A QR table-ordering platform for NZ cafés and restaurants. Customers order from their phone, the kitchen sees it instantly, and there's no app to download, no commission and no third party taking a cut of every sale.
The dominant food-ordering platforms take a commission on every order and put themselves between a café and its regulars. For a small venue running on thin margins, that's a tax on every coffee. The alternative — building your own ordering system — has always been out of reach.
OnlineMenu gives an independent café the same slick scan-and-order experience the big chains have, with zero commission and no per-order fee, for a flat monthly price. The whole thing is multi-tenant, so one codebase serves every venue, each with its own menu, branding and QR codes.
It looks simple to a customer, which is the point. Behind the scan is a complete operating system for a venue.
Every venue lives at its own URL slug and shares one application and database, isolated by tenant. Onboarding a new café doesn't mean a new deployment — it's a row of data and a menu. That's what makes a flat, affordable monthly price viable.
Orders land on a live kitchen screen with colour-coded age timers, so staff see at a glance what's new and what's been waiting. Built to run all day on a cheap tablet, with no app and no fragile dependencies.
Sticky category tabs that auto-scroll as you browse, a Safari-safe implementation, dietary tags, a persistent cart, and dine-in, takeaway and pickup flows. Group ordering lets a whole table order from one device. The fiddly bits that make or break mobile ordering are all handled.
A venue can produce print-ready posters, table tents and QR slips for their live menu straight from the admin panel — assembled entirely client-side into a single PDF. No design software, no waiting on us.
Stripe Checkout and a full webhook flow handle subscriptions and renewals, and all transactional email routes through a proper relay API rather than unreliable shared-host mail. Invites, reminders and receipts actually arrive.
A built-in referral system lets locals submit café leads, with a live duplicate check across both the leads and live-venue databases, and a status pipeline from submitted through to converted. Growth tooling, not just an ordering app.
The Aroha Café demo is a complete, working venue you can order from right now.
OnlineMenu is a complete, multi-tenant SaaS built end to end. If you've got an idea that needs the same treatment, let's talk.
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