Can the till handle drink sizes and add-ons?

Yes. Sizes are variants and add-ons are modifiers, each with its own price. They print on the bar ticket under the drink they belong to, so nobody has to ask what the third shot was for.

Do drinks and food go to different places?

Yes. Each item belongs to a station. Coffee can go to a printer or screen at the bar and food to the kitchen, from the same order, and the guest still gets one bill.

What happens when the café Wi-Fi drops?

The till keeps billing, taking cash and settling. An amber chip in the top bar says it is offline and how many actions are waiting; bar tickets and bills wait in the till’s queue and print, in order and exactly once, when the connection returns.

What does a café need to run it?

A computer at the counter with Chrome, which also runs the small print program, and a thermal printer on your network, 80 or 58 mm wide. A second printer or a tablet at the bar is optional. USB and Bluetooth printers are not supported.

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POS for cafés and coffee shops

Café POS software for the coffee bar and the counter

A café sells a dozen drinks in a hundred versions, most of them before 10 am. Its till has to keep pace with the coffee machine and never hand the barista a line to guess at.

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Last reviewed 1 Oct 2026

The short answer CountStand is café POS software built for that pace. A tap adds a drink and the tile keeps count. Size and add-ons sit on the drink’s own line, which goes to the bar station while food goes to the kitchen. Guests pay by a UPI QR that already carries the amount, by card or in cash. Behind the counter, recipes take milk and coffee off stock as cups sell. Single is ₹2,999 a month per outlet, or ₹2,549 paid yearly, and the first 30 days are free once you are invited.

1Till“2 chai” in the search, then Enter, puts two on the bill
2BarDrinks go to the bar station, food to the kitchen
3MilkRecipes take milk off stock as cups sell
4TaxCGST and SGST at 2.5% each: a standalone café’s usual 5% bill

Fig. 0One order for 2 chai at a sample café: from the till to the bill.

2 chaityped in the search, then Enter, puts two on the bill
Bar · kitchendrinks and food leave one order for two stations
2.5% + 2.5%CGST and SGST on a standalone café’s usual 5% bill
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Fig. 1A takeaway order on the tillAkira, Surat · a sample order at 1:42 pm

Coffee12

Tea & cold drinks12

Breakfast10

Snacks12

Meals8

Desserts8

End of the menu · 62 dishes

New takeaway

Takeaway

Fig. 1The bill at 1:42 pmAkira, Surat

New takeaway

Takeaway

1One tap, one moreEach tap adds the item again, and its tile shows how many are on the bill.
2Options on the lineA size or an add-on stays with the item it belongs to, priced once.
3Tax as items landCGST and SGST at 2.5% each, then a single round-off at the end.
4Send and chargeOne press sends drinks to the bar and food to the kitchen, and charges the bill.

01At a glance

What the café counter gets

Sizes and add-onsSmall or large, oat milk, an extra shot, less sugar: variants and modifiers carry their own prices and print under the drink.
Search with a numberType 2 cappuccino and the results bar says what Enter will add before you press it.
Two stations, one orderCoffee goes to a printer or screen at the bar and sandwiches to the kitchen’s, from the same order.
Sold out, said onceWhen the cold brew runs out, mark it out. The till turns it away until a manager puts it back on the menu.
Milk counted in rupeesRecipes take milk, coffee and syrup off stock as cups sell, and a count at close shows the gap in rupees.
Regulars, with consentWith a guest’s consent, keep their phone number and name on their bills. It is stored encrypted and erased two years after their last order.

02In detail

What does a café need from its till?

Speed per cup, and tickets the bar can read without asking. A café’s bills are small, so its money is in volume, and the volume comes in bursts: before office hours, after lunch, on weekend mornings. In those twenty minutes every extra tap lengthens the queue and every unclear ticket is a remade drink.

On CountStand the drink, its size and its add-ons travel as one line, from the till to the bar ticket to the printed bill. The barista reads the drink with its options under it, not three scraps of paper, and the cashier never types it twice.

Where does a café lose money?

In milk, mostly. It is the ingredient a café pours most and loses most easily: a steamed jug poured away, a carton past its date, a large rung up as a regular. Give each drink a recipe and CountStand takes the milk, coffee and syrup off stock as cups are sold. Count the fridge at close and the stock screen shows the difference between what the recipes used and what is left, in rupees.

Spills are recorded as wastage, on their own line, so a dropped jug and a missing litre never look alike. Purchase orders go to the dairy and the roaster from the same screen, and deliveries are received against them.

How does a café’s day end?

With a count. A manager counts the drawer and types it in; CountStand answers Matches, Short by ₹… or Over by ₹…, and the day’s report prints. The trading day turns over at 5 am on its own, so the last bill of a late evening belongs to that evening.

The hourly report shows when your rush really starts and ends, which is worth a look before you set tomorrow’s opening shift.

03Questions

Questions café owners ask

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