Pre-paid tabs
A food hall runs on regulars, staff lunches and parents funding teenagers. A tab is money that arrived once and then just works — at any counter, on any phone, until it runs out.
Real screenshots of the running product — the same screens you get, showing real data, not mock-ups.
What it does
You open a tab at the counter, load it, and hand over a code. The holder spends it at the till like a voucher, or types it into the box at the QR checkout — the order arrives in the kitchen already paid, and the confirmation says what is left. One tab can pay a basket spanning several kitchens in one go: each kitchen’s order takes its own share, and each share is its own line in the book.
It belongs to your hall
A tab is scoped when it is opened — to one food hall, or to one venue. A code from somewhere else is told “that code belongs to a different food hall” rather than quietly spending your customer’s money in someone else’s till.
The whole bill, or a plain answer
On the guest’s phone a tab pays the whole order or none of it — there is no half-paid state for a counter to untangle. A tab that cannot cover the basket says so with both numbers: what it holds, what the order is, and what to do about it. Checked before the order exists, so a refusal never strands a ticket in the kitchen.
Every penny has a line
Top-ups and spends land on an append-only ledger — when, how much, and which order took it. “Where did the £30 go?” is a question with an answer you can read out, not a shrug. Refunding the whole order puts the money back on the tab, and that restoration is a ledger line too; a partial refund of a tab-paid order does not yet return to the tab.
Sensible limits, said in words
Loads have a floor and a cap, and a tab has a maximum standing balance — a fat-fingered £5,000 top-up is refused in plain words, not accepted and argued about later.
What it will not do yet
Top-ups happen at the counter — a guest cannot load a tab from their phone, because online card payments only run where a venue has connected card processing. Partial payment at the QR checkout — a tab covering some of the bill and a card the rest — is not built.
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Every feature on this site is in the product now. The ones that are not built are named on the comparison page rather than left out.