How-to pages with the trade-offs left in
Each guide says what you need, the steps in order, what it costs you, and who the approach does not suit. If a guide cannot be honest about the downside, it does not get written.
Start with the one that matches your week
GUIDE
Run a café without POS hardware
What a hardware-free café genuinely needs, the setup order that works, and the honest downsides of phones, browsers and your own card terminal.
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Use a tablet as a kitchen display
Turn any tablet into the kitchen screen — mounting, keeping it awake and charged, locking it to one app, and the fallback plan.
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Cloud POS versus hardware terminals
An honest comparison of cloud tills and traditional hardware terminals — costs, outages, repairs, updates, data and staff learning — and who each genuinely suits.
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Taking orders on waiters' phones
The whole flow from sign-in to bill on a waiter's own phone — plus the honest side of personal devices, batteries, notifications, privacy and leavers.
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Choosing a POS for a coffee shop
What a coffee shop actually needs from a till — drink options at speed, the morning queue, beans and milk as stock — and who should buy something else.
Read the guideAfter the how, the what: plain-English definitions of the terms these guides use live in the glossary.
Browse the glossaryRun one real service on it.
Thirty days, your own menu, your own staff, no card.