Custom tills

A till built around the way you work

Bars, kitchens, canteens and shops rarely fit a standard till. We build yours on the same Phlo POS engine that already runs behind the counter every day, and shape it to your products, your staff and your back office.

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Custom work has no price list. An intake gets you a fixed scope and a fixed price.

Where this comes from

It began with one shop and one question

Phlo POS was never meant to be a product. Years ago a retailer on the other side of the world needed a till, and nothing for sale could do what the situation asked: several currencies, several countries, and tax rules that changed at every border. So we wrote one.

That till is still in service. It has been ringing up sales for close to ten years, with tens of millions in turnover passing through it every year, across new stores, new tax rules and a lot of busy Saturdays. A till earns its keep by being unremarkable: it just has to be there when the queue is.

Then other counters started asking. A bar wanted to open tabs and print kitchen tickets. A shop wanted barcode scanning and a cash-up that added up at the end of a shift. Each time the answer was yes, and each time the engine underneath got better at being shaped into something specific.

Ten years in daily service, still running

Tens of millions in yearly turnover through one installation

Many currencies across borders, in one system

That is the work Q-dev does: build the solution, not a licence to rent. Phlo, the framework underneath, is ours as well, so the till, the back office, the reporting and even a public menu card come out of one codebase. It is why a change at your counter is a few days of work instead of a request that waits for someone else's next release.

Who we build for most

A different rhythm, the same engine underneath. Most projects are one of these two, or a mix of both.

Hospitality

Bars, kitchens and canteens

A busy bar has no time for a till that thinks. Tapping is the whole interface.

Tabs by name, table or team, parked and picked up by whoever is behind the bar
Kitchen and bar tickets that print the moment you book, with who ordered what
Options, part portions and bottle deposits, priced right 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
Your public site and menu card running off the same database as the till

Retail

Shops, counters and chains

A queue does not wait for a network. The till has to be right, fast and honest at closing time.

A till per counter that keeps ringing up sales when the connection drops
Barcode scanning without focus fiddling; staff sign in with a badge
Gift cards, customers on account, staff discount, returns and price checks
Cash-up per shift with denominations, and a change fund procedure that adds up
One back office for master data, prices and reporting across every store
Links to what you already run: bookkeeping, loyalty, and older databases you cannot replace overnight

Nothing locked in

Your hardware, your layout

A till should not decide what you buy or how your people work. Ours does not.

Any device with a browser

Windows, Android, an iPad, a Linux machine under the counter. The till installs as an app and does not care which one you picked.

Screens you buy anywhere

A tablet from the shop around the corner does the same job as an industrial terminal. Replace it next year with another brand and nothing has to be rebuilt.

No hardware you can only buy from us

We sell software, not terminals with a mark-up. Nothing here is rented to you per device, and nothing stops working because a contract ended.

Arranged for your staff

Buttons, groups, colours and the customer display are laid out the way the people behind the counter actually work, not the way a supplier decided once.

Peripherals that fit the counter

Printers, drawers, scanners and card terminals are chosen for your situation. Own them already? Then we try to keep them in service.

Your own look

Colour themes per device, your own naming, your own grouping. A bar at night wants a different screen than a shop at noon, and both are a setting.

What a custom project includes

Not a licence and a manual. A working counter, installed, with the parts around it that make it a till.

The till

Installs as an app on a touchscreen, tablet or PC. Local-first, so taps, discounts and totals never wait for a server.

The counter around it

Receipt printer, cash drawer, scanner, customer display, kitchen printer and card terminal, driven by a small print agent that keeps working offline.

The back office

Catalogue, prices, menus, staff, shifts and reports in the browser, with ledger-ready day totals split by tax rate and payment method.

The numbers

Turnover, busy hours, top sellers and payment mix, per till, per shift and per store, without exporting anything first.

Monitoring and support

Every till visible live, remote lock and reload, messages to the counter, and watch-with-me support that announces itself on screen.

The part that is yours

The rule, the report or the integration that no standard till offers. That is usually the reason you are reading this page.

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How a project runs

Intake

You describe your floor: what you sell, how many counters, what has to talk to what, and where it currently hurts. Ten minutes of typing.

A proposal, or an honest no

We read it ourselves and come back within two working days with a fixed scope, a fixed price and a real date. If we are not the right fit, you hear that instead.

Built on a running engine

Nothing starts from scratch. Tabs, tickets, scanning, cash-up and reporting already exist and are proven on live counters; we build what is specific to you on top.

Live at your counter

We install on site, train the people who will use it and stand next to them on day one. After that: monitoring, updates and someone who picks up the phone.

Why there is no price here

A custom till is priced by its scope, not by a tier. Two counters in one bar and twelve counters across four stores are different projects, and so is every integration with a system you already run.

So we do the boring thing: you fill in an intake, we work out what it actually takes, and you get one price with everything in it. No hourly surprises, no per-device licence that grows behind your back.

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Selling online too?

If you run a webshop and mostly need a till that books into it, you do not need a custom project. That one is a subscription you can start yourself today.

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