Clover vs TastyIgniter
Clover and TastyIgniter are both point of sale software. Clover is a commercial product from Fiserv. TastyIgniter is open source under MIT, with 3.8k GitHub stars.
Which to pick
- Pick Clover when
- A small merchant wants countertop POS hardware with card processing arranged through its bank.
- Pick TastyIgniter when
- A restaurant wants its own ordering site instead of paying marketplace commissions.
Side by side
Android-based POS hardware and software from Fiserv, with an app market, sold through banks and resellers.
Online food ordering, table reservations and menu management for restaurants, with multi-location support.
Hardware is locked to Fiserv processing and reseller contracts vary widely in fees and terms.
Many extensions and themes are paid, and payment setup is on you.
Production-ready (both)
Mobile app and cloud service
Self-hosted server
Android
PHP, Laravel and MySQL
Closed source, sold by Fiserv
Open source, MIT (permissive)
Closed source: you use it under the maker's terms and cannot change or resell the code.
You can build it into a product you sell, as long as you keep its copyright notice.
688 Wikipedia readers a month on phones
3.8k GitHub stars
Not known
Established: started 12 years ago, latest release v4.4.5.
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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.