Restaurant POS Source Code for Sale India 2026: Saffron POS
Founder & Lead Developer, Codingclave · 200+ projects since 2017
You are a freelance developer or a small agency in India. A restaurant owner has asked you to build them a POS system. You said yes, quoted Rs 1,80,000, and now you are staring at a blank repo wondering whether to start from scratch, fork some five-year-old PHP script from CodeCanyon, or hack Odoo POS into something the client will accept.
There is a faster path. Buy a production-grade, modern-stack restaurant POS codebase that we built over six months and Rs 12 lakhs of dev investment, white-label it, deploy it for your client in 3 days, keep most of the project value as your margin.
This is the pitch for Saffron POS source code — and this post tells you exactly what is in the package, what it costs, what licence options exist, what is not included, and how to buy.
I am Ashish Sharma, founder of Codingclave. We built Saffron POS for our own restaurant clients first, then realised that other agencies and freelancers across India were rebuilding the same thing from scratch every week. So we packaged the full source as a buyable codebase.
TL;DR for the impatient developer
- Codebase: Next.js 16, React 19, TypeScript, Tailwind v4, shadcn/ui, PostgreSQL plus Drizzle, Zustand, Recharts
- Modules: 11 production modules (login, dashboard, POS, KDS, tables, orders, reservations, menu, inventory, reports, settings)
- Single-restaurant licence: Rs 35,000 (one deployment)
- Agency licence: Rs 75,000 (unlimited client deployments, white-label)
- Reseller licence: Rs 2,50,000 (sell as your own SaaS, keep 100 percent revenue)
- Support: 30 days included, deployment help, 1 onboarding call
- Buy: WhatsApp +91 92771 84741 → get private GitHub invite in 4 hours
Talk to Ashish on WhatsApp now
What you get when you buy the Saffron POS codebase
Every line of code. Every migration. Every config file. No partial release, no community-edition trick where the good stuff is paywalled.
The full source repository
When you purchase, we add you as a collaborator to a private GitHub repository. You clone it, you own your copy, you do whatever you want with it inside your licence terms. The repository contains:
- App layer: Next.js 16 App Router with around 240 route segments across the 11 modules
- Component layer: roughly 180 shared components built on shadcn/ui plus Base UI primitives, all in TypeScript
- Database layer: PostgreSQL schema with 47 tables, all Drizzle ORM migrations from initial schema to current production state
- API layer: about 90 server actions plus 30 route handlers covering authentication, orders, inventory mutations, reporting
- State layer: Zustand stores for cart state, KDS queue, table-status sync
- Auth layer: Auth.js setup with PIN-based staff login plus email-based owner login, role-based access control
- Analytics layer: Recharts dashboards with around 25 pre-built chart configurations
- Seed data: a complete demo restaurant (Saffron Bistro) with menu, staff, orders, and 30 days of synthetic transaction history so the buyer sees a working product on first npm run dev
The eleven production modules
Every module is feature-complete and used in production by paying restaurants today:
- PIN login: 4-digit PIN for floor staff, email plus password for owners and managers
- Dashboard: today-at-a-glance with live revenue, top items, table occupancy, pending KDS tickets
- POS terminal: tablet-optimised order taking with menu, modifiers, splits, holds, void with manager approval
- KDS (Kitchen Display System): real-time order tickets for kitchen, color-coded by elapsed time
- Tables: visual floor plan, drag-to-place, transfer between tables, merge and split bills
- Orders: dine-in, takeaway, delivery flows with separate workflow per type
- Reservations: calendar plus walk-in queue, SMS confirmation template
- Menu engineering: categories, items, modifiers, combos, time-based pricing (happy hour rules)
- Inventory: SKU-level stock, deduction on sale, manual adjustment with audit log, low-stock alerts
- Reports: 18 reports covering sales, items, staff performance, tax (GST), payment mode mix
- Settings: business profile, tax setup (GST slab per item), printer config, KDS routing rules
Documentation
Three documents ship with the repo:
- README.md: setup, env variables, deployment in 7 steps
- ARCHITECTURE.md: module boundaries, data flow, state strategy, why each library was chosen
- API.md: every server action and route handler with input plus output schemas
Deployment guides
We give you ready-to-follow deployment guides for four hosting paths:
- Vercel plus Neon (recommended for first deployment, cheapest at Rs 0 to Rs 800 per month per restaurant)
- AWS (ECS plus RDS, for agencies that already have AWS playbooks)
- DigitalOcean (App Platform plus Managed Postgres, around Rs 1,800 per month)
- Hostinger VPS (for cost-sensitive single-restaurant clients, around Rs 700 per month)
Watch what you are buying
Before you spend Rs 35,000 or more, watch the full product walkthrough. This is the exact UI and exact features in the codebase you will receive. No mockups, no Figma, no aspirational features. What you see is what is in the repo.
