POS for cafés and coffee shops

Built around the morning rush

Most café sales are small, repeated and fast. QSR Mode on a tablet or Windows PC lays your menu out as a fixed grid: espresso drinks on one row, drip and tea on another, pastries below. Variations expand into their own buttons, so Latte - S, Latte - M and Latte - L sit side by side and the barista never opens a size picker.

You can make busy buttons double height, set font size and colour per product, and choose how many columns each category gets. The layout saves to the server, so a second till or a replacement tablet loads the same grid. Turn on the button click sound if your baristas like a confirmation beep over the grinder noise.

Modifiers that match how people order coffee

Create modifier groups in the back office or in Admin on the till: Milk (whole, skim, oat, almond, soy), Syrups (vanilla, caramel, hazelnut), Extras (extra shot, decaf, extra hot). Each option carries its own price, so the oat milk upcharge adds itself to the line, prints on the receipt and lands in the right tax. Free options such as extra hot or light ice can sit in the same group at zero, so the barista sees every instruction in one place.

In QSR Mode the modifier sheet shows only when Modifier Popup is on, which suits a shop where half the orders are a plain drip coffee. Chosen modifiers appear as chips on the cart line and can be removed one at a time if the customer changes their mind. The Daily Sales Report lists modifier sales, so you can see how many oat milks you sold this week.

• Milk alternatives priced per option
• Syrups and extra shots as add-ons
• Free options such as extra hot or light ice
• Modifier totals in the daily report

Regulars, points and the customer at the counter

Reward points are set once: what a customer earns per dollar, the minimum order to earn, the minimum points to redeem and when points expire. At payment the cashier taps Points, sees the balance and redeems what the customer wants to use. Look up a regular by name or phone from the customer search before you start the order.

If you prefer names on cups over full profiles, the cart header takes a customer name on its own. A customer display on a second screen or any browser on your Wi-Fi shows the order as it is rung in, which cuts down on the 'was that a large?' conversations at the pickup end.

Pastries, beans and the closing count

Croissants, muffins and retail bags of beans live in the same catalogue as drinks. Track stock on the items you buy in, set an alert quantity, and the back office flags them on the dashboard when they run low. With the Pro plan you can write a recipe for a house syrup or a batch of cold brew and see what each serving costs you.

At close, count the drawer in Open/Close Register, then print the DSR. It shows gross and net sales, tips, discounts, payouts, payments by method and item sales, and the same report can be emailed to you every night from the back office. If you run two cafés, each location gets its own report, and the back office lets you compare them side by side by location and date range.