Best Restaurant POS Software India 2026: 10 Picks and Demo

Ashish Sharma
Ashish Sharma

Founder & Lead Developer, Codingclave · 200+ projects since 2017

23 min read
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Which restaurant POS software is best in India in 2026?

The short answer: for most single-outlet restaurants in India, a base plan from Petpooja, Recaho or TMBill at ₹6,000 to ₹12,000 a year does the job; for chains of five or more outlets, Restroworks or Petpooja's Growth and Scale bundles at ₹20,000 to ₹30,000 a month; and for owners who want to stop paying rent on their own billing system, a one-time licence such as our Saffron POS at ₹24,999. Published list prices in October 2026 span roughly ₹1,000 a month to ₹40,000 a month, and the cheapest plan is rarely the cheapest system once you add 18% GST, setup fees, aggregator add-ons and ₹40,000 to ₹1,00,000 of hardware.

I am Ashish Sharma, founder of Codingclave. We have been building software from Lucknow since 2017, have shipped 200+ projects, and our own restaurant product, Saffron POS, appears first on this list. I say that upfront so you can discount it however you like. The other nine are systems we compete with and integrate with, which is a better vantage point than a brochure.

Every price below is what the vendor or a marketplace listed on 5 October 2026, with the source named in the sentence. Where a vendor publishes nothing, I say so instead of guessing.

Disclosure: Codingclave makes Saffron POS, which is on this list. We say how we compared each system in the next section, and you can check every price on the vendor's own page.

How I compared these POS systems

I compared each system's published features and prices on the six things that decide whether a restaurant's Friday night runs or collapses. Billing speed and offline billing don't show on a price page, so check those two yourself in a demo:

  1. Billing speed under load, including modifiers and split bills
  2. Offline billing that keeps KOTs flowing when broadband drops
  3. Swiggy, Zomato and ONDC orders landing on the kitchen screen, not a tablet farm
  4. Recipe-level stock deduction, because without it inventory reports are fiction
  5. Multi-outlet reporting with a central menu
  6. On-ground support in Indian cities, with a named escalation number

What we see in projects: the two failures that make restaurants switch POS are not missing features. They are offline billing that turns out to be "offline viewing", and a renewal invoice two or three times the first-year quote. Both are testable before you sign, and I cover how later in this page.

Quick comparison: 10 restaurant POS systems with October 2026 list prices

Software Best for Published price (ex-GST) Source and date Offline billing Swiggy/Zomato
Saffron POS (Codingclave) Owners who want a one-time licence or custom workflows ₹24,999 one-time or ₹2,499/month codingclave.com product page, Oct 2026 Yes Yes
Petpooja Most single and multi-outlet Indian restaurants Base ₹12,000; Growth ₹20,000; Scale ₹30,000 petpooja.com/pricing, Oct 2026 (billing period not stated on page; Techjockey lists ₹10,000/year) Yes Yes, reconciliation in Growth
Restroworks (formerly Posist) Enterprise chains, multi-country brands Quote only restroworks.com/pricing, Oct 2026 Yes Yes
UrbanPiper Prime Delivery-heavy outlets and cloud kitchens ₹8,475/year (1-year) or ₹6,356/year (2-year plan) Techjockey, Oct 2026 Yes Yes, native
Recaho Cafes and dine-in with QR ordering ₹12,000/year; ₹18,000/year with ordering website Techjockey, Oct 2026 Yes Yes
GoFrugal ServeEasy Stock-heavy, multi-cuisine kitchens ₹8,999/year (Techjockey); gofrugal.com shows no figure Techjockey, Oct 2026 Yes, on-premise option Limited
LimeTray Restaurants building their own ordering channel Quote only limetray.com, Oct 2026 Not advertised Yes
Rista QSR chains wanting a perpetual licence ₹1,00,000 licence plus ₹8,000/year AMC Techjockey, Oct 2026 Yes Yes
TMBill Budget single outlets ₹5,999/year Techjockey category page, Oct 2026 Yes Yes
DineOpen Small restaurants and dhabas, no transaction fees Starter ₹1,660/mo; Growth ₹4,150/mo; Pro ₹8,250/mo (USD plans converted) dineopen.com/pricing, Oct 2026 Yes Growth plan and above

Two notes. Petpooja's pricing page shows "₹12,000*" for Base, "exclusive of applicable taxes", with no billing period printed, and adds that plans are "indicative and subject to change"; Techjockey lists Petpooja at ₹10,000 per year, so treat the ₹12,000 as annual but confirm the period on your quote. And "quote only" is not a knock on Restroworks or LimeTray; it just means you cannot compare them from a website.

