NexoPOS vs TastyIgniter
NexoPOS and TastyIgniter are both point of sale software. NexoPOS is open source under GPL-3.0, with 1.3k GitHub stars. TastyIgniter is open source under MIT, with 3.8k GitHub stars.
Which to pick
- Pick NexoPOS when
- A small shop or restaurant wants a self-hosted web POS and is fine buying modules for extras.
- Pick TastyIgniter when
- A restaurant wants its own ordering site instead of paying marketplace commissions.
Side by side
A web point-of-sale for retail and hospitality with sales, inventory, purchasing, customers, rewards, accounting reports and a module system.
Online food ordering, table reservations and menu management for restaurants, with multi-location support.
Multi-store, restaurant and other workflows come as marketplace modules, many of them paid.
Many extensions and themes are paid, and payment setup is on you.
Production-ready (both)
Self-hosted server and cloud service
Self-hosted server
PHP, Laravel, Vue, Tailwind CSS and MySQL
PHP, Laravel and MySQL
Open source, GPL-3.0 (strong copyleft)
Open source, MIT (permissive)
Use inside your business is unrestricted, but anything you distribute that includes it must be released under the same license.
You can build it into a product you sell, as long as you keep its copyright notice.
1.3k GitHub stars
3.8k GitHub stars
Established: started 6 years ago, latest release v6.3.0.
Established: started 12 years ago, latest release v4.4.5.
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Both sides were judged on 2026-11-03 from each project's README and GitHub data. License, age and popularity lines are worked out directly.