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Billing Software for Canteens & Food Courts

Built for institutional canteens and busy food courts with coupon handling, token billing, shift reconciliation, and fast offline-first counter operations.

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Challenges we solve for Canteen / Food Court

Real problems faced by canteen / food court owners — solved with Talvera Orbit.

Coupon and Token Tracking Gets Messy

Meal coupons, prepaid slips, and manual token books create reconciliation issues. Orbit records each order cleanly and keeps the token queue organised.

Rush Hours Overwhelm the Counter

Lunch and tea breaks bring sudden order spikes. Orbit is tuned for quick tap-to-bill counter work, with a token number on every order.

Shift Collections Are Hard to Close

Multiple operators and payment modes make end-of-day balancing painful. Orbit gives shift-wise totals and payment reconciliation for tighter control.

Everything your Canteen / Food Court needs

Purpose-built features for canteen / food court owners in India.

Counter billing with a token number filled in on every order
Meal Passes — sell a prepaid pass (e.g. 22 lunches) and redeem one meal at a time
Shift-wise sales and reconciliation reporting
Recipes & Ingredients with a wastage log for leftover food
GST-compliant bills at the 5% canteen rate, with payment mode summary
Menu Engineering report — best sellers by quantity and revenue
Hourly sales heatmap to plan staffing around rush hours
Multi-counter billing — run multiple billing PCs on one local network
Daily sales and P&L reports exportable to Excel

A day at your canteen / food court on Talvera Orbit

From opening the counter to closing the day — how the work actually runs.

Before service: set the day's menu
Your menu sits in Orbit with prices and GST. Ingredients come in against supplier bills as GRNs so store-room stock stays right.
Rush hour: tap, token, done
Tap the thali, take cash or UPI, and the bill prints with its token number. A second counter on the same network shares the menu and the sales.
Regulars on a Meal Pass
Sell a pass once a month; at lunch, redeem one meal against it. The regular sees how many meals are left.
Shift change
Each cashier closes their shift; collections are shown by payment mode against the bills, with any shortfall flagged.
After service
Log leftover food in Wastage, and check the Owner Dashboard for the day's sales and the busiest hours.

Reports canteen / food court owners open every week

Named as they appear in the app.

Day Close

Each shift and day's takings by payment mode, with cash differences shown.

Hourly Sales

Exactly when the lunch and tea rush peaks, to plan staff and preparation.

Menu Engineering

Which dishes sell and which earn, so the menu can be trimmed.

Cashier Performance

Bills and takings per cashier.

GST Summary

Tax collected on your bills, ready for your returns.

How to choose canteen / food court billing software

An office, college or factory canteen serves the same people every day, in short and very busy windows. Canteen billing software has to bill a thali in two taps, handle regulars who pay monthly in advance, and let each shift's cashier close their own cash without arguments.

Talvera Orbit bills from a tap-to-add menu with a token number on every order, sells prepaid Meal Passes that are redeemed one meal at a time, and closes each shift separately. It runs offline on your own Windows PC, and more counters can share one menu and one set of data on your local network.

Checklist before you buy

Can a cashier bill a meal in two or three taps?
Does it support prepaid meal passes or coupons for regulars?
Can each shift be closed and checked separately?
Can two or more counters bill at once from one menu?
Does billing continue if the internet drops during lunch?

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WhatsApp · Offers · Loyalty

Bring your canteen / food court customers back

Bills on WhatsApp, offer campaigns with a flyer designed for you, and the discounts, coupons and loyalty points that turn a first visit into a regular.

Bills on WhatsAppWhatsApp add-on

Send the GST bill as a PDF to the customer's WhatsApp straight from the sale screen, or resend any old bill from the invoice list. No paper, no lost bills.

WhatsApp offer campaignsWhatsApp add-on

Pick an offer you already run or write a new one, choose which customers get it, see exactly what they will see, send a test to your own phone — then send. Only customers who agreed to receive offers are messaged.

