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Connect Café QR to Claude

Ask Claude about your sales, orders, best sellers, menu, busy times and guest feedback by connecting your Café QR account.

Updated 26 October 2026

The Café QR connector lets you ask Claude about your café in plain words, using your real figures:

  • "How did we do yesterday compared with last week?"
  • "What were our five best sellers this month, and what barely sold?"
  • "When are we busiest on Saturdays?"
  • "Show me today's open orders" or "Find order K7M2Q."
  • "Any bad reviews this week?"
  • "Mark the brownie sold out at the Gulberg branch."

It's free on every Café QR plan, including the free month.

Who can connect

The owner and managers. Sign in with the same login you use for your Café QR dashboard. Kitchen and floor staff can't connect.

A manager who works at one branch only sees that branch.

Connect in Claude

Café QR is listed in Claude's connector directory.

  1. In Claude, open Settings, then Connectors.
  2. Choose Browse connectors and search for Café QR.
  3. Choose Connect, sign in to Café QR, and allow access.

Then start a new chat and ask a question about your café.

If you'd rather add it by hand, choose Add custom connector, name it Café QR and paste this address: https://cafeqr.app/mcp

What it can and can't do

It can read your sales, orders, menu, busy times and guest feedback, and it can mark a menu item sold out or back on. The assistant asks before changing anything, and each change shows in Audit in your dashboard.

It can't take payments, refund orders, delete anything, change staff or pay, or see guests' phone numbers and email addresses. Those stay in your dashboard.

If you have more than one café, say which one in your question, or ask "which cafés can you see?" first.

Ready-made prompts

The connector offers three prompts you can pick instead of typing:

  • Morning briefing: yesterday's sales, best sellers, complaints to follow up and when to expect today's rush.
  • Weekly review: last week against the week before, with three suggestions.
  • Menu check-up: what to promote, reprice or drop.

Disconnect

Remove the Café QR connector in Claude's settings. Access stops straight away.

Your data

The assistant only sees the answers to the questions you ask. Café QR doesn't share guests' contact details through the connector, and we don't use your café's data to train AI. What happens to your chats is set by your Claude account. See our privacy policy.

See what you can ask Claude for more examples.

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Articles

  • Shared Tills, Tablets and Staff PINsPair a till, waiter tablet or kitchen screen, add staff with just a name and PIN, and see how the lock screen records every sale against the right person.
  • Staff Roles and Permissions: Who Can Do WhatOwner, Manager, Floor and Kitchen roles in Café QR, what each can open and do, how manager PIN approvals work, and how to change permissions for each role.
  • How to Get Delivery App Orders on Your Kitchen ScreenPut Uber Eats, Deliveroo and Just Eat orders on the Café QR kitchen screen and printers through Deliverect, Otter or the order API, and what's coming next.
  • How to Do an End-of-Day Cash-UpOpen the drawer with a float, record cash paid in and out, count up at close and see the difference, with a printable report of the day's takings.
  • Kitchen Printer Setup and TroubleshootingConnect a Star, Epson or any ESC/POS kitchen printer, choose what each one prints, and fix a printer that isn't connected or isn't printing.
  • Orders Not Showing on the Kitchen Screen? How to Fix ItWhy an order might not appear on the kitchen screen, or arrives without a sound, and how to fix each cause, from the wrong branch to a sleeping tablet.
  • Stock Counts, Prep Batches and Suggested OrdersBuy in cases and sacks, make sauces in batches at their real cost, count stock and see what went missing, and let par levels write your orders.
  • What Works When the Internet Goes DownWhat Café QR's till keeps doing without internet, what waits for the connection, and how to prepare so a dropped connection never stops service.
  • How to Add Your Card Machines to Café QRUse any card machine with the till: add each one by name to check its takings at close, and in the UK link Dojo or SumUp so the till sends the amount for you.
  • What Hardware Do You Need to Run Café QR?The devices, printers and card readers that work with Café QR: use the tablet or laptop you have, add printers and a cash drawer, and take card your way.

Step-by-step guides

  • Your first test orderSee an order go from a guest's phone to your kitchen screen, in two minutes.
  • Opening the till, kitchen or waiter screenThe screens a device runs all shift, and how to make a device open straight onto one.
  • Running the kitchen screen during serviceOne screen in the kitchen shows every order as it comes in.
  • Call staff and bill requestsWhen a guest taps Call staff or Request bill on their phone.
  • Taking orders on the waiter appThe till on your phone: pick a table, add dishes, send them to the kitchen.
  • Taking orders at the tillRing up counter and table sales and take payment, even when the Wi-Fi drops.
  • Taking card payments on a card readerSend the amount to a Stripe card reader from the till, so nobody types it in twice.
  • Changing your menuPrices, new dishes and finished items, from your phone during service.
  • Allergens on your menuShow guests which allergens each dish contains.
  • Table QR codesPrint a code for each table, and replace one if it's lost.
  • Your floor planSee every table at a glance: free, ordering, waiting for the bill.
  • Open tabs and moving tablesTables that have ordered but not paid yet.
  • Table bookingsTake bookings online and by phone, and seat guests when they arrive.
  • Cancelling and refundingFix a mistake, or give money back.
  • Daily takings and reportsWhat you sold today, this week, and your busiest times.
  • Cashing up the drawerOpen the drawer with a float, and close it with a count that adds up.
  • Clocking in and outHours for payroll, from a shared tablet or your own phone.
  • Your own deliveries and ridersAssign riders, send orders out, and mark them delivered.
  • Online ordering for collection and deliveryYour own order page, with no commission.
  • Setting up a self-order kioskA tablet at the counter where guests order for themselves.
  • Separate kitchen screensSend drinks to the bar and food to the kitchen.
  • Happy hours and dealsDiscounts that apply by themselves, at set times.
  • Promo codesCodes guests type in their basket, or staff enter on the till, for money off.
  • Loyalty points and regularsPoints, rewards and standing discounts for the guests who come back.
  • Selling and taking gift cardsSell a gift card, and take it as payment at the till, at the table or online.
  • Stock and recipesKnow what you have, and what each dish costs to make.
  • Food safety diary and temperature checksOpening and closing checks, temperatures and the daily sign-off, ready for an inspection.
  • More than one locationOne menu and one account, with tables, kitchen screens and takings per venue.
  • Opening times and pausing ordersStop orders when you're closed, or for a few minutes when the kitchen is slammed.
  • Your logo and colourMake the menu guests see look like your restaurant.
  • Kitchen and receipt printersPrint every order in the kitchen the moment it comes in.
  • Taking card paymentsGuests pay by card, Apple Pay or Google Pay, into your own Stripe account.
  • Delivery app orders on your kitchen screenOrders from delivery apps arrive and print like any other order.
  • VAT, service charge and tipsWhat's added to the bill, and how it shows to guests.
  • Adding staffGive waiters and kitchen staff their own login, and decide what each role can do.
  • Changing or cancelling your planMove up or down a plan, switch features off, or cancel.
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