Obvious enough for whoever is on duty
Big buttons, the products of tonight on the first screen, and nothing that needs explaining twice. The layout is yours to arrange.
Canteens and clubhouses
Volunteers behind the bar, and it still has to add up.
A clubhouse till is used by whoever is on duty tonight. It has to be obvious enough for a volunteer and strict enough for a treasurer: big buttons, a tab per team, and a cash-up that leaves no argument.
Three things that go differently
A tab per team, settled at the end
Rounds go on the team, the trainer or the tournament, and are settled in one go when the evening is over.
The treasurer gets a closed shift
Counted per denomination, per shift, against what the till says. Who counted it is on the record, and the counting happens behind a PC rather than on the bar.
Recognise your counter in this? An intake tells you what it really takes, and what it costs.
What the engine brings to this counter
Not a feature list written for this page. These are the parts of Phlo POS that carry this kind of counter, and they run today.
The till itself
What the person behind the counter touches.
- Runs on a touchscreen, tablet or PC and installs as an app on the machine you already have
- Local-first: taps, quantities, discounts and totals are worked out on the device, never over the network
- Two screen layouts on one engine: a tapping layout for a bar, a scanning layout with a fixed keypad for a shop
- Keeps selling when the connection drops, and books what it sold the moment it is back
- Product grid, quantities, returns, line and order discounts, open-price buttons
- Split and part payments, tips, receipt reprint and guarded cancellation
- A customer display that mirrors the receipt live, including the promotion advantage
- Colour themes per device, and buttons laid out the way your people work
Money, and being able to prove it
The till may be fast. The books have to be right.
- The server recomputes every total when a sale is booked; what the till calculated is provisional
- Receipt lines carry their title, price and tax frozen, so history does not change when a price does
- A payment attempt is recorded before anything touches the network, with a manual fallback and reconciliation on startup
- Cash-up per shift with denominations, a change-fund procedure, and a day close that will not close over open tabs
- Ledger-ready totals per pay method per tax rate, for the bookkeeper
- Several currencies, countries and tax regimes side by side in one installation, each booking in its own
Hospitality
Bars, kitchens and canteens.
- Tabs by name, table or team, parked and picked up by whoever is behind the bar
- Kitchen and bar tickets that print on booking, with who ordered what
- Options, part portions and bottle deposits, priced without anyone doing sums
- Split a bill in half, per item or by any amount
- A fixed touchscreen at the bar and tablets on the floor, working the same order
- A public site and menu card running off the same database as the till
What you want to know before you start
Can volunteers use it without training?
That is the design goal. Badge in, tap, done. What cannot be undone by a volunteer sits behind a role, so a wrong tap is not a wrong evening.
Can we keep our existing screen?
Usually yes. A machine that is not ancient can usually serve. We bring a machine to the intake and set it up on the screen you already have, so you see it before anything is agreed.
Do we have to be online all evening?
No. The till keeps selling and books everything when the connection returns. Only things that genuinely need a server, such as a gift card check, wait.
What does a Phlo POS project cost?
A custom till has no list price, because the scope decides it. After an intake you get one price for the whole project: build, hardware advice, installation and training in a single amount, agreed before we start.
Ready to look at it properly?
What would your counter need?
Tell us how you sell today and what gets in the way. You get a fixed scope and a fixed price, or an honest no.
What an intake looks like
- Counter
- Bar with a kitchen, two screens
- Today
- A till that stops when the line drops
- Hardware
- Existing touchscreen and printer
You hear back from the people who would build it, not from a sales desk.