Introduction
Restaurant software comparisons become misleading when they start with a feature checklist instead of the operating failure you are trying to remove.
FINA is not just an accounting package with a cash-register screen. Its restaurant product page, checked on August 17, 2026, documents table management, dine-in, takeaway and delivery, modifiers, offline POS, menu recipes, inventory and finance, KDS, kiosk, QR e-menu, reservations and integrations. Its pricing page lists the Café-Restaurant product at 80 GEL per month for each sale point and says more than 6,000 organisations use FINA across its product family.
Wox takes the broader operating-system approach: POS and KDS, inventory, purchasing, mobile manager workflows, multi-location reporting, AI, and a supplier portal share one data model. The decision turns on which operating loop you need to improve.
Quick answer
Choose Wox if your restaurant's main pain is the chain from stock to purchase to supplier. Wox makes purchase orders, approvals, mobile receiving, invoice scanning, vendor performance, supplier catalogs and RFQs part of the core product, and it gives the supplier a separate portal to acknowledge orders and manage price sheets.
Choose FINA if you value a mature Georgian business-software ecosystem, a public 80 GEL-per-sale-point restaurant price, established local support and a broad restaurant feature set. As of August 17, 2026, FINA publicly documents offline POS, multiple POS locations, recipes, warehouse and financial transactions, KDS, kiosk, QR e-menu and integrations with delivery services.
The tiebreaker is whether you are buying a restaurant operating workflow or a wider local business-software relationship. If accounting, warehouse, restaurant POS and familiar local support need to sit close together, FINA is a credible choice.
Who each product is best for
Best for a one-location restaurant that wants predictable local software costs
FINA is compelling for a small operator that needs a conventional restaurant stack and wants to understand the core software price immediately. As of August 17, 2026, FINA publishes 80 GEL per month for each café-restaurant sale point and includes unlimited manager users on that price page. That is simpler to budget than many modular enterprise POS offers.
Best for an owner trying to control purchasing, receiving and suppliers
Wox is the stronger fit when the owner's recurring problem is not only selling correctly but buying correctly. The product is structured around POs, approval rules, receiving, vendor catalogs, invoice capture, vendor performance and RFQ workflows. This is especially relevant when purchase decisions currently happen in chat and the accounting record is created only afterward.
Best for teams that already rely on FINA's broader business modules
FINA has a real ecosystem advantage for organisations already using its accounting, retail, distribution, hotel or other modules. As of August 17, 2026, FINA markets those products alongside the café-restaurant system. A restaurant should count the cost of replacing existing reporting habits and staff knowledge, not only compare monthly subscription figures.
Feature-by-feature comparison
The competitor cells below reflect public material checked on August 17, 2026. Undocumented means unknown, not absent.
| Feature area | Wox | FINA | What to know as an operator |
|---|---|---|---|
| Inventory counting | Counts, storage areas, stock movements, par levels, waste and low-stock alerts. | Inventory, purchases, returns, write-offs, transfers and production are publicly documented. | Both cover core inventory; compare how quickly a manager can move from a count to a purchase order. |
| Purchasing and ordering | Structured POs, approvals, recurring orders, budgets and receiving. | Purchases, returns and supplier payments are documented; multi-step PO approval is not clearly documented. | Wox is more explicit about procurement governance. |
| Vendor management | Vendor records, performance, supplier portal, RFQs and price sheets. | Supplier payments and purchasing exist; supplier portal/RFQ workflow is not publicly documented as of that date. | This difference matters if vendors are active participants in your workflow. |
| Invoice processing | AI-supported invoice/document ingestion and invoice scanning. | Not publicly documented on the FINA restaurant page checked on 2026-08-17. | Ask whether invoice capture is part of the proposed FINA setup or a separate module. |
| Receiving and reconciliation | Mobile receiving with photos and discrepancies. | Purchases and inventory are documented; exact delivery discrepancy/credit workflow is not public. | Test the physical receiving workflow during a live demo. |
| Low-stock and replenishment | Par levels, low-stock notifications and ordering suggestions. | Warehouse management is documented; a specific par-based replenishment workflow is not public on the pages checked. | The relevant question is whether the system turns shortage information into an order. |
| Reporting and analytics | Sales, COGS, waste, spend, vendor performance and cross-location views. | FINA describes accurate analytical information plus day-to-day reports and financial tracking. | FINA is strong on business reporting; Wox combines restaurant and procurement signals. |
| Multi-location control | Central organisation/location hierarchy and granular permissions. | Multiple restaurants, POS locations, halls, warehouses and network versions are documented. | Both are credible; compare central configuration and ownership views. |
| POS and accounting integrations | Native POS plus selected POS-data connectors; Georgian fiscal/payment rollout should be confirmed. | Cash/card payments, cash-machine attachment and delivery integrations are documented; FINA's broader stack also extends beyond the restaurant module. | FINA has stronger public evidence of local accounting/fiscal adjacency. |
| Pricing transparency | Free 0 GEL, Starter 149 GEL/month, Growth 249 GEL/month, and Enterprise 349 GEL/month. | 80 GEL/month per sale point for Café-Restaurant, unlimited manager users. | FINA has a lower published core restaurant price than Wox Starter, though the two packages cover different scope. |
Pricing and packaging
As of August 17, 2026, FINA's official café-restaurant price page lists full Café-Restaurant functionality at 80 GEL per month for each sale point and unlimited manager users. The same page lists an Accounting product at 80 GEL per month and says it can automate with the Café-Restaurant module. FINA's restaurant page also documents numerous modules, but the public price page should not be read as proof that every peripheral, implementation service or optional module is included without charge. Wox lists 0, 149, 249 and 349 GEL monthly plans. Those tiers differ by locations, items, vendors, users, purchase-order volume, invoice volume, analytics and support. A one-location buyer should compare the exact package needed rather than treating 80 GEL versus 149 GEL as a complete total-cost comparison.
