Triniteq sells PowerEPOS as a till you extend, and a capability list shows it. Of the 43 jobs we compared, PowerEPOS covers nine as standard, two do part of the job at no extra cost, three are priced modules, six arrive only through one of their ordering partners, and 23 sit outside what the product is for. Those 23 are not failings: PowerEPOS is a pub pos system australia has relied on for years, built for pubs and clubs, and it never claimed to run your roster. What the ladder means is that a lot of answers are not yes or no. They are which module, and at what point in the quote.
What the base till already does
PowerEPOS is established, installed nationally and properly documented, and their material is specific in the way that only comes from real sites. Kitchen display screens sit among the operations features alongside automatic backup printing for redundancy, and kitchen docket printing is documented in their knowledge base. Refunds are handled straight from the point of sale, a single item or a whole transaction, and which staff can process refunds and voids is a permission you set. End of day has its own published guide for multiple terminals.
Stock levels count down as items are ordered on every installation, which Triniteq publishes as base functionality. A full stocktake sits in a priced module, which is why that row reads costs extra rather than yes. Their Follow Pages idea is a good one: a page appears prompting staff to offer a side with a main or a beverage with breakfast. Reporting is included, and so is reporting on a phone, a row where their column is a yes and ours is only part of the job, because Allvio's phone reporting is the browser rather than a native app.
The 43 rows, and the three states worth reading carefully
Yes means included. Part of it means the product does some of the job at no extra cost. Costs extra means a priced module. Another product means a second company, a second contract and a second setup, which is not the same thing.
Capability | Triniteq PowerEPOS | Allvio |
|---|---|---|
Selling and taking payment | ||
Touchscreen till for counter and table service | Yes | Yes |
Card, cash, split and part payments | Yes | Yes |
Table plan and open tabs | Yes | Yes |
Kitchen screens or dockets | Yes | Yes |
Stock counts and low stock alerts | Costs extra, stocktake module | Part of it, no register stocktake yet |
Discounts, happy hour and price levels | Yes | Yes |
Gift cards | Costs extra, their gift card module | Yes |
Refunds, voids and exchanges | Part of it, refunds and voids | Yes |
Cash up and end of day | Yes | Yes |
Online ordering | ||
QR ordering at the table | Another product, an ordering partner | Yes |
Pickup and takeaway from your own site | Another product, an ordering partner | Yes, commission free |
Menu built and changed in one place | Another product, an ordering partner | Yes |
Modifiers, sizes and dietary flags | Another product, an ordering partner | Part of it, no nested modifiers yet |
Online payment and split bills | Another product, an ordering partner | Part of it, no online bill split yet |
Upsells and promo codes | Part of it, upsells at the till | Part of it, no automatic upsells yet |
Orders land straight in the kitchen | Another product, an ordering partner | Yes |
Bookings and reservations | ||
Booking diary | Not what it does | Yes |
Floor plan and table assignment | Not what it does | Part of it, no visual designer yet |
Bookings from your own website | Not what it does | Yes |
Deposits and no show protection | Not what it does | Part of it, deposits but no auto fees |
Waitlist and walk ins | Not what it does | Yes |
Confirmations and reminders to guests | Not what it does | Yes |
Ticketed events and set menus | Not what it does | Part of it, no ticket price tiers yet |
Availability rules and trading hours | Not what it does | Yes |
Knowing your customers | ||
One customer record | Not what it does | Yes |
Visit and spend history | Costs extra, their loyalty module | Yes |
Notes, preferences and allergies | Not what it does | Yes |
Segments such as regulars and lapsed | Not what it does | Yes |
Loyalty and rewards | Yes | Yes |
Marketing | ||
Email campaigns | Not what it does | Yes |
SMS campaigns | Not what it does | Yes |
Automated messages such as birthday and win back | Not what it does | Yes |
Campaign results tied back to spend | Not what it does | Yes |
Your team | ||
Rostering | Not what it does | Yes |
Clock in and out | Not what it does | Yes |
Timesheets ready for pay | Not what it does | Yes |
Leave and availability | Not what it does | Yes |
Staff app on their own phone | Not what it does | Part of it, browser not a native app |
Back office | ||
Invoices and quotes | Not what it does | Yes |
Payroll and payslips | Not what it does | Yes |
GST and BAS figures | Not what it does | Yes |
Seeing how you are doing | ||
Sales and end of day reporting | Yes | Yes |
Reporting on your phone | Yes | Part of it, browser not a native app |
The rows that decide it
The whole ordering path is the big one. QR ordering at the table, takeaway from your own site, the ordering menu, modifiers online, online payment and orders reaching the kitchen are all delivered by a partner rather than by PowerEPOS. Triniteq is upfront about it and names the partners, and where one is in place orders do reach the kitchen automatically. But it is a second company to choose, buy and set up, and the row about a menu built and changed in one place is answered by that partner rather than the till you already bought.
Gift cards are the second. Triniteq's own gift card module does everything you would want: cards created, edited, preloaded and topped up at the point of sale, with payment, lookup and top up buttons on the pay screen. It is priced separately. In Allvio they are sold, redeemed and tendered at the till with a balance ledger, inside the subscription.
Third is knowing who your regulars are. Visit and spend history in PowerEPOS comes through their loyalty module, which is a priced add on, and once you have it every transaction is recorded automatically. Loyalty itself is a yes in their column. But notes, preferences and allergies, and segments such as regulars and lapsed, are outside what the product does, so the useful half of a customer record is somewhere else again.
Fourth is everything after service. Bookings, rostering, timesheets and leave are not what PowerEPOS is for. For a pub with an office that may be right. For an owner who builds the roster on a Sunday night it is another product and another place to type the same trading hours.
Where nine, two, three, six and 23 come from
They make 43 because every capability had to land somewhere, and the 23 describe scope rather than shortcoming. A narrow hospitality pos system is often the right one, and the real question is who buys and runs the rest. The number that deserves your attention is the middle of the list. Because their pricing is quoted rather than published, and because three capabilities are priced modules and six more are partner products, the only way to know what you will pay is to specify the whole shape and wait for a proposal. We will not quote their figures. The answer depends on which modules you tick.
Who should still choose Triniteq
A multi venue pub or club group that wants a till specified and installed by a national network, already runs a booking system and a roster its staff have learnt, and has someone to own the ordering partner relationship. PowerEPOS has served Australian pubs for a long time and that experience is in the product.
If you are the owner, the manager and the marketing department
Then the ladder is the problem, not the till. Allvio Complete is $399 per month ex GST for one location and $299 per month for each extra one, with every app on and no per user charge, and the same subscription also covers your invoicing, payroll and the books, which is what a pos system with payroll should mean. Build your own starts at $20 per month per app. Hardware is sold outright at $1,499 ex GST for the single station, $1,869 retail and $2,499 restaurant. The trial runs 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.