Detailed reviews

1. Saffron POS by Codingclave

Best for: restaurants that want to own their POS outright, and chains or concepts whose workflow does not fit a template

  • Type: self-hosted licence or cloud subscription, custom builds on request
  • Pricing: ₹24,999 one-time or ₹2,499 per month, listed on our product page; custom builds are quoted per scope
  • Stack: Next.js, React, TypeScript, PostgreSQL

Watch the 5-minute walkthrough of all 11 modules:

The demo shows our reference build, Saffron Modern Indian Kitchen. The 11 modules: PIN-pad staff login with a per-staff audit trail; a live dashboard with revenue, covers, average order value and payment mix; touch POS with modifier sheets, GST and service charge auto-calculation, send-to-kitchen and settle-bill; a kitchen display with aging timers and course routing; a visual floor plan with merge and split bills; order history with CSV export for your CA; reservations; menu management with half-portion pricing, FSSAI veg and non-veg tags and sold-out toggles; recipe-level inventory with reorder prompts; reports including a GSTR-1 and GSTR-3B tax summary; and settings for outlets, printers and permissions. The module-by-module tour is in our demo write-up.

Per-build extras: Swiggy, Zomato and Magicpin sync; Talabat and Careem Food for Gulf outlets; WhatsApp confirmations and feedback through our own BSP, PayPerWA; multi-brand cloud kitchen mode; offline billing.

What we see in projects: a Lucknow restaurant that reviewed us on the product page reported order-to-serve time falling from 25 to 14 minutes after moving KOTs from paper to the kitchen display, and a three-brand cloud kitchen in Chandigarh runs all three menus from one tablet. Two customers, not a study.

Pros: no per-terminal or per-order fee; source code ownership on the one-time licence; offline billing; break-even against the subscription at about ten months (maths in our subscription vs one-time comparison).

Cons: custom builds take 6 to 10 weeks; self-hosting means someone you trust runs the server; a one-person tea stall does not need this much system.

2. Petpooja

Best for: the widest range of Indian restaurants, from a 20-seat cafe to a regional chain

  • Pricing: Base ₹12,000, Operations Growth ₹20,000, Operations Scale ₹30,000, Marketing Core ₹20,000, Marketing Growth ₹30,000, Marketing Scale ₹40,000, all marked exclusive of taxes on petpooja.com/pricing in October 2026, billing period not printed
  • Scale: Petpooja's homepage says "150k+ Businesses trust us"

Petpooja is the default answer in India for a reason. Base includes cloud billing, inventory, menu management, 90+ reports, aggregator integrations, unlimited users and terminals, and online installation and training. Growth adds what a busy dine-in needs: captain app, token management, Zomato and Swiggy reconciliation, Tally integration, QR ordering, waiter calling, the kitchen display and one on-site installation visit. Scale adds table reservations, kiosk software, a second site visit and 1,000 e-invoice credits.

Pros: largest installed base and add-on marketplace; aggregator payout reconciliation; support presence in most Indian cities.

Cons: KDS, QR ordering and Tally sync sit in Growth, so the real single-outlet price for a full-service restaurant is the ₹20,000 tier; the interface gets busy; per-outlet pricing compounds for chains.

3. Restroworks (formerly Posist)

Best for: enterprise chains, franchises and multi-country brands

  • Pricing: no published price; restroworks.com/pricing in October 2026 says quotes depend on software modules, terminal count and hardware
  • Scale: SoftwareSuggest's listing describes it as powering 25,000+ restaurants globally

Restroworks is the platform you choose when you have a head office. Central menu and price control, franchise royalty tracking, supply chain and an API-first design make it the most complete chain system I have seen sold in India. Reviews on SoftwareSuggest (4.8 from 94 reviews in October 2026) are consistent about the strength of reporting and the weight of implementation.

