A busy restaurant runs on small handoffs. A captain takes an order at table 6, a paper slip goes down to the kitchen, the table orders another plate halfway through, and at the end a group of eight wants the bill split three ways. When those handoffs live on paper, orders go missing between the table and the kitchen, bills come out wrong, and the cash at closing never quite matches the day.
This guide covers what restaurant management software actually needs to do, how Saauzi handles it with two apps, what a Saturday looks like on it, and where it stops.
What software a restaurant actually needs
- A live view of the floor. Which tables are free, which are eating and which are waiting for the bill.
- Orders that reach the kitchen without a runner, exactly as the captain entered them.
- A menu that matches how you sell. Half and full portions of the same dish, without two separate menu entries.
- Bills that handle groups. Friends split, and families push two tables together.
- Money that adds up at closing, in a book you can check against the drawer the same night.
How Saauzi covers a restaurant: POS Restaurant and Cashbook
When you sign up to Saauzi and pick Restaurant as your industry, it switches on two apps: POS Restaurant and Cashbook. Saauzi is an all-in-one ERP (our plain-English guide to ERP for small businesses explains the idea), so both apps share one menu catalog and one book. You can install other apps from the hub later. The Saauzi page for restaurants shows the set at a glance.
POS Restaurant
- Floors and tables. Set up your ground floor, rooftop or private room, and open orders against each table.
- KOT to the kitchen. Orders go to the kitchen as a kitchen order ticket (KOT), so the cooks work from what was entered at the table.
- Menu items with options. A half and a full plate of chilli chicken sit under one item.
- Reservations recorded alongside the evening's tables.
- Split and merge bills for groups that pay separately or spread across tables.
- Reports. Restaurant sales feed the same POS reports as a shop: today's takings, best-sellers and slow movers.
Bills print your restaurant's name, address and PAN/VAT, with VAT set once in Settings. More detail is on the POS Restaurant page.
Cashbook
Every sale posts to Cashbook automatically. You add the money going out, such as the morning vegetable run or the gas cylinder, and Cashbook keeps cash, bank and wallet accounts such as eSewa or Khalti side by side. At closing you count the drawer, match it to the book and see any difference that night. Clean exports go to your accountant.
A hypothetical Saturday
Say you run a 16-table restaurant over two floors. At 10 a.m. you check the evening's reservations, including a family of ten at 7:30, and enter NPR 6,000 of vegetables paid in cash as an expense.
Captains open orders at each table and KOTs reach the kitchen, so nobody carries slips downstairs. The family of ten sits across tables 3 and 4, and you merge the two bills into one. A group of six on the rooftop wants to pay separately, so their bill is split three ways.
At closing Cashbook expects NPR 48,200 in cash and you count NPR 47,900. You find the NPR 300 gap tonight, while the shift is still fresh. The best-sellers report shows chicken chowmein leading the day, and the slow movers list shows a soup nobody has ordered in weeks.
A checklist for choosing restaurant software
- Can a new captain learn table orders in a single shift?
- Does every order reach the kitchen as a ticket?
- Do half and full portions sit under one menu item?
- Can you split and merge bills without re-entering orders?
- Can you check the drawer against the book every night?
- Is the price flat, or does the vendor take a commission on your sales?
Running a quick-service counter instead? Our guide to fast food POS software covers what changes when speed matters more than tables.
Where Saauzi fits and where it doesn't
Saauzi fits a small or mid-sized restaurant that wants tables, kitchen tickets, bills and daily cash in one place, without an implementation project. Here is what it does not do:
- No ingredient or recipe stock, and no food-cost reports. Menu items don't track stock by default; Saauzi counts how many of each dish you sold. If you need to know how much chicken should be left after 40 plates, keep a separate kitchen stock sheet.
- No delivery-app integrations. Delivery-app orders stay in those apps unless you enter them in the POS yourself.
- No online booking page for guests. Your staff record reservations.
- No payroll or staff rostering.
- Cashbook is not full accounting. It doesn't keep double-entry books or file VAT returns.
What it costs
Your first app is free forever, so you can start with POS Restaurant alone. One flat subscription unlocks every Saauzi app, Cashbook included: NPR 1,500 per user per month or NPR 12,000 per user per year (US$20 per user per month or US$200 per user per year internationally), with no commission on sales.
If three people log in, say you, a cashier and a head captain, that's NPR 4,500 (US$60) a month, or NPR 36,000 (US$600) a year on annual billing. The pricing page has the details.
FAQ
Can Saauzi track ingredient stock for my kitchen?
No. Menu items don't track stock by default, and there are no recipes or food-cost reports. Saauzi tracks what you sold.
Does it connect to food delivery apps?
No. There are no delivery-app integrations.
Can I print VAT bills?
Yes. Set VAT once in Settings, and bills print your restaurant's name, address and PAN/VAT. Filing VAT returns stays with your accountant.
If your restaurant still runs on slips and a cash notebook, move the floor, the kitchen tickets and the day's money into one place. See how Saauzi sets up software for restaurants, and start with POS Restaurant free.
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