Clover Station Solo

The Clover Station Solo is a single-screen countertop point of sale. Staff work on a 14-inch tilting display, with an internal thermal receipt printer, two cash drawer ports and a hub carrying four USB ports for peripherals. It is the station for businesses that need a full till but not a customer-facing second screen.

It is well suited to full-service restaurants, where orders are entered by staff and fired to the kitchen and the customer rarely touches the terminal, and equally to bars, counters and service businesses that take payment on the staff side. The local sales sheet for this device is the restaurant edition and frames it around dine-in, take-out and delivery, but the hardware is the same station in any setting.

Employee login is by fingerprint reader rather than a passcode, which is the practical difference from the rest of the range: on a shared station where several staff use the same terminal through a shift, that changes how quickly people switch and how reliably actions are attributed. Connectivity runs over Ethernet, Wi-Fi or 4G LTE.

Two points to settle before ordering rather than assume. First, if customers need to tap their own card or phone, confirm how that is provided in your configuration: Clover's technical specification for the Station Solo lists chip and swipe readers and does not list an NFC reader, while some listings describe contactless as included, so we verify it against a current data sheet for your quote rather than assume it. If customer-facing tap is essential, a dual-screen unit such as the Station Duo 2 handles it on the customer terminal. Second, cash drawer, additional printers and scanners are separate items chosen to suit your counter.

Which Clover software plan the station runs also depends on your account rather than the hardware, and determines the available apps and reporting. Clover hardware requires a merchant processing agreement.