What's the best VeriFactu POS for a retail shop in Spain in 2026?

Square is the easiest POS to budget for in Spain, and its app and help center work in English, which matters if your Spanish is still a work in progress. The software is free, there's no contract, and every piece of hardware has a public price before VAT: the Reader is €19, the Terminal €165, the dual-screen Register €699. In-person payments with EU cards cost 1.25% + €0.05, and the money lands the next business day. Square is also the vendor that documents VeriFactu best, in its Spanish help center, with the right deadline: 2027.

That documentation reveals three catches no comparison mentions. One: you sign up with your digital certificate, and switching VeriFactu off only takes effect at the end of the year. Two: Square sends each receipt to the tax agency in real time, with no documented offline mode for VeriFactu. Three: each item can carry only one VAT rate, or the receipt prints without its QR code. A grocery store selling at 21%, 10% and 4% has to check every product before switching it on. And if you only use Square to take card payments while your receipts come from other software, that other software is the one that must comply.

The fixed €0.05 hurts on small tickets. Our math: on a €20 sale, Square takes €0.30, about the same as SumUp (€0.298). On a €2 coffee, Square takes €0.075 versus €0.03 at SumUp. The other gap is TicketBAI: we found no recent Square page on it, and an older community thread said it wasn't supported. If your shop is in the Basque Country, get written confirmation before buying hardware. Some merchant reviews also mention payouts held "under review".

Shopify POS is the in-store side of Shopify. Your shop and your website share the same catalog and the same stock: sell the last piece at the counter and it disappears online. In-person selling is included from the Basic plan, at $39 a month ($29 billed yearly). POS Pro, for advanced in-store features, costs $89 a month per location. These prices were checked in dollars; from Spain, Shopify shows its price list in euros, so check it before you sign up.

VeriFactu doesn't come from Shopify itself. It comes from Comply, an app by Storelink in the Shopify App Store, built for Spanish merchants on Shopify POS. It's free. It also had only 8 reviews (4.1 out of 5) when we read it. On TicketBAI the information conflicts: one version of the listing says "coming soon", another says it's covered. In the Basque Country, ask Storelink directly before you open.

The catch: your compliance depends on a small third-party developer, not on Shopify. If the app lags behind a rule change, your counter is the one exposed. And if you don't sell online, Shopify makes no sense here: you'd pay a monthly plan for a register that SumUp or Square give you free.

SumUp is the cheapest way to run a compliant POS in Spain. Its point of sale app ("TPV" in Spanish) is free: no subscription, just 1.49% per card payment. A dead month in winter costs you nothing, which matters for a seasonal shop on the coast. For VeriFactu, SumUp says activation is free: you enter your NIF (Spanish tax ID) and your province, and it handles receipts with QR codes. The same page also announces TicketBAI for Basque shops.

Hardware has public prices before VAT: Solo Lite reader €34, Solo €79, Terminal €169, TPV Lite €249. Pagos Plus costs €19 a month (or €189 a year) and drops the rate to 0.75%. Our math: it pays off from about €2,570 in monthly card sales. At €6,000 a month, you pay €89.40 in fees without it, or €64 with it, subscription included. TPV Plus, at €49 a month, adds advanced management, but its Spanish page doesn't list what's in it, so ask before paying.

Two catches. Its own anti-fraud page still shows 2026 deadlines and a 2025 date that has already passed: ignore those, the legal deadline in force is 2027. And support: Spanish merchants describe payouts held for weeks and a terminal that failed after five months (replaced under warranty). Not for you if you run several shops with shared stock: you'll want a fuller tool like Holded.

Holded isn't a POS first. It's an online business tool (quotes, invoices, stock, accounting, cash flow) with a POS module on top, and that's exactly why it works for a shop. The counter receipt, the full invoice a business customer asks for, and the accounting entry all live in one place, and your gestor (the accountant who files your returns) logs in directly. VeriFactu is included on every plan, and Holded can send your records to the tax agency with its own certificate. For the Basque Country, it says it's registered with all three regional tax authorities for TicketBAI.

