--- title: Lavu Reviews meta_title: 'Lavu Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta_description: Filter 104 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how Lavu works for a business like yours. aggregate_rating: rating_value: 3.8 review_count: 104 scale: '5' date_modified: '2026-07-16' parent_category: name: Restaurant url: https://www.g2.com/categories/restaurant --- # Lavu Reviews **Vendor:** Lavu **Category:** [Restaurant POS Systems](https://www.g2.com/categories/restaurant-pos) **Average Rating:** 3.8/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 104 ## About Lavu Lavu is a Point of Sale solution designed for use by full-service, quick-service, and franchise restaurants, from bars, nightclubs, and lounges, to food trucks and coffee shops. Lavu’s restaurant management system goes beyond simply placing orders and accepting payments. With employee management functionality including scheduling, shift-trading, and payroll reports, extensive sales and inventory reporting, inventory management, online ordering, and more, Lavu is a fully-featured system for all your restaurant management needs. Reporting can be accessed from the Control Panel at work, home, or anywhere with an internet connection, perfect for multiple location restaurants or owners on the go. Lavu offers a Loyalty App, delivery routing, happy hour pricing, layout customization, menu customization, and more. You have the freedom to choose the payment processor of your choice and no matter who you choose you will be able to easily split checks and accept multiple payment types through your Lavu POS. An affordable, intuitive system that is easy to use, easy to train on and that can be up and running in your establishment in no time. Currently being used in 60 countries, Lavu is the perfect choice for your restaurant, big or small, mobile or brick and mortar. ## Lavu Reviews ### 1. It started out on shakey ground, but they have improved greatly **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Restaurants | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 24, 2015 **What do you like best about Lavu?** Ease of use , splitting checks , ability to access reports, cost. The Lavu system runs right off of Apple iPads. You know exactly what equipment is needed and the retail cost of it **What do you dislike about Lavu?** We had issues with processing cards , the cloud shutting down. This experience really soured me on Lavu. Because nothing is worst than not being able to accept payments when your restaurant is full.. **What problems is Lavu solving and how is that benefiting you?** It runs the restaurant. **Official Response from Alyssa Clementi:** > Hello, and thank you for your review. We appreciate you being a Lavu employee, and sticking with us through the years. We are happy that Lavu made your restaurant operations more streamlined, especially reporting and analytics. We are always making improvements to our payment processing system, and we have greatly improved the program over the years. If you have any questions, please reach out at (855) 767-5288. ### 2. Ok pos system, terrible connectivity issues all around. **Rating:** 1.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Hospitality | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 03, 2016 **What do you like best about Lavu?** Being able to work on it online any where, not just in store. **What do you dislike about Lavu?** constintly has printer ond Kitchen monitor issues and the ipod touchs freeze all the time **What problems is Lavu solving and how is that benefiting you?** None **Official Response from Alyssa Clementi:** > Hello, thank you for your feedback. We are sorry to hear that you are having connectivity issues in your restaurant. There are many reasons why this may be happening, including your wifi speed and reliability. If you have questions about the hardware, please reach out to our Customer Success team at 855) 767-5288 and we would be happy to help. ### 3. Great starting point for a small operation **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Hospitality | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 24, 2015 **What do you like best about Lavu?** really liked the layout and ease of back-end input. Visual sales reports were also a plus. Generally easy for servers to pick up and learn **What do you dislike about Lavu?** Some of the finer functions like bill splitting and modifiers were unpolished. Required reliable internet for basic licence. Not good with rural internet service. **What problems is Lavu solving and how is that benefiting you?** Much faster order taking and cleaner organization of tickets. Sales/account/reconciling **Official Response from Alyssa Clementi:** > Hi, thank you for your feedback! We are happy to hear that Lavu was easy to use for your restaurant. We are always striving to make the product as perfect as possible, especially in more rural areas. If you have any issues, please reach out to our Customer Success team at our 24/7 line: (855) 767-5288. ### 4. Detailed program **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Hospital & Health Care | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 20, 2015 **What do you like best about Lavu?** Being able to track my sales and inventory even off site. **What do you dislike about Lavu?** It was sometimes limited in how we needed to program some of our specials and food/drink items. **What problems is Lavu solving and how is that benefiting you?** Better inventory tracking and saving money by better utilizing this feature rather than limiting ourselves to personnel hand counting inventory. **Official Response from Alyssa Clementi:** > Hello, thank you for your feedback! We love to hear that Lavu helped your restaurant with things like sales and inventory. We are constantly making developments and improvements to perfect our product. If you have any questions, please reach out to us at (855) 767-5288, we are happy to help. ## Lavu Discussions - [Does Lavu only work on iOS devices?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/operating-systems-09fd940e-dd44-44e5-9f2a-d6a930799a47) - 2 comments, 1 upvote - [Does Lavu require a specific payment processor?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/payment-processing-d8a2cdf9-b059-4363-be6d-c92df8705080) - 1 comment, 1 upvote - [Is there a large amount of money due up front?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/up-front-cost) - 1 comment, 1 upvote - [Does Lavu require a contract?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/contracts-a7e1068c-7118-4a1d-b80b-30010b50bee7) - 1 comment, 1 upvote - [View Lavu pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/lavu/reviews?page=3§ion=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-08-01+23%3A13%3A50+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=75193eb4-a8c8-40f5-8d23-394961dfed2d&secure%5Btoken%5D=bb72576527771ac84eac71125977355a83bad12eaf4e868dd300a345fc8a1ba0&format=llm_user) ## Lavu Features **Administration** - Menu Building - Inventory Management - Employee Scheduling - Accounting - Reporting & Analytics - Loyalty Management **Platform Basics** - Reporting - Interoperability **Meal Service** - Payment Gateway - Table Management - Check Adjustment - Kitchen Tickets - Takeout & Delivery **Back Office** - Accounting - Employee Management - Analytics - Inventory Management **Front of Office** - POS - Table Management - Kitchen Ticketing **Platform Data** - Dashboard **Agentic AI - Restaurant Management** - Autonomous Task Execution - Multi-step Planning - Cross-system Integration - Adaptive Learning - Natural Language Interaction - Proactive Assistance - Decision Making **Generative AI** - AI Text Summarization - AI Text-to-Speech ## Top Lavu Alternatives - [Square Point of Sale](https://www.g2.com/products/square-point-of-sale/reviews) - 4.6/5.0 (1,183 reviews) - [Aloha Cloud](https://www.g2.com/products/aloha-cloud/reviews) - 3.9/5.0 (327 reviews) - [Toast](https://www.g2.com/products/toast/reviews) - 4.2/5.0 (353 reviews)