Clover vs NexoPOS
Clover and NexoPOS are both point of sale software. Clover is a commercial product from Fiserv. NexoPOS is open source under GPL-3.0, with 1.3k GitHub stars.
Which to pick
- Pick Clover when
- A small merchant wants countertop POS hardware with card processing arranged through its bank.
- Pick NexoPOS when
- A small shop or restaurant wants a self-hosted web POS and is fine buying modules for extras.
Side by side
Android-based POS hardware and software from Fiserv, with an app market, sold through banks and resellers.
A web point-of-sale for retail and hospitality with sales, inventory, purchasing, customers, rewards, accounting reports and a module system.
Hardware is locked to Fiserv processing and reseller contracts vary widely in fees and terms.
Multi-store, restaurant and other workflows come as marketplace modules, many of them paid.
Production-ready (both)
Mobile app and cloud service
Self-hosted server and cloud service
Android
PHP, Laravel, Vue, Tailwind CSS and MySQL
Closed source, sold by Fiserv
Open source, GPL-3.0 (strong copyleft)
Closed source: you use it under the maker's terms and cannot change or resell the code.
Use inside your business is unrestricted, but anything you distribute that includes it must be released under the same license.
688 Wikipedia readers a month on phones
1.3k GitHub stars
Not known
Established: started 6 years ago, latest release v6.3.0.
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Both sides were judged on 2026-11-03 from makers' descriptions, Wikipedia, READMEs and GitHub data. License, age and popularity lines are worked out directly.