Restaurant POS for Canada

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

Canada layers federal GST with provincial sales tax (HST in the east, PST in BC and Manitoba, QST in Quebec) and bilingual receipts in Quebec.

FloCafe operators in Canada typically configure tax as a per-category or per-region percentage, with separate lines for the 5% federal GST, any provincial sales tax, and the Quebec-specific QST where relevant. Quebec operators should plan bilingual receipts (French required alongside English) and a tax line that surfaces the QST cleanly. Tip prompts may be pre-tax or post-tax depending on province; the POS should keep these configurable without code changes. Interac debit is the workhorse payment rail alongside credit cards, and contactless has rolled out broadly. CAD formatting with cent precision is the default. Cafes, restaurants, bakeries, food trucks, quick-service counters, and bars form the addressable market. FloCafe fits 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.