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Everything a service needs, connected.
Apron runs the floor, the kitchen, the counter and the back office as one system. Here's how a service moves through it, with the real screens your team will use.
Take the order once. Everyone sees it.
A captain takes it on a phone at the table, or the counter on a tablet. Either way, it reaches the kitchen with the details intact, and the table's status updates for the whole floor.
- Counter POSDine-in, takeaway, counter and delivery. Variants, add-ons and kitchen notes. Hold an order and resume it.
- Captains on phonesThe same POS fits a phone, so orders are taken at the table and sent as a KOT from there.
- Live tablesStatus by floor. Move, merge and split tables, take reservations, and see guest requests.
- QR orderingGuests order from the table; staff approve before it goes to the kitchen. Menus in English, Kannada and Hindi.
The right ticket, on the right screen.
Each KOT goes to the station that cooks it: the dosa counter, the main kitchen, beverages. Big type, clear states, readable from two metres away.
- Station routingThe KOT lands on the station that cooks each dish, as soon as the order is sent.
- Timers and alertsEvery ticket shows its age. Rush, re-fire, recall and overdue tickets stand out.
- Allergens in viewAllergens show under each dish that has them, right on the ticket.
- A print queue you controlPaper KOTs too. A failed print is never re-sent on its own, so nothing prints twice by surprise; staff retry it.
A clear bill, paid the way your guest likes.
The order becomes a GST invoice with the tax split on every line. Take UPI, card or cash, and let the bank statement confirm what came in.
- GST on every billCGST and SGST per line, tax-inclusive or not, round-off, service and packaging charges.
- Invoice numberingA series per outlet, per financial year.
- Cash, UPI and cardPart payments and equal splits. UPI and card stay unverified until they're matched to the bank or terminal settlement.
- RefundsRefund a payment in part or in full, with a numbered credit note.
- CustomersFind guests by phone at the POS, keep their visits, and issue coupons.
Close the shift with numbers you trust.
Cashiers count the drawer before they see what the system expects. Variances over the limit wait for a manager. Nothing is marked settled before it is.
- Blind drawer countsCount by denomination; the expected cash appears only after the count.
- ApprovalsVariances over the limit need approval. Discounts over the limit, cancellations, voids and refunds need a manager's PIN.
- UPI reconciliationMark each UPI or card payment as found in the bank or terminal settlement.
- Shift and sales reportsThe cash-shift report and today's sales summary.
Behind the service, the business.
Stock, recipes, reports, people and outlets: the questions an owner asks after service, answered from the same system that ran it.
Stock and recipes
Recipes deduct stock as you sell.
On hand against reorder levels, low items flagged, stock counts and transfers between outlets.
Food cost
Know what every dish really costs.
Price, food cost, food-cost percentage and margin for each costed dish, costliest first, with high percentages flagged.
Reports and dashboard
See the day, then the month.
Today's sales, payments, a GST summary, kitchen times and stock, with Excel export on most reports.
Staff, roles and audit
Everyone sees what's theirs to see.
Role templates and custom roles, manager PIN approvals, and an audit log of price changes, discounts, voids and refunds with who and when.
Outlets
One outlet or many.
Switch outlets from one sign-in. Each outlet has its own menu prices and invoice series; stock moves between them.
Runs on what you already have.
No special terminals. Apron runs in a current browser, so the PC at the counter, a tablet in the kitchen and the captains' phones all work.
Captains order on phones; the kitchen display runs on a tablet or any screen with a browser.
For silent paper KOTs and bills, a thermal printer and a counter PC. We'll talk printers in the demo.
The POS, kitchen display, menu, tables and guest QR menu also work in Kannada and Hindi.