Three products. One quote.
Restaurant, Shop and QR Ordering — run one, two or all three on the same account. Inside each product everything is included: no "reporting module" to unlock, no per-feature upsell. You're quoted on which products you run and the scale you run them at — tills, screens, locations.
Pick what you run, not a feature tier
Each product is complete — nothing inside it comes in versions. Your quote is which of the three you run, and at what scale.
Restaurant
Table service with the kitchen in the loop — restaurants, bars, cafés.
- Live floor plan, seats & courses, course firing
- Kitchen display with station routing — included
- Reservations, waitlist, WhatsApp confirmations
- Bar tabs with Yoco card pre-authorisation
- Register, cash-up and Z-reports
- Full back office, all reports, VAT201, accounting exports
Shop
A retail counter — boutiques, bottle stores, farm stalls, merch counters.
- Scan with any USB or Bluetooth scanner
- Variants by size and colour, each with its own SKU
- Layby, store credit, parked sales
- Stock counts, reorder points, transfers, label sheets
- Register, cash-up and Z-reports
- Full back office, all reports, VAT201, accounting exports
QR Ordering
Guests order, tip and pay from their own phones. What it is.
- Scan the table code — no app, no sign-up
- Live menu with photos, allergens and modifiers
- Yoco card checkout on the guest's phone, tips included
- "Add to my table's bill" at Restaurant venues
- Orders fire straight to the kitchen display
- Table QR codes printed from the back office
What actually moves the price
So you can work out roughly where you'll land, and so nothing on the invoice is a surprise.
Tills and screens
How many terminals ring sales, and how many screens run the kitchen display or the customer display. A guest-facing QR menu costs nothing per guest — it's their phone.
Branches on the account
Each location adds its own catalogue scope, registers, floor plan and reporting. One back office spans them with a switcher.
Getting you live
Menu import, prep-station routing, floor plan, staff and PINs, printer and payment configuration. A one-off, and smaller if you arrive with a clean CSV export.
Your server
Aura is one backend serving your venues. Hosted by us or on your own infrastructure — the whole thing ships as a single deployable.
Payment provider rates
Yoco, SnapScan and Zapper bill you directly at whatever rate you've negotiated with them. Aura takes nothing per transaction and never sits in the money flow.
WhatsApp & email
WhatsApp Cloud API and Mailjet are your own accounts on your own tariffs. Aura sends through them; it doesn't resell them.
Before you ask us
Why isn't there a price on this page?
Because a two-till café and an eight-till group with three branches aren't the same product decision, and a single number on a page would be wrong for both. We'd rather quote your actual setup than publish a figure you have to then negotiate away from.
Tell us how many tills, screens and locations you run and you'll get a real number, not a "starting from".
Is there a per-transaction fee?
Not from Aura. Your card and QR rates are whatever you've agreed with Yoco, SnapScan or Zapper, billed by them. Aura never sits in the money flow — it records the leg and reconciles it.
Do I pay extra for the kitchen display or guest ordering?
The kitchen display, no — it's included with Restaurant, a tab on a terminal you already have. Guest QR Ordering is its own product: discounted when it's added to a Restaurant or Shop subscription, and available standalone (where every order is paid on the guest's phone immediately) at a higher price.
Can I run a shop and a restaurant on one account?
Yes — one licence can cover both products, and store type is set per terminal in the back office, so you can switch a till between them. A restaurant with a merch counter runs one shop-mode till beside its table-service tills, on the same catalogue and the same reports. See retail mode.
What happens to my data if I leave?
You export it. Every report, the register history, the product and customer lists and the full accounting journal are CSV exports in the back office — not a support request. Nothing about the design traps your history in the product.
Can I try it before deciding?
Yes. Demo installs seed a sample Cape Town restaurant so you can explore the whole product before entering real data — and before a walkthrough we'll load your own menu or product list into a demo tenant, so you're clicking around your business rather than ours.
Get a number for your setup
Tell us how many tills and screens you run, how many locations, and whether you're table-service, retail or both. We'll come back with a quote and a setup plan.