Accounting, POS and stock software for South African catering and cloud kitchens

You quote a wedding at R320 a head or price a delivery bowl at R95, then chicken, oil and packaging all move before service day. Without live ingredient costing you only find out the job lost money when the bank balance disagrees with the invoice, weeks later.

Catering runs on a 50% deposit, a balance on the day and a corporate client who pays when their finance team feels like it. Tracking who has paid what across spreadsheets, WhatsApp confirmations and a bank statement is where cash quietly disappears.

A cloud kitchen may run three or four menu brands from the same fridges and the same staff. When sales land through different apps and cash pickups, you cannot see which brand is actually carrying the rent and which one is just adding prep work.

Once you cross the R1,000,000 turnover mark you are dealing with SARS eFiling, and suddenly you need every supplier invoice, every fuel slip and every packaging till slip in one place. Shoeboxes and photo folders make a two-hour job into a two-day job.

Bulk ingredients, cooldrinks and disposables move fast and are easy to lose between the cold room, the van and the function. Without counts against actual sales, shrinkage just shows up as a thinner margin nobody can explain.

Build each menu item and function package from its ingredients, and Tallium AI keeps the cost per plate current as you capture supplier invoices. You can see gross margin per dish, per brand and per event before you commit to a quote, not after the client has eaten.

Send a catering quote, convert it to an invoice, record the deposit and let the app track the outstanding balance and due date. Aged receivables show you at a glance which corporate account needs a polite follow-up this week.

Ring up walk-ins and collections on the POS, record delivery-platform payouts and invoice corporate accounts, all into the same books. Report by brand, location or channel so you know which part of the kitchen is genuinely profitable.

Snap supplier invoices and slips with your phone; AI reads the amounts and files them against the right supplier and category with VAT separated out. When it is time to prepare your VAT201 on SARS eFiling, the figures and the supporting documents are already sitting together — confirm current rules with SARS or a local tax professional.

Track ingredients, cooldrinks, disposables and gas with reorder points and quick stock counts on the mobile app. Variance between what you sold and what you have left is visible weekly, so losses get caught while you can still do something about them.