Café billing software
built for the morning rush.
Open tabs, fast order entry, tip pools that actually balance, and billing that keeps working when the internet does not. Omega is a point-of-sale system for cafés, coffee roasters and bakeries in India.
What makes café billing different from restaurant billing
A café is not a small restaurant. The order value is lower, the order count is far higher, and almost all of it lands inside a ninety-minute window in the morning and a second, softer one in the evening. A system that works fine for a forty-cover dining room falls apart at a counter taking two hundred orders before eleven.
The failure mode is always the same: too many taps. If ordering a flat white with oat milk takes six screens, the queue backs out of the door and the barista starts writing on cups again. Every café that has abandoned a POS has abandoned it for this reason, not for a missing report.
Omega is built around that constraint. The order screen puts your highest-volume items on the first surface with no category drilling, modifiers are one tap from the item rather than a separate screen, and the whole flow is usable one-handed while the other hand is on the group head.
What you get
Open tabs and pre-authorisation
Run a tab for a guest working through the afternoon without losing track of it. Tabs auto-close at end of day so nothing carries silently into tomorrow.
Fast order entry
Bigger targets, fewer taps, modifiers attached to the item. Built to be operated at speed by someone who started last week.
Tip pools that balance
Split tips by role, by hours worked or by station, automatically. No spreadsheet at the end of the week.
Phone-number loyalty
Punch cards keyed to a phone number. No app for the customer to download, no card for them to lose.
GST-compliant billing
Correct tax treatment on dine-in and takeaway, HSN codes on the invoice, and GSTR-ready exports for your accountant.
Offline mode
Billing, KOTs and cash all run from the device. Orders queue locally and reconcile the moment the connection returns.
Inventory that survives a milk-based menu
Café inventory is deceptively hard because the recipes are shallow and the shrinkage is invisible. A twenty-rupee variance on milk per day is six thousand rupees a year per outlet, and nobody notices it because nobody weighs the jug.
Omega tracks stock at the recipe level, so pulling a cappuccino deducts the beans and the milk rather than decrementing an abstract "cappuccino" count. When the theoretical stock and the counted stock diverge, you see the gap in rupees instead of in units, which is the only form in which anyone acts on it.
The same data drives demand prediction. Omega learns the shape of your week, flags the items likely to run out before the next delivery, and tells you what to order rather than leaving you to reconstruct it from last month's bills.
One inventory across the counter and the aggregators
Most cafés now take a meaningful share of revenue through Swiggy and Zomato, and most run those as a separate universe with a separate tablet and a separate menu that drifts out of date within a month.
Omega syncs both directions. Items, prices, modifiers and stock stay in step, aggregator orders arrive in the same queue as the counter and the KDS, and marking something out of stock at the counter pushes that state out to each platform so you stop accepting orders you cannot fulfil.
Common questions
Can Omega handle a café with one outlet?
Yes. The Starter plan is Rs 1,499 per outlet per month and is designed for exactly that: one location, unlimited staff logins, unlimited orders, one aggregator integration, daily reports and email support. There is no per-seat charge, so putting a second terminal on the counter costs nothing extra in software.
Does it work with the printer I already have?
Omega runs on any modern Android tablet, iPad or Windows terminal and pairs with standard thermal printers over Bluetooth, USB or network. Our own hardware is optional. If you are already running a counter setup, the usual outcome is that you keep the printer and the cash drawer and replace only the software.
What happens to my open tabs if the tablet dies mid-shift?
Orders are written locally and synced to the cloud continuously, so an open tab is recoverable from any other device signed into the same outlet. If the outlet is offline at that moment, the tab is restored from the queue the next time the device reconnects.
How long does it take to train a new barista on it?
Most cafés put a new hire on the till within their first shift. The order screen is the only surface a barista needs, and it is deliberately shallow: no nested menus, no admin functions mixed into the ordering flow, and destructive actions like voids sit behind a manager PIN.
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