Compare / Wash-Dry-Fold POS vs. Curbside Laundries

Two systems built by laundromat owners, for two different halves of the business.

Curbside Laundries was built by brothers running their family’s store, and it is aimed squarely at pickup and delivery. Wash-Dry-Fold POS runs the whole store: the counter, the self-serve floor and the route, from one cloud system.

This is the closest comparison we publish, because the origin story is the same. Aaron and Matt Simmons wrote Curbside to run their own laundry business, and it shows. Their route tooling and their customer marketing go deeper than ours. Ours is built for the owner whose wash-dry-fold counter, attendants and machines have to be run in the same system as the route, with drivers working from their phones. Everything stated about Curbside comes from their own public pages, and the date we checked them is at the bottom.

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At a glance

Wash-Dry-Fold POS

Built byLaundromat owners and managers, in the USA
Best atEase of use at a busy in-store wash-dry-fold counter, with the self-serve floor and the route on the same system
Training attendantsOur strongest advantage. One job per screen, in the order the work happens, so a new hire takes real orders on their first shift
Track recordRunning some of the highest-grossing laundromats in the USA since 2016, in all 50 states
SetupA two-hour live session with the manager who has trained 1,000+ laundromat owners

Who each one is for

The honest version: count your residential deliveries.

Under about 50 residential deliveries a month, Wash-Dry-Fold POS is the better buy, and you get the counter and the self-serve floor with it. Above that, residential routes get complicated enough that Curbside’s routing and growth tooling start earning their premium. Commercial delivery is different: we are as strong there as anyone, so a route full of accounts rather than households does not push you toward them.

Wash-Dry-Fold POS

For the store that runs on the counter and the floor.

Built for owners whose in-store wash-dry-fold is the business, with a self-serve floor, attendants and a delivery route to run alongside it.

✓You run a high-volume wash-dry-fold counter and every extra tap at intake costs you.
✓You hire often, and a new attendant has to be taking orders on their first shift.
✓Your self-serve floor matters, and you want machine starts sold from the register and reconciled against attendant activity.
✓You want to keep the card system already on your machines.
✓You run a route as well, want your drivers working from their phones, and want on-demand couriers available at checkout for the days you are short.

Setup, training and support all come from people who have worked a laundromat counter. The laundromat website is the only thing sold separately.

Curbside Laundries

For the store that runs on routes.

Built for owners whose growth plan is pickup and delivery, and who want operator-built routing and hands-on advice.

•Residential delivery is the engine of the business, and you are past roughly 50 deliveries a month.
•You run your own drivers, and route density, recurring stops and live tracking are what you want managed properly.
•You want your customers texted the moment a driver leaves for their stop, with a live ETA, without building it yourself.
•You want marketing tooling deeper than a POS normally ships, aimed at growing route demand, and consultative help using it.
•You are fine asking for a monthly figure rather than reading one off a page, and paying a premium for a route specialist is worth it to you.

A monthly subscription, quoted on request rather than advertised, and consistently praised by owners for consultative support.

Differences that matter

Three things that will not show up in a feature grid.

We are not going to pretend this one is about who cares more, because both companies were built by owners who do. It comes down to how much residential route complexity you are carrying, and how much of the rest of the store you need in the same system.

In-store operations, or residential route depth.

Curbside grew out of a delivery business and its centre of gravity is the route: online ordering, route creation and optimization, recurring stops, customer messaging and a dedicated driver experience. Ours runs the route too, from the same cloud system and from a driver’s phone, but it grew out of a store doing heavy in-person drop-off, so it also carries intake speed, bag labeling, the seven-column tracker that moves a bag from To Do through Sort, Wash, Dry, Fold, Done and Picked Up, and the machines on the floor.

Where Curbside is stronger: if delivery is most of your revenue, their route tooling, customer messaging and marketing go deeper than ours, and that is worth paying for.

Your attendants learn it, too.

A delivery-led store trains a handful of drivers. A counter-led store trains a dozen attendants a year, and frequent retraining gets expensive fast. Setup includes a two-hour live session with Chelsea Blake, who has trained 1,000+ laundromat owners and 100+ attendants, and managed a chain of eight laundromats for six years before that. She configures your pricing, your bag flow and your attendant routine, then trains your staff on it. The screens are built for that: one job per screen, in the order the work happens.

Where Curbside is stronger: owners consistently praise their support, and describe it as advice about the business rather than help with the software.

The self-serve floor behind the counter.

The self-serve floor is a revenue line of its own, and it can be run from the same register as the counter. We sell machine starts through Speed Queen and Laundroworks, put each start on an order, and feed that into theft prevention and the machine start ratio. Curbside integrates card systems too, so the question is not whether your readers work with it. It is whether a start shows up next to your wash-dry-fold and delivery numbers in one report.

Where Curbside is stronger: if your floor reporting already comes out of your card system and you are happy with it, this row is not what should decide the purchase. Their route depth probably should.

Side by side

How the two are set up.

Nine rows, no scoring. Where Curbside is stronger, the row says so, and on delivery it says so twice. Read the left column with the same skepticism you read the right.

