Comparison · checked July 2026
FirstPour vs Loyverse — the comparison for hospitality without a white cash register
Short version: Loyverse is a free retail POS. The core costs nothing, but for a bar you quickly add on options — kitchen screen $25/month, advanced inventory $25/month, staff management as an add-on — and stock still counts in pieces, not glasses.
FirstPour is a POS built for hospitality: stock by the glass, bottle and keg, customer tabs that survive the close, and a day that locks itself, sealed — at one flat price, with support in English for businesses in Belgium.
Side by side
FirstPour Complete and Loyverse, point by point
The same rows as on our comparison page, plus the add-ons a bar realistically needs at Loyverse.
| FirstPour Complete€59/month | Loyversefree + add-ons | |
|---|---|---|
| Full POS system | Yes | Yes |
| Stock by the glass, bottle and keg | Yes | No — retail logic, counts pieces |
| Loss detection (variance) | Yes | No |
| Customer tabs that survive the close | Yes | No |
| Sealed, fraud-resistant daily numbers | Yes | No |
| Kitchen/bar screen | Included | +$25/month (Kitchen Display) |
| Advanced inventory | Included | +$25/month — retail logic |
| AI briefing & order advice | Included | No |
| Unlimited staff & devices | Yes — flat price | Staff management = add-on |
| Annual contract required | No | No |
| On-the-ground support, in English | Yes | English |
| Realistic monthly price for a bar | €59 flat, all included | ≈ $35–55/month (±€32–50) |
Prices checked July 2026 on their own pricing pages.
A shop counts pieces. A bar pours centiliters.
Loyverse comes from retail. Its stock counts in pieces: one item sold, one item fewer. Even the paid Advanced Inventory add-on ($25/month) keeps that retail logic.
A bar doesn't sell bottles, a bar pours glasses. A 70cl bottle of gin makes roughly fourteen 5cl gin and tonics. A 50-liter keg is around two hundred pints. And a cocktail draws from three or four bottles at once, in one motion. Counting by the piece can't track that.
FirstPour books every sale down to the centiliter — the glass off the bottle, the centiliters off the keg, the dose from every bottle in your cocktail. So you see the difference between what you poured and what the till rang up. At Loyverse, that difference stays invisible.
A regular's tab should be able to survive the night
Loyverse can leave a ticket open. But an open ticket isn't a customer tab: at the day close, nothing keeps a regular's running total under their name, separate from your revenue and separate from your losses. In practice that tab ends up in the notebook between the beer mats — until it goes missing.
FirstPour puts the tab under the customer's name and carries it across the close. It warns if someone accidentally opens a second one, never counts as revenue until it's paid, and only becomes a loss if you write it off yourself. Settle it Friday or cross it out one day: that's your call, not the system's.
On top of that, FirstPour seals every day server-side, so nobody can quietly correct anything afterwards. Loyverse has neither.
Free, until you add up what you're adding on
Loyverse's core costs nothing, and that's honest. But line up what a bar realistically needs on top: Kitchen Display $25/month, Advanced Inventory $25/month, and staff management as a paid add-on. You land somewhere between $35 and $55 a month — roughly €32 to €50 — and your stock still counts in pieces. Loyverse doesn't have a Dutch version at all — its /nl address redirects straight to German. FirstPour's team walks you through setup in English, on site, wherever in Belgium you are.
FirstPour Complete costs €59/month, flat. About ten euros above a fully loaded Loyverse, and for that difference you get exactly what no Loyverse add-on does: stock by the glass, bottle and keg, customer tabs that survive the close, sealed daily numbers, the AI briefing and order advice. Unlimited staff and devices, no annual contract, support in English for businesses in Belgium.
So the math isn't about a few euros. It's about whether your till speaks the language of a bar.
When is Loyverse enough?
Do you just need a simple till — ring it up, close out, done — and would you rather count your stock by hand on a sheet of paper? Then Loyverse's free core handles that fine.
Except on the night the drawer is twenty euros short, or a regular's notebook has gone missing, or you're wondering where half a bottle of gin went, a shop till gives you no answer. That gap — a bar's stock by the glass and keg, customer tabs that stick around, a day that locks itself, sealed — is exactly what FirstPour is built for.
Straight questions, straight answers
Is Loyverse really free?
Loyverse's core is free, but a kitchen screen costs $25/month, advanced inventory $25/month, and staff management is a paid add-on — realistically budget $35–55/month for a bar. And even then, stock stays retail logic: it counts pieces, not glasses, bottles or kegs.
Can I switch from Loyverse to FirstPour?
Yes — your products come across via CSV, and during the founding install we set everything up with you: menu, stock and tables, so you don't lose an evening retyping it all.
Does my kitchen put me under a white-cash-register (GKS) obligation?
That depends on your revenue from food, not on your POS provider — no more at Loyverse than at FirstPour. Read the full explanation in our white-cash-register guide.
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