Coffee shop
Cafe POS system
A cafe lives or dies on the twenty minutes either side of nine. Tickets are small, the queue is long, and the difference between a good morning and a bad one is a few seconds per order, multiplied by two hundred.
★The same regulars, most days. The register should know them.
Small tickets punish slow software.
When the average ticket is a few pounds, every extra tap is a cost you cannot recover on margin. And the customer who comes back four mornings a week is worth more than any single transaction, but only if you can recognise them without slowing the queue down to do it.
How it works
Simple where it counts.
Ring it in a couple of taps
A big, tappable menu with the common builds up front. The fast path is the default path.
Recognise the regular
Loyalty is part of the register, not a separate app the customer has to open while the queue waits.
Bring them back tomorrow
Points, offers and email marketing run off the customers you already serve, not a rented audience.
What’s inside
Everything this covers.
Speed is the feature
New staff should be taking orders in a single shift, not after a training week. The register is built around the taps you make a thousand times a day: add, modify, take payment, next.
- New hire to first sale in one shift
- Cash always one tap away
- Receipt printing over your local network
Regulars, counted properly
Loyalty that lives in the POS means the visit is recorded because they bought a coffee, not because they remembered to scan something. Gift cards and coupons run on the same rails.
- Points and visits tracked at the register
- Gift cards sold and redeemed at the counter or online
- Email marketing to your own customer list
Your customer list is yours
The people who come in four mornings a week are the whole business. Their details sit in your system, and they leave with you if you ever go.
Good to know.
- Best for
- Coffee shops, espresso bars, counter-service cafes
- The hard part it solves
- Seconds per ticket at peak, and repeat custom
- Loyalty
- Built into the register
- Training
- A shift, not a week
Questions, answered.
Does loyalty slow the queue down?
No. It is part of the sale at the register rather than a separate app the customer opens, so the visit is recorded as part of taking payment.
Can we use the hardware we already have?
Yes. PatronWorks runs on the Windows registers, tablets and receipt printers you already own.
Can we sell gift cards for the holidays?
Yes, sold and redeemed at the counter and online, with balances tracked in the same system.
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