A restaurant POS that respects how you actually run things.
Set your own price expectations — we show them. Bring your own payment processor. Run your kitchen in any of 20+ languages. Try the Free tier first. Decide on your terms, not ours.
Starts at $0/month. 60-day money-back on paid plans.
Table 7 · Server: María
Open tab
Carne asada → Hot station. Drinks → Bar. Course 1.
We're best known as the POS for independent liquor and c-store owners. Same Nightcap, same pricing, same moats — applied to the restaurant workflow below.
Built for restaurant workflow
The restaurant stuff that has to work.
Front of house, back of house, and everything in between.
Tabs, splits, and modifiers
Open tabs by name or table, split checks by item or evenly, handle modifiers and combos without the cashier doing math. The basics, done right.
Kitchen routing + KDS
Orders route to the right station automatically — cold, hot, grill, bar. Optional kitchen display screens or printed tickets. Course timing supported.
Dine-in, takeout, delivery, third-party
One register handles all four order modes. DoorDash, Uber Eats, and Grubhub orders flow into the same queue as your in-person tabs.
Tip pooling + tip-out
Pooled tips, individual tips, or hybrid. Tip-out to BOH staff by percentage. Reporting your accountant will actually understand.
Multilingual, end to end
Your back-of-house line cook reads the ticket in Spanish or Vietnamese. Your front-of-house manager sees the same order in English. Per user, on the same machine, no setting to change.
Bring your own processor
Keep your existing payment processor and rate — Stripe, NMI, Heartland, Worldpay/TSYS. Or use Nightcap-processed at 2.5% flat. No lock-in.
What “respect” actually looks like.
Four things we do that most restaurant POS companies don't. No abstract empathy, no marketing slogans — just the structural moves.
Prices on the page
$0 / $79 / $118+ — you can read it in 30 seconds. No demo gate to learn what something costs.
Processor is your choice
Stripe, NMI, Heartland, Worldpay/TSYS — or 2.5% flat with us. Keep your existing ISO relationship if you want.
Real Free tier
Full POS, no card required, no 30-day downgrade trap. Evaluate on your own time, decide on your own terms.
60-day money-back
On every paid plan. If it's not working in your first 60 days, email us and we refund. No exit interview.
“I started on the Free tier just to see if it could handle my menu. It can. We upgraded to Core a month later because we wanted the kitchen routing — on our timeline, nobody pushed us. Best POS-buying experience I've had.”
Lina M.
Two Sisters Café — Minneapolis, MN
Pricing you can read in 30 seconds.
Same Nightcap POS pricing. Most restaurants land on Core or Pro once they need full kitchen routing, modifiers, and tip pooling.
Free
One restaurant. Single register. Real Free, no card.
Most restaurants
Core
Modifiers, kitchen routing, tip pooling, multilingual UI.
Pro
Multi-location, BOH role permissions, advanced reporting.
60-day money-back guarantee on every paid plan. See the full POS breakdown including BYO processor and multi-location math on the Nightcap POS page.
What happens after you request a demo
Within 24 hours
We email to confirm your restaurant type, service modes, and current POS.
Within 3 days
20-minute demo — we walk through the restaurant flow with your menu in mind.
When you’re ready
If you decide to move, we handle menu migration and the hardware. Most restaurants migrate in under a day. Cutover scheduled to your slowest service.
Request a Nightcap POS demo (restaurant)
20 minutes. We’ll show you the restaurant workflow on a real menu.
Tell us about your store
Restaurant-specific questions
Want to talk to a real person first?
No demo robot. No call-center script. You get someone on the Nightcap team — in English, Punjabi, Hindi, Spanish, or Korean.
Talk to the team