Restaurant POS guides

Practical guides for Indian restaurant and café owners on POS software, KOTs, GST billing, QR table ordering and day-end closing, from the team behind DeskoPOS.

• How to Choose Restaurant POS Software in India (2026 Checklist)

  A practical 12-point checklist for choosing restaurant POS software in India: KOTs, GST billing, UPI, QR ordering, hardware, pricing and data export.

• What Is a KOT? Kitchen Order Tickets Explained for Restaurants

  What a KOT (kitchen order ticket) is, what it must contain, and how a POS prevents duplicate or missing kitchen tickets when tables add items.

• GST on Restaurant Bills in India: CGST, SGST, Service Charge and Round-Off

  How GST appears on a restaurant bill in India: the CGST/SGST split, IGST, what the bill must show, service charge rules and round-off, explained simply.

• QR Code Table Ordering for Restaurants: How It Works and How to Set It Up

  How QR code table ordering works in a restaurant, when it helps, when it does not, and a step-by-step setup for tables, menu and kitchen flow.

• Dine-in, Takeaway and Delivery: Running All Three Order Types from One POS

  How to run dine-in, takeaway and delivery orders from one restaurant POS without mix-ups: what each order type needs, charges, and kitchen flow.

• Restaurant Day-End Closing Checklist: Cash, Card and UPI Reconciliation

  A step-by-step day-end closing checklist for restaurants and cafés: settle open tables, count cash, match card and UPI, review voids and discounts.

• Free POS Software for Cafés: What a Free Plan Should Include

  What a genuinely useful free POS plan for a café or small restaurant should include, what is usually held back, and when it is worth upgrading.

• Restaurant Billing Software vs a Restaurant POS: Which Do You Need?

  Billing software prints bills; a restaurant POS also runs tables, KOTs, order types and payments. How to tell which one your restaurant or café needs.

• Restaurant Table Management: Running Your Floor with a Live Floor Plan

  How a live floor plan in a restaurant POS helps you seat guests, track table status, shift tables and turn tables faster without losing orders.

• Accepting UPI Payments at Your Restaurant: Setup and Reconciliation

  How restaurants and cafés can accept UPI smoothly: static vs bill-amount QR, confirming payment before guests leave, split bills and matching UPI to the POS.

• A Simple POS for Small Restaurants and Cafés (Free, or $7 per Month)

  What a small restaurant or café actually needs from a POS, what it can skip, and how a browser-based POS on an existing tablet keeps cost near zero.