Restaurant POS System Price in Pakistan (2026): What You Will Really Pay

At the three vendors we found that publish prices, the price of a POS system for a restaurant in Pakistan starts at Rs 2,999 a month for the software. The highest published plan is Rs 9,999 a month per branch.

On top come setup (nothing to Rs 50,000 or more) and an 80 mm receipt printer (from Rs 11,000 at one retailer). If PRA, SRB, KPRA or FBR rules cover you, add tax integration: one vendor charges Rs 2,000 a month for PRA or FBR reporting. Our worked first year for an air-conditioned Lahore restaurant is about Rs 181,000 before the FBR integrator's fee.

MenuBeacon makes QR menu, ordering and kitchen software. We don't sell POS systems or card processing. Vendor and retailer prices below come from their own pages, checked on 13 October 2026. This is general information, not tax advice: confirm your obligations with your tax adviser.

Restaurant POS prices in Pakistan at a glance

How we checked: on 13 October 2026 we opened three vendors' pricing pages, one retailer's listings and the official, bank and press pages cited below; three vendors are a sample, not the market.

Is a POS system the same as a bank POS machine?

No. A bank "POS machine" is a card terminal: it takes the payment. It doesn't hold your menu, send orders to the kitchen or issue a tax-authority invoice, and its reports cover only the card payments it took. A restaurant POS system runs orders and billing and, where the law requires it, reports each invoice to the tax authority.

Banks can also turn a phone into the terminal:

• HBL Tap & Pay is an Android app that takes Visa and Mastercard by contactless tap or typed card details, with a one-time password sent to the guest for each payment. It needs a registered business and an HBL company account.
• UBL SoftPOS runs on NFC-enabled Android phones and takes contactless Visa and Mastercard cards, mobile wallets and wearables. UBL says SoftPOS itself has no fees and needs no UBL account.

Neither page gives a per-payment rate, so ask each bank for its merchant discount rate (the share it keeps from each card payment) and any monthly charge before you sign.

In Punjab you must be able to take digital payments, whatever POS you choose. PRA's Circular No. 1 of 2026 told restaurants to keep a Raast QR payment facility working (page Punjab 598). Refusing card, wallet or QR payment is fined Rs 400,000 to Rs 1 million for a first default (section 48, entry 25, page Punjab 151).

Card, wallet and QR bills are taxed at 8% in Punjab (Second Schedule, entry 4, pages Punjab 217–218) and Sindh, against 16% and 15% in cash (SRB lets some integrated branches keep charging 15% on them). In Punjab, your bank keeps 8% of each digital payment for the tax before paying you (Notification No. PRA/Member Legal/816/26, pages Punjab 563–564).

Do you need a tax-integrated POS in Pakistan?

Check this before you compare prices: it decides which system prints the guest's bill.

• Punjab (PRA): the rules require e-IMS for restaurants with turnover of Rs 6 million or more in a financial year (rule 3 of the e-IMS Rules 2019, page Punjab 442). Dunya News (updated 10 August 2026) goes further, reporting that PRA requires all restaurants, hotels, coffee shops and marriage halls to issue receipts through e-IMS. Below Rs 6 million, ask PRA or your tax adviser which applies.
• Sindh (SRB): six kinds of restaurant must integrate with SRB-POS, including those with turnover above Rs 5 million in the preceding 12 tax periods, more than one branch in Sindh, an outlet in an air-conditioned mall or sales through an online marketplace (SRB-POS FAQ).
• Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KPRA): every restaurant must integrate or install KPRA's RIMS, or another prescribed system, to issue sales tax invoices. The condition sets no turnover threshold (KP Sales Tax on Services Act 2022, updated to the Finance Act 2026).
• Federal (FBR): restaurants fall under FBR's POS integration rules unless they have no air conditioning (SRO 428(I)/2024, 22 March 2024). This can apply on top of a provincial scheme.

The thresholds are low. As illustrative arithmetic, ten Rs 4,000 bills a day, every day of the year, add up to Rs 14.6 million (10 × Rs 4,000 × 365), nearly three times the Sindh figure. Rates, receipt rules and penalties are in our guide to which restaurants must use an integrated POS.

What a POS system for a restaurant in Pakistan costs, line by line

Break every quote into the same five lines. Compare them one by one, not the monthly fee.

1. Software: POS software prices in Pakistan

Extras change the total. Granet Pro charges Rs 1,000 a month per extra terminal or tablet and Rs 500 per user after five. Growth with one waiter tablet and 8 staff therefore costs Rs 5,999 + Rs 1,000 + (3 × Rs 500) = Rs 8,499 a month (illustrative arithmetic on its list prices).

None of the three publishes a price for the other common model, a one-time payment for desktop software. Set any such quote against a year of subscription: under Rs 71,988, it costs less than a year of Granet's Growth plan (12 × Rs 5,999; illustrative arithmetic on list prices), if updates and support are included. Ask what they cost after year one.

What the software must handle, from takeaway tokens to load-shedding, is covered in how to choose restaurant software in Pakistan.

