Poster vs 2can Terminal
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Poster
A cloud-based point-of-sale system designed for various food service businesses like cafes, restaurants, and food trucks. It offers sales, cash, inventory, and financial accounting tools to help manage operations and make informed decisions.
- Cloud-based POS system
- Sales and cash tracking
- Inventory management
- Financial accounting
- Reporting and analytics
- Mobile POS for food trucks
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Poster POS is a cloud-based iPad Point-of-sale system for cafe, restaurant, coffee shop, bar, pub, fastfood, streetfood, shops, bakeries, food truck, festivals (mobile POS). Setup takes less than 15 minutes, and it is cheaper and more powerful than most POS solutions on the market. Poster POS has sales, cash, inventory and financial accounting. We offer modern hardware and technologies for your business. Our product will help you to keep track of everything happening at your restaurant or store and to make right decisions based on powerful reporting. Check out Poster POS for cafe and restaurant POS (Point-of-sale).
2can Terminal
Transform your smartphone into a portable card payment terminal. Accept various card types, including chip, swipe, and contactless payments, along with mobile wallets. Manage transactions, track employee performance, and generate reports for your business on the go.
- Accepts chip, magnetic stripe, and NFC cards
- Supports Apple Pay and Samsung Pay
- Send digital receipts via SMS or email
- Real-time employee performance tracking
- Generate and export advanced reports
- Connect to fiscal printers for tax receipts
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2can is the easiest way to start acquiring banking cards. With 2can Terminal application and mPOS reader, your smartphone becomes a full-fledged card payment terminal. Using 2can mobile terminal you can accept any types of cards: with EMV chip, with magnetic stripe and with NFC technology, as well as Apple Pay and Samsung Pay. Safety of 2can’s solution is confirmed by certificates of international payment systems and PCI DSS international security standard. 2can Terminal gives you the capability to manage your business wherever you want. It is perfect for small and medium entrepreneurs, itinerant trade and delivery services. What can you do with 2can? - acquire bank cards and account cash payments - use already existing settlement account in any Russian bank - send digital receipts via SMS or email - control your employees performance in real time and see every transaction in your personal account’s dashboard - form advanced reports and export them to .csv or .xls format files - if you need to print receipts for tax purposes, you can connect fiscal printer Atol F11 or Shtrih Mobile PTK to your mobile device via Bluetooth. About: JSC “Smartfin” is Russia’s leading mobile acquiring provider. It successfully develops 2can and ibox brands of services and has more than 10 thousand clients in Russia. The company has 9 bank and non-bank financial company partners. To start acquiring: 1. Fill in a form at 2can.ru/signup 2. Order and pay for reader 3. Sign up a contract with acquiring bank and receive a reader 4. Install 2can Terminal app to your device, connect reader to your smartphone or tablet and start acquiring cards. Learn more at 2can.ru/products/terminal
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Poster at every 4 days against 2can Terminal's every 8 months. Poster also leads on review sentiment (67% vs 42%). 2can Terminal's advantage is iOS requirement (9.0 vs 15.6). 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.
Poster ships an update every 4 days, 2can Terminal every 8 months. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Poster | 2can Terminal |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.3 (7 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 67.2% of reviews — better | 41.7% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 7 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days — better | Every 8 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 9.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 152 MB | 32 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Poster POS Inc | Smartfin |
Customer experience
Poster
2can Terminal
In-app purchases
Poster
No in-app purchases
2can Terminal
No in-app purchases
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