Food & Restaurant · head to head
Tock vs Clover
Tock
Food & Restaurant
All-in-one reservation and events platform
- From
- $199/month
- Rated
- -
Clover
Food & Restaurant
Point of sale system that grows with your business
- From
- $29/month
- Rated
- -
The short version
- Each has a real cost: Tock tock To Go pickup/delivery takes a 3% cut of orders from restaurants, with the separate $5 to $10 delivery charge passed to the consumer, per a case study reproduced on the vendor's own site (Internet Archive capture, 25 December 2022); Clover the App Store listing (Clover Network, Inc) requires an existing Clover merchant account to use the app at all; there is no self-serve signup or published subscription price inside the listing, confirming the product is sold only through merchant onboarding contracts
- They diverge on capability: Tock covers Reservations, Clover covers POS system.
Where they differ
Only the attributes on which Tock and Clover actually diverge.
Identical on both: pricing model (subscription), free tier (No), user rating (Not yet rated), category (Food & Restaurant).
What each one covers
Drawn from each product's published feature list. An absence here means we hold no record of it - not that the product lacks it.
Only in Tock
- Reservations
- Prepaid bookings
- Event ticketing
- Experiences
- Table management
- CRM
- Toast
- Square
Only in Clover
- POS system
- Payment processing
- Inventory management
- Employee management
- Reporting
- QuickBooks
- Yelp
- Gusto
Both cover
- Ios support
- Android support
What people use each for
The jobs each tool is most often brought in to do.
Tock
- Point of Salenot Clover
- Order Managementnot Clover
- Inventory Controlnot Clover
- Staff Schedulingnot Clover
Clover
- Point of salenot Tock
- Payment processingnot Tock
- Business managementnot Tock
Where each one falls short
Documented limitations, not opinions. Every one is a constraint you would hit in normal use.
Tock
- Tock To Go pickup/delivery takes a 3% cut of orders from restaurants, with the separate $5 to $10 delivery charge passed to the consumer, per a case study reproduced on the vendor's own site (Internet Archive capture, 25 December 2022)
Clover
- The App Store listing (Clover Network, Inc) requires an existing Clover merchant account to use the app at all; there is no self-serve signup or published subscription price inside the listing, confirming the product is sold only through merchant onboarding contracts
Pricing, plan by plan
Tock
$199/month- Basic$199/month
- Reservations
- Basic features
- Plus$699/month
- Events
- Prepaid
- Marketing
- ProFree
- Custom pricing
- Full features
Clover
$29/month- StarterFree
- Mobile payments
- Basic reporting
- Standard$14.95/month
- Full POS
- Employee management
- Inventory
Which should you pick?
Choose Tock if
- You need reservations.
- You work on Web, Ios, Android.
- You also want prepaid bookings.
Choose Clover if
- You need pos system.
- You work on Hardware, Ios, Android.
- You also want payment processing.
Questions people ask
- Is Tock or Clover better?
- Neither clearly leads. Tock starts at $199/month and Clover at $29/month, and user ratings are close enough to be indistinguishable. Choose on capability and platform support.
- Which is cheaper, Tock or Clover?
- Tock starts at $199/month and Clover at $29/month.
- Does Tock or Clover run on more platforms?
- Tock runs on Web, Ios, Android. Clover runs on Hardware, Ios, Android.
- What is Tock best used for?
- Tock is most often used for point of sale, order management, inventory control, staff scheduling. Of those, point of sale and order management are not what Clover is typically brought in for.
- What can Tock do that Clover cannot?
- Tock covers Reservations, Prepaid bookings, Event ticketing, Experiences. Clover covers POS system, Payment processing, Inventory management, Employee management. Both handle Ios support, Android support.