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Lavu POS
Cloud-based iPad POS system for the restaurant industry
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Lavu POS product overview
What is Lavu POS?
Lavu is an iPad POS (point of sale) system designed for small to large businesses within the restaurant industry. Lavu is adaptable to any sort of environment whether it’s full-service, quick-service or a franchise. The software is a combination of cloud-based management and mobile/wireless technologies with a modern and intuitive touchscreen interface.
Key benefits of using Lavu POS
Lavu offers personalization features including customizable menus, specific multi-room table layouts, seat and course numbering, and multi-printer order routing.
Restaurants can market their branding by creating customized logos, uploading original product images and designing custom receipts for their customers.
Managers can track employees with the time clock feature along with shift summaries, including over-time and bonuses, as well as manage tips and payroll.
Lavu offers free software upgrades and integrates with a wide variety of hardware options that connect with the remote backend office.
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Lavu POS pricing information
Value for money
4.1
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193
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Lavu POS features
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Lavu POS users reviews
Overall Rating
4.2
/5
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- Likelihood to recommend8.53/10
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Sean D.
Marketing Assistant
Computer Software, 51-200 employees
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Sean D.: Hi, I'm Sean, bar lead. I give Lavu POS a four star rating. For more reviews like this, click...
John G.
Hospitality, 11-50 employees
Used daily for 2+ years
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The best. [sensitive content hidden] is always there when i need the help, plus it has been a seamless transition
How simple the product is to use is why we choose lavu
the security settings are not detailed enough for modifying it to meet my needs better
Hi John - thank you for your feedback, we love to hear it! We're so happy we could help your restaurant streamline operations.
Brian T.
Restaurants, 1-10 employees
Used daily for 2+ years
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Pretty good experience overall. Over the years we've had communication issues. There have been some price increases and fees snuck in that I wasn't happy about. I can usually read between the lines and see when they are doing things to attempt to make.. and they haven't always been the most upfront about it. I usually call them out on it and at times have had to email the[SENSITIVE CONTENT] about issues...
Pretty easy to use, stable for the most part. We've been using the software for 7+ years I believe. Over time we've integrated and started using more and more of their products such as KDS and card processing. Recently restructured their pricing and we now get the same service for less!
At times, certain things could be easier. I don't think the pizza building is perfect and could still use work. This goes for both Lavu and MenuDrive. We make it work and they've made lots of improvements over the years with help from our input.
Hi Brian! First off, I'd like to thank you for your continued business, and for your feedback! We really appreciate your comments, and we are continuously improving our product to fit the needs of each customer.
Guy B.
Food & Beverages, 1-10 employees
Used other for 1-2 years
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I purchased a complete system from LAVU on April 2019 with the intent to upgrade my existing POS from CAKE which served me well the first 4 years of running my restaurant, but being somewhat of a basic system I started feeling like it was holding me back. LAVU was running a 50% off on hardware so I called and spoke to a salesperson. Let me tell you, I wish I had recorded the conversations, as there...
There are no Pros, this is an awful system and the worst customer service / sales team in the industry
Be very careful when they offer you interest free financing for the hardware, that's how they trick you into paying the software fee for 3 years in advance with NO way out
Hi Guy, thank you for your feedback. We really appreciate hearing how Lavu worked for your business, and what can be improved.
Hilton W.
Restaurants, 11-50 employees
Used daily for 2+ years
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They have a phenomenal suppprt staff that have always tried their best to help me on 1 call. Very rarely does it take more than one interaction to fix something I can’t do myself
The iPad approach with pictures and point and press make it easy for new hires to catch on quick.
The inventory program could be better designed to allow scanning of bills. It’s very labor intensive to try to keep inventory up.
Hi Hilton, thank you so much for sharing your experience with Lavu. We are glad to hear that overall, you are happy. As always, please reach out if you need anything!
Murtaza I.
Food & Beverages, 201-500 employees
Used daily for 2+ years
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Lavu POS is a very easy-to-use iPad-based POS. I have been using it for more than 7 years and it has improved from time to time. The ease of setting up a menu online through the Lavu control panel in no time is a blessing you can set multiple modifiers and group modifiers for all the items. The customer order-taking process is very smooth & quick for the staff as they can add the food or beverages item send it to the Kitchen the items will be printed on the respective station. Lavu POS suits our restaurant environment as we have seating arrangements upstairs and downstairs everything works flawlessly with the old apple routers that we have been using.
They have been fixing most of the glitches from time to time. We started using Lavu Retro that was the most stable version of Lavu since that there have been so many changes current version is 5.0. It works slow during busy hours but not most of the time. The item adds up to the receipt multiple times which makes the reconciliation difference in the end-of-day report. The printer stops working sometimes so we have to close the app and reopen it again.
Hi Murtaza, thank you for your review! We love hearing from our customers. We are always working towards making our product the best it can be!
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