Pros: built for thousands of transactions a day; strong franchise and multi-brand tools; open APIs.

Cons: overkill and overpriced for an independent restaurant; implementation needs a dedicated person on your side; no price on the website means you negotiate from zero.

4. UrbanPiper Prime

Best for: delivery-heavy outlets and cloud kitchens living on Swiggy and Zomato

  • Pricing: Techjockey lists Prime POS at ₹8,475 per year exclusive of GST on a one-year plan and ₹6,356 per year on a two-year plan, October 2026
  • Includes: POS, billing and KOT, inventory, recipe management, reporting, integrations with Swiggy, Zomato, Amazon Food, Magicpin and Thrive, mobile app, multi-device, 24x7 support

UrbanPiper built its name as the middleware that connects any POS to the aggregators, and Prime is that integration layer with a billing front end. If 70% of your orders arrive from apps, this is the most direct route to one screen for all of them.

Pros: the strongest native aggregator handling in India; menu and stock-out sync across platforms; low published price.

Cons: dine-in features are thinner than Petpooja or Restroworks; floor plans and reservations are not its focus.

5. Recaho

Best for: cafes and casual dine-in wanting QR ordering and a captain app at a low annual price

  • Pricing: Dine-In POS ₹12,000 per year exclusive of GST (₹14,160 inclusive); Dine-In POS with website and analytics ₹18,000 per year, listed on Techjockey in October 2026

Recaho bundles QR code ordering, a captain app, desktop or tablet POS, a kitchen KOT app and WhatsApp invoice delivery into the base plan, which is more than most vendors give at this price. The ₹18,000 tier adds an online ordering website with a free domain, a mobile POS app, table reservations, an analytics dashboard and marketing tools.

Pros: QR and captain app included at the base tier; clear annual pricing; good fit for cafe formats (see our cafe software comparison).

Cons: smaller installed base means fewer local support partners; inventory depth is below GoFrugal and Petpooja.

6. GoFrugal ServeEasy

Best for: multi-cuisine kitchens where stock control matters more than front-of-house polish

  • Pricing: Techjockey lists GoFrugal Restaurant POS at ₹8,999 per year in October 2026; gofrugal.com's own pricing table shows placeholder values and asks you to email presales

GoFrugal comes from retail ERP, and it shows in the good way: purchase orders, supplier management, GST accounting and recipe-level consumption are deeper than any other system at this price. It also offers an on-premise install, which matters in towns where cloud-only POS fails.

Pros: back-office and inventory depth; on-premise option; established company.

Cons: the interface looks its age; aggregator integrations are limited compared with UrbanPiper or Petpooja; marketing tools are basic.

7. LimeTray

Best for: restaurants that want their own ordering website and app to pull repeat customers off aggregators

  • Pricing: quote only; limetray.com shows no list price in October 2026, only a free demo

LimeTray is POS plus marketing stack: a branded ordering site and app, CRM with segmentation, SMS, email and WhatsApp campaigns, and its Pulse analytics product. The direct ordering piece is the reason to buy it. Our commission-free ordering guide works through the numbers on why that matters.

Pros: strong direct ordering; marketing automation built in; reduces aggregator dependence.

Cons: POS and kitchen features are secondary; inventory is basic; the site makes no offline billing claim, so test that first on the demo.

8. Rista

Best for: QSR chains that prefer a perpetual licence plus maintenance over a subscription

  • Pricing: Techjockey lists a "New Buy" plan at ₹1,00,000 exclusive of GST (₹1,18,000 inclusive) and an AMC plan at ₹8,000 per year exclusive of taxes, October 2026; ristaapps.com publishes no price

Rista is a cloud POS with billing, order management, catalogue, inventory and recipe management aimed at quick-service formats. The licence-plus-AMC model is unusual in a market that moved to subscriptions, and it suits operators who dislike monthly rent.

