Comparison

Lavu POS vs Full Stack Payments

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Streamlined order taking and checkout
  • Email receipts
  • Detailed reporting
  • Mobile ordering processing
  • Wireless printing
  • Online control panel for menu and layout updates
Features
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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.

About

Full Stack Payments

Connect local businesses with tailored software solutions through a nationwide agent network. Agents schedule demos and earn bonuses and residual income for successful merchant processing accounts.

Highlights
  • Connect businesses with software solutions
  • Nationwide agent network
  • Schedule software demos
  • Earn scheduling bonuses
  • Earn residual income
Features
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Businesses need software solutions that were uniquely designed for their specific business type. Full Stack Payments has a channel of agents nationwide that can help local businesses find these solutions. These agents schedule demos directly with the software companies through the Full Stack Payments app. Agents earn a bonus for scheduling these demos and also earn residual income if the demo results in a processing account for the merchant.

Screenshots

Lavu POS3 screens
Full Stack Payments4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Full Stack Payments at 100% against Lavu POS's 45%. Full Stack Payments also leads on rating (4.7 vs 2.8) and update cadence (every 8 days vs every 6 weeks). Lavu POS's advantage is ratings volume (81 vs 10) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 16.4). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Full Stack Payments holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 2.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Lavu POS has 81 ratings behind it against 10, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 45% of Lavu POS's written reviews are positive against 100% of Full Stack Payments's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Lavu POS ships an update every 6 weeks, Full Stack Payments every 8 days. The most recent releases landed on October 11, 2026 and October 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Lavu POS versus Full Stack Payments: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLavu POSFull Stack Payments
PriceFreeFree
Rating2.8 (81 ratings)4.7 (10 ratings) — better
Positive reviews45.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings81 — better10
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeksEvery 8 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS13.0 — better16.4
Further details — not scored
Size218 MB68 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperLavuFull Stack Payments

Customer experience

Lavu POS

All ratings81 ratings
Positive39.5%
Neutral8.6%
Negative51.9%
Written reviews20 reviews
Positive45.0%
Neutral5.0%
Negative50.0%

Full Stack Payments

All ratings10 ratings
Positive90.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative10.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Lavu POS

No in-app purchases

None

Full Stack Payments

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Lavu POS free?
Lavu POS is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Full Stack Payments free?
Full Stack Payments is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Lavu POS or Full Stack Payments?
Full Stack Payments is rated higher. Lavu POS averages 2.8 out of 5 from 81 ratings, while Full Stack Payments averages 4.7 from 10 ratings.
Do Lavu POS or Full Stack Payments have ads?
Neither Lavu POS nor Full Stack Payments shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Lavu POS or Full Stack Payments?
Lavu POS ships an update every 6 weeks, and Full Stack Payments every 8 days. Most recently, Lavu POS was updated on October 11, 2026 and Full Stack Payments on October 5, 2026.

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