Not a Toast POS Alternative: Keep Toast, Add Voice Ordering

Two Kinds Of Order

Toast takes the orders coming in.
We add a spoken one going out.

Where a distributor has our app, we add this: you speak from their guide at the prices set for your account, fix any line that is off, and get the order numbered and confirmed on your phone. The ticks for Toast's own features come from Toast.

Feature

Toast + VoiceOrder Solutions

Toast on its own

Guest orders from the counter, tables, kiosk and web

A restock order said aloud, then read line by line

Not listed on their site

Card payments, tips and payroll

Supplier orders from counts and pars (xtraCHEF Pro, sold separately)

Sent to the distributor through the app they give you

By email or PDF from xtraCHEF

Mark a dish out of stock (86) on every channel at once

Guests' takeout calls answered by voice AI, through partners

Sales numbers and a manager app on your phone

Toast IQ, an AI assistant for questions and settings

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Before Changing Your POS

Why restaurants look for an alternative to Toast POS

The Toast POS handles the orders guests place: it rings up the check, sends the ticket to the kitchen and takes the payment. A search for a Toast POS competitor can start with an order headed the other way: the one that restocks your kitchen.

Its voice ordering is for guests

Toast's partners sell voice AI that answers a diner calling in a takeout order, and some handle drive-thru orders too. That brings orders in. It does not place yours with a distributor.

An 86 stops the sale, not the shortage

When you 86 a dish, Toast stops guests ordering it on the POS, online and through delivery apps. Getting the missing ingredient back still means ordering from your distributor, by phone, text, or xtraCHEF if you use it.

A new POS would not change the restock

Toast's POS runs on approved Toast hardware, designed for the guest's order. Restocking begins in the walk-in. A Toast POS alternative would not change how your restock order gets to the distributor.

What You Get

No Toast POS alternative needed to restock the kitchen

Voice Ordering

Say what you need, then read it over

Stand in the walk-in or dry storage, tap Push to Speak and say what you need. What you say shows up as lines from that distributor's guide. Fix or delete a line, and nothing goes out until you tap send.

You approve every line before it leaves

Order after close, once the rep has gone home

Saves 20 to 30 minutes compared with the same order by phone

Pulled onto the line mid-order? It keeps your place

How a supply order gets placed

Your Distributor's Guide

Your usual items, loaded by the distributor

The distributor fills your guide with what you buy from them, matched to their item codes. Your menu stays in Toast. This list is only for ordering from that one distributor.

Your regular items, not the whole catalog

Each line shows your account's price

The distributor updates it from their side

Your rep stays your rep

Buying from more than one supplier

Proof Of The Order

A number to quote when a case is missing

Orders sent in the app get an order number, a date and a time, and a confirmation comes back to your phone by notification or text. When the truck shows up short, quote that number to your rep, so nobody has to remember a call.

Number and time on each order sent in the app

A push or a text confirms it

The record shows who placed it

A call or a voicemail still gets no number from us

What each supplier confirmed

Your POS Side

Toast keeps the guest side, from tickets to tips

Guests order through Toast, tickets reach the kitchen screen, and you 86 whatever runs out, all as before, with no Toast POS alternative to learn. If you order some suppliers in xtraCHEF, those orders can stay there.

Menu, tickets and payments stay in Toast

Your 86 list works as it always has

Payroll and scheduling carry on

Sales reports read the same

How ordering fits your stock routine

Use Both

Two orders, two places: guests in Toast, your restock in our app

This is not a Toast POS replacement. Toast handles your guests' orders. We cover your own: the restock order to a distributor that has VoiceOrder Solutions, which you say into your phone and look over before it goes.

No Toast report counts that order

Orders you speak to that distributor do not show up in Toast or xtraCHEF. If you track supplier costs in xtraCHEF, enter that delivery's invoice there as you do now.

Close out, check the 86 list, then speak

At the end of the night, look at what you 86'd in Toast's manager app (Toast Now) and what the walk-in is low on. Then open our app and say what that distributor should bring.

Keep xtraCHEF for the other vendors

If you use xtraCHEF, it can email an order to any vendor, while our app only reaches distributors offering it. Keep xtraCHEF or the phone for the rest. If a recurring order is scheduled in xtraCHEF for a distributor you now order from by voice, stop it first.

See a restock go from your voice to a distributor

In 20 minutes we speak a short test order, fix a line while you watch, and show the confirmation your phone would get.

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FAQ

What Toast restaurants ask us

Do I need a Toast POS alternative to restock my kitchen by voice?

No. Toast runs your dining room and payments, and xtraCHEF, a separate Toast product, can already email a supplier your order. If one of your distributors offers VoiceOrder Solutions, you can say what you need from them into your phone and change nothing on your terminals.

Is VoiceOrder Solutions better than Toast POS?

Not at running a restaurant: we take no guest orders, run no payments and print no tickets. We handle your order to a distributor, spoken and then checked by you before it leaves. If restocking is what set off your search for a Toast POS alternative, Toast and xtraCHEF can stay where they are.

Do VoiceOrder Solutions and Toast connect?

No. The two are not linked, no information moves between them, and each company answers its own support calls. What you say in our app is sent to your distributor only.

Toast already has voice ordering. Is this the same thing?

No. Partner voice tools for Toast answer guests phoning in a pickup order and pass it into Toast. Ours runs the other way: the order is yours, and your distributor receives it.

Can I order from all my suppliers this way?

Only from distributors offering VoiceOrder Solutions. For every other supplier, carry on by phone, email or xtraCHEF, and ask each of them whether they have our app.

I asked for two cases and the line reads twelve. What now?

Correct it on the screen first: change the amount, pick a different item or remove the line. Reading the lines is the safeguard, though a rushed look can still let a mistake through. Orders called in or left as a voicemail are not numbered by us; app orders are.

How do I get set up, and what does it cost?

Your distributor does the setup: they create your login and add the items you order from them. If yours does not have it, keep ordering from them the way you do now, and contact us: we will connect you with the right person. Most kitchens place a first order the same day they are set up. Since VoiceOrder Solutions comes to you through your distributor, they are the ones to ask about cost; we publish no price. Toast lists starting prices for its POS online.

Where do the Toast details on this page come from?

On 9 November 2026 we read pos.toasttab.com and the Toast help center (support.toasttab.com): Toast's product pages, its pricing page, and the articles covering 86ing an item, Toast IQ and how xtraCHEF sends supplier orders. The guest voice-ordering details come from Toast's and its partners' announcements. We left out their customer counts. If something there is different now, tell us and we will fix this page.

Not A Toast POS Alternative: Ordering Your Supplies

is when most kitchens can start ordering

saved per order, compared with calling it in to the rep

for restock orders, long after the last guest leaves

Toast takes the orders coming in.
We add a spoken one going out.

Feature

Toast + VoiceOrder Solutions

Toast on its own