Pros: fast QSR billing; perpetual licence option; Android tablet friendly.

Cons: the ₹1,00,000 entry is steep for a single outlet; fewer reviews and public references than Petpooja; Techjockey prices both plans "per quantity", so a multi-outlet total needs a call.

9. TMBill

Best for: single outlets on a tight budget

  • Pricing: ₹5,999 per year, listed on Techjockey's restaurant POS category page in October 2026, rated 4.4 from 23 reviews

TMBill is the cheapest credible annual plan on this list. You get GST billing, KOT, basic inventory and Swiggy and Zomato acceptance. You do not get the depth of reporting or the integration marketplace of the bigger names, and that is a fair trade at this price.

Pros: lowest published annual price; simple to learn; adequate for counters and small dine-ins.

Cons: limited for multi-outlet; basic analytics; smaller support footprint.

10. DineOpen

Best for: small restaurants and dhabas that want a modern cloud POS with no transaction fees

  • Pricing: Starter ₹1,660 per month, Growth ₹4,150 per month, Pro ₹8,250 per month, listed on dineopen.com/pricing in October 2026 as $20, $50 and $99 converted to rupees, with about 17% off for annual billing; Enterprise is custom

DineOpen is the newest entrant on this list. Starter covers unlimited orders, thermal printing, QR menus, GST bills, basic inventory, a basic captain app and daily reports with 0% transaction fees. Growth adds the KDS, table management, loyalty, an ordering website, a WhatsApp bot, the Android and iOS captain app and Swiggy and Zomato integration.

Pros: clear monthly pricing; no per-order fee; Growth tier is well specified for the money.

Cons: prices are set in dollars, so your rupee bill moves with the exchange rate; Swiggy and Zomato sync needs the ₹4,150 Growth tier; a young company with a short track record.

Also considered: DotPe (QR ordering and payments, no public POS price), Torqus and SlickPOS (no verifiable 2026 price on their sites). I left them off rather than print a stale number.

How much does restaurant POS software cost in India?

Three layers make up the bill: software, setup and hardware. Vendors quote the first and stay quiet about the other two.

Software, by restaurant type

Restaurant type Typical software spend (ex-GST) Examples at that level
Single counter or small cafe, billing plus KOT ₹6,000 to ₹12,000 a year TMBill ₹5,999, UrbanPiper Prime ₹8,475, Recaho and Petpooja Base ₹12,000
Full-service dine-in with KDS, QR and captain app ₹18,000 to ₹50,000 a year Recaho ₹18,000, Petpooja Growth ₹20,000, DineOpen Growth ₹49,800
Delivery-first or cloud kitchen ₹8,000 to ₹50,000 a year UrbanPiper Prime, DineOpen Growth, Petpooja Growth with reconciliation
Chain of 5+ outlets ₹20,000 to ₹40,000 per month per outlet, or a custom build Petpooja Scale, Restroworks (quote), custom Saffron POS
One-time licence, any size ₹24,999 to ₹1,00,000 once Saffron POS ₹24,999, Rista ₹1,00,000 plus AMC

Add 18% GST to every software figure. For chains, our multi-outlet POS guide works the five-year total cost of Petpooja against a custom build; the short version is that SaaS wins under five outlets and custom pulls ahead somewhere between eight and ten.

Setup and hidden costs

  • Installation and menu entry: Petpooja's pricing page bundles online installation in Base and one on-site visit in Growth; most other vendors quote it separately. A 400-item menu with variants is days of work; ask who does it and what it costs.
  • Aggregator integration: often an add-on. Petpooja places reconciliation in Growth; DineOpen places aggregator sync in Growth rather than Starter. Our restaurant POS cost guide has seen integration priced at ₹2,000 to ₹5,000 per outlet per month on some SaaS quotes.
  • Renewal: first-year discounts expire. Ask for the year-two price in writing.
  • Transaction fees: on your own online ordering, Razorpay's standard plan charges a 2% platform fee on domestic cards and UPI (razorpay.com/pricing, October 2026). DineOpen advertises 0% POS transaction fees; so do we.

