For restaurants, cafés, bars and takeaways
A restaurant POS, and an honest list of what it does not do yet
Tables, tips, recipe-level food cost and staff working from their own phones at no extra licence cost. Read the 'not built yet' section before you decide — it is on this page for a reason.
What it does today
A floor plan of the tables you have
Lay out your areas and tables, then move each one through seated, ordered, ready and bill asked. At a glance you can see which tables have been waiting.
- Areas and tables you define
- Seated, ordered, ready, bill asked
- Retire a table without losing its history
Tips, recorded apart from sales
Percentage presets you choose, or a typed amount. The tip is added on top of the total and never counted as turnover, so it does not inflate your sales or your VAT.
- Presets you set yourself
- Custom amounts, if you allow them
- Never counted as turnover
Recipes that deplete real stock
A burger takes a patty, a bun and a slice of cheese. Selling it takes those out of stock rather than the burger, with an allowance for wastage per ingredient.
- Ingredients per menu item
- Depletes on the sale, not on a guess
- Per-ingredient wastage allowance
Discounts and cancellations with a name on them
Every comp and every cancelled sale records who did it, the reason they chose and when. Both can be restricted to a supervisor, and both have their own report.
- Reason required, not optional
- Restricted by role
- Voids and discounts reported separately
Staff on their own devices
The till is a website, so anyone works from the device in their hand. Pricing is per trading location rather than per device or per user, so an extra person on the floor costs nothing extra.
- No licence per device
- PIN switch between staff
- Only on tills you have approved
Cash-up that closes the night
Count the drawer against what the system says should be there, record the variance, and keep the record. The day is closed before you lock up rather than at home afterwards.
- Cash-up with variance
- Daily takings summary
- Full history, exportable
Not built yet
Four things a restaurant might reasonably expect, and where each actually stands. If one of them is essential to your service, wait for it rather than signing up.
Splitting a bill by seat
A bill can be paid in as many parts as the table needs, in any mix of cash, card and EFT, and the till shows what is still owed after each one. What is not built is dragging items onto separate bills or splitting by seat — the database records a seat against each item, but there is no screen for it yet.
Kitchen tickets
Built, on screen. Each product routes to counter, kitchen or bar, and a waiter sends the order to its stations from the till. The kitchen screen shows what is waiting oldest first, ages each ticket, prints allergy notes in red, and refreshes itself. Adding a round later sends only the new items. There is no PRINTED ticket — it is a screen, not a printer.
Choosing modifiers at the till
Built. Set a group up once — “Milk”, “Extras”, “How spicy” — attach it to as many products as you like, and the till asks before the item goes in the basket. Each choice may move the price, what was chosen is printed on the receipt, and the price charged is kept with the line so repricing an option never rewrites an old bill.
Course and fire timing
Not built, and not currently planned. If you need starters held until mains are ready, we are not the right till for you yet.
Selling with no connection
The till needs a connection today. Offline service with a later sync is being built, and this page will say so when it works — not before. Card payments will always need a connection, because a card cannot be authorised without one.
Printed bills
A sale's full record is kept, and the receipt can be sent on WhatsApp. Rendering a bill for a thermal printer is not built.
The parts of a service a till can genuinely help with
Not features — the specific moments where what we have built makes a difference.
A table paying with a card and some cash
A bill takes as many payments as it needs, in any combination, and shows what is left after each one. Nobody has to work out the remainder on a phone calculator.
The comp nobody remembers authorising
Every discount and every cancelled sale carries a reason, a name and a time, and both can be restricted to a supervisor. They appear on their own reports rather than disappearing into the day’s total.
Food cost that is a number, not a feeling
Recipes deplete ingredients as menu items sell, with a wastage allowance per ingredient. Your cost per plate comes from what you actually paid for the stock.
Settling without a printer
The receipt goes to the customer on your own WhatsApp Business number. No till roll, nothing to lose, and anyone who has replied STOP is never messaged again.
Restaurant questions
Can waiters take orders on their own phones?
Yes. The till runs in a browser, so a waiter signs in on their own phone or on a device you provide. Pricing is per trading location rather than per device or per user, so adding someone to the floor does not add a licence fee.
Can BAG split a bill?
It can take several payments against one bill, in any mix of methods, showing the remaining balance after each — which covers a table paying partly by card and partly in cash. Splitting a bill by seat, or dragging items onto separate bills, is not built yet.
Does it print kitchen tickets?
It shows them. There is a kitchen screen: orders sent from the till appear on it by station, oldest first, with modifiers, allergy notes and how long each has been waiting, and the kitchen marks items started and ready. Printing to a thermal kitchen printer is not built — you need a tablet or a spare phone on the pass.
How are tips handled?
You choose the preset percentages, and staff can enter a custom amount if you allow it. The tip is added on top of the bill and recorded separately from the sale, so it never appears as turnover and never affects VAT.
Does it track food cost?
Yes, through recipes. Set the ingredients for a menu item, with a wastage allowance per ingredient, and selling it depletes those ingredients rather than the menu item. Food cost then comes from your own purchase prices rather than an estimate.
Is table service on the free plan?
No. Tables are on the Business plan at R449 a month per location. Starter covers counter service — ringing up, taking payment, tips and cashing up — which suits a takeaway better than a sit-down restaurant.
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Everything it does
The full capability list for the whole product, gaps included.
What Business includes
R449 a month per location, with tables and everything else.
Start with counter service, free
Ring up, take payment, add a tip and cash up on one location at no cost. Turn on tables when you need them.