The till

A register that never makes you scroll.

One screen, scaled to whatever you put it on — a £120 tablet, an iPad, or a phone in an apron pocket.


The real HelchPOS register mid-sale: category tiles, a line on the bill, the live wait time and the Pay button
The actual register — a real sale on our own test venue, not a mock-up.

This is the screen.

  • One screen, any size. Below phone width it becomes a phone register with the same buttons.
  • Cash, voucher and recorded card. Keep your own terminal and your own rates. Real split bills — equal, by item or by amount, a different tender each. Switch a tender off for one kitchen and it goes from that till’s payment screen and is refused by the server behind it.
  • A bill in progress survives. Reload, drop the tablet, lose power — the sale is still there, kept on that device and nowhere else.
  • Table service. Your actual floorplan on the till — the shapes and chairs you arranged, room by room. Tap a free table to start its bill, tap a seated one to pick it back up. Move a bill when the party moves; ask how many covers if you want the average spend per head. Any till at the venue can.
  • Every change has a reason. Custom charges and counter discounts name why, and the reason is the line on the receipt and in the report.
  • Scan a barcode, sell the item. Any USB keyboard-wedge scanner works with nothing to pair — a scanned barcode or a typed SKU drops the item straight on the bill.
  • Tabs. Park a bill under a name, keep serving, and bring it back on any till at the venue to take payment. An open tab never hides — past twelve hours it shows its age in red, and closing the drawer names every tab still unpaid. A venue switch sends a parked tab straight to the kitchen screen and docket printer, so a bar tab’s food starts before the bill is paid — re-parking prints only what was added, and the paid bill picks up the same kitchen ticket rather than firing it twice.
  • Printed receipts are a decision. Choose per venue whether a paper receipt follows your printer setup, is asked for each time, always prints, or never does — and the pay screen honours it, showing the answer and refusing to move where the venue has already decided. Turning paper off changes nothing else: the QR receipt, the emailed receipt and reprinting from Past Orders all still work.

Staff sign in with a code.

  • 4–8 digits, per person. No shared logins, so the till knows who rang what.
  • Permissions per person. What each member of staff may do is set by their role, per venue.
  • Cash up with a signature. A signed count is never edited — only followed by another beside it.
  • A drawer more than £20 out says so. It reaches the owner’s home screen and the venue’s own, for a week, without anybody having to go and look.
The till's real code-entry keypad
The till gate — the first thing staff see on the counter device.

Put it on the device in three taps.

There is no app store, because there is no app to approve. HelchPOS is a website that installs itself.

Open it

On the tablet or phone, go to pos.helchpos.com in Chrome or Safari. That is already a working till — you can stop here.

Or install it

Chrome: menu › Install app. iPhone or iPad: Share › Add to Home Screen. You get a HelchPOS icon, full screen, no browser bars.

It updates itself

No store review, no version anybody has to install. A fix we ship this morning is on your counter this morning.

Any Android tablet, any iPad, any phone in an apron pocket. If a device has a browser, it can be a till — which is also why a card terminal from another provider can run the till but not take the card: its reader belongs to whoever deployed it. What we suggest running it on →

Try the till today.

It runs in the browser on hardware you already own — and installs to the home screen in three taps.