Question to ask	Wash-Dry-Fold POSOwner-owned, since 2016	Curbside LaundriesOperator-owned, delivery specialist
Ease of training a new attendant	Built to get a new attendant productive fast, which is why volume stores end up here.Each screen does one job, in the order the work happens, so training is showing someone the counter rather than teaching software. David Carlson of LaundroXpress: “With your POS my employees were up and running immediately.”	A counter added to a delivery product, so there is more to learn.The register sits on top of routing, drivers, stops and tracking, and a system carrying all of that is harder to teach than one built only for the counter. That is the trade rather than a flaw: if you need the route features, the extra training is what they cost.
Onboarding & setup	Two-hour live setup with a laundromat manager.Chelsea Blake has trained 1,000+ laundromat owners and 100+ attendants, and managed a chain of eight stores for six years. She configures your pricing and bag flow with you, then trains your attendants on it.	Consultative onboarding from a team that runs a delivery business.Owners consistently praise the advice they get on pricing routes and building demand, which is a real benefit if delivery is new to you.
Where tech support sits	US-based tech support, with a 24/7 AI chat and knowledge base.Salaried support specialists in the USA who have worked laundromat counters, so the answer comes back operational rather than scripted, and the AI chat and knowledge base cover the hours in between.	US-based tech support.On this row there is no gap worth arguing about. Both companies answer with people who have run laundry.
Where the product is aimed	The whole store: counter, self-serve floor and route.Intake speed, bag labeling, attendant checklists, order tracking, machine starts, theft prevention and commercial invoicing, plus pickup and delivery in the same system.	Curbside delivery, as the name says.The product is built around residential pickup and delivery: online ordering, route management, a driver app, live tracking and automatic texts when the driver leaves for the stop, with website and text marketing around it that goes further than ours. A wash-and-fold register is in there and it works, the same way delivery is in ours, but the route is what the product is aimed at.
Who is behind it, and track record	Laundromat owners and former store managers. 1,300+ systems sold since 2016, all 50 states.The founder owns three of the top-grossing laundromats in the USA and still runs them, so the product argument and the operating argument are the same argument.	Built by brothers Aaron and Matt Simmons to run their family’s laundry business.Their published figures are nearly 1,000 laundromats, 1M+ orders and 100M+ pounds processed. The same kind of pedigree we claim, pointed at delivery.
Card systems on your machines	Card-system agnostic. We do not sell a payment system.Laundroworks, LaundryCard, FasCard, SpyderWash and Speed Queen — the readers already on your machines stay, and a start can be rung up on an order.	Also agnostic, with LaundryCard, FasCard and FlexCard integrations published.Like us they do not sell a payment system, so the readers on your machines stay either way. Ask each of us how a self-serve start shows up next to your wash-dry-fold numbers in one report.
Pickup & delivery	Uber and DoorDash at checkout, and commercial delivery as strong as anyone’s.A customer can choose an on-demand courier when they order, so you can deliver before you own a van. Commercial accounts, account routes and invoicing are a real strength here, not an afterthought. Routes, recurring stops, order status and a driver view all work from a phone, in the subscription, with no separate module to buy.	The deepest route tooling in this comparison, and the reason to choose them.Route creation and optimization, recurring stops, a dedicated driver experience, commercial invoicing and automatic texts to the customer when the driver leaves for their stop. Built around drivers you employ. If residential routes are the business, look hard at this.

Bring this table to both demos. Any row a salesperson cannot answer plainly is the row worth pushing on.

The people behind it

Laundromat expertise, built in.

Everyone you deal with here has worked in a laundromat. That is the entire difference, and it shows up on your first busy Saturday.

Wash-Dry-Fold POS was built by Brian Henderson, who owns Liberty Laundry: three stores that took over $2.5M in 2025, with one of them clearing $1M on its own in 2026. He wrote it because nothing on the market handled a high-volume wash-dry-fold counter properly. 1,300+ systems later, that is still the only thing we build for.

Your setup is run by Chelsea Blake, who has trained 1,000+ laundromat owners and 100+ attendants, and managed a chain of eight stores for six years before that. She configures the system around your store, your pricing, your bag flow and your attendant routine, and trains your staff on it in one two-hour session. Not a menu tour. The way the store will actually run on Monday.

Brian Henderson, CTO and Founder of Wash-Dry-Fold POS and owner of Liberty Laundry

Brian HendersonCTO and Founder — 21+ years in laundromats, owner of Liberty Laundry

Chelsea Blake, Customer Success Manager at Wash-Dry-Fold POS

Chelsea BlakeSetup & training — trained 1,000+ laundromat owners; ran a chain of eight stores for six years

Proof

What owners say once it is running.

One of these owners tried two other systems before this one. The other bought his third copy of it for his third store. Read the rest on the reviews page.

Wash-Dry-Fold POS by the numbers

1,300+Systems sold

All 50States

2016In laundromats since

12,486,267Transactions since 2020

“Yours is my third and last POS. Most are designed for dry-cleaning with Wash/Dry/Fold as an afterthought. With your POS my employees were up and running immediately.”

David CarlsonLaundroXpress — Miami, FL

“I just opened my third laundry and with that I purchased my third WDF POS system. That should tell you all you need to know.”

Mark JordanSpin City Laundry — Stillwater, OK

Other comparisons: Wash-Dry-Fold POS vs. Cents, Wash-Dry-Fold POS vs. CleanCloud, and Wash-Dry-Fold POS vs. Turns. Each one is written the same way, and each says where the other system is the better buy.

Everything stated about Curbside Laundries on this page was taken from Curbside’s own public website — curbsidelaundries.com home and product pages — and from published customer reviews on Capterra. Product names are theirs as published: Wash and Fold POS Register, Online Ordering and Tracking, In-House Laundry Pickup and Delivery, Multi-Location Laundromat Operations and Marketing. Verified 10 August 2026. Curbside Laundries is a trademark of its owner and we are not affiliated with it. Product details change, so check their current pages before deciding.

Figures for Wash-Dry-Fold POS: 1,300+ systems sold since 2016, all 50 states, 12,486,267 transactions processed since 2020.