Next-Gen Cloud POS & Kitchen Dispatch · Zero Proprietary Hardware
The Operating System for High-Volume Hospitality.
Ditch $2,000 locked POS hardware. Run your counter register, kitchen display tickets, and table QR ordering on any browser or tablet with sub-second realtime synchronization.
Counter register · tab splits, modifier trees, instant tenderFully interactive simulation — tap around, it behaves like the real terminal.
Four modules, one system
Everything your floor, kitchen, and back office run on.
No integration tax, no vendor stitching. Register, kitchen dispatch, guest ordering, and security ship as one deployable operating system.
Module 01
Lightning Cloud POS
A register that opens in a browser tab and settles a card in under a second. Built for the 8am rush, not for a demo floor.
Split, merge, and park tabs mid-service
Nested modifier trees with per-option pricing
Offline cache fallback keeps taking orders
Instant thermal receipt formatting, any ESC/POS printer
HARBOR LANE
Ticket #1042 · T12
2× Flat White$9.60
1× Croissant$7.20
1× Cold Brew$6.20
TOTAL$25.34
Offline mode
Orders queue locally and sync the moment Wi-Fi returns.
Tender to kitchen
Average 284ms from card approval to ticket on the pass.
Module 02
Sub-Second KDS Dispatch
Tickets land on the pass the instant they are tendered — powered by Supabase Realtime, never a manual browser refresh.
Batch timers with escalating urgency states
Per-item bumping and recall
Multi-station routing by prep area
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Module 03
Zero-Download Table QR Ordering
Guests scan, filter by diet, and check out from their own phone. No app store, no account creation, no friction.
Dietary filters: GF, Vegan, Halal
Direct Stripe checkout with tipping
Table-scoped carts with live order status
Gluten FreeVeganHalalNut Free
Module 04
3-Tier Security Architecture
Guest menus, staff terminals, and manager analytics are separate trust zones — enforced in Postgres, not just in the UI.
Public guest menus with zero venue data exposure
PIN-gated staff terminals scoped to one station
Supabase Row Level Security on every manager query
Every read and mutation scoped by venue_id
Tier 1 · Guest
Public menu · no auth
Tier 2 · Staff
4-digit station PIN
Tier 3 · Manager
Supabase Auth + RLS
Head to head
CafeOS vs. legacy hardware POS.
Square, Toast, and Lightspeed sell you a terminal, then meter every screen you add. CafeOS ships the whole operating system on the devices you already own.
Capability
CafeOSCloud native
Legacy Hardware POSSquare · Toast · Lightspeed
Hardware Upfront Cost
$0 — bring your own device
$1,500+ proprietary terminals
Kitchen Display System
Included free, unlimited screens
$50+/mo per kitchen screen
QR Table Ordering
Built in, with dietary filtering
Paid third-party integration
Setup & Onboarding
10 minute cloud launch
Multi-week technician install
Staff Multi-PIN Station Gates
Native, every plan
Enterprise add-on tier
Device Freedom
Any iPad, Android tablet, or PC browser
Vendor-certified hardware only
Contract Lock-In
Month-to-month, cancel anytime
24–36 month hardware lease
Hardware Upfront Cost
CafeOS
$0 — bring your own device
Legacy POS
$1,500+ proprietary terminals
Kitchen Display System
CafeOS
Included free, unlimited screens
Legacy POS
$50+/mo per kitchen screen
QR Table Ordering
CafeOS
Built in, with dietary filtering
Legacy POS
Paid third-party integration
Setup & Onboarding
CafeOS
10 minute cloud launch
Legacy POS
Multi-week technician install
Staff Multi-PIN Station Gates
CafeOS
Native, every plan
Legacy POS
Enterprise add-on tier
Device Freedom
CafeOS
Any iPad, Android tablet, or PC browser
Legacy POS
Vendor-certified hardware only
Contract Lock-In
CafeOS
Month-to-month, cancel anytime
Legacy POS
24–36 month hardware lease
ROI & cost savings
Price out what legacy hardware is costing you.
Drag the two sliders. Every figure below is derived from published terminal list prices, per-screen KDS licence fees, and measured kitchen turnaround gains.
24 tables
5100
$85,000
$10k$300k
Legacy kit you would have bought
1 counter register terminal$1,500
No handheld orderpads$0
1 KDS screen @ $50/mo$50/mo
CafeOS pricing
Flat rate per venue, per month.
Unlimited registers, unlimited kitchen screens, unlimited staff PINs, and QR ordering included. Month-to-month, no lease.
Projected first-year benefit
$75,540
Avoided hardware, avoided per-screen licences, and incremental ticket value across a 24-table floor.
Hardware cost avoided
$1,500
One-off spend you never make. Runs on the tablets already behind your counter.
Kitchen time saved / shift
1h 33m
22% faster turnaround across roughly 62 tickets a shift.
