The best restaurant and bar POS for hostels and backpackers.
The bar and café serve guests and walk-ins at night. A quick till with charge to bed and mobile money keeps the queue moving. Here is what to look for, and how Tivuzo does it as part of one back office.
The best restaurant and bar point of sale (POS) for hostels and backpackers covers tables and bills, split and transfer, charge to room, mobile money and card, stock out of the outlet store and offline selling, and handles what is specific to hostels and backpackers: fast bar till; charge to bed; happy-hour prices; cash and mobile money. It should share one database with the rest of the back office so nothing is typed twice. Tivuzo includes it with the PMS, POS, procurement, stores and accounting for $13 per user per month.
What hostels and backpackers need
The bar and café serve guests and walk-ins at night. A quick till with charge to bed and mobile money keeps the queue moving.
- Fast bar till
- Charge to bed
- Happy-hour prices
- Cash and mobile money
The full checklist
Beyond the specifics above, any restaurant and bar point of sale (POS) for a hostel should have:
| Must have | In Tivuzo |
|---|---|
| Tables, open bills, splits and transfers | ✓ |
| Charge to room onto the guest folio | ✓ |
| Cash, card, mobile money and split payments | ✓ |
| Staff pick their name and enter a PIN | ✓ |
| Each outlet takes stock from its own store | ✓ |
| Keeps selling when the internet drops | ✓ |
| Closing counts by payment method | ✓ |
| Shares data with the rest of the back office | ✓ One database: PMS, POS, procurement, stores, accounting |
Why it should be part of one system
When the till is joined to the PMS and stores, charge to room lands on the folio, sales take stock out of the outlet's store and revenue posts by outlet and payment method. Read one system vs separate systems.
What it costs a hostel
At a typical hostel the people who log in are the manager, reception and a bar or kitchen lead: 3 users, $39 a month or $374.40 a year, with every module included. See pricing.
Read more
The module in detail: hotel restaurant and bar pos. For hostels and backpackers: hostel software, and pms, procurement, inventory and stores, accounting. Restaurant and bar POS for hotels, lodges, safari and tented camps, guest houses and B&Bs, serviced apartments. Guides: Bar stock control, Food cost percentage, Guest folios and billing.
Restaurant and bar POS for hostels and backpackers: questions
Can hostel guests run a bar tab on their bed?
Yes. Charge to room works for dorm beds too, settled at check-out.
Is POS included in Tivuzo's price?
Yes. Every module is included for $13 per user per month; there are no add-ons and no fees per room.
Does Tivuzo work for small hostels and backpackers?
Yes. A hostel pays only for the people who log in; switch on modules as you need them.
Does Tivuzo work with weak internet?
The restaurant and bar tills sell offline and sync later; the rest needs a connection, and light use works on mobile data.
What does Tivuzo not do yet?
No live channel manager, booking engine, door-lock integration, payroll or country e-invoicing links.
Last updated by the Tivuzo team.