05 · EPOS & payments
Seat guests, ring orders, split any bill and close the day from one screen on a phone or tablet. For independent restaurants that want a till without a hardware contract or per-seat charges.
Six friends ask to split one bill and the server is doing sums on a napkin. A card goes in on the wrong tender. A discount is typed in with no reason and nobody can say who gave it. At closing the drawer is short and the takings are spread across a card machine, a notebook and a spreadsheet.
Every one of those costs time at the table, and some of them cost money you never see.
Run the floor
Open Service and the room is colour-coded live. Tap a booking and its sheet opens with a Seat button. A walk-in is one tap on a free table, with no email needed.
Take the order
Press Take order on a seated table. Your live menu opens on the same sheet: sold-out dishes are disabled, dishes with options ask for the required choices first, and a note goes to the kitchen with each line.
Adjust the bill
The table's till lists every order as its own bill. Change quantities, cancel a dish with a one-tap restore, and set a discount or service charge. A paid bill locks its totals.
Split and pay in parts
On an unpaid bill, press Pay in parts. Split evenly from ÷2 to ÷6, or type any amount. Name each payer and choose Cash, Card or Other. The last share is always exactly what is left.
When the party changes
Starters and a later round of drinks are two bills. Combine into one bill merges the open ones. If the party changes tables, type the new table under Move table and the open bills follow.
Take payment
Mark a bill paid by cash, card or other. Register a Stripe Terminal reader and charge an order, or a walk-up amount, on it. Print a guest receipt, or take a gift card or a coupon at the till.
Where the money goes
Connect Stripe once and every card payment your restaurant takes goes the same way: reader, online order, deposit, gift card. Stripe pays out to your bank. TableSpark never holds the funds.
End of day
End of day is a live X report. Every bill sits under the way it was paid, part-paid bills under each tender, and VAT is grouped by rate for your accountant. Voids, discounts, reopened bills and refunds are listed with who and why.
Cash-up
The drawer works out what it should hold: float, cash taken, less refunds, with paid in and paid out. Type what you counted and see the variance at once. Close the day and the figures are saved as the Z report.
Watch it
A real run on the live app: ÷3, cash and card, one mis-tap undone, table freed.
How it connects
Orders arrive from your site and your tables, tickets go to the kitchen, and every payment feeds the guest's record.
Plan & price
Growth is £39 a month and Full is £69, excluding VAT. No per-seat charges, and nothing to pay until you publish.
Prices exclude VAT. 0% TableSpark commission on the bookings and orders your plan includes. Stripe’s standard card-processing fees apply to online payments. Compare every plan.
No. Service runs in the browser on a phone or tablet. For card payments in person, register a Stripe Terminal reader from Settings with its pairing code.
Yes. Each part is its own payment with an amount, a tender and an optional name. End of day counts each part under its own tender, and the drawer expects only the cash.
Remove a part with its ✕ and take it again. A paid bill can be reopened with Mark unpaid; the reopening is logged and appears under Exceptions.
No. There is 0% TableSpark commission. Stripe's standard card-processing fees apply, and funds are paid to your own Stripe account and bank.
Closing saves the day's figures as a snapshot that does not change, though later refunds still show live. Print it or download the CSV for your accountant.
Card payments at the till run on Stripe Terminal readers, settled into your own Stripe account. Kitchen tickets print over Star's CloudPRNT protocol, so a CloudPRNT printer connects with one pasted link, and the kitchen display runs on any tablet or TV browser.
Build your site free, then open Service and seat your first table.