AN HONEST COMPARISON
Stolik or Poster: an honest comparison
Poster is a mature Ukrainian system with a broad feature set. Stolik is a simpler, cheaper tool for a small venue. Below is where each one wins, with nothing swept under the rug.
- Stolik: 199–699 UAH/mo, QR menu and mobile server included
- Poster: more modules, but each is priced separately
- Poster has fiscal PRRO and inventory, Stolik does not
- Stolik has date-based business lunches and banquets; Poster handles both differently
- Free trial: 15 days in both. Stolik caps it at 200 orders and asks for no card
First things first: when Stolik is the wrong choice
Let us start with where Poster is objectively stronger, so you do not waste two weeks finding out. You need a fiscal register. Poster ships its own software PRRO. Stolik is not a fiscal register and does not plan to become one: if your venue is legally required to fiscalise sales, a separate certified solution covers that. You need inventory. Recipe cards, gram-level ingredient depletion, stock counts: Poster has them, Stolik does not. For a large kitchen with tight cost control that settles it. You need delivery. Aggregator integrations and a courier app are a separate Poster plan; Stolik has none of it. You are a chain. Several locations with shared stock and consolidated reporting is not something we build. If any of those describe you, you can stop reading here.
Price: the difference is structural, not just numeric
Poster is modular: a base subscription, then a second register, mobile server, QR menu, PRRO and delivery each priced on top. That is sensible for a large venue: you pay for what you use. But for a small coffee shop the total adds up fast: per Poster’s own site as of July 2026, the entry plan is 432 UAH/mo, the cafe-featured base plan starts at 1,080 UAH/mo, mobile server +324 UAH, QR menu from 252 UAH, a second register +684 UAH. Stolik is flat: 199 UAH (Start), 399 UAH (Business), 699 UAH (Premium). QR menu, tablet operation, kitchen display and business lunches are included rather than bought separately. AI reports are included from Business up. This does not mean “Stolik is cheaper, therefore better”. It means something narrower: if the features you need are the ones Stolik has, you pay less for them. If you need the ones it lacks, no price makes up for that. Competitor prices are as published on their site in July 2026 and may change, so check joinposter.com for current figures.
Where Stolik wins
Business lunches. In Stolik a lunch is composed per date as a set (soup, side, protein, salad, drink), and the guest picks their combination via QR, and past weeks stay in an archive. Where lunches are a meaningful share of revenue, that removes an hour of a manager’s day. Banquets. Their own menu, date, guest count and list, deposit and a PDF summary. The deposit counts on the day you received it, and on the banquet day the bill covers only the balance. Time to launch. Stolik is a web app: open a tablet, install it as a PWA, enter your menu. No installers, no server in the back room. AI reports. Ask “what was revenue this week” and get a written answer in the app, without building a report by hand (from the Business plan). Honesty about limits. We list what is missing on the product page, not in a knowledge base after you have paid.
How to check without risk
The free period is 15 days in both systems; in Stolik it ends sooner if you reach 200 orders. The difference is that Stolik does not ask for a card up front. That is enough time to check what matters. One piece of practical advice: do not test on an empty menu. Enter a real 20–30 items with prices and modifiers and run one actual Friday night. That is where you find out whether servers find it usable and whether the kitchen keeps up. A three-dish demo will not show you that. Second: look at how the system behaves when you want to leave. In Stolik the menu, order history and reports export in one click, there is no contract and billing is monthly. Worth checking in any system before you move your venue’s data into it.
Everything a café needs
No bloat, no mandatory integrations
POS for staff
Fast order entry on tablet. Card / cash, discounts, thermal receipts, plus tips from the Business plan.
Analytics & reports
Daily/monthly revenue, top dishes, peak hours, P&L (from the Business plan), all on one screen.
Telegram alerts
Shift report auto-sent to owner's Telegram (from the Business plan). Revenue, payroll, order count.
PWA, no App Store
Feels native on iOS & Android. Your-logo icon, fullscreen, runs online.
Security
PIN + IP throttle, full data export, plus login audit and 30-day trusted devices from the Business plan.
No clutter
No separate BAS, fiscal PRRO, or bulky iiko/Poster needed. Everything a small café needs sits in one app.
Calendar periods
This week = Mon-today, this month = since the 1st. Not rolling-30. Fair week-over-week comparisons.
Login audit
Who logged in, when, from where. Trusted devices for 30 days, no repeat PIN. From the Business plan.
Kitchen & bar
Orders reach the kitchen screen at once. The cook marks a dish ready, the waiter sees it on the floor.
Live in one evening
Sign up
Fill the form in 2 minutes.
Add your menu
Categories, dishes, prices. Upload your logo.
Start working
Add staff and your cashier is ready to go.
Simple pricing
15 days free. Then the free level or a plan for your size.
The trial is over. The program is not.
Everything you set up during the 15 days (menu, tables, receipts) stays. Whatever falls outside the free level is hidden and comes back after you pay. Subscribe to our Telegram channel and the till keeps working for free. Need staff, more tables or export? Then Start is 199 UAH a month.
What stays in the free level
Condition: a subscription to our Telegram channel.
FAQ
Can I move my menu from Poster to Stolik?
There is no automatic import from Poster. The menu is entered through the admin panel: for a 40–60 item venue that is one evening of work. If you have hundreds of items, contact support before starting the trial and we will discuss it.
Does Stolik replace a fiscal register?
No, and that is deliberate. Stolik is a management and accounting system. Fiscalisation, if the law requires it of you, is covered by a separate certified solution running alongside.
You wrote this comparison, so is it objective?
A comparison written by one of the parties cannot be fully objective, and pretending otherwise would be dishonest. That is why this page opens with the cases where you should choose the competitor, and why competitor prices are quoted with a date and a pointer to their own site. Verify them, and trial both systems; each offers a free period.