Comparison
delEat and DineOpen, side by side.
A cloud restaurant POS with a UAE page and prices in dirhams.1,3 This page sets out where the two differ for a restaurant in the UAE, using only what DineOpen publishes about itself, read on 14 November 2026. Where its pages say nothing, the table says so.
The short answer
Which one suits which restaurant.
- Choose delEat if
- you want unlimited tills per outlet, UAE VAT by legal entity and TRN, recipe costing with live food cost from the Shift plan and a 30-day trial (from AED 149 per outlet a month on a 2-year term).
Row by row
delEat and DineOpen, on what a UAE restaurant checks.
The DineOpen column is only what its own pages say; the numbers are the sources at the foot of the page.
| delEat | DineOpen | |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | A cloud restaurant POS: the till, the kitchen screens, the floor, stock, recipes and the books in one system. | A cloud restaurant POS with a UAE page and prices in dirhams.1,3 |
| Price, as published | AED 149, 429 or 719 per outlet a month (Tab, Shift, Command) on a 2-year term, paid up front; 169, 479 or 799 billed yearly; 199, 579 or 949 billed monthly. Enterprise is quoted. | AED 75, 185 or 365 a month (Starter, Growth, Pro) on its fact sheet. Its pricing page shows USD 20, 50 or 99 and a currency switch, and prints no AED figures.1,2 |
| Priced per | Outlet, with unlimited tills and handhelds on every plan. | Outlet: Starter and Growth cover one outlet and Pro two. Tills are not stated.2 |
| Free trial | 30 days, every module on, no card. | 7 days with every feature, no card.1,2 |
| In the UAE | Built and supported in Dubai by The Hungry Inc.; live chat with a person, any hour. | A UAE page and UAE prices. No UAE office address on the pages read.3 |
| Arabic in the POS | The till, the kitchen display, the floor, shift and cash-up, reservations, orders and clock-in run right to left; receipts can print their headings in Arabic beside the English. Other screens are English only. | Supported as an app language; its UAE page lists Arabic, English, Hindi and Urdu.1,3 |
| UAE VAT and TRN | A legal entity and TRN behind every outlet (branches of one company share it); tax invoice or invoice by registration; credit notes on their own series; a threshold watcher. No e-invoicing yet. | Says it is UAE VAT compliant at 5%, with tax invoices that carry a TRN. Handling of several TRNs is not described.3 |
| Trading offline | Yes: new orders and payments with no network, replayed once when the line returns. | Yes: a server on your own premises keeps billing and kitchen tickets running on your local network with the internet down. It needs a Windows or Mac machine, and cloud reports wait for the connection.4 |
| Kitchen display | Shift plan and up, two screens an outlet. | Yes. The kitchen display page does not say which plan includes it.5 |
| Inventory and recipe costing | Shift plan and up: inventory, recipes and live food costing. | Basic inventory on Starter and advanced inventory on Growth. Recipe costing is not described on the pages read.2,5 |
| UAE delivery platforms | Talabat, Careem, Deliveroo and Noon Food through UrbanPiper. Coming soon, pending certification with UrbanPiper. | Talabat orders arrive in the POS automatically. Its fact sheet lists Deliveroo as not connected, to be entered by hand, while its UAE page says Deliveroo and Careem sales appear in reports. Noon Food is not named.1,3 |
| Several outlets | Yes; group BI, central recipes and per-outlet pricing on Command. | Yes, from Pro: a chain dashboard and cross-outlet analytics. Pro covers two outlets; Enterprise is custom.2 |
| Hardware | None of its own: any browser, on tablets, printers and drawers you may already own. | Android, iPhone, iPad, Windows or any browser, with 58mm and 80mm thermal printers. Card machines are separate.1 |
| Payments | Your own acquirer and rate at the till; online through Stripe, Telr or N-Genius. No cut of your sales. | No transaction fee from DineOpen; card payments go through your own provider.1 |
Where delEat is different
The differences that change a shift.
- VAT by legal entity, for the UAE
- In delEat each outlet trades as a legal entity with its TRN (branches of one company share it, separate companies keep their own), and credit notes run on their own series. DineOpen says its tax invoices carry a TRN and does not describe several TRNs.
