CardPointe vs Lavu POS
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
CardPointe
Process and manage all major credit card payments seamlessly. Accept card-present transactions on the go, manage products, and gain insights with a live reporting dashboard. Streamline your business operations with robust transaction management and customer profiles.
- Virtual Terminal for credit card processing
- Mobile card reader for on-the-go payments
- Product catalog management
- Signature capture
- Customer profile management
- Live reporting dashboard
- Transaction management (void, refund, reprocess)
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The CardPointe app lets you process and manage payments with ease. With live transaction data at your fingertips, CardPointe will become a critical tool in running your business. Features • Virtual Terminal: Process payments for all major credit cards. • CardPointe Mobile Card Reader: Accept card-present payments on the go. • Accept Tips: Enable customers to select preset tip amounts. • Catalog: Organize and manage your products, pricing, and discounts. • Signature Capture: Allow customers to use their fingertip to sign for transactions. • Customer Profiles: Save customer profiles to run future transactions. • Reporting Dashboard: View your business data at a glance. • Transaction Management: Void, refund, reprocess, or resend receipts for existing transactions. • Notifications: Get alerts for important events, like chargebacks, refunds, and declined transactions. • Compatible Printer: Use a supported Bluetooth printer to print receipts or food orders. • Support for CardPointe Integrated Terminals: Connect to your countertop CardPointe Integrated Terminals to accept card-present payments with PCI-validated point-to-point encryption. CardPointe can also be accessed via any browser, complete with additional features including recurring billing and custom reporting.
Lavu POS
This comprehensive restaurant management system streamlines operations, from order taking and checkout to menu updates and detailed reporting. It enhances efficiency and customer experience for businesses of all sizes, from food trucks to chains.
- Streamlined order taking and checkout
- Email receipts
- Detailed reporting
- Mobile ordering processing
- Wireless printing
- Online control panel for menu and layout updates
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Lavu is a feature-rich, modern, and easy-to-use restaurant management system that ensures everything in your restaurant runs quickly, efficiently, and accurately. It streamlines your operations while simplifying restaurant management and improving the customer experience. Using Lavu POS's sleek and user-friendly interface, your restaurant staff can seamlessly clock in, place orders, perform customer checkouts, email receipts, and more. This eliminates the need to run tickets to the kitchen, allowing for more time with the customer and leading to higher sales! Lavu POS is designed to accommodate national restaurant chains as well as individual food trucks, nightclubs, coffee shops, etc. Lavu POS was the very first full-featured restaurant POS App in the App Store and continues to lead the revolution in innovation and integration. With detailed reports, mobile ordering processing, and wireless printing all working in sync, Lavu POS is much more than a POS app. It is a smart and complete restaurant management solution that you can control and customize with ease. Utilizing the Lavu control panel, you can change the layout of your restaurant, update the menu, and perform other administrative functions online. Any changes you make through the control panel are updated with a one button click on Lavu POS. This type of control makes your restaurant more efficient, flexible, and independent. That is why Lavu POS is trusted by thousands of customers, in 65 different countries.
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Verdict
CardPointe and Lavu POS both sit at 2.6 stars, but that hides the real split: 45% of Lavu POS's written reviews are positive against 21% of CardPointe's. Lavu POS also leads on update cadence (every 6 weeks vs every 5 months) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.0). On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 2.6 for CardPointe against 2.8 for Lavu POS. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 31 and 83 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 21% of CardPointe's written reviews are positive against 45% of Lavu POS's.
CardPointe ships an update every 5 months, Lavu POS every 6 weeks. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.
| Parameter | CardPointe | Lavu POS |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.6 (31 ratings) | 2.8 (83 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 21.2% of reviews | 45.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 31 | 83 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months | Every 6 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 61 MB | 218 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | CardConnect, LLC | Lavu |
Customer experience
CardPointe
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In-app purchases
CardPointe
No in-app purchases
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No in-app purchases









