From custom-cake orders to weigh-per-piece counters | HelloBooks POS A café-and-bakery layout that handles takeaway coffee, dine-in tables, weigh-priced pastries and made-to-order cakes on one screen — with ingredient-level food costing and a receipt that closes the books as it prints.
From custom-cake orders to weigh-per-piece counters
A café-and-bakery layout that handles takeaway coffee, dine-in tables, weigh-priced pastries and made-to-order cakes on one screen — with ingredient-level food costing and a receipt that closes the books as it prints.
Part of HelloBooks POS · Industry verticals
A bakery counter is deceptively complex: some items sell by the piece, some by weight, some are made to order days in advance, and the espresso bar wants a two-tap flow. HelloBooks ships a café-and-bakery layout that covers all of it — a custom-cake builder, weigh-per-piece pricing off a connected scale, modifier-driven coffee orders and table service — while every sale posts a real journal and every ingredient draws down inventory for true food costing.
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Order modes: takeaway, dine-in, pre-order
₹/g
Weigh-per-piece pricing
100%
Offline-capable counter
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Manual month-end journals
Every detail, dialled in
Built for the till, validated against the canonical accounting engine — so every POS sale closes the books cleanly.
Custom-cake and pre-order builder
Take a made-to-order cake with flavour, size, message and decoration, capture an advance, and schedule it for pickup. The advance posts as a real receipt against the order, and the balance settles on collection — no side-register of pending cakes.
- Flavour, weight, message, decoration options
- Advance capture with a real accounting receipt
- Pickup date and balance-due tracking
- Converts to a full bill on collection
Weigh-per-piece off a connected scale
Pastries, dry-fruit, sweets and loose bakes priced per gram or per kilo read live weight straight off a connected weighing scale into the line. No mental maths, no keying the weight twice, no dispute at the counter.
- Live weight capture from USB / serial scales
- Per-gram and per-kg price lists
- Tare handling for boxed items
- Label print with weight and MRP
Espresso-bar speed with food costing
The coffee bar rings in two taps with milk, size and syrup modifiers; the bakery counter runs tables or takeaway. Under the hood, every recipe draws its ingredients from inventory so you see food cost and margin per item, not just revenue.
- Modifier groups for milk, size, syrups
- Takeaway, dine-in and table modes
- Recipe-level ingredient draw-down
- Food-cost and margin per item
Why teams move off legacy tills
- Pending cake orders on a paper register
- Scale weight keyed in by hand
- Revenue tracked, food cost guessed
- POS totals reconciled to books nightly
- Pre-orders with advances post to the ledger
- Live weight straight from the scale
- Ingredient-level food cost per item
- Books close as the receipt prints
Questions, answered
Can I take advance orders for custom cakes?
Yes. The custom-cake builder captures flavour, size, message and decoration, takes an advance as a real accounting receipt, schedules the pickup date, and settles the balance on collection.
Does it support weigh-per-piece or per-kilo pricing?
It does. Connect a USB or serial weighing scale and the live weight flows straight into the line at your per-gram or per-kg rate, with tare handling for boxed items.
Can I track ingredient cost, not just sales?
Yes — define a recipe per item and each sale draws its ingredients from inventory, so you get real food-cost and margin reporting rather than revenue alone.
Does the café bar and the bakery counter use the same system?
They do. The layout supports takeaway, dine-in table service and pre-orders together, so a single café-bakery runs its espresso bar and its cake counter on one till and one ledger.
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