This is exactly what you get when you buy the codebase. The PIN login, the POS terminal flow, the KDS, the dashboard — all of it shipped in the repository.
I have watched the demo — send me the buy details on WhatsApp
The three licence options
We deliberately kept the licence structure simple. Three tiers, one-time payment per tier, perpetual rights.
Single-restaurant licence — Rs 35,000
You deploy the codebase for exactly one restaurant. Use case: freelance developer who has a single restaurant client and just wants to ship a project quickly.
- One client deployment allowed
- White-labelling allowed (the restaurant brand appears in the app)
- 30 days support included
- All updates for the first 12 months
- No resale of the raw source
Agency licence — Rs 75,000
You deploy the codebase for unlimited restaurant clients. Use case: digital agency or freelance dev shop that wants to add restaurant POS as a service.
- Unlimited client deployments
- White-label under your agency brand or per-client brand
- 30 days support included
- All updates for the first 12 months
- No resale of the raw source
This is the most popular tier. Most agencies recover the Rs 75,000 cost on the first project alone.
Reseller licence — Rs 2,50,000
You launch the codebase as your own SaaS product. Use case: indie founder who wants to compete with Petpooja, PetPooja, Posist, Limetray, Restroworks without 6 months of engineering.
- Re-launch as your own branded SaaS
- Multi-tenant deployment allowed
- 100 percent of subscription revenue is yours
- 60 days support included
- All updates for the first 12 months
- No resale of the raw source code on marketplaces
A single restaurant client paying Rs 2,499 per month covers the Reseller licence in 8 months. Most resellers reach break-even in 4 to 5 months by signing 3 to 5 restaurants at Rs 3,000 to Rs 4,500 per month each.
Ask Ashish which licence fits you
Tech stack deep-dive (for developers who want to verify before buying)
If you are a developer evaluating the codebase, here is the full stack with the reasoning for each choice. We made deliberate choices, not Reddit-driven ones.
Frontend
- Next.js 16 (App Router): server components by default for data-fetching speed, client islands only where state matters (POS terminal, KDS). Cache Components used for menu plus dashboard.
- React 19: stable since late 2025, used for the new use API plus form actions
- TypeScript in strict mode: every module, every component, every server action is typed end-to-end
- Tailwind CSS v4: the new engine, no PostCSS config bloat, CSS-first config
- shadcn/ui on Base UI: every component is in your repo, you can fork and modify, no opaque dependency
- Zustand: for client-side state where Server Components are not enough (cart, KDS queue)
- Recharts: 25 ready chart configurations for the reports module
Backend
- Server actions for mutations: typed end-to-end with Zod validation, no manual fetch glue
- Route handlers for webhooks and integrations only (payment callbacks, SMS delivery receipts)
- Drizzle ORM: TypeScript-first, fast, no Prisma engine binary issues on Vercel
- PostgreSQL: the boring, reliable database; works on Neon, Supabase, AWS RDS, DigitalOcean, self-hosted
- Auth.js: PIN flow for staff, email plus password for owners, role-based middleware
Why no MongoDB, no Firebase, no PHP
We have read every CodeCanyon listing in the restaurant POS category. They mostly fall into three buckets: PHP plus jQuery (2018 stack), Laravel plus Vue 2 (2020 stack), or React plus Firebase (vendor lock-in). All three are wrong choices for an Indian restaurant deployment in 2026:
- PHP plus jQuery: no TypeScript, slow real-time updates, hostile to modern hosting
- Laravel plus Vue 2: Vue 2 is end-of-life since 2024, Laravel is fine but heavy for POS
- React plus Firebase: Firestore costs explode at 50,000 reads per day, and Indian restaurants do 5,000 to 25,000 menu views per day per location
Next.js 16 plus PostgreSQL gives you cheap hosting (Vercel free tier covers a single small restaurant), zero vendor lock-in, and modern TypeScript ergonomics for your team.
Code quality and what to expect when you open the repo
We have shipped the codebase to over 30 clients between 2025 and 2026. It is production-tested but not perfect. Here is the honest state of the code:
- TypeScript coverage: around 65 percent of files are strict, 35 percent have non-strict typing because they were written before we tightened the rules. We are migrating one module per quarter.
