Restaurant POS
Restaurant POS software with KOT, tables and a kitchen screen
Tables that order from a QR, dockets that reach the right station, a waiter app on a phone — and a bill that knows what the kitchen actually sent.
Free for 45 days · no card · we do the setup
Nivasik’s restaurant POS runs tables, QR ordering, kitchen order tickets (KOT) sent round by round, a kitchen display that tracks each item by station, and a waiter (captain) app. Bills are GST bills with split payments, and ingredients come off stock by recipe as dishes sell.
It is ₹1,499 per outlet a month, on its own or beside a hotel plan, and free for the first 45 days.
From the table to the bill
Six moments in a table’s evening, and the rule that holds at each.
| Stage | What happens | What the POS will not let slide |
|---|---|---|
| Seated | The table shows as open. A walk-in can scan the table’s QR, type a name and a number, and order from your menu. | A QR order can be turned away, but only by a login allowed to void. |
| Ordered | The captain app or the counter sends a round to the kitchen as a KOT; the next round is its own numbered ticket. | Once the kitchen has a line, it leaves the bill only as a void with a reason. |
| Cooking | The kitchen screen shows each item by station: queued, cooking, ready, served. The first item cooking accepts the docket. | The docket is ready only when every live item on it is. |
| Recalled | A dish marked ready can go back one step to cooking. | Anything further back is not a kitchen action, so the screen does not offer it. |
| Billed | A pre-bill for the table first, then the tax invoice. Tables can be split, moved or merged before payment. | A pre-bill is counted apart and never makes the invoice read as a duplicate. |
| Paid | Cash, UPI, card or a split, settled in one step. | A bill with money on it cannot be voided. |
The kitchen screen
Item by item, station by station — because a thali and a naan are made by two people who finish at different times.
A kitchen screen is a tablet propped against a wall, read from a metre away across a hot room and pressed with the side of a thumb. So it drops the app’s sidebar and shows dockets only: large type, one tap per item, and the age of each docket counting up in place. There is no animation on it, on purpose — a board that redraws with every order would strobe.
Stations are yours to name: tandoor, curry and cold in one kitchen; halwai, namkeen and packing in the next. An item carries its station with it onto the docket, so moving a dish to another station next month does not move a docket already on the wall. The board refreshes when an order changes and checks again every half-minute, so a tablet that lost its connection overnight does not sit there showing yesterday.
What else a restaurant gets
Recipes and food cost
Hang a recipe on a dish and its ingredients come off as it sells. If the kitchen is short, the refusal names the ingredient and how much is left, rather than saying “not enough stock”.
Giveaways with a value
A free dessert is recorded at its real price with a reason and shows on the bill at zero, so the guest sees it was given and the owner can see what was given away last month.
Captain app
Waiters take the order at the table on their own phone and send rounds to the kitchen without walking to the counter.
Token screen and customer display
An order-status board for takeaway numbers, and a screen facing the customer that shows the bill as it is built.
Offers that stay the owner’s
Happy hours, coupons and combos are set up in advance; a discount typed by hand beyond the staff limit needs a manager’s PIN.
A hotel’s restaurant
In a hotel, a table’s bill can post to the guest’s room and be paid at check-out, while the restaurant keeps its own takings and day.
A service, start to finish
- Before service. The day opens and the kitchen screen goes on the wall. If the outlet is set to require it, nothing sells until the morning stock count is in.
- Lunch. Rounds go to the kitchen as KOTs; each station ticks its own items and the docket goes ready by itself.
- Delivery apps. Orders read off the Swiggy and Zomato tablets are punched in and join the same kitchen screen; a paid delivery order stays on the board until it is cooked.
- Bills. Pre-bill, split by person or by item, and settle — part UPI, part cash, or on a regular’s khata.
- Close. The drawer is counted and End day prints the day-end report; every void, free item and PIN approval is already on the owner’s record by name.
What it does not do
Honest edges of a restaurant counter on Nivasik.
Not included, said plainly
- Swiggy and Zomato orders are punched in from the platform’s tablet; the order feeds are only open to approved POS vendors, so they do not arrive by themselves.
- QR ordering does not collect money. The diner orders from the table, and payment is recorded at the counter; there is no card terminal or payment gateway connected.
- Tables, kitchen tickets, the kitchen screen and the waiter app need the internet — offline billing is for shop counters.
- No e-invoice, no GST filing, and no live connection to Tally: it makes the GSTR-1 data and an import file.
- Bills and offers can be shared by opening WhatsApp with the message ready; nothing is sent automatically.
What it costs
₹1,499 per outlet a month, with no setup fee. A restaurant that is not in a hotel buys this and nothing else. A hotel with a restaurant and a rooftop bar runs two outlets, each with its own menu, takings, costs and day.
Questions people ask
What is a KOT in a restaurant?
A kitchen order ticket: the slip, or screen entry, that tells the kitchen what a table ordered. In Nivasik each round is its own numbered KOT, and a line the kitchen has received can leave the bill only as a void with a reason.
Can customers order from a QR code on the table?
Yes. A walk-in scans the table’s QR, types a name and a number, and orders from your menu; the order lands on the kitchen screen. Payment is taken at the counter — the QR does not collect money.
Does it include a kitchen display system (KDS)?
Yes: a kitchen screen by station, item by item — queued, cooking, ready, served — that runs in the browser of any tablet. There is no extra hardware to buy from us.
Can I track food cost with recipes?
Yes. Put a recipe on a dish and the ingredients come off stock as it sells. For delivery apps, a per-dish view shows what it costs to make, what it earns at the counter and what is left after the platform’s cut.
Can the restaurant bill post to a hotel room?
Yes, when the restaurant belongs to a hotel on Nivasik: the bill posts to the guest’s folio and is paid at check-out. A standalone restaurant simply settles every bill at the counter.
How much does restaurant billing software cost?
Nivasik’s restaurant POS is ₹1,499 per outlet a month after 45 free days, with no setup fee and no per-bill charge. We set up your menu, tables and printers during the trial.
Try it on your own place, free for 45 days.
We set it up for you — your rooms, menu or stock list, your staff and your prices — and walk it end to end on your phone. No card, and we invoice only if you stay.