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Café QR features · Kiosk

A self-order kiosk on a tablet you already own

Put a tablet or touchscreen on the counter and let guests order for themselves. They touch to start, choose eat in or take away, build their order from your menu and get their number. The order goes to your kitchen screen and printers, and the screen starts over for the next guest.

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A customer pays by card at a café counter beside a latteSelf-order kiosk
A counter order on a phone, collected when ready
  • Hardware

    A tablet or touchscreen

  • Resets after

    90 seconds untouched

  • Included in

    POS plan, £39 per venue a month

01

How a kiosk order works

The kiosk is a counter code opened in kiosk mode. It starts on a full-screen Touch to start page, then asks Eat in or take away. The guest browses the same live menu as your QR codes, with sizes, extras and allergen information, adds their name and places the order.

Take-away orders show on the kitchen screen as Collection and use each item's take-away VAT rate where you have set one. Eat-in orders show as counter orders. Either way the guest gets an order number, and the kitchen gets the full order with every option.

  • ✓Touch to start, then eat in or take away
  • ✓Same menu, prices and sold-out items as your QR codes
  • ✓Order number on screen, and an order-ready screen for a TV by the counter
  • ✓Cursor, text selection, pinch-zoom and the powered-by footer hidden
02

Built for a shared screen

If nobody touches the kiosk for a while it asks Still there? with a countdown, and after 90 seconds starts over with an empty basket, so nobody inherits a half-built order. After an order, a Start a new order button resets it straight away.

Set-up takes a few minutes: open the kiosk address on the tablet, add it to the home screen, and lock the tablet to the page with Guided Access on iPad or Screen Pinning on Android.

03

Plans and honest limits

The kiosk is in the POS plan at £39 per venue a month, or the "Self-order kiosk" add-on at £5 a month on any plan. Counter ordering must be switched on in Settings.

Guests pay at the counter: the order goes to the kitchen with its number, and staff take the payment at the till. No card terminal can be attached to the kiosk itself, and Café QR does not sell kiosk stands or tablets.

Questions

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What hardware does the self-order kiosk need?+

Any tablet or touchscreen with a modern browser, kept plugged in with auto-lock off. An iPad or an Android tablet in a stand you already own is enough; there is no special kiosk hardware to buy from us.

Can guests pay at the kiosk?+

Not on the screen. Guests order on the kiosk and pay at the counter, where staff take cash or card at the till. A card reader cannot be attached to the kiosk.

What stops one guest seeing the last guest's order?+

The kiosk asks Still there? when it has been left alone, then starts over with an empty basket after 90 seconds. After each order there is also a button to start a new one.

Which plan includes the kiosk?+

The POS plan, at £39 per venue a month, and Multi-site. It can also be added to Order & Pay for £5 a month.

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  • Kitchen display system→The kitchen screen (KDS): every till, waiter, QR, kiosk and online order on one live board, with kitchen stations, late-order timers, recall and kitchen printers.
  • EPOS till system and waiter app→The counter till and the waiter app: ring up sales, take cash or card, split bills, give discounts with a manager PIN, and send table orders to the kitchen as a tab.
  • Cash-up and reports→Cash-up, the staff rota and time clock with a tip pool, sales and takings reports for any date range, Insights and the Xero, QuickBooks or Sage sync.
  • Takeaway POS→Takeaway EPOS: a counter till with cash and card, QR codes so the queue orders from their phone, and your own collection and delivery page with 0% commission.
  • Café POS and till system→A café EPOS and till system for £39 a month: counter till, kitchen screen, tabs and QR ordering for your coffee shop POS. No contract; runs on your own tablet.
  • Pricing→POS system pricing per venue a month: full POS £39, multi-site from £59, or ordering only from £9.99 (£14.99 with delivery). 0% commission, first month free.

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