Your offer flyer, designed for youWhatsApp add-on

Orbit builds the campaign flyer from your shop name, logo and offer, sized for a phone screen and ready to send.

Offers at the counter

Flat and percentage discounts, buy-one-get-one and bundle offers, applied automatically when the items are billed.

Coupons, gift vouchers and loyalty points

Issue coupon codes and gift vouchers, and let customers earn points on every bill and redeem them later.

Birthday and anniversary offers

Record a customer's birthday or anniversary and Orbit lists who is due, so the greeting and the offer go out on the day.

Bills that carry your brand

Choose from several invoice and receipt designs and add your logo in the Invoice Studio, so every bill looks like your shop.

Canteen / Food Court billing software across India

Talvera Orbit serves canteen / food court owners in every state of India, from big cities to small towns, including Erode, Tirupur, Salem and Trichy in Tamil Nadu. The Windows app works offline, so billing keeps running even when the internet does not.

Andaman and Nicobar Islands
Andhra Pradesh
Arunachal Pradesh
Assam
Bihar
Chandigarh
Chhattisgarh
Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu
Delhi
Goa
Gujarat
Haryana
Himachal Pradesh
Jammu and Kashmir
Jharkhand
Karnataka
Kerala
Ladakh
Lakshadweep
Madhya Pradesh
Maharashtra
Manipur
Meghalaya
Mizoram
Nagaland
Odisha
Puducherry
Punjab
Rajasthan
Sikkim
Tamil Nadu
Telangana
Tripura
Uttar Pradesh
Uttarakhand
West Bengal

Pricing on Request

No per-invoice charges. No hidden fees. Contact us for a quote tailored to your business.

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Canteen / Food Court billing software — FAQs

Common questions from canteen / food court owners in India.

Can I handle meal coupons and prepaid orders?

Yes. Sell a Meal Pass on a bill — for example a Lunch Pass of 22 veg thalis — and redeem one meal at a time at the counter. Each regular's balance of meals is tracked, replacing the manual coupon books that make reconciliation painful.

Can I close the accounts shift by shift?

Yes. Shift-wise sales and reconciliation reporting gives totals per shift with a payment mode breakdown, so multiple operators across a day can each be balanced separately.

Does it generate token numbers for the counter?

Yes. Counter billing generates tokens automatically as orders are taken, keeping the queue orderly when a lunch or tea break sends a sudden spike of orders at the counter.

Can more than one operator bill at the same time?

Yes. Multi-counter billing runs several billing PCs on one local network sharing stock and sales data in real time, which is how a food court or a large canteen keeps queues moving.

Can I send bills and offers to my customers on WhatsApp?

Yes, with the WhatsApp add-on. Bills go to the customer's WhatsApp as a PDF from the sale screen, and WhatsApp Offers sends a campaign — with a flyer Orbit designs from your logo and offer — to the customers who agreed to receive offers. Discounts, buy-one-get-one, coupons, gift vouchers, loyalty points and birthday offers are part of every shop licence.

Does Talvera Orbit work without an internet connection?

Yes. The Windows desktop app stores all your canteen / food court billing data locally in an SQLite database on your own PC, so billing, inventory, and reports keep working with no internet at all.

Is there a free trial?

Yes — a 14-day free trial of the full application, with no credit card required. Select Canteen / Food Court as your business type when you start the trial and you get the complete feature set described on this page.

Can I run more than one billing counter?

Yes. Talvera Orbit runs up to 10 billing counters on a single local network — a Windows desktop as the master counter plus up to 9 more Windows PCs as counters. All counters share stock, customers, and sales data in real time. A multi-counter licence is required to run more than one counter.

How much does it cost?

Pricing is quoted per business rather than published as a fixed list price, because it depends on your shop type, how many billing counters you run, and whether you need Cloud POS across branches. Contact us for a written quote for your canteen / food court.