- Test coverage: low. We have Playwright e2e tests for the POS terminal and KDS, no unit tests for utility functions. If you need 80 percent test coverage, plan 3 to 4 weeks of test-writing.
- Component structure: modular under src/modules, each module exports its public surface via index.ts. Cross-module imports are linted against.
- Env-driven configuration: no hardcoded URLs, no hardcoded API keys, no test data in production paths
- No telemetry: we do not phone home, we do not collect usage data, your client's data stays on your client's database
The buy-vs-build maths for agencies
Here is the honest cost comparison for an agency considering whether to buy Saffron POS or build their own.
Option 1: Build from scratch
- Senior dev plus mid dev plus designer for 4 to 6 months
- Cost: Rs 8,00,000 to Rs 15,00,000 in salaries plus opportunity cost
- Time-to-first-revenue: 5 to 7 months
- Risk: high (your first client funds the build, they will be unhappy with timelines)
Option 2: Fork an open-source POS (Odoo POS, OpenSourcePOS)
- 6 to 8 weeks of customisation per client
- Cost: Rs 3,00,000 to Rs 5,00,000 per client in dev cost
- Time-to-first-revenue: 8 to 10 weeks
- Risk: medium (Odoo is heavy, OpenSourcePOS is dated PHP)
Option 3: Buy Saffron POS Agency licence
- Rs 75,000 one-time
- 2 to 3 days deployment per restaurant client
- Time-to-first-revenue: 1 week from licence purchase
- Risk: low (production-tested code, deployment guide, support)
If you charge your clients Rs 1,50,000 to Rs 3,00,000 per restaurant deployment, the Agency licence pays for itself on the first project, and every subsequent client is almost pure margin.
How to white-label in 15 minutes
White-labelling is intentionally trivial. We get asked this every week, so here is the exact process:
- Open src/config/branding.ts and change the brand name string, logo SVG path, support email, support phone
- Open tailwind.config.ts and change the primary plus secondary plus accent colors (or paste your client's hex codes from Figma)
- Replace public/logo.svg and public/favicon.ico with your client's logo
- Optionally: open src/app/layout.tsx and change the page title plus meta description
That is it. Run npm run build, deploy, and your client sees their own brand throughout the application. There is no Saffron POS string anywhere except in package.json (which the end-user never sees) and the LICENSE file in the repo.
The reseller business model (for indie founders)
If you take the Reseller licence (Rs 2,50,000), you are not building a one-off project for clients — you are launching a SaaS product. Here is the model we have seen work:
- Your offer: relaunch as "YourBrand POS" with multi-tenant hosting
- Pricing: Rs 2,499 per month per restaurant (vs Petpooja Rs 8,000 to Rs 18,000, vs Posist Rs 12,000+)
- Margin per client: around Rs 1,800 per month after hosting and payment gateway fees
- Break-even: 6 to 8 paying clients clears your monthly hosting plus support cost
- Year-1 target: 30 to 60 paying clients (Rs 4 lakh to Rs 11 lakh ARR) is realistic with focused sales effort
The reseller licence is for founders who already have a sales channel or a restaurant industry network. It is not for someone who has never sold to restaurants — you will burn cash on customer acquisition.
What is NOT included (because honesty matters)
We are deliberately upfront about gaps so that nobody buys this thinking it is something it is not.
- Real payment gateway processing: you set up your own Razorpay or PayU account, plug your keys into env. The integration code is in the repo, the keys are not.
- Real KDS hardware: you buy the tablets (Lenovo M10, Samsung Tab A) and the printer for your client. We tell you which models work, we do not ship hardware.
- Swiggy and Zomato API access: you apply for their aggregator partner programs (5 to 8 weeks). Our codebase has the integration adapters ready, your API keys go in env when you get them.
- GST e-invoicing IRN generation: included for invoices under Rs 5 crore turnover. For larger clients you may need a separate IRP integration.
- Marketing and sales: this is source code, not a customer acquisition system. You handle sales.
- 24/7 hardware support for your client: that is your service to your client, not ours to you.
If you need any of the above as paid add-ons, we can quote separately. WhatsApp Ashish to discuss.