Hardware

These are the ranges we quote on projects and use in our POS hardware guide. Prices move with the rupee, so treat them as budget bands rather than quotes.

Item Rough market range
Touchscreen POS terminal ₹25,000 to ₹60,000
Android tablet for billing or table ordering ₹15,000 to ₹35,000
Thermal receipt printer (80 mm) ₹6,000 to ₹15,000
Kitchen KOT printer ₹6,000 to ₹15,000
KDS screen per station ₹20,000 to ₹45,000
Cash drawer ₹3,000 to ₹7,000
Card machine (bank or Razorpay/Pine Labs rental) ₹3,000 to ₹12,000
UPI QR standee ₹500 to ₹1,000
Label printer (cloud kitchen) ₹8,000 to ₹20,000

A typical 40-seat restaurant lands at ₹40,000 to ₹1,00,000: one terminal, one tablet, two printers, a drawer and a card machine. A KDS instead of a kitchen printer adds ₹20,000 to ₹45,000 per station and removes paper and ribbon. Buying your own Android tablets is cheaper than vendor-supplied hardware, but then compatibility is your problem.

What features must a restaurant POS have in India?

Every vendor's feature list runs to a hundred lines. These are the ones that decide whether the system works on a Saturday night in an Indian restaurant.

Order flow: dine-in, takeaway, delivery and online on one screen; modifiers (spice level, half or full, no onion); course firing; merge and split bills by item, person or percentage.

Kitchen: KOT printing or a display with aging timers; station routing so the tandoor, wok and dessert counter each see only their items; modification alerts.

Billing: 5% or 18% GST set per outlet with CGST and SGST split and SAC 9963 printed; service charge as a removable line; UPI, card, cash and mixed payments on one bill; discounts behind a permission gate; credit tabs for regulars and corporate accounts.

Menu: variants and combos; happy-hour pricing; sold-out toggles that also update Swiggy and Zomato; FSSAI veg and non-veg markers.

Inventory: recipes per dish so each sale deducts ingredients; wastage logging; par levels and purchase orders; actual versus theoretical food cost, which is where pilferage shows up. Our inventory and recipe management guide goes deeper.

Online: Swiggy, Zomato and ONDC orders onto the POS, not a separate tablet; QR table ordering; a branded ordering site; WhatsApp confirmations and re-marketing (costs are in our restaurant WhatsApp marketing guide).

Reports: hour-wise sales for staffing; item-wise margin; staff-wise voids and discounts; aggregator payout reconciliation; a tax summary your CA can file from.

Offline: billing, KOT and table status continue locally and sync later. Non-negotiable.

GST, service charge and e-invoicing: what your POS must get right

This is where a cheap POS gets expensive. The rules as they stand in October 2026:

GST rates. Standalone restaurants charge 5% GST without input tax credit on dine-in, takeaway and delivery. Restaurants inside hotels with any room declared at ₹7,500 or more a night ("specified premises") charge 18% with ITC, a rule the Economic Times and Outlook Money covered when it took effect in April 2025. The 56th GST Council's rate rebuild that took effect on 22 September 2025 moved most goods to 5% and 18% slabs and left restaurant services as they were. Business Standard reported on 13 October 2025 that the Bombay High Court had granted an interim stay on the 18% rate for hotel-based restaurants in the petition before it, so if you run a restaurant inside a hotel, ask your CA where that case stands before you set the rate. Your POS should hold the rate per outlet, not per bill, so a cashier cannot change it by accident.

Bill format. SAC code 9963, CGST and SGST shown separately (IGST only for inter-state supply, which is rare for a restaurant), your GSTIN and the FSSAI licence number on every printed bill. GST registration becomes mandatory at ₹20 lakh annual turnover in most states and ₹10 lakh in special category states.

