Boxie Admin vs Toast Now
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Boxie Admin
This application facilitates the initial setup of smart lockers and the ongoing management of online orders. It provides a streamlined interface for business owners to oversee their locker inventory and customer transactions.
- Smart locker setup
- Online order management
- Business inventory oversight
- Transaction tracking
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The Boxie Admin app allows the setup of Boxie smart lockers as well as managing online orders.
Toast Now
Manage your business operations remotely with real-time sales data, delivery channel control, and labor management tools. Coordinate with your team, update inventory, and view performance across multiple locations from your mobile device.
- Real-time sales data
- Delivery channel control
- Manager log communication
- Multi-location view
- Stock management
- Team labor management
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Run your business on the go with Toast Now, Toast’s mobile app designed to give you total freedom. Real-time insights, channel controls, labor management, and more – all conveniently in your pocket. GET IMMEDIATE INSIGHTS Live sales data with hour-by-hour totals and helpful breakdowns, including comparisons to the same day last week and year. CONTROL DELIVERY CHANNELS Curb the flow of orders with easy on-off toggles for online ordering, Local by Toast, and third-party apps like Grubhub. COMMUNICATE & COORDINATE Add and edit entries to your manager log, synced with Toast Web, and reply quickly with simple conversational threads. EASILY TOGGLE BETWEEN LOCATIONS The multi-location view keeps things simple. Log in once and see all your locations and performance in a single place. MANAGE STOCK FROM ANYWHERE Mark items in stock and out of stock so employees can keep customers informed and solve for shortages and in real time. STAY CONNECTED TO YOUR TEAM See who’s clocked in or out, edit employee shifts, and view shift information, including tips earned and break times. Download Toast Now for iOS. Please note: Toast Now is only available for Toast customers.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Toast Now at weekly against Boxie Admin's every 6 weeks. Toast Now also leads on ratings volume (12K vs 4). Boxie Admin's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 18.0). On price, rating, ads and in-app purchases 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 — 5.0 for Boxie Admin against 4.9 for Toast Now. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Toast Now has 12K ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Boxie Admin ships an update every 6 weeks, Toast Now weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Boxie Admin | Toast Now |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (4 ratings) — better | 4.9 (12K ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 32.4% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 4 | 12K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 22 MB | 220 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Boxie Inc. | Toast, Inc. |
Customer experience
Boxie Admin
Toast Now
Bugs and requests
Boxie Admin
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Toast Now
Reported bugs
2 issues- Double charging customers and failure to refund
- Incorrect or outdated data on the reporting page
Requested features
4 requests- Weekly/monthly sales and labor reporting
- Ability to view individual orders/tabs and transaction details
- Separate reporting for cash vs. credit card sales, tips, etc.
- Multi-location/group-level sales overview
In-app purchases
Boxie Admin
No in-app purchases
Toast Now
No in-app purchases
