Enterprise platforms are built for the 200-site chain. Servio is built for the venue on your high street.

Most POS platforms are designed to be sold to chains through sales teams and custom quotes. That model serves a single-site café badly. Servio is the opposite by design: published pricing, no sales call required to start, no contract, no hardware.

The anti-enterprise POS

Enterprise restaurant platforms are genuinely good at what they are built for: national chains with deep inventory, franchise management and big integration needs, served by sales teams and implementation projects. But that model comes with a sales call, a custom quote, a hardware decision, an onboarding project and a multi-year contract. All of it is friction a high-street venue never asked for. Servio turns each of those into a promise instead: no quote wall, no sales call required to start, no implementation project, no hardware bill, no contract.

What that means in practice

Published pricing. £89 Starter, £219 Growth, Enterprise from £449, on the page, not behind a "let's talk". Live in days, not a project. Import your menu, run on tablets you already own, go live the same afternoon. Own the exit. Month-to-month, so a wrong fit costs you one month, not three years. Fair payments. Stripe's published rates, no markup. It is the same transparency thread running through everything we build.

Choosing the right size of system

We will not pretend Servio is the answer for everyone. A 40-site chain that needs recipe costing across venues, franchise controls and a mature enterprise integration ecosystem should choose an enterprise platform, and we say so openly. What we are the best answer for is the independent café, dessert lounge, takeaway or restaurant, and the small group, that wants the whole operation connected without the enterprise overhead. If you are cross-shopping the systems independents actually use, we compare honestly against Square, SumUp, Zettle and Epos Now, and against enterprise-leaning platforms like Toast and Lightspeed.

Who this is for, and who should look elsewhere

Servio is built for independent food-led hospitality: cafés, restaurants, dessert lounges, bakeries, takeaways, grill houses, food trucks and small groups. It is not built for alcohol-led bars, wet-led pubs or nightclubs. It is not built for a 200-site chain that needs franchise controls and a mature enterprise integration desk. We would rather lose that quote than pretend the product is that product.

What "no quote wall" includes

Prices are on the site: £89, £219, from £449. Add-ons are listed. Annual is two months free. You can open the live demo without an account. You can start a 14-day Starter trial or a 30-day founding Growth pilot without a sales call. After you start, a 20-minute setup call is available, and founding pilots get guided import. That call is configuration help, not a price negotiation. Month-to-month, cancel anytime. Export of menu, orders and customers is on request at support@servio.uk. There is no formal data escrow. That is the honest position for a company incorporated on 8 December 2025.

Cash to open, and the monthly band

Independents feel hardware first. Square, Zettle and SumUp sell kits you own; you do not hand them back. Servio is £0 if you have tablets. On the default venue (£40,000 of monthly card sales, £25 ticket, verified 23 August 2026) the monthly all-in is SumUp about £1,002, Zettle about £1,015, Servio Growth £999, Square about £1,092, not cheaper everywhere. Stripe's 10p can lose at café tickets. Read that on Pricing and cash to open versus all-in before you switch because a brochure said "save".

The pages that match a first week

Go live, import a menu, connect Stripe, if the internet drops, export your data. On Growth, Square readers you already paid for can stay connected as a switch aid.

Three buying models. Only one of them publishes the bill.

Independents get sold three stories. A cheap reader-plus-app till that looks free until QR, kitchen and inventory sit on other invoices. An enterprise platform that is genuinely good at chains, sold through a quote, a hardware decision and a multi-year term. And a published cloud POS that runs on tablets you own. Servio is the third. We will not pretend the first is always more expensive on the month. Below about a £24 average order, SumUp wins the all-in. We will not pretend the second is a bad tool. It is the wrong size of tool for a high-street room.

Unlimited staff, month-to-month, and what leaving looks like

Every plan includes unlimited staff accounts. There is no per-device fee. Billing is month-to-month, or annual at two months free. Cancel whenever you like. If you leave, email support@servio.uk for an export of menu, orders and customers. Card takings sit in your Stripe account, not ours. There is no formal data escrow. That is the honest position for a company incorporated on 8 December 2025 as Servio Technologies Ltd, company number 16897768. Prices exclude VAT. We are not currently VAT-registered.

Switch aid, not a hardware partnership

On Growth, Square readers you already paid for can stay connected so you are not binning kit on day one. Toast and other reader connections are coming for the same reason. Direct marketplace, Xero and QuickBooks integrations are on the way. We will not mark them live. Inventory on Growth is Servio's own stock module, included; on Starter it is a £29 add-on. Square's like-for-like inventory in our all-in stack is MarketMan at £79, Growth-only in that comparison, and named so you can check the invoice. Loyalty is included, including on Starter. We do not double-count SumUp loyalty in the all-in comparison.

Try the same software venues run

The live demo at app.servio.uk/demo is the product, not a film of the product. Starter: 14 days free, no card. Founding Growth: 30 days free, no application, then £109 for six paid months in exchange for a case study, then £219. Headline CTA is Start 30-day pilot. After you start, a 20-minute setup call is available. It is not a quote gate.

Starter plus add-ons, or Growth, or the founding pilot

If you only need routing and stock on top of the till, QR and a single kitchen screen, Starter plus those two add-ons is £153. If you also want tables, reservations, gift cards and owner analytics, Growth at £219 is the cheaper assembly. That arithmetic is on Pricing. Founding venues start Growth for 30 days free, then £109 for six paid months in exchange for a case study, then £219. There is no application step. Starter still has a 14-day trial if you would rather start smaller.

Stripe's 10p can lose at café tickets

In person is 1.4% + 10p. QR is 1.5% + 20p. Servio adds no markup. At a £25 average order, Stripe's 10p can still lose to a cheaper reader rate. On the default venue (£40,000 of monthly card sales, 70/30 in-person vs QR, verified 23 August 2026) the all-in is SumUp about £1,002, Zettle about £1,015, Servio Growth £999, Square about £1,092. Servio is lowest on that monthly total, though SumUp is within a few pounds of it, and Servio is £0 to open with QR, kitchen, inventory, loyalty and staff in one plan. Put your own mix in the calculator before you switch because a brochure said save.

What you keep if you leave

Your tablets. Your Stripe account and the takings in it. An export of menu, orders and customers from support@servio.uk. Square readers you already owned stay yours; Growth can keep them connected while you are on Servio, as a switch aid, not a hardware partnership. There is no formal data escrow. Plans are month-to-month. A wrong fit costs you one month, not three years.

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