Service charge. On 28 March 2025 the Delhi High Court upheld the CCPA's July 2022 guidelines and held that a mandatory service charge is an unfair trade practice, dismissing the NRAI and FHRAI petitions against them; NRAI filed a review in April 2025 and the CCPA has since issued notices to restaurants still adding it, per ET HospitalityWorld. Your POS must treat service charge as a removable line that staff can take off on request without a manager override, and the bill should say it is voluntary. Check this on the demo; several systems still hard-code it.

E-invoicing. Under CBIC Notification 10/2023-Central Tax, in force since 1 August 2023, the e-invoice mandate applies at ₹5 crore aggregate turnover in any financial year since 2017-18, counted across all GSTINs under your PAN and including sales made through Swiggy and Zomato, and it covers B2B bills only. A dine-in or takeaway bill to a walk-in customer needs no IRN. The bill that does is the one where a customer asks you to print their GSTIN, typically corporate catering or a company dinner, which is why Petpooja's Scale plan bundles 1,000 e-invoice credits. If you are near ₹5 crore, confirm your POS can generate an IRN on demand.

For the wider rules on what makes billing software GST-compliant, see our GST-compliant software guide.

What Swiggy, Zomato and ONDC integration really costs

Integration is a feature; the aggregators are a cost centre. The numbers restaurants should keep in front of them:

Channel What the restaurant pays Source
Zomato 18% to 25% commission per order, plus 18% GST on the commission DineOpen commission guide, 2026
Swiggy 18% to 28% commission per order, plus 18% GST on the commission DineOpen commission guide, 2026
Settlement deduction 0.5% to 1.5% processing fee taken before the weekly payout DineOpen commission guide, 2026
Payment gateway on your own ordering site 2% platform fee on domestic cards and UPI razorpay.com/pricing, Oct 2026
Customer-side platform fee (not yours, but it suppresses order volume) Zomato ₹14.90 and Swiggy ₹17.58 per order after the March 2026 hikes Storyboard18, 24 March 2026

ONDC buyer apps such as Magicpin and Paytm charge less than the aggregators, but the rate is set by the seller app you sign with, so get it in writing rather than from a blog. All-in, a ₹500 Swiggy or Zomato order at 25% commission plus GST on commission and a 1% settlement deduction returns about ₹347 to the kitchen. So "does it integrate with Swiggy" is the wrong question. Ask instead: does it put aggregator orders on the KDS so nobody retypes them, does it reconcile payouts against orders, and does it help move repeat customers to your own channel? UrbanPiper, Petpooja Growth and Saffron POS answer yes to all three; TMBill only to the first; DineOpen Starter has no aggregator sync at all.

What to check before you sign a POS contract

Petpooja's own buyer guide gives a seven-point checklist I agree with, and I have added the three we insist on in projects:

  1. Ask for the renewal price, not the first-year price. Get it in the contract.
  2. Split the quote: software, hardware, installation, menu entry and training as separate lines.
  3. Test offline billing on the demo machine. Pull the internet, punch five bills, reconnect, check the sync.
  4. Ask who does menu entry and what it costs.
  5. Confirm the support model in your city: escalation number, response time, whether site visits are charged.
  6. Check the data exit. You should be able to export bills, item masters and customer data yourself, in CSV, without asking.
  7. Open the reports. Ask to see a real P&L built from POS data, not a sample dashboard.
  8. Ask where the data lives and who owns it if you stop paying. On a subscription the answer is usually "the vendor, for 30 to 90 days".
  9. Check the GST configuration screen yourself: can you set 5% without ITC at outlet level, mark service charge optional, and print SAC 9963?
  10. Price the aggregator add-on and the per-outlet multiplier before you fall in love with the base plan.

How to roll out a new POS in one week

When you switch a restaurant's POS, this sequence avoids the two classic failures: kitchen staff reverting to paper, and a go-live during a rush. Before day one, map the order flow from door to payment, document every menu item with variants and taxes, list kitchen stations and decide who can discount and void. Days one and two are menu, tax and printer setup plus staff PINs; days three and four are training, billing staff first and kitchen second, with the old system still running; day five is a full test during the slowest service of the week; and you go live at a slow service on day six or seven with the old system on standby.

