The register
Ring up with photos and categories, apply a discount to a line or the whole bill, take cash or charge to a room, and print. Receipts number themselves per till, so two counters never collide.
The till, the floor and the kitchen on one tablet.
NIO POS is a point of sale for cafés, restaurants, guesthouses and shops in the Maldives. Rufiyaa and GST are not an add-on. Neither is charging a plate of hedhikaa to room 204.
NIO CAFE
Hithadhoo · Addu City
R2-104314:26
Counter 1Aishath
2 × Flat White110.00
Large · Oat
1 × Croissant45.00
Subtotal155.00
GST 8%12.40
TOTAL MVR167.40
ROOM CHARGE167.40
Room 204A. Ibrahim
Signed to the guest folio
Settled at check-out
GST is charged on the discounted amount, not the menu price. Money is held to four decimal places and never as floating point.
What it runs today
One system from the order to the end of day.
Tables and QR ordering
Open a table, add to it all evening, and settle once. Guests scan the QR on the table to order themselves, and the counter can keep adding to that same bill when they ask for one more thing.
Kitchen display
Orders land in the kitchen the moment they are sent, with the variant and every modifier spelled out — 2× Flat White — Large · Oat, not just “Latte”. Any spare Android tablet becomes the screen.
Catalogue
Items with photos, categories, sizes and add-ons, each with its own price and tax. Type your menu in, or mirror it from NIO Books — and anything you typed in yourself survives every sync.
Staff and tills
Everyone signs in with a PIN, so every sale has a name on it. Cashier, waiter, kitchen and manager each see only their own screens. Add a till, pair a tablet, retire a lost one.
End of day
Close the day and the takings go to NIO Books as a journal that posts once, however many times it is sent. Or keep the books in NIO POS and connect nothing at all.
Built for here
A café on an island is also half a hotel.
Most point of sale software treats a guest folio as an enterprise feature. Here it is Tuesday. NIO POS ships room charge in the box, and will talk to whatever the property already runs.
8%
GST that adds up
Tax sits on the item, is charged on the discounted amount, and the remainder from splitting a bill discount lands on the last line so the total always reconciles.
204
Charge it to the room
Confirm the room number and the guest's name, and the charge goes on their folio for the front desk to settle. The internal ledger needs no other system.
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Property systems
Opera Cloud, Mews, Cloudbeds and eZee Absolute. Pick one in settings, paste the credentials, and charges post to the real guest bill.
Hardware
The tablet you already have, and a printer that costs less than a month of rent.
No proprietary terminal, no yearly hardware contract. NIO POS installs on an ordinary Android tablet and talks to any 80mm thermal printer over Bluetooth or the network. Receipts, kitchen tickets and table QR codes all print as real ESC/POS, including the QR itself.
Android 7.0+
phone or tablet
80mm ESC/POS
Bluetooth or LAN
cash drawer kick
barcode scanner
works offline
On the way
Being built now, in this order.
Listed because you should know what is not here yet, not as a promise with a date on it.
Inventory & purchasingStock per outlet, purchase orders, transfers, counts, recipes and low-stock alerts.
Customers & loyaltyAccounts, store credit, loyalty points and gift cards against one customer record.
Reports & analyticsA live dashboard and a report library, exportable to Excel and PDF.
Multi-outletEvery shop, till, role and alert from one account, with stock moving between them.
Questions
Before you ask us
Does it handle Maldives GST?
Yes. Tax is set per item and charged on the discounted amount, so a bill with a discount charges GST on what the customer actually pays. Prices are tax-exclusive, and money is held as exact decimals rather than floating point, so a long day of sales still reconciles to the rufiyaa.
Can guests charge meals to their room?
Yes. The cashier confirms the room number and the guest's name, and the charge goes onto a folio the front desk settles at check-out. NIO POS keeps that ledger itself, or posts the charge to Opera Cloud, Mews, Cloudbeds or eZee Absolute if the property already runs one.
Do I need NIO Books?
No. NIO POS owns its own catalogue and sells perfectly well with no accounting system connected. Connect NIO Books and it mirrors your items, tax rates and customers and posts the day's takings back — and anything you typed into the POS yourself is left alone by every sync.
What happens when the internet drops?
The register keeps selling. Sales carry an id generated on the device, so when the connection returns nothing is entered twice, however many times it retries.
What hardware do I need?
An Android tablet or phone on 7.0 or later, and any 80mm ESC/POS thermal printer over Bluetooth or the network. Cash drawers open from the printer, and USB or Bluetooth barcode scanners work as keyboards with no setup.
Get started
Tell us what you sell. We will set it up.
Each shop gets its own address, its own menu and its own staff PINs. Setting one up takes an afternoon, not a project.
hello@niopos.store