Restaurant POS for Australia

How to think about this

Start with the restaurant workflow, not a feature checklist.

A restaurant POS affects order accuracy, staff training, payment flow, printer reliability, kitchen communication, reporting, and how managers recover from mistakes. The right question is not “does it have many features?” but “does it make daily service easier and safer?”

Ask whether staff can complete common tasks quickly, whether your hardware works, whether your data can be backed up, who fixes problems during service, and what happens when the internet is unreliable.

What the market looks like in practice

Australia applies a flat 10% GST, EFTPOS is the standard debit rail, and an ABN is part of normal business setup.

Australian restaurants typically configure FloCafe with a single GST-inclusive pricing model: menu prices include GST, and the POS surfaces the GST component separately on receipts and reports so the data flows cleanly into BAS preparation. ABN capture on B2B invoices is standard. EFTPOS debit rails are dominant at the counter, contactless card-present is universal, and surcharging rules have changed over time, so the POS should make payment-method reporting explicit. AUD formatting with cent precision is the default. Cafes, coffee shops, bakeries, takeaways, food trucks, and restaurants are the core audience, and licensed venues need age verification workflows the POS does not get in the way of. FloCafe suits operators who want code access, local SQLite data, and MIT licensing on hardware they pick, rather than a managed subscription tied to a payments contract.

Where FloCafe fits

Useful when ownership and transparency matter.

Public project materials describe workflows for dine-in, takeaway, delivery, table management, modifiers and addons, multiple payment methods, invoice generation, KDS, KOT printing, kitchen stations, ESC/POS thermal printing, barcode lookup, staff roles, customer data, loyalty, WhatsApp e-billing, backup history, optional Google Drive backups, multilingual UI support, SQLite, Electron, Next.js, TypeScript, and WebSocket updates.