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Restaurant EPOS on the tablets you have: from order to settled bill

The order goes in at the table by seat and by course, the kitchen sees it on its own screen, and the bill splits the way the table asks — by dish, by seat or evenly — with the service charge, the tips and VAT by class already on it. All of it runs on the tablets and phones that are already in the building.

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From the order to the settled bill

The order, by seat and course
The waiter sends each round with the seat, the course and any note. If a guest's card lists an allergy, it is read back before the round leaves. A double tap or a retry on a weak signal still makes a single round.
The kitchen's own screen
Each dish reaches its station's screen within 5 seconds of the waiter's tap. Courses after the first wait until the waiter fires them, so the mains are not plated while the starters are still on the table.
Guests can order too
From the table's QR code a guest reads the menu with its allergens in their own language and orders; a waiter confirms it first, or it goes straight to the kitchen if your restaurant chooses that. Either way it joins the table's bill.
The bill, split
One check for the table, or split by dish, by seat or into equal shares. A manager gives a discount or a comp with a reason, and two tables merged for the evening are one bill until you separate them again.
Settled
Cash with the change shown, card, or another tender, with a tip — and several tenders on one bill when half the table pays by card and the other half in cash.

Three ways to split a bill

The table of eight that wants “separate bills, please” at half ten is the moment an EPOS earns its place.

By dish

Each guest pays for what they ordered. A dish the table shared — the bread, the sharing board, the bottle — is split equally between the people who shared it.

By seat

Because every dish went in against a seat, the bill already knows who had what. Seat three pays for seat three, and nobody reads the order back across the table.

Evenly

The whole bill divided into the number of checks the table asks for, each paid on its own — the quickest answer for the birthday table that simply wants to go halves, or fifths.

The service charge and the tips

Service charge

Set by party size, and marked optional or compulsory, so the large table gets the charge your menu promises and the couple at the window gets the one you decided for them.

The tips ledger

Every tip is recorded with the payment it came with, and the hand-outs to named members of staff are written down beside them. Your tips policy stays yours to write; the ledger is the record that shows you kept to it.

VAT by class, for the UK and Ireland

Food and drink do not always carry the same rate, and a single bill often holds both.

Each dish carries a VAT class, chosen by you on the menu, for eating in and for taking away.
The bill at the table shows VAT by class — one check, split by dish, by seat or into equal shares.
The sales reports export daily takings, VAT by class and the dishes sold as CSV files for your accountant. The screen says plainly that it is not a tax return.

Card at the table

Tap to Pay on a phone

The waiter takes the card on a phone with Tap to Pay, at the table, with the tip the guest chooses. A manager refunds a payment with a reason when something has gone wrong.

From the table's QR code

The guest opens their check from the code on the table, adds a tip and pays from their own phone, while the waiter carries on with the next table.

The money goes straight into your own Stripe account once you have connected it, and Stripe pays it out to you. Slotora takes no commission on it; Stripe charges its own processing fee, as any card processor does.

The tablets and phones you already have

What it runs on

A web browser on a tablet or a phone, or Slotora's app on an iPad, an Android tablet or a phone. The tablet at the door, the phones in your waiters' pockets and an old tablet on the pass are enough to start.

One evening on every screen

Several tablets and phones see the same tables, the same orders and the same bills, and each member of staff signs in with their own login, so every change carries the name of who made it.

Questions about the restaurant EPOS

What does it do, in one breath?

It takes the order at the table by seat and course, sends each dish to its station's screen, and runs the bill: split by dish, by seat or evenly, with the service charge, the tips ledger and VAT by class, paid in cash, by card with Tap to Pay on a phone, or from the table's QR code. The sales reports and their CSV exports for your accountant come with it.

What devices does it need?

A tablet or a phone with a web browser, or Slotora's app on an iPad, an Android tablet or a phone. For card payments the waiter uses Tap to Pay on a phone, and a guest can pay from the table's QR code on their own phone.

Can we use the tablets and phones we already have?

Yes. That is how it is meant to start: the tablet at the door for the host stand, the waiters' phones for orders and card payments, and any spare tablet on the pass for the kitchen screen. Add a screen when the kitchen asks for one.

Does it connect to the EPOS we already have?

No. Slotora does not connect to the till or EPOS you already have. The order, the kitchen screen and the bill all run in Slotora itself.

Do the bookings and the bill know about each other?

Yes. The host stand shows which course each table is on and when it asks for the bill, and the allergies on a guest's card are read back to the waiter before the round goes to the kitchen.

Is the EPOS priced separately?

It is part of the one monthly price per location, with the bookings, the floor plan and the kitchen display. There is no charge per device or per waiter.

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The bill, split before the table asks twice

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