How to buy (the actual process)
The buying flow is intentionally low-friction so you can be deploying within hours:
- WhatsApp +91 92771 84741 with your name, agency or freelance status, which licence tier you want (Single, Agency, Reseller), and one line about your use case (which client, what city)
- Ashish replies within 4 hours (usually under 1 hour during 9 AM to 9 PM IST) with the payment link
- Pay via UPI, NEFT, or Razorpay (we do not accept crypto, not because we are anti-crypto, just because of GST compliance)
- Within 4 hours of payment, you get a private GitHub repository invite plus the welcome PDF with deployment guide plus support channel access
- First deployment: usually live in 2 to 3 days with our deployment-day Slack support
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Support: what 30 days of included support means
This is the part most CodeCanyon scripts get wrong. They say "6 months support" and then ghost you on day 3. We are explicit about what is included:
- Slack channel access: shared with the Codingclave team for 30 days
- WhatsApp support: direct line to Ashish for urgent issues
- Reply SLA: 24 hours on business days, 48 hours on weekends
- What is covered: deployment problems, env config questions, codebase architecture questions, bug reports
- What is NOT covered: writing new modules for you, customising for your client's specific requirements, free re-architecture
- One 60-minute onboarding call: video walkthrough of the codebase plus Q and A
- After 30 days: paid support at Rs 8,000 per month or Rs 2,500 per resolved ticket
Update policy
You get every code update for the first 12 months from purchase, delivered as merge-ready git commits to your private repo. Updates typically include:
- New features (e.g. WhatsApp ordering, loyalty modules) every 4 to 6 weeks
- Bug fixes and security patches as needed
- Next.js plus React plus dependency upgrades quarterly
After 12 months, continuous updates are available at Rs 15,000 per year. You can also choose not to renew and keep using the code as-is forever — your licence is perpetual.
Why this beats CodeCanyon scripts
We respect CodeCanyon as a marketplace, but the restaurant POS category is mostly stale code. Here is the honest comparison:
| Factor | Typical CodeCanyon POS | Saffron POS |
|---|---|---|
| Tech stack | PHP plus jQuery or Laravel plus Vue 2 | Next.js 16 plus React 19 plus TypeScript |
| Last meaningful update | 2021 to 2023 | Active, monthly releases |
| TypeScript | None | Strict mode |
| Real-time KDS | Polling every 30 seconds | Server-sent events plus optimistic updates |
| Indian GST | Often half-broken | Full GST 18 percent plus 5 percent plus 0 percent slab support |
| Mobile-tablet UX | Desktop-first, retrofitted | Tablet-first design |
| Support | Author absent after 6 months | 30 days direct, paid extension available |
| Resale rights | Sometimes confused | Three clear licence tiers |
| Price | Rs 5,000 to Rs 15,000 | Rs 35,000 to Rs 2,50,000 |
Yes, we cost more. The reason is simple: Rs 5,000 scripts make sense as side projects to their authors. Saffron POS is our main product, used by our own clients, maintained by our own team. The price reflects that.
Three anonymised buyer stories
Buyer 1: Freelance dev in Pune, single-restaurant licence Bought the Rs 35,000 single-restaurant licence in March 2026. Deployed for a 60-seater South Indian restaurant in Kothrud over 4 days. Charged the client Rs 1,80,000 plus Rs 4,500 per month ongoing. Net margin on the project: Rs 1,40,000 after 3 days of deployment plus 1 day of staff training.
Buyer 2: 6-person agency in Bangalore, agency licence Bought the Rs 75,000 agency licence in January 2026. Deployed for 7 restaurant clients in 5 months across Bangalore plus Mysore. Average project value to clients: Rs 2,20,000 per restaurant. Cumulative agency revenue: Rs 15.4 lakh from a Rs 75,000 codebase investment.
Buyer 3: Solo indie founder in Hyderabad, reseller licence Bought the Rs 2,50,000 reseller licence in December 2025. Launched as "Mirchi POS" targeting tier-2 Andhra plus Telangana cities. 22 paying restaurants at Rs 2,499 per month by month 6. Run-rate MRR: Rs 55,000. On-track to clear Rs 1.5 lakh MRR by month 12.
(Names withheld at buyer request, business details verified.)
Frequently asked one-liners
- Can I see the code before buying? Demo video above, full code after purchase
- Do you take a percentage of my revenue? No, one-time licence, full rights, zero royalties
- What if I want to add custom modules? Go ahead, those modules are yours
- Do I get access to your developers for paid customisation? Yes, Rs 1,800 per hour, minimum 20-hour block
- Can I host this on my own server? Yes, any Node host plus PostgreSQL works
- What if Next.js 17 ships next year? We will upgrade and push to your repo for 12 months free
- Is there an Indian-language UI? Not yet, but the i18n hooks are in place for you to plug in Hindi or Tamil
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The bottom line
If you are an agency or a freelance developer in India who has been asked to build a restaurant POS, the maths is simple:
- Build from scratch: Rs 8 lakh to Rs 15 lakh in dev cost, 4 to 6 months
- Fork an old script: Rs 3 lakh to Rs 5 lakh in customisation, 6 to 8 weeks
- Buy Saffron POS: Rs 35,000 to Rs 2,50,000 in licence, 2 to 3 days
You can be quoting and delivering restaurant POS projects to your clients next week instead of next quarter. That is the value of buying a production-grade codebase.
