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For independent cafés

One counter, one owner, and a product that respects both.

An independent café does not have an operations department. It has somebody who opens up, pulls shots, does the banking, decides tomorrow's bake and locks up. Software aimed at that person fails when it assumes a team exists to configure it.

So the version of CAPPATERY you get here is the whole product with nothing extra bolted on: counting, serving, recognising and forecasting, reachable from one screen, set up in an afternoon.

Single Café plan
$49 / month
Staff accounts
Unlimited
Typical setup
An afternoon
Hardware needed
What you have
The whole thing, on one screen

What a single counter actually needs on the wall.

Not a dashboard suite. One board that answers what is in the case, how deep the line is, and who just walked in.

Independent café
08:14

Today's bake

Left / baked

  • Butter croissant18 / 24
  • Banana bread5 / 20
  • Almond danish11 / 16
  • Sourdough loaf9 / 12
  • Flat whiteOn tap

Counter queue

3waiting
~120s to serve

Watching the till for a returning face

Scope, stated plainly

What you get, and what we have deliberately kept out.

Feature lists usually only show one of these two columns. The second one is the more useful of the pair when you are the person who has to learn the software.

Included

  • Order entry with quick keys arranged the way your case is laid out
  • Daily bake counting with your own low and aging thresholds per line
  • Regulars recognised at the till with their usual staged
  • A nightly prep list with a suggested quantity per baked line
  • Waste recorded per line, so the monthly figure is real
  • Owner view and staff view, and no third role to administer

Not here, on purpose

  • Cost-centre hierarchies and inter-branch transfer approvals
  • Multi-entity accounting consolidation
  • Franchise royalty calculation and territory management
  • Central-kitchen production planning across sites
  • Procurement workflows with tendering and vendor scoring

These exist for groups, and they are the right features there. On a single counter they are menu items you scroll past for years.

The first fortnight

What using this actually looks like when you are also making the coffee.

  • Day one: your menu and your case

    Bake lines entered with their quantities and thresholds, quick keys arranged to match how your case reads left to right. This is the part that takes an afternoon.

  • Week one: counting, nothing clever

    Log the morning bake, take orders normally. The count falls as you sell. You get low-stock alerts and an honest waste figure at close, and that alone tends to change prep quantities.

  • Week two: regulars start landing

    Enough repeat orders exist for usuals to stage at the till. This is usually the first moment staff stop thinking of it as a till.

  • Week four: the prep list gets useful

    Around four observations of each weekday is when suggested quantities start standing on their own rather than leaning on comparable lines.

  • Ongoing: the two reports worth reading

    Waste per line per week, and sell-out times. Between them they tell you which lines to bake more of, which to bake less of, and which to stop baking.

  • When you add a second site

    Your bake lines, history and regulars carry over. You are not starting again, and there is no migration project.

Questions

What single-site owners ask first.

I am the only person who will use this. Is it going to be too much?
The daily job is logging bake quantities in the morning and confirming a prep list at night. Everything else happens as a by-product of taking orders. If that is more than you want, the counting alone is worth running on its own.
Do I need to replace my till?
Usually not. It runs in the browser on a counter tablet, touchscreen or laptop, and works alongside your existing card terminal and thermal printer where they are compatible. If something is not, we will say so before you commit rather than after.
What if I only sell coffee and buy in my pastries?
That works. Bought-in items are still perishable same-day stock with a delivered quantity, a sell-through curve and a waste figure. The forecast then tells you what to order in rather than what to bake, which is the same problem with a different verb.
Can I export my data if I leave?
Yes. Sales, bake history, waste records and your customer list export in standard formats, on request and without a retention period to sit through first.
Is there a contract I am locked into?
Monthly terms are available and you can leave at the end of a billing period. Annual terms cost less if you want them. We would rather you stayed because the waste figure went down.

Independent cafés

Forty-nine dollars a month for the whole thing, counting from the same afternoon.

Sign up with your bake lines and we will get the case mapped, the quick keys arranged, and the counting running before your next morning rush.

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  • The full single-site product, with nothing held back for a higher tier
  • Unlimited staff accounts and tills, no commission on your sales
  • Monthly terms, and your data exports on request