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Lavu Inc.

Lavu Restaurant POS

Composite Score

8.0 /10

CX Score

8.0 /10

11 Reviews Write a Review

What is Lavu Restaurant POS?

As featured in Gordon Ramsey's Kitchen Nightmares! STARTING AT $59/MO WITH FREE HARDWARE INCLUDED. Purpose-built for restaurants by restaurant people, Lavu's easy-to-use, mobile POS and restaurant management platform is designed to fit any dining type, cuisine, and budget. Lavu streamlines operations and increases revenue while delighting customers. Offering in-house payment processing, online ordering, detailed reporting, loyalty programs, labor management, inventory management &amp; more.

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Awards & Recognition

Lavu Restaurant POS won the following awards in the Restaurant POS category

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2024 Emotional Footprint Champion

Latest Award, 2024

Strategy and Innovation
Conflict Resolution

Latest Award, 2024

2024 Data Quadrant Gold Medalist

2024

10 Top Rated Capabilities

5 Top Rated Features

2024

2023 Data Quadrant Gold Medalist

2023

10 Top Rated Capabilities

4 Top Rated Features

2023

Lavu Restaurant POS Ratings

Real user data aggregated to summarize the product performance and customer experience.
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Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

91 Likeliness to Recommend

100 Plan to Renew

77 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

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Emotional Footprint Overview

Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

+90 Net Emotional Footprint

The emotional sentiment held by end users of the software based on their experience with the vendor. Responses are captured on an eight-point scale.

How much do users love Lavu Restaurant POS?

0% Negative

9% Neutral

91% Positive

Pros

Helps Innovate
Continually Improving Product
Reliable
Performance Enhancing

Feature Ratings

Average 82

Check Settlement Types

Table Reservations Management

Kitchen Course Management

Mobile Capabilities

Payment Processing

PCI Compliance

Off Line Operations

Workforce Management

Integrations

Multiple Venue Property Concept Support

Advanced Compliance & Statutory

Vendor Capability Ratings

Average 85

Ease of Implementation

Breadth of Features

Usability and Intuitiveness

Vendor Support

Ease of Customization

Availability and Quality of Training

Business Value Created

Ease of Data Integration

Quality of Features

Ease of IT Administration

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

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Lavu Restaurant POS Downloads

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POS bundle

Lavu Restaurant POS Reviews

Poorna H.

Role: Information Technology
Industry: Engineering
Involvement: IT Leader or Manager

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Mar 2023

Best Inventory Tracking and Reporting

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

What differentiates Lavu Restaurant POS from other similar products?

Consistent and Customizable Reports

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

User friendliness for end users

What do you dislike most about this product?

No such issues

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Best value for money.

Pros

Helps Innovate
Continually Improving Product
Reliable
Performance Enhancing

harshita c.

Role: Consultant
Industry: Consulting
Involvement: End User of Application

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Feb 2023

Simply the best tool in its segment

Likeliness to Recommend

8 /10

What differentiates Lavu Restaurant POS from other similar products?

Lavu is a great user-friendly system that allows ease of use for both front and back-end users and the reports are awesome!

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

The Ux is simple and easy to teach and understand, the ability to go to the back end to add or edit food items and intermediately see the changes on the app is wonderful.

What do you dislike most about this product?

There is no free trail available, which I feel should be available.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

The promotion and discount management has very effective suggestions and is very easy to activate and implement. It has real-time sales and order reports and metrics to monitor daily sales at all times.

Pros

Reliable
Performance Enhancing
Enables Productivity
Efficient Service

Nitish Chandu O.

Role: Consultant
Industry: Consulting
Involvement: End User of Application

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Feb 2023

Benefit from the ease of navigating all functions

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

What differentiates Lavu Restaurant POS from other similar products?

The app can be translated into any language.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

The system allows users to customize most aspects, including unlimited menu modifiers, custom menu item icons, and layout. Also, can be translated into any language.

What do you dislike most about this product?