2. Hardware: thermal printer prices in Pakistan

Browser-based systems such as Granet Pro run on the computer or tablet you may already own, so the main purchase is a thermal printer.

A 58 mm printer costs about half as much (Rs 6,000 for the BC-58U, coming soon), but check that your software supports 58 mm paper first. Ask your vendor which printers it supports (USB or network, ESC/POS). These are one retailer's list prices, so confirm stock before you order; other sellers' prices may differ, and we haven't tested these models.

Other hardware:

• Cash drawer: Rs 13,000–13,510 for the three BayLan drawers priced on W11Stop; the metal RJ12 model was Rs 13,500 and in stock.
• Thermal paper: no published roll price at that retailer, so ask your supplier.
• Power: a UPS keeps the counter computer, printer and router running through load-shedding. Get a quote.

3. Setup and menu entry

Someone has to enter every dish, add-on and tax setting, then train staff. Published terms vary:

• Granet Pro: a one-time fee scoped to your menu and inventory, agreed before you sign. Its pricing page gives Rs 50,000 per branch as the starting figure (on any plan, its FAQ says) and says smaller businesses pay less. Annual plans get 50% off setup.
• OnlineOrder.pk: no setup fee on its Basic plan. An offer for its first 50 restaurants waives a setup fee it values at Rs 35,000 and the first month's fee; the page gives no end date.
• HysabOne: no setup fees.

Ask what the fee buys: menu entry with add-ons, printer installation, staff training and a test service.

4. Support

Find out who answers when the printer stops at 9 pm on a Saturday, on which channel, and at what cost. Granet Pro lists WhatsApp and email support on every plan, with priority support from Growth up. HysabOne and OnlineOrder.pk advertise 24/7 support; OnlineOrder.pk lists business hours of Monday to Saturday, 9 am to 6 pm. Get the channel and hours in writing.

5. Tax integration

• FBR: under the income-tax POS rules, the licensed integrator charges the restaurant for configuring and integrating its POS (SRO 428(I)/2024, rule 33R). The rules set no amount, so get a written quote.
• SRB: its FAQ says SRB-POS needs no hardware, works alongside your existing accounting software and costs nothing from SRB (SRB-POS FAQ). Ask your POS vendor whether it charges to connect.
• Vendor add-ons: Granet Pro sells PRA/FBR compliance for Rs 2,000 a month. HysabOne and OnlineOrder.pk list FBR compliance or integration without a separate price.

What a first year costs: two worked examples

Illustrative arithmetic on list prices checked 13 October 2026, not customer data. Both examples assume you already own a computer for the counter (the printers costed here connect to it by USB) and, for a kitchen board, a tablet.

A small café below the thresholds

A 10-table café in Karachi: one branch, no international franchise, not in a hotel or an air-conditioned mall, no air conditioning, no delivery-app sales and turnover under Rs 5 million a year (about Rs 13,700 a day over 365 days). None of SRB's six categories or FBR's air-conditioning rule covers it. Guests order from table QR codes, and the kitchen works from printed tickets.

Check that the printer works with the tablet or computer you'll print from (through the browser's print dialog, or the RawBT app on Android); we haven't tested any model.

MenuBeacon prints kitchen tickets, not the guest's bill, so this budget doesn't cover billing. Ask your tax adviser whether the café must register for Sindh sales tax and what its bill must show.

The same café in Lahore or Peshawar is a harder call. A 2013 PRA notification exempts from Punjab sales tax the restaurants that aren't chain outlets or part of a hotel, have no air conditioning and turn over no more than Rs 6 million a year (Notification No. PRA/Order.06/2012, page Punjab 464). But the press report above says every restaurant must issue e-IMS receipts, so ask PRA or your adviser before you rely on the exemption or the Rs 6 million e-IMS threshold.

In Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, every restaurant must use RIMS or another prescribed system.

If you must integrate in Punjab, the cheapest published price we found with PRA reporting is Granet Pro's Starter plan plus its PRA/FBR add-on: Rs 2,999 + Rs 2,000 = Rs 4,999 a month, or Rs 59,988 a year, plus the setup fee in Granet's quote.

An air-conditioned restaurant in Lahore

A 20-table restaurant with air conditioning and turnover above Rs 6 million, so FBR's rules and PRA's e-IMS both apply, and an integrated POS prints the guest's bill. Granet Pro's published prices are used as a worked case, not a recommendation; check that any vendor you choose is integrated with both PRA and FBR. MenuBeacon adds guest QR orders and a live kitchen board in the browser on Free, or waiter orders on phones on Pro.

