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Outale vs Loyverse: Which POS Fits a Café, Restaurant or Shop in Qatar?
Loyverse gives you a free POS with a kitchen screen, loyalty and multi-store. Outale is paid and goes deeper on cost, cash and branches. Where each one is stronger, where Outale is weaker, who should stay on Loyverse, and how to switch.
The short answer, and who wrote it
Outale publishes this page, so read it knowing we sell one of the two systems. Every Loyverse fact here was checked on 2 October 2026 on Loyverse's own website and help centre. Where we could not confirm something about Loyverse, we leave it out rather than guess.
The short answer: if you run one small shop or café and the free Loyverse plan does what you need, stay on it. Moving to a paid system only makes sense if it shows you something you are missing. Outale is built for owners who want to know what each item really costs, where the cash went on each shift, and how each branch is doing, and who are willing to pay for that.
| If this is you | Start by looking at |
|---|---|
| One small shop, tight budget, simple menu | Loyverse's free plan |
| Cashiers who read only Arabic | Loyverse: Arabic is one of its POS app languages. Outale's till is in English today |
| A café or kitchen where margins are thin and recipes change with add-ons | Outale, for recipe costing and per-product margin |
| Two or more branches with different prices | Outale, for branch prices, price-edit windows and stock transfers |
Where Loyverse is stronger
- Price. The point of sale, kitchen display, loyalty program, customer display, multi-store management and integrations are free. Loyverse's own KDS page says: "Loyverse KDS is completely free."
- Mobile apps. The POS is an app for iOS and Android, also on the Samsung Galaxy Store and Huawei AppGallery, so it runs on low-cost Android phones and tablets. The kitchen display runs on iPad and Android tablets of 7 inches or more.
- Arabic in the POS app. Loyverse's help centre lists Arabic among the POS app languages. If your cashiers read only Arabic, this matters.
- Cheap, published add-ons. Each paid add-on has a 14-day free trial with no card needed and includes 24/7 live chat support.
- Documented offline selling. Sales and shifts carry on without internet. Refunds, adding or editing customers, integrated card terminals and stock levels wait until the connection is back.
- A simple, documented CSV export of your items. That makes leaving Loyverse easy, which is a good sign in any system.
| Loyverse paid add-on | Price as published on 2 October 2026 |
|---|---|
| Unlimited sales history | US$7 per store a month, or US$70 a year |
| Employee management | US$5 per employee a month, or US$50 a year |
| Advanced inventory | US$25 per store a month, or US$250 a year |
Source: loyverse.com/pricing, checked 2 October 2026. Prices exclude taxes. On the free plan, sales analytics cover the last 31 days; longer history is the first add-on.
Where Outale is stronger
Outale is aimed at the questions that decide whether a café or restaurant makes money. These are things Outale does today. Loyverse has its own versions of some of them, such as items made from other items and the paid Advanced inventory add-on; we did not test how far those go, so compare the two on your own menu during a trial.
- Recipe costing that follows the modifier. A modifier can swap one ingredient for another, so an oat latte takes oat milk off stock instead of fresh milk, and the cost of the drink changes with it.
- Margin on every product. Each product's page shows its margin, so a best-seller that earns little stands out.
- Cash variance per shift and per cashier. The Z-report at shift close shows cash expected, cash counted and the difference, and Cash Variance History shows short and over by cashier.
- Branches run as branches. Each branch can have its own prices. A manager can open a price-edit window at one branch, optionally with a time limit, and every change is logged with before, after, who and when. Stock moves between branches as a transfer: requested, approved, sent, received.
- A QR menu in Arabic and English that reads the same items and prices as the till.
- Online orders from Tafadal (tafadal.co) land on the till with a chime, print automatically and go to the kitchen screen. Your menu, branch prices and promotions sync out to Tafadal.
- More than 35 reports, grouped by the question you bring, including the Monthly Profit & Loss Summary: sales, cost of goods, gross profit, minus the expenses you recorded in Outale.
- Runs in a web browser on an iPad, Android tablet, laptop or Windows touchscreen, and keeps selling when the internet drops.
- Made in Doha, with sales and support on WhatsApp in Arabic or English.
Where Outale is weaker
- It costs money. There is no free plan like Loyverse's. Features are grouped into plans: the kitchen screen comes with the higher restaurant plans, and customer profiles and loyalty start from the Growth plan. Prices are on our Restaurant and Retail pages.
- The till is in English today. The QR menu and the marketing site are in Arabic and English, but the till and back office are not yet. If your floor staff read only Arabic, Loyverse is the better fit for now.
