The POS for your
restaurant
No monthly fee, built for South African hospitality. Start with 30 days free, then just 1.5% per transaction with cash-up, KDS, reporting, and offline continuity built in.
Purpose-built for hospitality.
From your first table to your hundredth.
Table & Floor Management
Open, manage, and close tables from a live floor view. Transfer covers between waiters, hold items by course and fire when ready, handle dine-in, takeaway, and collection orders from one screen. Mark items as sold out instantly and split bills without headaches.
Kitchen Display System (KDS)
Orders route automatically to the right station — kitchen or bar — with large DINE IN / TAKEAWAY labels so your team never misreads a ticket. Ready, recall, and recent logic keeps the production flow moving. Supports thermal printing per station with configurable copy counts.
Reporting & Reconciliation
Daily Z-Reports, weekly summaries, and monthly P&L — all broken down by service type, waiter performance, VAT, expenses, and tips. Waiter cashup captures declared cash, variance, and tips per shift. Manager EOD reconciliation requires all waiters to clock out and cash up before the shift closes.
Every tool your team needs.
Built right in.
Role-Based Permissions
Four access levels — waiter, manager, admin, and super-admin. Staff sign in via tenant email lookup and PIN. Sensitive actions like voids, refunds, and expense approval require a manager PIN, keeping your operation secure without slowing service.
Menu & Product Management
Add, edit, disable, and reorder products grouped by category. Attach modifier groups with your own custom options. Mark items as sold out with a single tap. Mandatory validation prevents blank products or incomplete forms from reaching your floor.
Inventory & Stock Control
Track stock items by unit, cost, and quantity with weighted average cost support. Link menu items to ingredients via recipe mapping so stock deducts automatically on sale. Surface last cost and variance to catch price creep from suppliers early.
Suppliers & Purchase Orders
Create and manage purchase orders, receive stock in full or partially, and leave the balance open for the next delivery. Upload delivery notes or invoices, distribute landed costs across PO lines, and track credit notes for shortages or damages.
Payments: Cash, Card & House Accounts
Accept cash, card, split payments, or charge to a house account in a single flow. House accounts can require a transaction reference before payment is accepted. Service charge is handled as either business income or tip, reflected correctly in reporting.
Takeaway & Collection Orders
Takeaway mode uses shift-based order numbers for fast-turnaround service. Collection orders capture customer name, cell, email, and address for phone-in or pickup jobs. Receipts show customer details with a masked phone number for privacy.
Customer Directory
Build and manage a customer directory with full contact details. Collection order customers are saved automatically so repeat orders are faster. Customer info appears on collection receipts, reducing errors and improving handoff to delivery staff.
Expenses & Petty Cash
Log petty cash expenses from the main till or against an active waiter, with manager PIN required to save. Expenses reduce the waiter's cash liability in their cashup and feed directly into the shift Z-report so your cash math is always complete.
Transaction Journal & Audit Trail
Managers can search and review every historical transaction. Reopen a paid bill, correct a payment method, or void a completed sale with reason logging. Every action creates a before-and-after snapshot. Closed shifts lock the journal — no retroactive edits once reconciled.
Thermal Printing & Station Management
ESC/POS thermal printing for customer bills, kitchen tickets, bar chits, and cashup slips. Map printers to stations and configure copy counts per printer — kitchen gets two copies, bar gets one. Takeaway receipts print the order number large for easy handoff.
Waiter Performance & Service Reports
Track each waiter's transactions, average bill value, void count, tips earned, and hours worked per shift. Daily reports break down order mix by dine in, takeaway, and collection. Weekly and monthly views give you the strategic picture — including net revenue, opening float, and expense totals.
Recipe & Plate Costing
Link menu items to stock ingredients with quantity and unit mapping. The menu editor calculates cost per plate and shows gross profit in Rands and percentage — colour-coded green, orange, or red so you see margin problems at a glance without opening a spreadsheet.
Features your current POS
probably doesn't have.
Recipe mapping & plate costing
Map ingredients to menu items with live cost calculation. Deduct by unit or by measurement (e.g. 45ml from a 750ml bottle). See portions-per-container and cost per ingredient line. Gross profit shown in Rands and % — colour-coded green, orange, or red on every menu item.
