Migrate from Toast
Move from Toast to PeakSpitz, safely.
Moving off Toast should feel like restoring from a backup, not a leap of faith. Your restaurant POS data is read into a PeakSpitz environment of your own, checked against your real numbers, and run in parallel — while Toast keeps running, untouched, the whole time. Here is exactly how, step by step.
Toast built one of the deepest restaurant menu engines around — menu groups, nested modifier groups and combo pricing that map onto how a busy US kitchen actually fires tickets, with KDS routing and online ordering wired in. That depth is a real strength, and it is why high-volume restaurants standardise on it. Teams typically look to move when the cost model stacks up: each capability (online ordering, loyalty, inventory, payroll) is often a separate subscription line on top of proprietary Android hardware, and the payments and tax handling are built around the US market. Migrating to PeakSpitz trades that for one EU-hosted platform where sales, inventory, real accounting with VAT and payments live together, with unlimited users on every plan.
The safe way to leave Toast
Work down the list at your own pace. Nothing here is irreversible, and your current system stays live throughout.
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Before you touch anything — get a backup you own
Get a copy of your data out of Toast that you control — a file held on your side, not just a setting inside the system. Confirm in your contract that you have the right to export, and note any renewal, notice or lock-in dates so the timing stays on your terms.
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Export your data
Pull your menu, orders, customers and sales history out of Toast in the most complete format it offers — CSV, spreadsheet, or an account/API export. Take the history too, not just open items: past records, documents and contacts are worth keeping.
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Send us a sample
Before you commit, send us a representative slice — a handful of customers, a few recent orders or bookings, part of your catalogue. We map it into PeakSpitz and show you the restored result, so you see exactly how your restaurant POS data lands before you move the rest.
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See what maps to what
We line Toast up against PeakSpitz: your menu, orders, customers and sales history become customers, catalogue, orders, documents and ledgers in one joined-up system. Anything without an obvious home is flagged early, not discovered late.
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Bring it in — a read-only restore
Your data is read into a fresh, isolated PeakSpitz environment of your own. Nothing inside Toast is touched, changed or switched off — it keeps running exactly as it is.
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Verify against your numbers
Before you trust it, reconcile the totals — balances, counts, tax and revenue — against what Toast shows today. The numbers have to match before anything goes live.
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Run both in parallel
Keep Toast live and run PeakSpitz alongside it for as long as you like. Compare like for like, move one area across first, and build trust before you depend on it. No big-bang cutover, and no deadline from us.
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Cross over and decommission — on your terms
Switch over only when PeakSpitz has earned it. Keep your Toast export archived as a safety net, and close the old subscription when you are ready — not a moment before.
What maps where: Toast → PeakSpitz
Toast
Menu groups
PeakSpitz
Product categories
Toast
Menu items
PeakSpitz
Products / catalogue items
Toast
Modifier groups & modifiers
PeakSpitz
Product options and add-ons
Nested modifier trees and combos are rebuilt deliberately, not imported one-to-one.
Toast
Checks (dine-in & online orders)
PeakSpitz
Sales orders
Toast
Recipes & ingredient depletion
PeakSpitz
Tracked inventory items and components
Theoretical food cost is re-mapped as a decision about yields and waste, not a straight import.
Toast
Staff & role permissions
PeakSpitz
Users and roles
PeakSpitz includes unlimited users on every plan, so per-employee seat counting goes away.
What to watch when leaving Toast
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Toast's nested modifier groups and combo pricing rarely map one-to-one. They are rebuilt deliberately on the new menu, which is the moment to prune options that have quietly accumulated.
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KDS and printer routing rules, plus Toast's Android terminals, are re-paired on site. Routing configuration does not travel with a data export, so budget install time for the kitchen.
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Online-ordering menus and any delivery-marketplace links were configured inside Toast and are re-established on the new system. Do not assume they move automatically with the menu.
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Years of item-level check and labour history typically archive read-only rather than migrate. Bring opening balances and current stock into PeakSpitz; keep the old detail as an archive.
Common questions about leaving Toast
Can we keep our Toast hardware?
Toast terminals and kitchen displays are typically tied to the Toast platform, so plan to re-pair front-of-house devices on site. PeakSpitz runs the business behind the counter — orders, inventory, real accounting with VAT and payments (card, cash, bank & SEPA) — as one EU-hosted system.
Do our modifiers and combos come across automatically?
Honestly, no — and that is deliberate. Modifier-group structure and combo pricing differ enough between systems that they are rebuilt rather than force-fitted. Spitz can draft the re-mapping from your exported menu and apply it the moment you approve, which usually turns a rebuild into a review.
What replaces Toast's online ordering?
Toast's online ordering is genuinely strong. PeakSpitz includes a built-in online storefront for direct pickup and online orders, so the separately-priced ordering module becomes part of the one platform. Menus are rebuilt once and then stay in sync with the same catalogue your floor uses.
As much help as you want
Do it yourself, or have us map your fields, run the import and reconcile the result with you. Support is a ladder — you start where you are comfortable and step up only where an area needs it.
See the full safe-migration approach →Why people leave Toast
PeakSpitz runs the whole business on one AI platform — not a single corner with the rest bolted on — with Spitz AI and unlimited users included. See the difference side by side.
Compare PeakSpitz vs Toast →Bring your Toast data in safely. Cross over when you are ready.
Send us a sample of your data and we will show you the restored result — no commitment, no risk to your live system.