Monthly ticket uplift
$6,120
+18% average ticket and tip on touchless QR orders, at 40% of covers.
Assumptions: register terminals at $1,500, handheld orderpads at $650, kitchen display licences at $50 per screen per month, 2.6 turns per table per shift, and a 6.8 minute baseline ticket turnaround. Swap in your own numbers on the demo call.
Architecture & security
Three trust tiers. Zero shared surfaces.
Guest phones, staff terminals, and manager dashboards are separate routes with separate credentials and separate database permissions. Nothing is protected by hiding a button.
Tier 1
Guest
Anonymous · no login
/v/{venue}/t/{table}
Read-only published menu for one venue
Cart scoped to a single table token
Stripe checkout, nothing else reachable
Denied · No staff data, no revenue, no menu editing
Tier 2
Staff Terminal
4-digit station PIN
/station/{venue}/{pos|kds}
Take orders and tender on the assigned station
Bump and recall kitchen tickets
Open and close table tabs for the active shift
Denied · No payouts, no analytics, no menu or pricing changes
Tier 3
Manager
Supabase Auth + Row Level Security
/dashboard/{venue}
Full sales analytics and shift reconciliation
Menu, pricing, table map, and station control
Staff PIN issuance and revocation
Denied · Still hard-scoped to venues this account owns
Zero-trust guarantees
Every query scoped by venue_id
Multi-tenancy is enforced at the query layer and again by Postgres policy. A leaked ID still returns nothing.
Row Level Security on every table
Manager reads and writes are gated by Supabase RLS, so the database refuses cross-venue access even if the app is wrong.
Stripe Connect direct charges
Card funds settle straight into the venue's own Stripe account. CafeOS never holds or pools your money.
Card data never touches our servers
Payment details are tokenised in the browser by Stripe Elements, keeping your PCI scope at SAQ-A.
Attributable audit trail
Every void, discount, refund, and price change is stamped with the staff PIN and station that performed it.
Social proof
Run by operators who left legacy POS behind.
Independent cafés, full service dining rooms, and multi-venue groups moving thousands of tickets a week on browser-based terminals.
We replaced two leased terminals with the iPads already sitting behind the counter. Saturday brunch used to break our old POS at 9am — CafeOS has not dropped a ticket since we switched.
PR
Priya Raman
Owner · Harbor Lane Espresso · 3 sites
22% faster ticket turnaround
4.9 average operator rating1.4M+ tickets dispatched99.98% realtime uptime
FAQ
The questions operators ask on every call.
Hardware compatibility, printer support, PIN security, and multi-venue control — answered before you book.
Anything with a modern browser. Operators run the register on iPads (iPadOS 15+), Android tablets, Windows and Mac laptops, and cheap Chromeboxes wired to a kitchen monitor. There is no proprietary terminal to buy or lease, and no app store download for staff or guests.
Yes. CafeOS formats receipts for standard 58mm and 80mm ESC/POS thermal printers, including network-attached Epson and Star models, and triggers cash drawers wired through the printer's kick port. If you already print dockets today, you almost certainly do not need new hardware.
Each staff member gets a 4-digit PIN that unlocks one station type — a POS register or a kitchen display — for the current shift. PINs never expose analytics, payouts, or menu pricing, every action is stamped with the PIN and terminal that performed it, and managers can revoke a PIN instantly from the dashboard.
No. Tickets stream over Supabase Realtime, so a tendered order lands on the pass in well under a second without anyone touching the screen. If a kitchen tablet drops off Wi-Fi it reconnects and backfills any tickets it missed.
Yes. A single manager account can own many venues, each with its own menu, table map, station PINs, and Stripe account. Every query is scoped by venue, enforced again by Postgres Row Level Security, so venues can never read one another's data.
The register keeps taking orders against its local cache and queues them. When connectivity returns, queued tickets sync to the kitchen and the ledger in order, so you never lose a sale during a patchy service.
Card payments run through Stripe Connect as direct charges, which means funds settle straight into your own Stripe account on your own payout schedule. CafeOS never holds your money, and card details are tokenised in the browser so they never touch our servers.
Most single-site cafés are taking live orders the same day. You import or type your menu, print your table QR codes, issue staff PINs, and connect Stripe. There is no technician visit and no cabling appointment.
Book a live demo
Thirty minutes to see your own menu running the floor.
No slide deck. A solutions engineer shares a sandbox venue built from your menu, and you run a full service loop — order, fire, cook, bump, settle — before deciding anything.
We pre-build your venue
Send us a menu photo or PDF and your categories, modifiers, and table map are loaded before the call starts.
You drive the terminal
Take a live order on your own device, watch it hit the kitchen display, and settle it through Stripe test mode.
Straight answers on migration
Printers, cash drawers, existing hardware, staff training, and how to run in parallel with your current POS.
Average reply time: 3 hoursNo card, no contractMigration support included