- Tills unlimited, every plan
- delEat’s plans are per outlet, with unlimited tills and handhelds on every one. DineOpen’s pricing page covers one outlet on Starter and Growth and two on Pro, and does not state tills.
- Recipe costing on the Shift plan
- Recipes are costed from the ingredient, with live margin, from the Shift plan. The DineOpen pages we read do not describe recipe costing.
- Thirty days free, with no card
- delEat’s trial runs 30 days with every module on. DineOpen’s runs 7 days, also without a card.
Where delEat falls short
What DineOpen has, or delEat does not do yet.
- DineOpen starts lower: AED 75 a month1, against delEat’s AED 149 on a 2-year term.
- DineOpen says Talabat orders arrive in the POS automatically1. delEat connects the delivery apps through UrbanPiper, coming soon, pending certification with UrbanPiper.
- DineOpen describes a server on your own premises that keeps billing and kitchen tickets running on the local network with the internet down4. delEat’s offline mode queues new orders and payments and replays them once when the line returns.
- delEat’s import from DineOpen is not mapped. A menu comes in from a spreadsheet, a PDF or an export, and we load it.
- Coming soon, and not in delEat today: live sync with Zoho Books and Xero, mall reports by SFTP, card payment at the self-service kiosk, a rider app, e-invoicing and SSO and directory sync.
On pricing
As each one publishes it.
DineOpen: AED 75, 185 or 365 a month (Starter, Growth, Pro) on its fact sheet. Its pricing page shows USD 20, 50 or 99 and a currency switch, and prints no AED figures.1,2
delEat: AED 149, 429 or 719 per outlet a month (Tab, Shift, Command) on a 2-year term, paid up front; 169, 479 or 799 billed yearly; 199, 579 or 949 billed monthly. Enterprise is quoted. Thirty days free without a card. See the pricing page.
Questions
delEat or DineOpen: the questions people ask.
Which is better for a UAE restaurant, delEat or DineOpen?
Choose delEat if you want unlimited tills per outlet, UAE VAT by legal entity and TRN, recipe costing with live food cost from the Shift plan and a 30-day trial (from AED 149 per outlet a month on a 2-year term). Choose DineOpen if the lowest entry price matters most (AED 75 a month), you want Talabat orders to arrive automatically today, or you want a server on your own premises for offline trading.
How much does delEat cost compared with DineOpen?
delEat: AED 149, 429 or 719 per outlet a month (Tab, Shift, Command) on a 2-year term, paid up front; 169, 479 or 799 billed yearly; 199, 579 or 949 billed monthly. Enterprise is quoted. DineOpen, as published on its own site: AED 75, 185 or 365 a month (Starter, Growth, Pro) on its fact sheet. Its pricing page shows USD 20, 50 or 99 and a currency switch, and prints no AED figures.
Can I move from DineOpen to delEat?
delEat has not mapped an import from DineOpen. Your menu comes in from a spreadsheet, a PDF or an export, and we load it; run a month on delEat before you cancel DineOpen. Write to hello@deleat.io to plan it.
Sources
Where every fact about DineOpen comes from.
- DineOpen, fact sheet. https://www.dineopen.com/about/facts. Read on 14 November 2026.
- DineOpen, pricing page. https://www.dineopen.com/pricing. Read on 14 November 2026.
- DineOpen, UAE page. https://www.dineopen.com/pos/uae. Read on 14 November 2026.
- DineOpen, offline POS page. https://www.dineopen.com/products/offline-pos. Read on 14 November 2026.
- DineOpen, kitchen display page. https://www.dineopen.com/features/kitchen-display-system. Read on 14 November 2026.
About this comparison. This page is published by delEat and is marketing material, prepared for general comparison only. Everything stated about DineOpen is taken from what DineOpen publishes on its own website, on the pages listed above, read on 14 November 2026. Everything stated about delEat is what the product does today; what is coming soon or waiting on certification is labelled that way.
Products change. DineOpen may have altered its pricing, packaging or features since those dates and this page may not reflect it, so treat nothing here as a statement of fact about DineOpen’s current product, and nothing here as advice. Check directly with DineOpen before you decide. If you believe anything on this page is inaccurate or out of date, write to hello@deleat.io and we will correct or remove it.
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