| Plan | Wox | FINA |
|---|---|---|
| Entry | Free 0 GEL or Starter 149 GEL/month | Café-Restaurant 80 GEL/month per sale point |
| Mid | Growth 249 GEL/month | No separate mid-tier publicly listed for Café-Restaurant |
| Top | Enterprise 349 GEL/month | No separate top-tier publicly listed for Café-Restaurant |
| What counts against limits | Plan limits include locations, items, vendors, seats, POs, invoices and AI/document usage | Price is per sale point; optional modules, hardware and services should be confirmed |
Workflow comparison
The weekly inventory count
FINA's restaurant page documents inventory, purchases, returns, write-offs, transfers and production, so this is not a comparison between inventory software and no inventory software. Wox's difference is the operating path around the count: mobile counts, par levels, low-stock alerts, purchasing and owner visibility are presented as one system.
Operator takeaway: choose the system your managers will actually use for a complete count and correction cycle, because unreliable counts undermine every replenishment feature built on top of them.
Building and approving purchase orders
A FINA buyer can manage purchases and supplier payments, while Wox explicitly models the purchase order as a controlled workflow with submit, approve, receive and recurring-order states. That difference matters when one person should request and another should authorise. If your restaurant has no approval policy and the same manager buys everything, FINA's simpler purchase flow may be perfectly adequate.
Operator takeaway: if purchase approval is currently happening in calls or chat, make the approval path a live buying test rather than accepting a description of it.
Receiving deliveries and logging shortages and credits
Wox's mobile receiving is built around comparing delivery reality with the approved PO and recording discrepancies. FINA's public restaurant page confirms purchase and inventory workflows but does not describe the same photo-and-discrepancy receiving sequence as of August 17, 2026. That is not evidence FINA cannot handle receiving.
Operator takeaway: the stronger product is the one that preserves the difference between what was ordered, what arrived, what was credited and what finally entered stock.
The weekly manager and owner review
FINA's strength is the breadth of business and financial information around the restaurant. Wox's owner view is deliberately operational, linking sales and COGS to purchasing, stock and vendor performance. A weekly review should therefore be built from the questions you actually ask: what sold, what food cost moved, what was wasted, what was ordered, what arrived short and which supplier prices changed.
Operator takeaway: pick the platform that answers your real weekly management questions with the fewest exports, reconciliations and follow-up messages.
Strengths, gaps, and where each is stronger
Strengths of Wox
Wox's strongest documented advantage is the restaurant-to-supplier operating loop. Sales and stock sit beside purchase orders, approvals, mobile receiving, vendor performance, supplier catalogs, RFQs and a supplier portal. POS, manager-mobile, owner-web and supplier surfaces keep those workflows on one operational record.
Where FINA is stronger
FINA is stronger on local maturity and breadth. Its official site, checked on August 17, 2026, markets accounting, retail, distribution, café-restaurant, hotel and other products, and its restaurant pricing page says 6,000+ organisations use FINA. It also publishes a Tbilisi hotline and Monday-to-Friday working hours. That gives buyers a clearer picture of an established Georgian support and business-software footprint. FINA is also stronger where a buyer wants restaurant operations adjacent to familiar local accounting and warehouse functions. Its current restaurant product already covers much more than basic POS, including offline use, recipes, inventory, KDS, kiosk and QR e-menu.
Switching from FINA
Switching from FINA starts with deciding what must move and what can remain an archive. Menu items, modifiers, recipes, vendors, stock items, opening quantities, staff, tables and printer routing are obvious candidates. Historical accounting and transaction records are more sensitive, and this article does not promise a one-click FINA import into Wox. If FINA is also your accounting system, do not treat the POS migration as an accounting migration by default. Define the future accounting interface first, then move one operational location. Reconcile sales, stock movement, purchases and end-of-day figures during a parallel period.
Trade-offs and final verdict
FINA is an established Georgian business-software vendor with a broad restaurant product and a lower published café-restaurant entry price than Wox Starter. Wox is more narrowly designed around the restaurant operating loop that connects POS, mobile managers, head office and suppliers. The trade-off is not old versus new. It is broad local business-suite maturity versus a more explicit operations-and-procurement architecture. For many independent restaurants, FINA may already cover every job that matters. Wox becomes more compelling when the pain is purchasing discipline, supplier coordination, mobile receiving, cross-location approvals or the desire to ask operational questions against the same data. Before choosing, run the same three tests in both systems: a busy table service, a delivery with a shortage, and a week-end food-cost review.
Before signing, document the fiscal device, payment terminal, printers, KDS, offline behaviour, permissions, export process, support escalation and cancellation terms. Turn every implementation-critical claim into a test case before go-live.
Final verdict
Choose Wox if you are changing software to connect sales and inventory with governed purchasing, mobile receiving, supplier data and multi-location owner control. Wox is strongest when the problem crosses departments and external vendors.
Choose FINA if its documented strengths are closer to the problem you need to solve and a live implementation test confirms them. Choose the system that removes more recurring friction without creating unacceptable fiscal, payment, support or migration risk.