A POS you can set up where there is nothing
If your kitchen moves somewhere new every weekend, you don't need a POS installed: you need one you can rent. Orders to the kitchen, cash and card payments, printed receipts and invoices — at a country estate, a warehouse or an empty field with no internet line.
- 15.6" touchscreen
- WiFi thermal printer
- Second printer for the kitchen optional
- 4G router with SIM and battery optional
- Cash drawer optional
The kit isn't the problem. The problem is that the venue keeps changing.
A mobile catering business sets up and packs down every week in a different place, with a different crew and a different invoice. These are the three things that break any POS designed for a fixed venue.
The venue has no WiFi
Or it does, and it's the couple's own network, jammed by 150 guests. Relying on the venue's connection means tossing a coin on your service at every event.
The printers need setting up again
Every new network means re-pairing printers and explaining to everyone which WiFi to join. Half an hour lost before you even start.
Every client bills differently
Sometimes you charge guests one by one, sometimes you invoice the whole thing to the company that hired you. And sometimes both at the same event.
The network travels in the box, not at the venue
The kit can include a 4G router with its own SIM and battery. It broadcasts a WiFi network that is always the same one, whatever the place you're working at happens to be called: the screen and the printers are set up once, at your warehouse, and never touched again.
Waiting staff log in from their own phone using the browser — nothing to install, no app to update before every wedding. And if the router loses coverage one day, their phones keep taking orders on their own data: only printing pauses.
From the van to the first order
Plug in and switch on
Router, screen and printers. They find each other because the network is the usual one. Nothing to pair.
Pick the menu for the event
You keep as many saved menus as you have types of service: wedding menu, open bar, corporate cocktail. Switching takes one tap.
The staff log in
Each with their own user, from their own phone. When the event ends you disable whoever isn't coming back and their access is gone.
Without the restaurant modules that are pointless here
We leave on what you need to work on the move and hide the rest, so whoever is behind the bar doesn't have to learn a whole program.
You pay for the months you work
The catering season doesn't last twelve months, so the rental doesn't have to either. No minimum term: give fifteen days' notice and stop.
The basic kit to get going: one screen, one printer and the iTaula licence included. From there we build whatever kit your operation calls for.
- Second printer (kitchen) on request
- 4G router with SIM and battery on request
- Cash drawer on request
- iTaula licence included
- Unlimited staff from their own phones included
- Setup fee and deposit depends on the kit
Prices exclude VAT. Tell us how many events you do a month and what you take at each one, and we'll pin down the exact figure.
What caterers ask us
What if the event venue has no coverage?
That's the one scenario where the kit with a router doesn't work, which is why it's worth checking coverage on the grounds before signing the event. If you regularly work where there is no signal, say so in the form: there is an alternative using a local network, but it's set up differently and we need to talk it through.
Do the staff need a company phone?
No. They log in with the browser on their own phone, with nothing to install. Each has their own user, so you can see who took each order, and when someone stops working with you their access is disabled and they can no longer get in.
Can I invoice the company that hires me?
Yes. You can charge guests individually with receipts, invoice the total to the client organising the event, or both at the same event. If a receipt was already issued and an invoice is needed afterwards, the system issues the corresponding replacement document.
How long does it take to get a new event ready?
Setting up the kit takes minutes, because its network is always the same. What takes time is the first menu: once that's loaded, duplicating it for a new one is a quick job.
Is there a minimum term?
No. It's month-to-month rental with fifteen days' notice. If your season is five months, you pay five months and hand the kit back.
Tell us what your events look like
Just knowing how many events you do a month and what gets charged at each one, we'll tell you the kit and the figure. No commitment.