POS and accounting built for South African cafés and coffee shops

When the queue is out the door, a clunky till costs you sales and cold coffee. Baristas need to fire an order, add an extra shot, and take card or cash in seconds — not fight with a slow screen.

Fresh stock spoils fast and portion creep eats your margin. Without live tracking you only notice you're out of oat milk when a customer asks, and you can't tell wastage from theft.

Once you cross the R1,000,000 turnover threshold you must register for VAT with SARS and file VAT201. Piecing that together from till rolls, card machine reports and a shoebox of receipts is a nightmare.

Is the cappuccino carrying the croissant, or the other way round? Most café owners run on gut feel because sales, costs and cash sit in separate places that never talk to each other.

Tallium AI's POS is built for speed: tap a drink, add modifiers like extra shots or alternative milks, split or merge tabs, and take card, cash or mobile payments in one flow. It runs on the hardware you already have and keeps serving even if the internet drops.

Recipe-level inventory deducts milk, beans, syrups and pastries as drinks and food are sold, so you see real usage in real time. Low-stock alerts and supplier purchase orders mean you reorder before you run dry, and variance reports flag wastage or shrinkage.

Every sale, refund and expense posts straight to your books with the correct VAT treatment, so your VAT201 figures are ready when you need them. Snap a supplier invoice and AI reads and files it — no manual capture. Always confirm current rules with SARS or a local tax professional.

Sales, cost of goods, wages and cash flow live in one place with AI insights that surface your best-sellers, slowest hours and thinnest margins. Add your marketing and customer list from the same Tallium AI suite under a single account.