All three are menu board software platforms. Here is how they differ.

Navori: playlist logic

• Perpetual license
• Plays content by rules. If a value is true, play that, with nested Boolean logic
• Customer-manageable editor, templates and user permission levels
• Vehicle recognition and an advertising traffic solution
• No named POS integration. Pricing is datafeed-driven

Nanonation: one template for every screen

• SaaS subscription
• One enterprise template pushed to all screens. Metadata tells each screen what it is
• Pricing Canvas: drag and drop a price field driven by external POS data
• Square for Drive-Thru founding partner, plus Clover, PAR Brink and Oracle MICROS
• Kiosk support and overhead music with a licensed music SaaS

Neon: QSR menus and POS integration

• SaaS subscription
• Broadest POS compatibility: Toast, Olo, PAR Brink, QU Beyond, Spot On, Crisp, Clover, NCR and CBS North Star
• Adaptive widgets and Canva integration
• Wi-Fi integration and overhead music with a licensed music SaaS

All three: dayparting, OCS compatibility and POS-driven or tag-based 86ing.

 Neon. It connects directly with more POS systems than any other platform we offer — Toast, Olo, PAR Brink, QU Beyond, Spot On, Crisp, Clover, NCR, and CBS North Star — so pricing and sold-out items update automatically without manual edits. It also includes adaptive widgets and Canva integration for easy content changes, overhead music and announcements, dayparting, and POS-driven 86ing. For a QSR operator who wants live menu accuracy and minimal manual maintenance, Neon is the right fit. 

 Neon integrates with Toast, along with Olo, PAR Brink, QU Beyond, Spot On, Crisp, Clover, NCR, and CBS North Star. Nanonation integrates with Square for Drive-Thru, Clover, PAR Brink, and Oracle MICROS. Navori does not offer named POS integration — it uses datafeed-driven pricing via open API and JSON connectors instead. If Toast integration is a requirement, Neon is the platform to evaluate. 

 It means we don't sell you our platform — we match you to the right one. Most digital signage providers offer a single CMS and fit every customer to it regardless of POS, hardware, or how the team actually operates. The Howard Company offers three platforms — Navori, Nanonation, and Neon — and recommends based on your specific situation: which POS you run, which hardware you have or plan to buy, how hands-on your team wants to be with content, and your budget. The right CMS is the one built for your operation, not the one easiest for us to sell. 

 Navori uses a perpetual license — you purchase the software outright and own it, rather than paying an ongoing monthly or annual subscription. This is a meaningful budget difference over a multi-year rollout. Nanonation and Neon are both sold as SaaS subscriptions. If total cost of ownership over five-plus years is a priority, Navori's perpetual model is worth comparing directly against the subscription costs of the other two platforms. 

A digital menu board CMS (Content Management System) is software that lets you create, schedule, and update the content displayed on your digital menu screens. Instead of manually swapping out printed menus or editing individual screen files, a CMS gives you a centralized platform to control what appears on your displays across one location or hundreds. You can update pricing, add limited-time offers, swap out images, and schedule daypart content all from a single dashboard. For restaurants and foodservice operators, a digital menu board CMS is the backbone of a modern display setup, connecting your menu content to the screens your customers see.