AlphaTill
AlphaTill POS
Available nowWindows point-of-sale software that runs on the computer at your counter and carries on taking orders when the internet does not.
Explore POSSmarter technology.
Smoother service.
From your counter to your customers’ screens, AlphaTill brings together everything your hospitality business needs to take orders, serve guests and grow.
Built for UK hospitality
Offline-ready POS
Your business, your data
Simple monthly pricing
Broadband up. Card payments, updates and alerts all running.
The AlphaTill platform
Everything your business needs. Beautifully connected.
One counter system today, with direct ordering and table bookings being built around it. We will only ever sell you the parts that are finished.
Margherita£8.50
Doner wrap£6.50
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Online Ordering
In developmentA branded ordering site of your own, for collection and local delivery, so the customer is yours rather than a platform’s. Not yet available to buy.
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Online Bookings
In developmentTable reservations taken on your own site, with covers, sittings and cancellations managed in one place. Not yet available to buy.
Explore BookingsWhy AlphaTill
Technology that behaves itself.
A till is bought on whether it still works on the worst night of the week. Everything below follows from that.
Built around hospitality
Shaped by Friday at eight with three people waiting, not by a feature list.
Easy to learn
Large buttons, nothing important behind a menu, and new staff able to use it on their first shift.
Reliable when the line drops
The counter keeps working offline because the software is on your machine, not in a data centre.
Transparent pricing
One published price for the till, hardware quoted separately, and nothing held back for a higher tier.
Your own customers
Phone numbers, names and addresses stay in your address book, and you can take the whole of it away whenever you want.
Records you control
Orders and takings live in a file on your computer. We hold no copy, so there is nothing for us to lose or withhold.
UK focused
VAT worked out per item, postcode lookup, pounds and pence, and a company you can look up at Companies House.
AlphaTill POS
The counter, the kitchen and the end of the day.
Everything here is in the software today, on the one price. Nothing below is a plan.
Take an order in seconds
Tap the items. Questions and extras are asked only where they apply, so a plain order never stops to ask one. Tap an extra again for a second helping, hold it to take them all off.
- Collection and delivery on the same screen
- Deliveroo, Uber Eats and Just Eat rung up as their own channels and counted apart, so you can see what each really pays
- Held orders, and a phone number that brings back the name and address
The kitchen ticket prints itself
And so does the customer receipt. VAT is worked out per item, so hot food and cold drinks are taxed correctly on one bill without anybody thinking about it.
- Delivery receipts carry the full address, set large enough to read in a car
- Kitchen tickets carry the postcode only
- The cash drawer opens from the receipt printer, with no pop-up in the way
Close the day in one press
An X reading tells you cash, card and VAT at any point without closing anything. A Z closes the day, writes the accountant’s copy and starts tomorrow clean — or does it itself at four in the morning if nobody gets to it.
- CSV and JSON written to your own Documents folder every night
- Optional copy to your own Google Drive, off until you turn it on
- Telegram messages to your phone when the drawer opens or a refund goes through, where you have set it up
In development
Your own ordering site, not somebody else’s marketplace.
AlphaTill Online Ordering is being built so a takeaway or restaurant can take collection and delivery orders through its own website, and keep the customer relationship that comes with them. It is not available to buy yet.
Margherita£8.50
Pepperoni£9.50
Doner kebab£7.50
Cheesy chips£3.80
Open until 23:00
2× Margherita£17.00
1× Doner kebab£7.50
Extra chilli sauce£0.50
Total£25.00
Collection19:45
NameJ. Patel
Phone07…
Place order
Card payment where it has been set up.
Thank you
Ready for collection at 19:45. We will text you if anything changes.
These four screens are a design drawing of a service still being built, not photographs of a working product.
Why a shop would want its own
Orders placed on your own site come with the customer’s details, so the next time they order you know who they are. A marketplace keeps that relationship. We are building this so you keep it instead.
What it will cost, and how it will sit alongside the till, are not settled. We would rather tell you that than put a number on a page.
What is planned
- A branded ordering site with a mobile-friendly menu
- Item options and extras, the same ones as the till menu
- Collection and local delivery, with delivery areas and charges
- Ordering hours and item availability you control
- Online payment where it has been set up with a provider
- Order confirmation and status for the customer
- A management screen for the restaurant
- Sending orders straight to the till, subject to how it is built
In development
Tables, covers and sittings, in one place.
AlphaTill Bookings is being built for restaurants that take reservations and would rather not pay per cover for the privilege. It is not available to buy yet.