The mistakes we see most: skipping recipe setup, so inventory reports mean nothing; not integrating aggregators on day one, so re-entry becomes a habit; and nobody testing offline mode until the broadband fails. Our POS migration guide is written for hotels but the cut-over plan applies to any restaurant.

Which restaurant POS should you choose for your type of restaurant?

  • Small cafe or counter, one outlet: TMBill at ₹5,999 a year or Recaho at ₹12,000. Add DineOpen Starter if you want monthly billing with no contract.
  • Full-service dine-in, one or two outlets: Petpooja Growth, Recaho's ₹18,000 tier, or Saffron POS one-time if you would rather pay once.
  • Cloud kitchen or delivery-first: UrbanPiper Prime first, then DineOpen Growth or Petpooja Growth for the reconciliation.
  • Fine dining with course service: Saffron POS for course-wise KDS, or Petpooja Growth.
  • Direct ordering focus: LimeTray, or Saffron POS with a branded ordering site.
  • Chain of five or more outlets: Restroworks, Petpooja Scale, or a custom build; run the TCO maths in our restaurant POS cost guide before deciding.
  • Stock-heavy multi-cuisine kitchen: GoFrugal ServeEasy.

Conclusion

Your POS touches every rupee that enters the restaurant, so pick it on the Friday-night tests, not the feature count: offline billing, aggregator orders on the kitchen screen, recipe-level stock, GST configured per outlet, and a renewal price you have seen in writing. For most single outlets that points to Petpooja, Recaho or TMBill. For chains, Restroworks or a custom build. For owners who are done paying monthly rent on their own billing system, our one-time licence.

If you want to see Saffron POS running on your menu, book a demo and we will set it up with your items, your tax configuration and your kitchen stations before the call. We are a founder-led team in Lucknow, rated 4.9 on Google from 92 reviews and Top Rated on Upwork, and the demo is free. Our complete product range covers the hotel, pharmacy and other business systems that sit alongside the POS.

Frequently asked questions

Published list prices in October 2026 run from about ₹1,000 a month for a single-outlet base plan (Petpooja Base ₹12,000, UrbanPiper Prime ₹8,475 a year on Techjockey) to ₹20,000 to ₹30,000 a month for Petpooja's Growth and Scale bundles. One-time licences start at ₹24,999 for our Saffron POS. Add 18% GST on software, installation and menu entry if the vendor charges for them, and ₹40,000 to ₹1,00,000 for hardware.

For one outlet with simple billing, a base plan from Petpooja, Recaho (₹12,000 a year) or TMBill (₹5,999 a year) covers KOT, GST bills and Swiggy/Zomato acceptance. Check that offline billing, your city's support line and a data export are included before you pay. If you expect to run it for more than a year, a one-time licence such as Saffron POS at ₹24,999 is cheaper than any subscription by month 10.

5% without input tax credit for standalone restaurants, dine-in, takeaway and delivery alike, and 18% with ITC only for restaurants inside hotels where any room is declared at ₹7,500 or more a night (specified premises). The 22 September 2025 GST rate rebuild left restaurant services unchanged. Your POS must print SAC 9963, split CGST and SGST, and keep service charge optional after the Delhi High Court's 28 March 2025 ruling.

Yes. Every POS on this list accepts Swiggy and Zomato orders onto the billing screen or kitchen display, so staff stop retyping from aggregator tablets. Some vendors price it as an add-on, so ask whether aggregator sync is in the base plan. Budget for the aggregator cost itself: commissions of roughly 18% to 28% per order plus 18% GST on that commission.

The good ones do. Offline mode keeps billing, KOT and table status running on the local device and syncs when the connection returns. Test it on the demo machine: unplug the internet, punch five bills, reconnect, and confirm nothing is lost. Cloud-only products fail this test, and a Friday dinner rush is exactly when a broadband line drops.

Subscriptions win for the first year and for restaurants that want zero maintenance. A one-time licence wins on total cost after roughly ten months: ₹24,999 once against ₹2,499 a month is ₹29,988 in year one and ₹1,49,940 over five years for the subscription. Choose one-time if you can host or have someone who can, and subscription if you cannot.

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