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Kaha

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Cafes & small chains

A cafe point of sale built to run more than one branch — and to keep selling when the internet does not.

Keeps selling Through an outage
Per branch Prices and settings
Sealed Between branches

Tills for small chains either cost a fortune per branch or stop dead the moment the connection drops. Owners with two or three shops end up running separate systems in each, with no way to compare them and no confidence that the numbers add up the same way.

One system across every branch, priced per shop. Sales carry on during an outage and settle by themselves when the line returns. An owner sees all their shops in one place, and no shop can see another's numbers.

What it does

The parts that matter to the owner

It does not stop when the internet does

Sales are taken and receipts print during an outage, then settle on their own once the connection is back. The queue closes with the till, not with the internet.

Run two shops or ten

Menus, prices and settings are set once for the business and adjusted per branch only where they actually differ.

Each shop's numbers are its own

One branch can never see another's sales. That is enforced by the database itself rather than trusted to be right.

Receipts that satisfy the BIR

Prices are held to the exact centavo with the VAT split a sales invoice has to report, so what prints on the receipt matches what goes in the books.

Kaha takes what was learned running Croma MNL and turns it into something any cafe can buy, rather than a system built for one business.

It is still in development. What works today: a cafe can be set up, its menu and prices configured, and sales can be taken through a full shift. What is still being built is everything around the edges of that — the reporting an owner wants at the end of a month, and the back-office tools that make running several branches genuinely easier than running one.

Could your business use something like this?