Lavu

Overview

Lavu is an iPad-based restaurant POS that bundles payment processing, a kitchen display system, Tap to Pay, contactless ordering, dual pricing, online ordering, payroll and banking^[19]. Its current positioning centres on Marty, an AI assistant that produces a nightly “Morning Deposit” report identifying recoverable money in menu pricing, labour and slow hours; Lavu says the report can work with other POS systems including Toast, Square, Clover and Aloha^[19]. Lavu describes six AI agents covering marketing, menu, labour, inventory, server and finance tasks^[19].

Lavu advertises 24/7 live support from staff and a referral programme paying US$2,500 for referring a restaurant to Lavu POS and processing^[19]. The site does not publish plan names, subscription prices or processing rates, and the figures on its sample report are illustrations rather than company statistics.

Lavu is a smaller vendor than the platforms above, and the analytics features are newer than its POS core, so buyers should ask for references from comparable restaurants.

Lavu features

• iPad POS with kitchen display
• Tap to Pay and contactless ordering
• Dual pricing support
• Marty AI nightly cost report
• Online ordering, payroll and banking
• 24/7 live support

Lavu pricing

Not published on the vendor's website; quote-based via demo or purchase flow.

Lavu strengths and limitations

Appears in

• Best Restaurant POS Systems in 2026 #13

Lavu alternatives and competitors

Alternatives to Lavu: companies ranked in the same lists.

• TToast
• SSquare
• Clover
• Lightspeed Retail
• SSpotOn
• TouchBistro
• OOracle
• Aloha (NCR Voyix)
• PAR POS
• SSkyTab (Shift4)
• Global Payments
• Epos Now