Overview Leaderboard Methodology
Industry Report

Point‑of‑Sale Systems

Integrated hardware and software solutions used by retailers and restaurants to accept payments, manage inventory, and run transactions at the sales counter.

Brands tracked: 32
Brands analyzed: 32
Last updated: 2026-04-22
Model: OpenAI GPT-5
Prompts: 252
Total responses: 1,285
Top Brand Overall?
Clover
74/100

Highest overall AI Visibility Score in this industry.

LBA Leader?
Toast
81

Highest score on the LBA metric.

Authority Leader?
Clover
64

Highest score on the Authority metric.

TOM Leader?
Clover
88

Highest score on the TOM metric.

Clover leads the Point‑of‑Sale Systems category in AI responses

Clover is the most consistently-surfaced brand when users ask AI assistants about Point‑of‑Sale Systems, but not to the point of monopolising the conversation. Toast and a handful of others appear regularly, giving users a reasonable set of alternatives to compare. The top of this leaderboard is where most of the AI-driven traffic will go.

Brand Leaderboard All 32 Point‑of‑Sale Systems brands ranked

Ranked by overall AI Visibility Score (geometric mean of LBA, Authority, and TOM). Click any brand for the full report.

# Brand LBA Authority TOM Overall
1
Clover
clover.com
 72
64
88
74
2
Toast
toasttab.com
 81
45
82
67
3
Lightspeed
lightspeedhq.com
 68
48
79
63
4
Helcim
helcim.com
 61
7
22
21
5
Zettle
zettle.com
 69
4
31
21
6
Revel Systems
revelsystems.com
 63
3
21
16
7
TouchBistro
touchbistro.com
 68
3
13
14
8
Loyverse
loyverse.com
 53
10
0
2
9
Oracle
oracle.com
 74
0
19
2
10
Epos Now
eposnow.com
 57
0
1
1
11
NCR Aloha
ncr.com
 76
0
0
1
12
NCR Counterpoint
ncrvoyix.com
 53
0
4
1
13
SpotOn
spoton.com
 63
0
1
1
14
SumUp
sumup.com
 70
0
3
1
15
ConnectPOS
connectpos.com
 42
0
0
0
16
GoTab
gotab.com
 58
0
0
0
17
Heartland Payroll
heartland.us
 24
0
0
0
18
Hike
hikeup.com
 30
0
0
0
19
IT Retail
itretail.com
 30
0
0
0
20
KORONA POS
koronapos.com
 39
0
0
0
21
Lavu
lavu.com
 60
0
0
0
22
PAR Brink
partech.com
 33
0
0
0
23
Payanywhere
payanywhere.com
 47
0
0
0
24
Poster POS
joinposter.com
 33
0
0
0
25
Qu
qubeyond.com
 17
0
0
0
26
Rezku
rezku.com
 28
0
0
0
27
SambaPOS
sambapos.com
 56
0
0
0
28
Shopify Tax
shopify.com
 50
0
0
0
29
SkyTab
skytab.com
 63
0
0
0
30
Square Appointments
squareup.com
 81
0
0
0
31
Stripe Billing
stripe.com
 80
0
0
0
32
talech
talech.com
 51
0
0
0

How is this calculated? Methodology

Every brand in this leaderboard is scored against the same set of 252 shared Point‑of‑Sale Systems prompts. The same prompts, same model, same iterations. So differences in scores reflect actual differences in AI visibility, not differences in measurement.

Overall AI Visibility Score
Geometric mean of LBA, Authority and TOM: (LBA × Authority × TOM)^(1/3). Geometric mean is used so that any single weak metric pulls the overall score down, rather than being masked by strength elsewhere.
Shared industry prompts
For Authority and TOM, all brands in the industry are scored against the same 252 category prompts (e.g. "best SEO tools for agencies"). This makes brand-to-brand comparisons valid - everyone faces identical inputs. LBA prompts are per-brand because they ask brand-specific questions.
Latent Brand Association (LBA)
5 brand probes + 1 control prompt, each run 5 times in recall mode (no web search). LBA = quality × meta × stability × share × recognition × 100. Read the full LBA methodology →
LLM Authority
50 organic category prompts (discovery, comparison, problem and transactional intents), each run once in recall mode and once in retrieval mode. Score = frequency × log-decayed prominence × intent weight, then 50/50 averaged across the two modes. Read the full Authority methodology →
Top of Mind (TOM)
15 high-volume discovery prompts (sourced from Keywords Everywhere search-volume data), each run 5 times in pure recall mode (no web). Score = frequency × (0.5 + 0.5 × log-prominence), volume-weighted. Read the full TOM methodology →