It does not have a free version and does not offer a free trial

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

It has the ability to have multiple locations, make inventory items easily, use an iPad for inventory counts. Go for it

Pros

Helps Innovate
Continually Improving Product
Reliable
Performance Enhancing

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Awards & Recognition

2024 Emotional Footprint Champion

2024 Data Quadrant Gold Medalist

2023 Data Quadrant Gold Medalist

Lavu Restaurant POS Ratings

91 Likeliness to Recommend

100 Plan to Renew

77 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

Emotional Footprint Overview

+90 Net Emotional Footprint

How much do users love Lavu Restaurant POS?

Pros

Feature Ratings Average rating of all product features, some of which may not be shown below

Check Settlement Types Such as coupons, gift card, gaming & non-gaming comps, points, house accounts, split check, cash, debit/credit card, mobile payment such as Apple Pay.

Table Reservations Management The solution tracks table status and allows servers to be assigned to specific tables.

Kitchen Course Management The solution includes KDS support and assists in kitchen production by printing/displaying/routing orders, coursing, recipes by prep line, or other criteria.

Mobile Capabilities Allows staff with mobile tablets to take orders, accept online orders and managers to access mobile real-time reporting, KPIs and alerts on smartphones.

Payment Processing Includes credit card processing, debit card processing, and payment verification.

PCI Compliance PCI, EMV compliance in conjunction with mandatory tokenization

Off Line Operations Ability for a POS terminal to continue to operate for a majority of key transactions when the network/server is unavailble (offline).

Workforce Management Provides time & attendance capabilities to track staff time and performance/KPIs and coordinates scheduling in accordance with regulations & business needs.

Integrations The workplace platform integrates with common business applications in which users do their work, such as Office 365, G-Suite, Salesforce, and Zendesk.

Multiple Venue Property Concept Support Manage POS system definitions, menu items, pricing for various venues from a single dashboard and is flexible to support a variety of restaurant concepts

Advanced Compliance & Statutory PCI, EMV compliance in conjunction with mandatory tokenization, Gaming compliance for comp accounting/integration. Jurisdictional Invoicing and tax (ie: VAT)

Vendor Capability Ratings Average rating of all vendor capabilities, some of which may not be shown below

Ease of Implementation Successfully implementing new software is necessary to realize its full value and promote end user adoption. This data indicates whether or not the product is easy to implement.

Breadth of Features Users prefer feature rich software that enables them to perform diverse series of tasks. This data expresses user satisfaction with the product's breadth of features.

Usability and Intuitiveness End user learning curves cost the organization money. Pay attention to your end users' technical ability to determine how important UX is in your purchase.

Vendor Support The importance of vendor support will vary for each organization depending on internal capabilities, but there will always be issues that only the vendor can resolve.

Ease of Customization Don't get bogged down in a difficult customization; use this data to make sure you can easily achieve the functionality you need for your particular situation.

Availability and Quality of Training Effective and readily available training enables users to get the most out of the software you've chosen. Use this section to make sure your vendor's training programs and materials measure up.

Business Value Created Software needs to create value for employees, customers, partners, and, ultimately, shareholders. This data expresses user satisfaction - or lack thereof - with the product's business value.

Ease of Data Integration Use this data to determine whether the product will cause headaches or make data integration easy.

Quality of Features Feature quality is just as important as quantity. Use this data to determine if this product will do what you're purchasing it to do, easily, intuitively, reliably, and effectively.

Ease of IT Administration This data indicates whether IT personnel will be able to resolve issues and perform configurations efficiently and effectively.

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement Vendors who don't stay on top of emerging needs and trends won't enable you to meet your business goals. Use this data to separate innovators from imposters.

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POS review & pay

POS dish options

POS food modifiers

POS dashboard

Lavu Restaurant POS Downloads

POS

POS bundle

Lavu Restaurant POS Reviews

Poorna H.

Best Inventory Tracking and Reporting

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

harshita c.

Simply the best tool in its segment

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Nitish Chandu O.

Benefit from the ease of navigating all functions

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

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Feature Ratings

Check Settlement Types

Table Reservations Management

Kitchen Course Management

Mobile Capabilities

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PCI Compliance

Off Line Operations

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Multiple Venue Property Concept Support

Advanced Compliance & Statutory

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Ease of Implementation

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Ease of Customization

Availability and Quality of Training

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