What the table doesn't show:

• Annual billing: Granet's terms (10 months' price for 12, and half-price setup confirmed in the quote) would cut about Rs 37,000: Rs 11,998 on the plan and Rs 25,000 on setup. We assumed one Rs 2,000 add-on covers both PRA and FBR and gets no annual discount; confirm both.
• Double entry: MenuBeacon and the POS don't sync, so staff key every MenuBeacon order into the POS again to bill it. That's worth it only if guests really order from the QR codes or waiters need phones.
• Two kitchen tickets: Growth prints to the kitchen automatically, so a re-keyed order can print twice. MenuBeacon's printing can be manual or automatic; ask the POS vendor whether its own kitchen printing can be switched off, and pick one system to print kitchen tickets.
• The alternative: Granet's Rs 9,999 plan has its own kitchen display. On the same assumptions, without the kitchen printer, its first year is Rs 218,488 plus a kitchen screen. Ask whether that screen counts as an extra terminal (Rs 1,000 a month), and whether the system takes orders from guests' phones.

What MenuBeacon costs in Pakistan, and where it stops

MenuBeacon is not a full POS replacement: it's the ordering and kitchen layer that sits beside your billing system. In the Pakistan edition, Free is Rs 0 and Pro is Rs 5,000 a month, billed locally in rupees. Guests pay cash or at the counter; there are no online card payments, and there's no commission on orders.

Where it stops:

• No tax connection. MenuBeacon doesn't connect to FBR, PRA or SRB. It prints kitchen tickets on 80 mm thermal printers on the Free plan. Where PRA, SRB or FBR rules require an integrated invoice, the guest's bill or receipt comes from your integrated billing system, and MenuBeacon handles the menu, ordering and kitchen. PRA's August 2026 guidelines bar giving customers "kitchen orders, unpaid bills, pre-bills or temporary bills" (The Nation, 18 August 2026), so keep MenuBeacon's printouts in the kitchen.
• One tax rate per restaurant, so it can't change the rate by payment method.
• No POS or RIMS connection. Integrations aren't offered in the Pakistan edition, so MenuBeacon doesn't link to your POS or to KPRA's RIMS, and staff re-enter orders in the POS. In Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, the invoice comes from RIMS or another prescribed system.
• Not offered in Pakistan: card payments through MenuBeacon, online pickup or delivery ordering, loyalty, reservations and multi-branch groups.
• Load-shedding: live updates have a polling fallback, and there is limited offline continuity for signed-in staff cash workflows (not new sign-ins), so a reliable connection is recommended.
• Support is the contact form; the team aims to reply within one business day. The setup package includes ongoing support, but no hours, phone or WhatsApp line are published. If the printer stops at 9 pm on a Saturday, the kitchen can keep working from the live board on a tablet; keep a paper chit pad for when the connection drops.

Free is self-serve: sign up with Pakistan selected. For Pro or a setup package quote, send your city and number of tables through the Pakistan Pro / setup package form. Plans are on MenuBeacon Pakistan plans in rupees, and the Pakistan demo needs no sign-up.

Hidden costs to ask about

• Advance payment: OnlineOrder.pk asks for 2 months up front on the first term: Rs 9,998 at its starting price (2 × Rs 4,999; illustrative arithmetic on its list price).
• Add-ons sold separately: Granet's owner app from Rs 5,000 a month per branch; at OnlineOrder.pk, a one-time app development fee with no published amount, plus domain, hosting and hardware.

Questions to ask before you pay a POS vendor

1. What is the first-year total, including hardware, setup, support and integration?
2. Monthly subscription or one-time payment? What do updates cost?
3. How many terminals and users are included, and what does each extra one cost?
4. Does it work with the computer and printer I already have?
5. Which authority are you integrated with? Show me a live receipt with its QR code.
6. Does the bill change the tax when the guest pays by card?
7. What happens to invoices during an outage or load-shedding?
8. Who do I call during service, on which channel, and at what hours?

Sources, checked on 13 October 2026

• Software prices: Granet Pro pricing (undated, titled 2026); HysabOne pricing and food and beverage page (both undated); OnlineOrder.pk pricing (undated).
• Hardware: W11Stop listings for the BC97AC, BC-85AC, BC-100WIFI2 and BC-58U printers and the BayLan RJ12 drawer (undated; their "updated on" line shows the day you view them), and cash drawers (page titled "Updated September 2026").
• Card acceptance: HBL Tap & Pay (page footer "Last Updated: 12 Oct, 2026"); UBL SoftPOS (undated).
• Punjab: PRA's 2026–27 edition of the Punjab Sales Tax on Services Act 2012: section 48 penalty table, entry 25 (page Punjab 151); Second Schedule, entry 4 (pages Punjab 217–218); e-IMS Rules 2019, rule 3 (page Punjab 442); Notification No. PRA/Order.06/2012 (22 May 2013; page Punjab 464); Notification No. PRA/Member Legal/816/26 (2 July 2026; pages Punjab 563–564); PRA Circular No. 1 of 2026 (23 January 2026; page Punjab 598). Dunya News (updated 10 August 2026); The Nation (18 August 2026).
• Sindh: SRB restaurant rates (undated; 15% since 1 July 2024); SRB-POS FAQ (undated).
• Khyber Pakhtunkhwa: KP Sales Tax on Services Act 2022, updated to the Finance Act 2026 (KPRA, September 2026).
• Federal: FBR SRO 428(I)/2024 (22 March 2024), listed on FBR's POS legal provisions page.