Loyverse is the most generous free POS on the market. The register app, the back office, the kitchen display and the customer display all cost nothing, on iOS and Android, with no card required to start. Hundreds of thousands of small shops and cafés run on it, and they are not wrong to.
The question for a WooCommerce merchant is narrower: what does “free” cost you, and what happens to your website?
Loyverse has no WooCommerce integration
Not a first-party one. Loyverse’s own marketplace lists third-party connectors — SKUPlugs, Kosmos eSync, Octopus, Commercium — that shuttle products and stock between Loyverse’s cloud and WooCommerce. They are paid, they are maintained by other companies, and they reintroduce the thing you were trying to avoid: two catalogues, an interval, and a window in which they disagree.
If your shop is purely physical, this does not matter. If you sell online and in person from the same stock, it is the whole problem.
What “free” actually covers
Loyverse’s free tier is genuinely free — the POS, dashboard, KDS and customer display. The add-ons are where it earns:
| Loyverse add-on | Price |
|---|---|
| Unlimited Sales History | $5/month per store |
| Employee Management | $5/month per employee |
| Advanced Inventory | $25/month per store |
Read the middle row again. Employee management is billed per employee, per month. A café with six staff who each need their own login is paying $30 a month for a feature OpenPOS treats as table stakes — individual cashier accounts, permissions, and session tracking, at no per-user cost.
And “Unlimited Sales History” is a reminder of where your data lives. On the free tier, your own transaction history has a horizon. In OpenPOS the orders are rows in your MySQL database; nobody can put a horizon on them.
Offline: read the small print on both
Loyverse’s app keeps selling and keeps working with shifts while offline. It also says plainly that refunds, registering a new customer and adding items do not work offline.
OpenPOS caches the catalogue, takes cash orders, prints local receipts and syncs the queue on reconnect; it cannot capture a card payment offline, because the processor is unreachable. Both are honest; neither is magic. Choose based on which restriction you would actually hit.
Where Loyverse is genuinely better
- It costs nothing to start, including a free kitchen display and customer display. For a market stall or a one-person café, that is unbeatable.
- Real native apps on iOS and Android, built for touch, with the polish that comes from being the only thing the company makes.
- No website required. No hosting, no WordPress, no updates. Sign up and sell.
Where OpenPOS is better
- One inventory with your website. No third-party connector, no sync interval, no oversell window.
- No per-employee fee. Unlimited cashiers with their own logins, permissions and tracked sessions.
- Your sales history, forever, in your own database — not a paid tier.
- Card terminals integrated: Stripe Terminal, Square, Authorize.net, BlockChyp, Clearent, Vipps, LayBuy.
- Multi-outlet and warehouse stock with transfers, without a $25-per-store-per-month add-on.
Which should you choose?
Choose Loyverse if you have no online store and no plans for one; if your budget is genuinely zero today; if you want a native app rather than a browser; if one or two people run the till.
Choose OpenPOS if WooCommerce already holds your products; if you have staff who each need a login; if you want your transaction history to outlive a subscription; if you would rather pay once than watch per-employee and per-store add-ons accumulate.
There is a version of this decision that turns on nothing but growth. Loyverse is the right answer at one till and no website. It becomes the wrong answer the month you have six staff, two stores and an online shop, because that is precisely when its pricing model starts charging you for succeeding.
Frequently asked questions
Can I sync Loyverse with WooCommerce?
Only through third-party marketplace apps. There is no first-party integration, and every connector carries the usual two-database risks.
Does OpenPOS have a free version?
Yes — OpenPOS Lite is free on WordPress.org. It runs the register through the OpenPOS cloud service rather than self-hosted, so it is best used to try the till before you buy. The paid plugin is a one-time purchase, self-hosted in your own database, and never charges per employee, per store or per register.
Is OpenPOS a native app?
It is a Progressive Web App. It installs to the home screen on iOS, Android, Windows and macOS and runs full-screen, but Loyverse’s native apps are a fair point in its favour.
Where does Loyverse store my data?
In Loyverse’s cloud. OpenPOS stores it in the WooCommerce database on your own hosting.
Loyverse pricing and offline behaviour above were read from loyverse.com in July 2026, USD listings. Verify before deciding.
Open the live demo (admin / admin123), or see how outlets and staff permissions work. OpenPOS charges no per-user fee, ever.