Stock take & variance reporting
One-tap stock take with printable count sheets sorted by location. Count on any device — each line saves instantly. Two-step workflow: staff count, manager approves. Auto-generated variance report grouped by Fridge, Bar, and Storage with full audit history.
Daily, weekly & monthly P&L
Z-Reports with cash vs card breakdown. Weekly sales by category, labour cost %, best & worst sellers, and busy-hour heatmaps. Monthly P&L with estimated COGS, gross profit, and net margin. Every report exportable as PDF.
See these features in action
R299 once-off setup · 30 days free · No monthly fees
MangoPOS is software.
Bring your own device.
MangoPOS runs on hardware you probably already own. Any internet-connected Windows PC, laptop, or iPad works as a register. Pair it with an Epson-compatible printer and you're ready to trade.
Transparent. Always.
No monthly subscription. R299 once-off setup. Start with 30 days completely free. See all features included.
Load shedding? Keep selling.
MangoPOS is a load shedding friendly POS that keeps your restaurant running when the power goes out. Orders and payments process locally on your device and sync automatically when you're back online. Built for the reality of doing business in South Africa.
Your POS should work when the power doesn't
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Frequently asked questions
Yes. MangoPOS is designed to work offline during load shedding. As long as your device has battery power or a UPS, orders and payments continue processing locally and sync automatically when connectivity is restored. This makes MangoPOS one of the most reliable offline point of sale systems in South Africa.
MangoPOS charges only 1.5% per transaction in South African Rand (ZAR). There is no monthly software fee and no hidden costs. There is a once-off R299 setup fee to get your account professionally configured by our team. New merchants get 30 days completely free before the 1.5% rate applies.
MangoPOS is purpose-built for South African hospitality — restaurants, bars, coffee shops, taverns, bakeries, hotels, and take-aways. It includes table management, kitchen display systems (KDS), split payments, staff timeclock, cashup reports, and end-of-day reporting.
With MangoPOS, there is no monthly software fee — you only pay 1.5% per transaction after your free 30 days onwards. Your first 30 days are free. You can use hardware you already own (any Windows PC or iPad), so there is no upfront equipment cost.
Yes. MangoPOS runs on any Windows PC or laptop with a J1900 CPU or better, 8GB RAM, and Windows 10. It also works on Apple iPad 9th generation and newer running iOS 13+. No special POS hardware is required.
Yes. MangoPOS includes recipe mapping and plate costing as standard. Map ingredients to menu items, set deduction modes (whole units or measured amounts like 45ml from a 750ml bottle), and see live cost per dish. Gross profit is shown in Rands and percentage, colour-coded green, orange, or red on every menu item.
Yes. MangoPOS includes a full stock take system with printable count sheets sorted by storage location (Fridge, Bar, Storage), mobile-friendly counting, two-step approval (staff counts, manager approves), and an auto-generated variance report grouped by location.
Yes. Every void, comp, cashup, stock adjustment, and manager override is logged with who did it, when, and why. The audit trail is permanent and cannot be edited or deleted.
MangoPOS supports tip entry at payment, configurable auto service charge by cover count or bill amount threshold, and both gross and net settlement modes. Tips are tracked per waiter and reconciled during cashup.
Daily Z-Reports with cash vs card breakdown, weekly sales by category with labour cost percentage, best and worst sellers, busy-hour heatmaps, monthly P&L with estimated COGS and net margin, and full EOD history. All exportable as PDF.
Yes. MangoPOS is cloud-based and available anywhere in South Africa. We serve restaurants in all 10 major cities including Johannesburg, Cape Town, Durban, Pretoria, Port Elizabeth, Bloemfontein, East London, Nelspruit, Polokwane, and Kimberley — with the same features and pricing everywhere.
Absolutely. Our team migrates your menu, staff profiles, and settings during the R299 once-off setup. Most businesses are live within 24 to 48 hours. There are no contracts or lock-in periods — you can cancel anytime.
Built by hospitality people,
for hospitality people.
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