Restaurant POS for India

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

India operates under the GST regime (CGST, SGST, IGST) with restaurant-specific rules around input tax credit and a 5% rate without ITC for stand-alone restaurants.

FloCafe originated in the Indian market and the early builds were tested against Indian restaurant workflows. Operators here typically handle GST at the invoice level, support GSTIN capture for B2B orders, and may need separate tax lines for CGST and SGST (or IGST for inter-state). E-invoicing becomes mandatory above the turnover threshold and is a workflow that exports from the POS must support cleanly. UPI, debit and credit cards, wallets, and cash all coexist, so payment-method breakdowns in reports matter. Indian Rupee formatting, lakh and crore scale handling, and English or local-language receipts are common requirements. FloCafe is most relevant when an operator wants to keep operational data on the premises under MIT licensing, audit the source code, and avoid per-terminal subscription fees while running dine-in, takeaway, and delivery on the same stack.

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.