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Cafe POS system: fast counter billing that never stops
At 8:20am nobody cares about your reporting suite. They care that the queue moves. Two taps for a flat white with oat milk, payment taken, receipt printed, next customer, and it never stops for a dropped connection. One offline-first cafe POS, in production in Pakistan and Australia.
Speed is a design decision, not a setting
Cafe mode strips the screen to what a barista needs at the counter and keeps the rest a tap away for whoever does the paperwork later.
A grid of your actual top sellers, sized for fingers, with the modifiers that matter surfaced instead of buried in submenus.
Size, milk, shots, syrup, temperature, priced or free, applied in one pass, printed clearly on the barista ticket.
Takeaway is the default, not an exception. Name or number on the cup, called from the display when it is ready.
Points on every cup, prepaid balances for regulars, and a customer record that recognises a phone number instantly.
Guests order from a QR code at the table or your own online storefront, straight into the same queue.
A queue of fourteen people is the worst moment for a spinner. Billing runs locally on the terminal, always.
The cafe still has a kitchen and a store room
Speed at the till does not mean giving up control behind it. The full platform is there; you just are not looking at it during the rush.
- Recipe deduction on milk, beans and syrups
- Bakery counts and end-of-day wastage
- Kitchen display (KDS) for the bar and the kitchen
- Shift cash reconciliation per barista
- Multi-branch dashboard, roles and audit logs
"The morning queue is the whole game. Two taps a cup and a number pad for change means baristas keep their eyes on the customer, not the screen, and it kept ringing sales the day our fibre went down."
Where are you trading?
The software is the same; the questions owners ask are not. Pick the guide written for your market.
Counter speed through load-shedding, khata for regulars, Urdu and English receipts, and how cafes in Lahore and Karachi set up.
Read the Pakistan guide
Live at Meadow Heights Lebanese Bakery in Melbourne. Remote setup and support, Uber Eats orders straight to the kitchen, and a counter that keeps selling when the NBN drops.
Australia guide
What is a cafe POS system?
A point-of-sale system built around a fast counter: a grid of top sellers, quick modifiers for size, milk and shots, fast tendering and a takeaway-first flow, with stock, loyalty and reports behind it for later.
Does the cafe POS work without internet?
Yes. SureTill runs on a server inside your cafe, so billing, printing, the bar display and stock deduction carry on with no connection and sync when it returns.
Can it handle loyalty and regulars?
Yes, loyalty points, gift cards and prepaid balances, plus khata credit accounts in Pakistan, all recognised from a phone number at the counter.
Is there a separate guide for my country?
Yes. The Pakistan cafe guide covers load-shedding, khata and Urdu receipts; the Australian guide covers NBN outages, Uber Eats orders and remote setup. The software underneath is the same.
Time us against your current till.
Bring your five most-ordered drinks. We will set them up and ring them through, you hold the stopwatch.