built from the same menu |
What you pay before your first sale | Hardware, an install, base software, then whichever modules you need switched on | Hardware outright from $1,499 ex GST, and 30 days free with no card |
Working out what it will cost you | Not published. The estimate comes from a quote or a demo | Published in Australian dollars, so you can work it out tonight |
Best fit | Pubs, clubs and multi venue groups that want on site installers and a mature till above all else | A single venue owner doing the roster, the marketing and the books themselves |
Thursday night, the same stool
A bloke has sat on the same stool most Thursdays for four years. He drinks the same thing. He brings his daughter in on her birthday. In most venues none of that is known, because the till remembers a card and the diary remembers a name. When one record carries his visits, his usual and that birthday, the person pouring can say something a stranger could not.
If you are a pub group with venues in three states
Triniteq is a fair answer and possibly the right one. A national installer network, a till with years of pub service behind it and a partner list you can choose from beats an all rounder when you have a duty manager at every site. Their POS is more mature than ours.
The question for one venue is different. It is whether you want to spend your Tuesday nights climbing a ladder of modules and logins, or spend them on the floor with the people who came in.
This comparison reflects each product's general positioning as published by each vendor in August 2026. Features and pricing change: always check directly with each vendor before deciding.