Small tickets cannot carry big fees.
A £3.40 flat white has pennies of margin. The payment model here is built to take none of them.
Your reader keeps its job
Card on the machine you already own, at the rate you negotiated, recorded against the order. HelchPOS never touches the money — and our own processing (1% falling towards 0.7%) is not switched on yet, which the pricing page says in as many words.
Free software, felt hardest here
A per-month till fee is a real share of a café’s margin. This one is £0 for everything, always.
The float, counted and signed
Cash up shows cash sales, paid in and out, expected against counted — for the day, with a name on it.
Receipts and refunds that behave
VAT-correct receipts (eat-in vs takeaway rates handled per line), and refunds that remember the item — or admit they are an amount and cap themselves at what is left.
The venue-agnostic page for this pillar: Payments & settlement → · everything for this venue type: Cafés & coffee shops →
More for Cafés & coffee shops
Free to use.
Everything on this page is in the product now — and it costs a food hall nothing to run.