Comparison

Presently vs. Raydiant: An Honest Comparison for Retail Stores

Raydiant is a well-established digital signage platform with strong POS integrations and kiosk features, built primarily for restaurant chains and franchise retail. Presently is purpose-built for independent store owners who want audience-aware advertising without the enterprise overhead. Here's how they compare.

Presently

Audience-aware, hardware-included, private by design. Built for independent retail.

Raydiant

Cloud-based digital signage with POS integrations and kiosk modes. Built for chains and franchises.

The Quick Answer

Which one is right for your store?

Choose Presently if:

  • You run a single-location independent store — coffee shop, wine shop, boutique, gym
  • You want audience-aware advertising that adapts to who's actually in front of the screen
  • You want hardware shipped pre-configured — no sourcing, no additional purchase
  • Your store's internet is unreliable and you need offline-capable playback
  • You want a flat monthly price with no enterprise upsells

Choose Raydiant if:

  • You manage a restaurant chain, franchise, or multi-location retail operation
  • You need POS integration with Square, Shopify, or Toast
  • You need interactive kiosk or self-service ordering capabilities
  • You need digital menu board features with real-time price/availability updates
  • Your business has IT resources and an existing vendor management process
Feature by Feature

Side by Side

Feature
Presently
Raydiant
Starting price
$79/month all-in
$29–$99+/screen/month
Hardware included
Yes — shipped pre-configured
Available separately at added cost
Setup time
~2 hours, no IT required
Varies — onboarding support available
Audience-aware ad targeting
Yes — on-device CV, real-time
No — schedule-based only
Works without internet
Fully offline-capable
No — cloud-dependent
Camera/biometric data storage
Never — nothing stored or transmitted
N/A — no camera integration
Dashboard access
Local network (addashboard.local)
Cloud-based web dashboard
Content scheduling
Time + audience rules
Time-based + some trigger rules
POS / loyalty integrations
Limited (roadmap)
Yes — Square, Shopify, and others
Interactive / kiosk features
No
Yes — touchscreen and kiosk modes
Target customer
Independent retail stores
Restaurant chains and franchise retail
Best for
Single-location indie retailers wanting audience intelligence
Multi-location chains needing POS integration and kiosks

Raydiant pricing sourced from their public pricing page. Presently pricing as of May 2026. Scroll horizontally on small screens.

Go Deeper

Where They're Fundamentally Different

Three areas where the products diverge in ways that matter for store operations.

Raydiant markets heavily to QSRs, franchise chains, and multi-location retail operations. Their core feature set — menu boards for restaurants, POS integrations for chains, kiosk modes for self-service — is designed for businesses with multiple locations, IT support, and established vendor relationships.

Presently was built for the independent coffee shop, wine store, or boutique gym with one location and an owner who doesn't want to manage a vendor relationship. The hardware arrives pre-configured. Setup takes an afternoon. There's no enterprise onboarding, no IT project, and no monthly per-seat upsell.

Simple test: If your store has one location, no franchise agreement, and you're the one who set up your own POS — you're Presently's customer, not Raydiant's.

Raydiant starts around $29/screen/month on their Starter plan, scaling to $99+/month on higher tiers. Hardware is not included — their proprietary player adds to the cost, and the full enterprise pricing requires a sales call. For a single-screen independent store, the total first-year cost often lands $500–800+ before the screen is operational.

Presently is $79/month, hardware included. No hardware purchase, no onboarding call, no per-seat escalation. The price is the price.

Where Raydiant wins: Multi-location operations where the per-screen model scales and POS integrations with Square or Shopify are table stakes. For that use case, Raydiant's feature depth justifies the cost.

Raydiant's targeting is rule-based: show content A at time X, show content B when triggered by an external event. It's more flexible than basic scheduling but still blind to who is in front of the screen at any given moment.

Presently adds on-device computer vision. The device detects general demographic signals and selects the most relevant ad in real time — without any image being stored or transmitted. Your 6am Pilates crowd sees different content than your 4pm open-gym members, automatically, on the same screen, without any rule you had to write.

Privacy note: all inference happens on-device. No image is stored, recorded, or transmitted. Presently cannot produce footage even if required to — privacy is architectural, not just policy.

Built for stores, not chains.

Raydiant is the right call for chains, franchises, and POS-integrated restaurant operations. If you're an independent store owner who wants intelligent, private, turn-key signage without an enterprise contract — Presently was built for you.

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