What a free restaurant POS actually includes

A free POS search usually starts the same way. The café is about to open, the dining room already has a rush, and the owner wants the counter, the kitchen, and the bill on one system before paying for a till, a printer, and a second app. UmaPOS answers that search with a 3-month trial of the restaurant POS itself.

What “free POS” means here

The trial lasts 3 months. During those months the team uses the live product: reception, the waiter app, the counter, the kitchen display, QR ordering, billing, and the restaurant panel. When the 3 months end, you choose the plan that matches the branch. The menus, tables, and bills you set up stay the record of the service.

That is the useful version of free restaurant POS software. The owner can run a real Saturday on it. A locked demo that hides the kitchen or the bill does not tell you whether the floor can work.

What a restaurant can use in the 3 months

The same order moves from the door to the bill. Reception can hold the waiting queue. A waiter opens the table. The kitchen sees the ticket on the board, grouped as New, Preparing, Ready, and Served, and a production queue can group the same dish. The counter settles the bill, including a split, and the panel keeps the history.

• Counter POS on Windows, Android, and iOS, with a table floor for dine-in.
• Fast billing for a café or takeaway counter that has no tables.
• mPOS so Waiter and Counter run on the phone the team already carries.
• Kitchen display and production queue on a kitchen tablet.
• QR ordering in the guest’s phone browser, with no guest app to install.
• Billing with tax, split checks, print, and billing history.
• Recipes and stock, so a sold dish can deduct ingredients.
• More than one branch on the same menu and the same panel.
• AI help inside the restaurant panel for staff questions, such as printing or splitting a bill.

Free POS for a café, a dining room, and takeaway

A dining room needs a restaurant POS: tables, a kitchen ticket, and a bill that can be split. A café POS is often shorter. The guest is in a line, the drink has a preference, and the cashier should sell from the menu without opening a table. Takeaway sits between the two. The order still needs a kitchen ticket, and the counter needs a pickup token instead of a seat number.

UmaPOS covers those services in one trial. You turn on Fast billing when the shop has no tables, and you use the table floor when guests sit down. The kitchen screen is the same either way, so a coffee ticket and a dine-in ticket land in one queue.

mPOS is part of the free trial

mPOS means the order and the payment can happen on a phone. The mPOS guide walks through Waiter and Counter. Both are available now on Android and iOS. Android builds are on Google Play. The same apps run on iPhone. A café can start the free POS on the phones already in the shop, then add a Windows counter when the line needs a fixed till.

Fast billing is part of the free trial

Fast billing is the café and takeaway path. The home screen opens the menu and the guest cart, the cashier sells immediately, and the order gets a pickup token. The fast billing guide shows when to use it and when the table floor is the better screen. It is included for the 3 months, on Windows and on the counter phone.

What is still on the way

Social ordering, a white-label guest app, and delivery-app sync are still on the way. A WhatsApp or Instagram chat does not become a kitchen ticket yet. Swiggy, Zomato, and similar apps are still entered at the counter until that sync exists. The trial is honest about that. Guests can already order from a QR code in the browser, and the kitchen display already takes tickets from the counter, the waiter, and that QR menu.

How to compare a free POS offer

Ask four questions before you move a Saturday onto any free restaurant POS.

• Is the kitchen on the same order as the counter, or does someone retype the ticket?
• Can a café sell with fast billing, and can a dining room open a table, on the same menu?
• Can the waiter take the order on a phone, and can the counter take cash, online, or QR?
• After the free months, do the menu and the bills stay, and is the next plan written down?

UmaPOS is built so the answer to the first three is yes on the first day. The fourth is the 3-month trial, then the plan you choose. Hardware is optional. You can run the counter, the kitchen, and QR ordering on devices you already own, or look at a hardware package when you want a till, a kitchen screen, and a printer together.

Start the 3 months

Send the restaurant name, city, and number of branches on WhatsApp. The team opens the counter, the kitchen, and the QR menu. If you want a walkthrough first, book a demo from the homepage and tell us whether you run tables, a café line, or both.