A food truck POS that
works like your van does
Traditional POS systems were built for restaurants with fixed tills and patient customers. Eventifood is built for the reality of a food truck — mobile, fast, cashless, and working flat out at 500 customers a day.
2% per transaction. No monthly fee. No terminal to rent.
What other food truck POS systems actually cost you
Most UK food truck EPOS providers don't advertise the full cost upfront. Here's the real comparison.
Traditional EPOS / POS
£50–200
per month — whether you trade or not
- ✗ Software subscription: £30–£100/month
- ✗ Card terminal rental: £20–£50/month
- ✗ Still billing you in January when your van is parked
- ✗ Staff still take orders at the hatch
- ✗ No automatic customer notification
- ✗ No built-in queue management
Eventifood PAYG
£0
per month. 2% per transaction when you trade.
- ✓ No monthly software fee — ever
- ✓ No card terminal rental required
- ✓ £0 in December, January and February if you're not trading
- ✓ Customers order on their own phones
- ✓ Phone notification when order is ready
- ✓ Queue management built in
On a £2,000 market day, our platform fee is £40.
A traditional EPOS would charge you that just to keep the lights on — before you sell a single burger.
Eventifood vs a traditional food truck POS
A standard EPOS system just moves the till onto a tablet. Eventifood removes the till entirely.
How Eventifood replaces your food truck POS
Customer scans your QR code
No app download. Your full menu opens in their phone browser the moment they scan. They browse, customise and pay — all before they reach the front.
Kitchen display shows every order
Paid orders appear on your kitchen screen instantly. One tap marks it preparing. Another marks it ready. The customer gets a notification — staff never call a name.
Card & PayPal payments
Payments happen on the customer's phone. No card terminal to rent. Apple Pay & Google Pay coming soon via Stripe. Every transaction is digital and instantly reconciled.
Analytics at end of service
See exactly what sold, when your peak was, and what your profit margin looked like. More insight than any traditional till system — with less admin.
Restaurant POS was not designed for a food van. We were.
Restaurant EPOS systems assume a fixed location, a reliable power supply, indoor WiFi, a staffed counter, and customers who are happy to wait. None of those assumptions hold at a festival in a field with 300 people queuing in the rain.
Eventifood is built around the constraints of mobile catering: customers are standing outside, paying by phone, moving on quickly. Your van might have 4G and a tablet. That's all you need. The whole platform runs in a browser — no install, no sync issues, no hardware dependency.
The best food van point of sale system is the one your customers already have in their pocket. We just built the software around it.
Seasonal trader? Your POS bill should reflect that.
Most food truck operators in the UK don't trade 52 weeks a year. Festival season runs April to October. Christmas markets run November to December. January is dead.
On a typical EPOS system, you'd pay £50–100/month regardless. That's £600–£1,200 a year even if you only actually trade for 6 months of it. Eventifood charges 2% per transaction — and nothing the rest of the time. Your store, menu, QR codes and order history are all waiting for you when you come back.
Park the van in November. Come back in April. You paid £0 while you were away.
PAYG vs Monthly
Food truck POS — frequently asked questions
Is Eventifood a real food truck POS system?
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Yes — but it replaces the traditional POS model entirely. Instead of staff taking orders at a till, customers scan a QR code and order on their own phone. The kitchen receives every paid order instantly on a display board. No till, no card terminal, no monthly software fee. Call it a POS if you like — it does everything a POS does, just without the hardware.
What does a food truck EPOS typically cost in the UK?
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A typical food truck EPOS bundle runs £50–200 per month once you account for both the software licence and the card terminal rental. Some providers charge less upfront but impose minimum monthly transaction thresholds or lock you into 12-month contracts. Eventifood charges 2% per transaction and nothing else.
Does the kitchen display work on a cheap tablet?
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Yes. We've tested it on a £49 Amazon Fire, a Raspberry Pi 4 with a 7" touchscreen, and a 6-year-old Android tablet mounted in a van window. If it has a browser and an internet connection, it works.
Can I take card payments without Eventifood's own card reader?
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Payments happen on the customer's phone — not through a card reader at your end at all. Your customer pays at checkout in their browser using card or PayPal. You never touch their card. There is no reader to lose, break, or pay monthly for.
What if a customer wants to pay cash?
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You can still accept cash — just mark the order as paid manually on your kitchen board. Eventifood doesn't force you to go cashless. But most traders who use it find that customers naturally shift to digital payment once the QR code is visible, because it's faster for everyone.
How quickly can I be set up and taking orders?
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Most traders are live within 30 minutes. Register, add your menu, connect a payment provider, and print your QR code. Some traders have taken their first order the same afternoon.
Does Eventifood work as a mobile catering POS for market stalls?
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Yes. Market stalls, indoor food halls, pop-up kitchens, lunchtime pitches at office parks — the platform works anywhere you can display a QR code and have a device to view the kitchen board.
What payment providers does Eventifood support?
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Currently: SumUp (for in-person card payments if you want them), PayPal, and Stripe. Apple Pay and Google Pay are coming via Stripe Connect. You can use whichever provider you already have a relationship with.
No terminal. No subscription. No monthly fee.
Traditional food truck POS and EPOS systems charge £50–200/month regardless of whether you trade. Eventifood charges 2% per transaction — and nothing when you are not.
2%
per transaction
+ Stripe card processing (1.5% + 20p, UK cards) — the same fee you pay with any card machine
Up and running in 30 minutes. No developer needed.