WhatsApp Ashish on +91 92771 84741 when you are ready. Tell him which licence tier, and which use case, and he will send the payment link plus GitHub invite within 4 hours.
Buy the Saffron POS source code now
About the author
Ashish Sharma is the founder of Codingclave, a Delhi-based product engineering studio that builds restaurant, healthcare, and retail software for Indian SMBs. He has led the development of Saffron POS, Codingclave's flagship restaurant management product, deployed in over 30 restaurants across India. Connect on LinkedIn at linkedin.com/in/ashishofficials or WhatsApp +91 92771 84741.
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Frequently asked questions
Next.js 16 (App Router), React 19, TypeScript in strict mode, Tailwind CSS v4, shadcn/ui components on Base UI primitives, Zustand for client state, Recharts for analytics, Drizzle ORM with PostgreSQL, and Auth.js for authentication. The codebase is fully hostable on Vercel plus Neon (or any Node host plus PostgreSQL), with no AWS-specific lock-in. There is no PHP, no jQuery, no legacy framework anywhere.
We offer three perpetual licences. Single-restaurant licence (Rs 35,000) lets you deploy the codebase for one restaurant client only. Agency licence (Rs 75,000) lets you deploy for unlimited end-clients under a white-label model. Reseller licence (Rs 2,50,000) lets you sell the codebase as your own product and keep 100 percent of the revenue. All three are perpetual, no annual renewal required.
You get the full production source code (every module: PIN login, dashboard, POS terminal, KDS, table management, orders, reservations, menu engineering, inventory, reports, settings), PostgreSQL schema with Drizzle migrations, seed data for an instant demo environment, deployment guides for Vercel plus AWS plus DigitalOcean plus Hostinger VPS, complete README with architecture documentation, and an internal API reference. No watermark, no telemetry, no phone-home.
Most agencies have a working demo deployed in under 4 hours. The fastest path is Vercel plus Neon PostgreSQL: clone the repo, set 6 env vars, run drizzle-kit push, deploy. For a real restaurant client we recommend 2 to 3 days from licence purchase to go-live, including branding, menu data entry, and a tablet hardware test.
Yes, full access. The codebase is modular by design with one folder per module under src/modules. We have intentionally kept all branding in two files (branding.ts and tailwind.config.ts) so that white-labelling is a 15-minute job. Custom modules added by your team belong to you. There is no encrypted code, no obfuscation, no licence-key check that runs at runtime.
Yes if you buy the Agency licence (Rs 75,000) or Reseller licence (Rs 2,50,000). The Agency licence is for agencies who deploy individual instances per client and charge their client directly. The Reseller licence is for those who want to relaunch the codebase as their own SaaS product (rename, rebrand, host multi-tenant, charge subscription). You keep 100 percent of revenue in both cases.
Single-restaurant and Agency licences do not allow resale of the raw source code itself, only deployed instances. Reseller licence allows you to sell the product (you can market a renamed copy as your own SaaS) but does not allow you to resell the raw source code or upload it to marketplaces. Distribution of the raw code on CodeCanyon, GitHub, or any other marketplace is not permitted under any licence.
All three licences include 30 days of WhatsApp plus Slack support with a 24-hour reply SLA, deployment assistance from our team for the first deployment, and one 60-minute onboarding video call to walk you through the codebase architecture. After 30 days, paid support is available at Rs 8,000 per month or pay-per-issue at Rs 2,500 per resolved ticket.
Refunds are available within 7 days of purchase if the codebase fails to run on a standard Vercel plus Neon deployment with our documented setup steps and the issue is reproducibly on our side. Refunds are not available after the GitHub repo invite is accepted, after custom modifications have been made, or based on a change of mind. We accept this because the codebase is digital and cannot be returned once delivered.
Most CodeCanyon restaurant POS scripts at the Rs 5,000 to Rs 15,000 range are PHP plus jQuery codebases written between 2018 and 2021. They have no TypeScript, no modern React, no real-time updates, no proper state management, and most are abandoned by their authors. Saffron POS is a 2026-stack codebase (Next.js 16, React 19, TypeScript strict, Tailwind v4) actively used in production by paying restaurant clients, maintained by the original team.