Vectron Systems was designed in Münster, Germany, and sold into Australia through a subsidiary with offices in four states. Both halves matter. The German half explains why the product feels the way it does. The Australian half is a real advantage: an owner in Perth or Brisbane gets a person in the same time zone, which is more than several louder competitors manage.
Münster engineering, and four Australian offices
Vectron's own POS 7 manual is written by engineers. Guest checks opened and listed, groups or single people invoiced separately, splitting at the till, corrections and voids, X reports during service and Z reports that finalise the day. Vectron Commander polls all of that centrally and prints reports tailored to the business. Order Hub, their own kitchen and bar monitor, shows orders with colour coded due and overdue status and course timing. Their claim is more than three thousand venues.
That is a serious till. Nothing below is an argument that the register is weak, because it is not.
Sending one email to your regulars
It is Tuesday. Wednesdays are quiet, and you want to email the people who came in twice last month and have not been back since.
In Vectron, that job does not live in Vectron. Email campaigns come through bonVito, the loyalty and marketing platform Vectron Systems sells as a paid add-on, described in their own words as a campaign tool for digital marketing and targeted customer contact by mail. It works as coupons rather than a general newsletter, and it costs extra. The visit and spend history you need to pick those people also comes through the paid loyalty add-ons, not the till. Segments such as regulars or lapsed are a bonVito job too, as is seeing whether the email brought anyone in.
So one email means a second product, bought separately, learned separately, with its own login and its own bill. And the parts that would make the email good are not there at all. Notes, preferences and allergies on a customer record are not in Vectron's published material. Neither are automatic birthday or win back messages. You will write that Wednesday email by hand every time, and choose who gets it by hand as well.
Roughly six things that arrive with their own invoice
Once you start counting, the pattern is consistent. QR ordering at the table exists, but as their separately priced myVectron In-House Ordering package. Visit and spend history is a paid loyalty add-on. Segments are bonVito. Email campaigns are bonVito. Campaign results tied back to sales are bonVito. Reporting on your phone is a genuine app on the App Store and Google Play, sitting on the higher cloud tier rather than the base product. That is roughly six things a small venue expects to simply be there, each one a decision, a price and a setup of its own.
Bookings are not what Vectron is for, so a diary is another product again. Rostering, timesheets, invoicing and payroll are the same. None of that is hidden. It is the bill and the workload arriving in instalments after the demo.
Happy hour moves to five, and the kitchen closes earlier on Sundays
You pull happy hour back an hour. On the Vectron till that is one edit, and time based pricing is what a good register is for. Then somebody makes the same edit in the ordering package, a separate product with its own item groups. Until they do, a guest at table four orders discounted schooners from their phone at the old time while the bar charges full price two metres away.
Sunday hours are the same shape. The till has to be told. The ordering package has to be told. Whatever holds your bookings has to be told, and that is a different company. Your website and Google too. Five places, one fact, and the one you forget takes an order you cannot fill.
What the quote does not cover until you ask
Vectron does not publish pricing. Their material references no upfront software cost and monthly payment plans, which sounds reassuring and cannot be planned against: you cannot work out your own monthly number without a sales call. Nor can you see, before that call, which of the six things above sit inside the quote.
Allvio publishes its figures in Australian dollars. Complete is $399 per month ex GST for one location, plus $299 per month for each extra location, switching every app on, with no per app or per user charge. If you only want a few, Build your own starts at $20 per month per app. 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 and needs no card. Email and SMS campaigns are in the subscription, as are the customer record they read from and your invoicing, payroll and books.
Vectron | Allvio | |
|---|---|---|
What you are actually buying | A well engineered till, with ordering, loyalty and marketing sold beside it | One AUD subscription with every app switched on |
Changing a price or a menu item | Changed on the till, then again in the ordering package's own item groups | Changed once, and the till and your ordering page both show it |
Changing your trading hours | The till, the ordering package, then whatever holds your bookings | Set once, and ordering and the diary both respect it |
Keeping a customer's details right | Partly in the till, more of it in the paid loyalty add-on. Notes, preferences and allergies are not in the published material | One record with preferences, allergies, tags, occasions and VIP flags |
Emailing your regulars | Through the bonVito paid add-on, as coupon campaigns | Email and SMS campaigns included, with segments and automated journeys |
Checking today's takings from your phone | A real app, on the higher cloud tier | Full reporting in a phone browser, included |
What you pay before your first sale | Hardware and setup by quote, then whichever add-ons the venue turns out to need | Hardware outright from $1,499 ex GST, and 30 days free with no card |
Working out what it will cost you | Not published. A sales call, and a second one once you find the add-ons | Published in Australian dollars on our own site |
Best fit | Pubs, bars, hotels and gaming venues that want German engineering and a local office in their state | A single location Australian owner who wants one bill and one login |
The couple who come in every Thursday
They have been in most Thursdays for three years. She does not eat gluten. He always asks for the corner table. When that sits on a customer record the whole business reads from, the greeting writes itself and the kitchen already knows. When it does not exist in the software at all, the venue depends on the person rostered tonight remembering, and one night that person is new.
Where Vectron earns the job
If you run a gaming venue, or a hotel group with sites in several states, and you value an engineered till with local offices behind it, Vectron is a credible choice and its register is more mature than ours. Buying loyalty from a specialist and keeping the till separate is a reasonable decision too.
What we would ask before signing is which of those six add-ons you will buy in year one, and who types the same price change into two products every time the menu moves. That is your Tuesday night, and your guest at table four finds out when it goes wrong.
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.