- It is a younger product, with fewer years in use than Loyverse.
- Talabat, Snoonu and Keeta are not connected. Their orders are entered on the till by hand. Only Tafadal is integrated.
- Offline has limits too. Selling carries on, but barcode scanning stops, a cashier who was not already logged in cannot log in, and stock counting needs a connection.
- Qatari Riyal only. A business trading in another currency cannot use it today.
Neither one processes cards in Qatar
Loyverse lists no integrated card provider for Qatar or the GCC; outside its supported countries the cashier types the amount into a separate terminal and taps Card. Outale records card payments but does not process them either. With both, you keep your bank's card machine and enter the result on the till.
Who should stay on Loyverse
Stay on Loyverse if you run a single small shop or café, you are happy with the free plan, and your menu is simple enough that you already know what each item costs. Stay too if your cashiers need the till in Arabic, or if you want the POS on phones rather than tablets or laptops. Paying for a system you do not need is a cost, not an upgrade.
Look at Outale when the free plan stops answering your questions: sales are fine but the month ends with little left, the drawer is short and you cannot tell on which shift, or a second branch has made prices and stock hard to follow. Our post on signs you have outgrown your POS goes through these in more detail.
Switching from Loyverse to Outale
Your item list moves in one upload. Outale's importer reads a Loyverse items export as it is, with no renaming: Name, Category, Price or the store's Price column, Default price, Cost, Barcode or SKU, the store's In stock column, and the Handle and Option values that group variants.
- In the Loyverse Back Office, export your items as a CSV file.
- Export your sales history and any reports you want to keep, and save them outside Loyverse.
- In Outale, upload the items file as it is. Do not rename the columns.
- Check the result. Each variant arrives as its own product, named after the item and its options, for example "Latte - Large - Oat". Barcodes are used before SKUs.
- If you ran several Loyverse stores, the importer takes the first store price and stock column that has a value. Check branch prices and stock after the upload.
- Set up recipes and modifiers in Outale. They do not come across in the file, and they are what makes recipe costing work.
- Run both systems side by side for a quiet day before you stop using Loyverse.
Your history stays behind
Past sales do not transfer into Outale; they stay in your export, so keep it for your accountant. Customers and loyalty points are entered by hand, as there is no bulk import for them yet. On Loyverse's free plan, analytics cover only the last 31 days, so export before you cancel anything.
The full plan, including what to export from any system and how to run the first week, is in our guide How to Switch POS Systems Without Losing Data or a Day of Sales.
Terms used here
- Offline modeOffline mode lets a POS keep taking orders and printing receipts when the internet is down, storing everything on the device and syncing it to the cloud once the connection returns.
- Recipe costingRecipe costing means listing the ingredients and quantities behind a menu item so the system knows what each sale really costs. Once a recipe is attached, every sale deducts the right stock and prices itself against real cost rather than a guess.
- ModifierA modifier is a choice or extra attached to a product — size, milk type, spice level, extra cheese. It changes what the kitchen makes and often what the customer pays, without needing a separate product for every combination.
Related guides
- How to Switch POS Systems Without Losing Data or a Day of SalesA practical plan for moving from one POS to another: what to export before you cancel, what moves across and what doesn't, which day to switch, and how to run both systems for a week so nothing is lost.
- The Best POS Systems for Cafés, Restaurants and Shops in Qatar (2026)A fair comparison of the POS systems you can actually use in Qatar: Foodics, Loyverse, Odoo, Sapaad and Outale. What matters in Qatar, what each one is best for, what to watch out for, published prices, and which to pick for a café, restaurant or shop. Written by Outale, which makes one of the systems listed.
- How Much Does a POS System Cost in Qatar? (2026)The real cost of a POS system in Qatar, broken into parts: the monthly subscription, terminals and branches, add-ons, hardware, card fees, setup and the hidden costs. With a worked year-one total for a café and the questions that get you a real quote.
More posts
- Outale vs Foodics: Which POS Fits a Café or Restaurant in Qatar?A fair comparison, written by Outale: where Foodics is stronger, where Outale may suit you better, what each costs, and who should pick which.
- How to Get Online and Delivery Orders Straight Into Your POSThree tablets on the counter and a cashier re-typing every order is how items go missing and reports go wrong. The three ways to handle online orders, the questions to ask about any integration, and a rush-hour checklist.
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Outale runs the till and the back office in one system built for Qatar: stock, recipe costs, purchasing, shifts, cash and reports, across every branch, and it keeps selling when the internet doesn't.