ProtechBooks for restaurants

A till that survives
a full dining room.

Open orders, per-waiter accountability, and a bill that is right at the end of it.

The problem in a busy restaurant is rarely the cooking. It is four tables open at once, three waiters adding to them, a customer asking to split the bill, and nobody able to say at eleven o'clock who sold what.

14 days free · no card · from KSh 500/month

Nairobi-based since 2018 • Reg. No. PVT-MKU2Z2Z • KRA eTIMS built in • Cancel any time
What matters in this trade

Built for your counter

Open orders that stay open

Start an order, keep adding to it, settle it when the customer is ready. Partial payments are supported, so the group that wants to split four ways does not become an argument.

Every waiter has their own PIN

Staff start a session with a four-digit PIN, lock the till when they step away, and resume with the same PIN. Every line is attributed to whoever entered it.

A session summary when they leave

The waiter ends their session and gets their own figures. The cashier closes the shift and everything reconciles against one Z-report, not against memory.

M-Pesa without a second device

STK push from the till with live confirmation, alongside cash and card. The payment lands against the right bill rather than being matched up afterwards.

Stock that moves as food goes out

A sale deducts the ingredients it used. Stock-takes post the variance, so what the store says and what the shelf holds stop quietly diverging.

KRA eTIMS built in

The corporate customer who needs a proper tax invoice for their lunch gets one at the table, transmitted as the sale happens.

What it does not do

  • There is no table map or floor plan. Orders are tracked per order and per waiter, not against a numbered table on a screen.
  • There is no kitchen display screen. Orders print or are passed the way you pass them now.
  • If either of those is the thing you came looking for, we would rather you knew now than found out during a demo.
Before you ask

Questions we get

Can a waiter hold several bills open at once?

Yes. Orders are saved as pay-later and can be added to until they are settled, which is how a table that keeps ordering is handled. Partial payments are supported for splitting a bill.

How do I know which waiter sold what?

Every staff member works inside their own PIN session, so each line carries who entered it. They get a session summary when they end their shift, and the cashier's Z-report reconciles all of them.

Does it have a kitchen display?

No. Protech POS does not have a kitchen display screen. If a KDS is essential to how your kitchen runs, say so early — our hospitality system StayIO does have one, and that may be the better fit for a property with rooms as well as a restaurant.

Can it handle a table layout?

Not as a floor plan. Orders are tracked per open order and per waiter rather than against a mapped table. In practice most restaurants of this size work from the order rather than the diagram, but it is a real difference and worth knowing.

What does it cost?

Plans start at KSh 500 a month, with a 14-day free trial and no card. A restaurant with a few staff usually lands on Business. See the pricing page for the limits on each plan.

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Try it

Fourteen days, no card

Put a real day through it. If it does not fit your counter, walk away and we delete the lot.

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