Our story

Built for Indian cafés, from the counter up

ChaiPOS exists because the people running India's cafés deserve software that works when the internet doesn't, speaks their language, and never takes a cut of their hard-earned revenue.

Walk into most cafés at rush hour and you'll see the same thing: a queue building while the billing screen spins, waiting for a server it can't reach. Meanwhile the owner is juggling a POS for billing, a separate app for loyalty that takes a cut, a spreadsheet for stock, and a shoebox of receipts for the CA.

We thought that was backwards. A café's software should be the one thing that never gets in the way — fast at the counter, honest with the money, and whole enough that you don't need five tools to run one shop.

So ChaiPOS is offline-first from the ground up, priced with no setup fee and no revenue share, and built around how Indian cafés actually operate. One app for billing, the kitchen, your customers and your accounts — so you can spend less time fighting software and more time making chai.

Where we are

Built and shipping — with more on the way

We're honest about what's live today and what's still coming. No vapourware.

Live today

Shipping
Offline billing & KOT printingKitchen DisplayQR self-orderingWhatsApp orderingSwiggy / Zomato ordersCash / UPI / split / refundsMenu, inventory & recipesSuppliers & purchase ordersLoyalty, referrals & campaignsInstagram & unified inboxTable reservationsGST, ledger & Tally exportOwner dashboard & permissionsMulti-outlet6 Indian languages

Coming next

In progress
Snap-a-menu photo onboarding (OCR)Café Wrapped shareablesGoogle Drive backup & restore

On the horizon

Planned
Voice item entryONDC orderingSupplier marketplace & working-capital credit
What we believe

The principles behind every feature

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Offline-first, always

The counter can never stop. Every bill is written on the device first, then synced — so a dropped connection is never a lost sale.

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Built for how India runs a café

Khata, UPI QR, GST, Hindi, thermal printing, referral chains — designed around real Indian café habits, not retrofitted from a Western retail tool.

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We never take a cut

No setup fee, no per-device charge, no percentage of your loyalty or memberships. Your revenue is yours — all of it.

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You own your data

An append-only ledger and audit log, plus Tally and CSV exports you can take anytime. No lock-in, no hostage data.

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One system, not ten add-ons

Billing, kitchen, loyalty, inventory and accounts in a single app — so you're not stitching vendors together or paying five invoices.

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Clarity over dashboards-for-show

Every number ladders up to a decision: what to cook, what to cut, who to bring back. Insight you act on, not vanity charts.

Run your café the way it should be run

Start free today — no setup fee, no revenue share, no catch.