The tenth one’s free. No card to lose.

What a café’s day looks like

The first rush is coffee on the way to work: the same faces, the same orders, most of them in a hurry. By ten there are laptops on half the tables and somebody ordering a second cappuccino to keep their seat. Lunch brings sandwiches and something hot from the kitchen, and the afternoon is meetings over iced coffee.

A café lives on regulars, and a regular expects to be remembered. The stamp card is meant to help with that, until one gets lost, or somebody stamps it twice, or the new person on the counter doesn’t know the regulars at all.

Sizes on one tile

One product can be sold more than one way, each with its own price: a latte as Regular or Large, a tea as a cup or a pot. Tap the tile, pick which, and the price is right without anybody having to remember it. The menu sits on the till as squares, one for every drink and every pastry, and the total adds itself up.

A line can carry a note too. “No sugar”, “less ice”, “extra hot”: write it on the line, and if the item goes to the kitchen, the note goes with it on the ticket. For the regular who always has the same, the customer book has room for one line worth remembering about them, like how they take it.

Food to the kitchen, coffee at the counter

If there’s a kitchen behind you, turn on the kitchen board and tick the categories the kitchen makes. Sandwiches and waffles reach the kitchen screen as a ticket the moment the order leaves the till, and the coffee you make yourself stays off it. The board shows how many tickets are waiting and how long the oldest has been there, and the kitchen taps Done when each one’s out.

There’s one kitchen board, not a separate screen for the coffee bar.

The tenth one’s on the house

On Pro, Tabworthy keeps the stamp card for you. You choose the reward, one thing you sell, and how many visits earn it. You can also say how much a visit has to come to before it counts. The till works out each regular’s visits from their sales, and coming in twice in one day counts as one.

With their name on the sale, the till shows where they stand: “7 visits · 3 more for a free one”. When they’ve earned it, one tap puts the reward on the bill at zero, so the sale still shows what was handed over. There are no points, no card and no app for the customer. You tell them, across the counter. Customers and credit covers the book it all comes from.

Taking the money

Cash, with the change worked out. MoMo as a prompt on their phone, with the charge shown before they approve, and the sale closing only when the money arrives. The card machine you already have, marked paid on the till so the day adds up. And a pay link for the office that orders on WhatsApp and pays from a desk. The receipt is a picture you send to their WhatsApp, which is handy for the person who needs one for work.

Counting pastries and milk

On Pro, stock counts what you have in your own units. Croissants and meat pies go by the piece: count what came in the morning, and each one rung up comes off. When you count again at closing, the difference is what left without a sale.

Milk and coffee beans are supplies, things you use up but never sell. Each drink can draw on one supply, so every latte takes its milk off the count and you see what should be left without measuring after every cup. It’s one supply per item, not a recipe: the latte draws on the milk or the beans, not both.

What it doesn’t do yet

There’s no app, QR menu or points balance for your customers; rewards are visits counted from sales and told across the counter. There’s no second screen for the coffee bar. It doesn’t take discounts or tips, print to a printer, or take orders online. And because stock draws on one supply per item, it won’t cost out a recipe for you.