Table service that keeps up with the floor
Seat a table, ring round it by seat, fire the starters and hold the mains. The kitchen tells you when to run the food. The bill splits however the table wants to pay it. And none of it stops when the lights do.
A live plan of your actual room
Upload a photo of your floor and Aura draws the tables over it, so the plan on the screen matches the room a new server is standing in. Every till subscribes to the same realtime feed — another waiter's seat, move or clear shows up in a second or two.
- Status at a glance: available, seated, billed, reserved, cleaning
- Live signals on the tile: covers seated, elapsed time, running total
- ×2, ×3 when a table carries more than one separate bill
- ▶ Starter / ✓ Main — what's with the kitchen and what's done
- 📅 19:30 — a booking lands on this table within 90 minutes, don't seat a walk-in
- Amber then red outline once a table has been seated 45 then 90 minutes
Guests move. So should their bill.
Drag a sale to another table
Long-press an occupied table and drag its sale onto another. Drop on a free table and it moves; drop on an occupied one and you choose whether the bills stay separate or merge. Open kitchen tickets follow, so the food lands in the right place.
Move just some of the items
"We'll take dessert on the patio." Open the ticket sheet, tap Move, tick the lines and pick the destination. Discounts, tips and covers all carry across on a full transfer.
More than one bill on a table
A communal table, or a late joiner paying their own way: long-press → + New sale on this table. Tapping a table with stacked sales lists them so you pick the right one.
Arrange mode
Managers drag tables to match the real room — saved automatically, queued if you're offline. Add tables and sections, set shapes, auto-arrange a section onto a tidy grid, retire a table.
Table groups
Declare the tables that push together for big parties. A sixteen-top can then be booked online against the group's combined covers instead of being turned away.
Merge, carefully
Merging two tables' orders brings lines, discounts, tips and covers into one bill. It can't be undone, so Aura always asks first.
Ring round the table without thinking about it
Turn on the ⟳ auto chip and the active seat advances after every item — so you take the order the way you'd take it with a pad, going round the table. The ticket regroups by seat with per-seat subtotals, which is what makes a by-seat split trivial later.
- Up to 12 seats per table, plus a Shared bucket for the wine
- Tap any line's seat badge to move it if someone swaps
- With no seats assigned the cart groups by course instead
- Course headers each carry their own Send — fire starters, hold mains
- Allergy notes and special requests go on the line, and print red on the ticket
| All at once | Everything on the ticket fires on Send. The default. |
| Manual | You fire each course yourself from the cart's course headers. |
| Sequential | First course fires on Send; the next fires automatically when the kitchen bumps it. |
| Hybrid | First course fires on Send; you fire the rest when the table is ready. |
A pass that doesn't need shouting
The kitchen display is the Kitchen tab on any terminal — a tablet on the line, a screen at the bar, or both, each filtered to its own station.
Tickets go where the food is made
Give a category a prep station and every product in it routes there — Hot, Bar, Pastry, Grill. Each station is a filter chip on the board. Configure none and Aura falls back to routing drinks to the bar and desserts to pastry.
Nothing quietly gets old
Tiles turn amber at five minutes and red at ten. New tickets flash green for a few seconds so nothing is missed. Rushed tickets are red-striped and pinned to the front of the board for every station.
The green banner
🔔 Ready marks a ticket plated and pops a banner on every terminal naming the table and course for about nine seconds — so someone collects it hot. Bump afterwards clears the ticket off the board.
Batch what should be batched
The Board/All-day toggle aggregates outstanding items across every open ticket — "6× Sirloin, 4× Calamari" — so the line cooks to a number instead of ticket by ticket.
Out of something, everywhere
Long-press an item on a ticket to 86 it. It vanishes from the terminals, the guest QR menu and back-office ordering immediately — no one can sell what you don't have.
Prep printers if you want them
Give a station a printer IP and every fired ticket for it also prints: big table label, rush banner, items with seats and notes. Run paper-only, screen-only, or both, per station.
Fill the room without double-booking it
Bookings, on the floor and in the office
The Floor tab's Bookings chip shows today's list with time, name, party size, phone and notes. Confirm a pending booking and the guest gets a WhatsApp confirmation automatically. Seat, cancel or mark a no-show from the same panel. The back office adds day and week diary views, and blocks a double-booking with a conflict warning.
Availability you actually control
Named service windows — Lunch, Dinner — with days of the week, first and last seating, slot interval, pacing (how many new bookings a slot window may take) and a covers cap. Online availability only offers tables whose min/max party band fits the party, so a two-top is never booked for six.
The walk-in queue
Add a party with name, size, phone and a note. Aura shows queue position, minutes waited and a quoted wait. When a table frees up, Seat offers the open tables; no-show and remove clear the entry.
Guests book themselves
Link the booking page from your own website. Guests pick a date up to two weeks out, a party size from 1 to 20 and an available slot, leave a name plus phone or email, and arrive as a pending booking for your team to confirm. Double-submits are deduplicated.
Tabs, with the card held
Open a tab in the guest's name and optionally take a Yoco card pre-authorisation — the tab then shows Card held while the hold is active, which is the honest answer to walk-outs. Add rounds from the Sale screen, settle from the Tabs screen.
- Settling records payments, tips and the journal exactly like a table bill
- Rounds fire bar tickets to the bar's own station on the kitchen display
- Happy-hour price rules apply server-side, so the till and the QR menu agree
Split it however they're paying
Evenly two to six ways, by seat, by item, or by amount — "put R300 on the card and the rest in cash". Each portion is captured as its own payment leg with its own method and its own tip.
- The Amount… chip takes any partial payment now and keeps the remainder due
- The Pay button always shows the whole ticket — fired rounds plus what's unsent
- The sheet re-syncs with the server first, so items rung on another till can't slip off
- Tip presets on non-cash tenders; cash gets 5c rounding and change calculation
- Print the receipt, or WhatsApp it as a signed link valid for 90 days
Let guests order and pay from their own phones
QR Ordering puts the same menu on the table as a code. Guests order, tip and pay by card themselves — or add the round to the table's bill for the waiter to settle. It costs less added to a Restaurant subscription than it does on its own.
Bring your menu, we'll load it
We'll import your current menu from a Lightspeed, Tebi or Pilot export before the walkthrough, so you're looking at your own restaurant.