Comparison · checked July 2026
FirstPour vs Lightspeed — which POS for your bar or café?
Short version: Lightspeed Restaurant is a platform for restaurants — kitchen screens, menu engineering, prices from €89 to €249 a month plus €49 per extra license. Solid for anyone running a kitchen.
FirstPour is built for businesses without a kitchen obligation: customer tabs that survive the close, stock down to the centiliter and a day that locks itself, sealed — €29 to €59 flat, your whole team included, no annual contract.
Side by side
FirstPour Complete and Lightspeed Restaurant, point by point
The same rows as on our comparison page, next to a platform built for restaurants with a kitchen.
| FirstPour Complete€59/month | Lightspeed Restaurant±€89–249/month | |
|---|---|---|
| Monthly price, all included | €59 flat | from ±€89 + per terminal |
| Annual contract | No | Yes* |
| Customer tabs that survive the close | Yes | No |
| Stock by the glass, bottle and keg | Yes | Limited |
| Loss detection in euros | Yes | No |
| AI briefing & order advice | Included | No |
| Built for | drink-led businesses | restaurants with a kitchen |
| White cash register (GKS) | No — deliberately; for GKS-exempt businesses | Yes, certified |
Prices checked July 2026 on lightspeedhq.be.
*Annual contract according to independent comparison sources; not explicitly stated on Lightspeed's own pricing page.
Where Lightspeed is strong
Lightspeed Restaurant is built for full-service restaurants: kitchen screens that route dishes to the right station, menu engineering that reveals margin per dish, and a large ecosystem of integrations for accounting, delivery and reservations.
Anyone running a kitchen under a GKS obligation needs a certified till; we deliberately don't provide one. Lightspeed does — with an official GKS certification that meets that obligation. For a business serving substantial meals, that's not a nice-to-have but a legal requirement.
What a bar is missing at Lightspeed
Lightspeed's restaurant page leans on restaurant hardware: kitchen screens, table plans for a starter-and-main service, menu engineering per dish. A bar without a kitchen pays into functionality it will never open.
What's missing is bar-specific: no customer tab that survives the night and stays separate from your revenue until someone settles it. And the price climbs with every extra tablet — ±€49 a month per extra license, on top, no matter which plan you picked.
The math
Take a bar with one main till and two tablets — three licenses total. At Lightspeed, that means the Basic plan (one license included, €89/month) plus two extra licenses (2 × €49): €187 a month, or €2,244 a year.
FirstPour Complete costs €59 a month, flat — your whole team and all your devices included, no extra license costs: €708 a year.
That's €1,536 less a year, for a till that keeps tabs, counts stock down to the centiliter and shows losses in euros — things no Lightspeed plan does. If your business does run a kitchen under a GKS obligation, that math changes: then you're paying for a certified till we don't provide.
Who is Lightspeed the right choice for?
Running a restaurant with a kitchen, under a GKS obligation, or managing several locations you want to steer centrally? Then you need functionality Lightspeed provides and FirstPour deliberately doesn't build.
Does your business run on drinks — café, bar, summer bar, cocktail bar — without a kitchen obligation? Then at Lightspeed you're paying for restaurant features you'll never use, and missing the customer tabs and centiliter-level stock a bar actually needs.
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