Lavu Display vs Datio Quick Serve Restaurant
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Lavu Display
Enhance order accuracy with a real-time customer display for your point-of-sale system. This app shows order details, modifiers, discounts, and taxes as they are entered. It also facilitates digital signatures for credit card transactions.
- Real-time order item display
- Shows modifiers and prices
- Displays discounts and taxes
- Digital signature capture
- Tip prompting and quick tip buttons
- Easy pairing with Lavu POS
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Lavu Display is a customer facing display application for the Lavu Point of Sale System. Lavu Display will help you improve quick serve order accuracy by listing order items on a customer facing iPad or iPad mini in real time as orders are placed. Order and items details, including forced and optional modifiers/modifier prices, discounts, gratuity, and taxes, are all shown and updated continuously as order changes are made. Lavu Display also allows you to take digital signatures for credit card transactions without having to flip or swivel the Lavu POS terminal to face the customer. Tip prompting and quick tip buttons follow the same configuration settings as Lavu POS. Pairing Lavu Display with your Lavu POS terminal is quick and easy. Lavu Display is compatible with Lavu POS version 3.0.2 and later. **** This App is for use with the Lavu Point of Sale System **** **** This App requires a wifi network connection ****
Datio Quick Serve Restaurant
This point-of-sale software is designed for quick-serve and full-service restaurants and bars. It offers features like order saving, inventory tracking, and sales reporting, all accessible from a PC or phone.
- Order saving and table payment
- Inventory tracking
- Sales reporting via web
- Item modifiers and discounts
- Credit card processing integration
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DATIO POINT OF SALE RESTAURANT SOFTWARE FOR DATIO BASE STATION AND CASH REGISTER FOR IPAD The Datio Cash Register is ideal for your full service restaurant or bar where you need to save orders and pay at the table. The Datio Cash Register is an elegant, easy to set up, reliable and affordable solution. Point of sale is changing, and the iPad provides an extremely reliable and durable solution. The Datio POS software works with the Datio POS hardware available at www.datiopos.com or Amazon. You can use our solution for cash only or apply for credit card processing with our partner WorldPay or Vantiv Payments. Contact us to apply. You can also run the credit card on your existing credit card terminal and manually enter the amount after ringing up the sale on the Datio Cash Register. There are no complicated cable connections to make and no messy cables on your counter where you are interacting with your customers. Our software supports saved orders, tips, inventory tracking, reporting from any PC or phone via manage.datiopos.com, sales associate tracking, item modifiers and options, discounts and many other great features.
Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Lavu Display at 5.0 against Datio Quick Serve Restaurant's 4.5. Datio Quick Serve Restaurant's advantage is update cadence (every 2 months vs every 8 months) and ratings volume (46 vs 3). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Lavu Display holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Datio Quick Serve Restaurant has 46 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Lavu Display ships an update every 8 months, Datio Quick Serve Restaurant every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 26, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Lavu Display | Datio Quick Serve Restaurant |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better | 4.5 (46 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 3 | 46 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 8 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPad | iPad |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 | 12 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 5 MB | 33 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Lavu | Datio Support |
Customer experience
Lavu Display
Datio Quick Serve Restaurant
In-app purchases
Lavu Display
No in-app purchases
Datio Quick Serve Restaurant
No in-app purchases
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