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What is planned
- Reservations taken on your own website
- Date, time and number of guests, checked against real capacity
- Tables and sittings you set up once
- Confirmation messages to the guest
- Changes and cancellations without a phone call
- A booking screen for the restaurant, for the host stand
- An optional booking widget for a site you already have
The board beside this is a design drawing, not a working product.
Try it first
Stand behind the counter before you speak to anybody.
A working AlphaTill runs in your browser. Ring up an order, pick cash or card, and watch the receipt, the kitchen ticket and the kitchen screen answer it. Nothing to install, nothing to sign up for, nothing charged.
Pricing
One published price for the till.
The two services still being built will be quoted when they are real, not before.
AlphaTill POS
£29
per month, per till, excluding VAT
- One licence for one Windows till
- The whole counter screen and all five order channels
- Table service, split bills and held orders
- Kitchen tickets and VAT receipts
- X and Z reports, and the automatic close at 4am
- Nightly copies of your records on your own machine
- Your menu built for you before you change over
- Updates and support from the people who wrote it
Online Ordering
Quote
in development — not yet available
Pricing will be set when the service is finished. Register interest and we will come to you with a figure and a date rather than an estimate.
What is plannedOnline Bookings
Quote
in development — not yet available
The same applies. Anything bundling the till with ordering or bookings is a custom quote until the pieces exist.
What is plannedAll prices exclude VAT. Hardware — the till, the printers and the cash drawer — is quoted separately for your counter, and you are welcome to buy it elsewhere. Each additional till needs its own licence. More about pricing.
How it works
Four steps, and one of them is ours.
Tell us about your business
What you sell, how many tills, which order channels you use and what your current system does badly.
Choose your services
The POS is ready today. If ordering or bookings interest you, we will note it and come back when they are finished.
Arrange setup and a demonstration
We build your menu first, then show you the till running on it. About twenty minutes.
Start trading
The licence is tied to your machine, your records stay on it, and we are on the end of the phone.
Questions
The things owners actually ask.
How much does AlphaTill cost?
AlphaTill POS is £29 a month per till, excluding VAT. One licence covers one Windows till, and a second till needs a second licence. Online Ordering and Online Bookings are quoted individually once they are available.
Is hardware included?
No. The till, the printers and the cash drawer are quoted separately for the counter you actually have, and you are welcome to buy them elsewhere. Tell us what is on your counter now and we will tell you honestly whether it will do.
Does AlphaTill work without the internet?
Selling does. The till rings up orders, prints kitchen tickets and receipts, opens the drawer and counts the day with the broadband down, because the software and your records are on the machine in front of you.
Anything genuinely online waits for the line to come back: software updates, licence checks, alerts to your phone, and — when they arrive — online orders and bookings. Card payments go through your own card terminal, which has its own connection.
Can I use my existing Windows computer?
Usually, yes. AlphaTill is a Windows desktop application and runs on an ordinary Windows machine. There is no iPad or Android version.
What happens if my licence cannot be validated?
Nothing, for a month. A licence is tied to one machine and is checked over the internet when a connection is available. If it cannot be checked you have thirty days before anything is restricted, and a till will never stop trading in the middle of a service because of a licence.
Can I take collection and delivery orders?
Yes. Collection and delivery are both handled on the counter screen, and a delivery receipt carries the full address, set large enough to read in a car, while the kitchen ticket carries just the postcode.
Orders that came from Deliveroo, Uber Eats or Just Eat are rung up as their own channel and counted separately, so you can see what each one really pays you. That is a way of recording where an order came from. AlphaTill does not connect to those companies' systems and does not receive their orders automatically.
Can I use AlphaTill for table service?
Yes. Open a tab on a table, send it to the kitchen, add to it through the evening, split it between people, move it to another table and settle it at the end. A table opened by mistake can be closed without charging anybody.
Where is my business data stored?
Your orders, takings, menu and customer details are in a file on your own computer. We hold no copy of it and have no way to obtain one, so we cannot lose it, sell it or withhold it from you.
That also makes the backups your responsibility, so the till writes a copy every night to your Documents folder, outside the program, and can also copy them to your own Google Drive if you switch that on. Optional online services — alerts, and later ordering and bookings — do involve sending data over the internet, and we will always tell you which ones do.
Is online ordering available yet?
Not yet. AlphaTill Online Ordering is in development and is not something you can buy today. You are welcome to register interest and we will come back to you when there is a date and a price rather than a plan.
Can restaurants use online bookings?
Not yet. AlphaTill Bookings is also in development. The same applies: register interest and we will be in touch when it is real.
Can I request a demonstration?
Yes, and we will put your own menu on the till before we show it to you, so you are looking at your shop rather than ours. It takes about twenty minutes. If you would rather just have a look first, the demo in your browser needs no details at all.
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