Do the math carefully. The headline €7.50 is a 50% discount for the first three months: Plus then costs €15 a month and caps you at 250 invoices a year. Básico is €29 for 1,000, Estándar €59 for 3,000. The POS module costs extra, per store. We saw a figure of €25 per store per month but couldn't confirm it on the official page, so get it in writing. If it holds, one shop on Plus comes to €40 a month, or about €1,420 over three years with the first-three-months discount, before hardware.

The catch: Holded presents the delay to 2028 as settled, when it's only been announced. Support answers, but slowly on complex cases. And a busy shop printing hundreds of receipts a day should ask how receipts count toward the plan's invoice cap. Not for you if you only need to take payments: SumUp or Square do that for €0.

Ágora is a Spanish POS vendor with one of the clearest price lists on the market: one price per plan, per location, before VAT. Basic is €34 a month with one till, Starter Plus €62 with up to four tills and integrated card payments, Professional €90 with up to eight. Every plan includes VeriFactu and TicketBAI, so you pay nothing extra to stay compliant, whether your shop is in Seville or San Sebastián. That written compliance is why its overall score is the highest on this page.

So why fifth? Its pricing page speaks first to bars and restaurants (kitchen display, QR menu ordering), and retail use isn't spelled out. More importantly, hardware and services aren't included: installation, training, backups and out-of-hours support go through an authorized reseller and are billed separately. Basic support runs Monday to Friday, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., so not on Saturday, a shop's busiest day. And Basic doesn't include card payments: you'll need a separate terminal or Starter Plus.

Tip: ask the reseller for a full quote (hardware, installation, training, Saturday support) before comparing Ágora with anything else. €34 is the software, not your finished counter. And since the vendor doesn't confirm retail use, ask for a demo in retail mode. Our math for Starter Plus: €744 a year before VAT, before the reseller.

TS Facturas, formerly Billin, is the invoicing tool that ticks the most regulatory boxes for the least money: VeriFactu, e-invoicing for public bodies and TicketBAI, on every plan. It's registered as a TicketBAI guarantor program. For shops, it also sells a TicketBAI POS bundle: Eco at €699, PRO at €1,049 (or €39.95 a month), plus €175 for installation. The invoicing software itself starts at €6.60 a month billed yearly.

The bundle was built for TicketBAI, which already applies in the Basque Country. For VeriFactu, the bundle page only points to a vendor declaration without explaining how it works at the till. Outside the Basque Country, ask in writing how the bundle's receipts will be sent under VeriFactu before buying. Also, the Básico plan caps you at 5 clients: ask how anonymous walk-in receipts are counted, so you don't end up on the €14 Pro plan without noticing.

The catch: this is an invoicing tool first, with a register sold as a bundle. Reviews mention sales tied to Kit Digital (Spain's small-business digitization grant) that ended badly, and ads you can't remove from invoice emails. Our math for a Basque shop: €874 for the Eco bundle and installation, plus €80 a year for the software.

Anfix has the lowest entry price among paid tools: €4.99 a month billed yearly, €5.99 monthly. Its pricing page says every plan includes VeriFactu, with no hidden compliance add-on. It isn't a POS with a cash drawer and barcode scanner, though. It's invoicing software that can also issue receipts.

The cap is the real issue for a shop. Básico stops at 60 invoices and 60 receipts a year, five receipts a month. A shop ringing up more than ten sales a day blows through that in a week. Avanzado goes to 300 invoices for €12.49, Profesional to 1,200 for €24.99: ask how receipts are capped on those plans before choosing. Inventory (€9.99 a month) is a separate module.

Its page doesn't mention TicketBAI, so in the Basque Country, skip it or get written confirmation. Reviews are more mixed than Holded's. Not for you if you ring up sales every day: a free POS like Square or SumUp will cost less and move faster.