Restaurant & Food Service
Build a point-of-sale system
Kliv is an AI app builder. Describe the point-of-sale system your café or bakery needs — menu buttons, modifiers, kitchen queues, live counts, loyalty, online orders, and close-out reports — and it builds it.
Just enter your idea into the text box and AI will build it for you
What is Kliv?
Kliv isn’t a rented register product with fixed workflows — it’s an AI that builds software for you.
You describe the app you need in your own words, and Kliv builds it: the data, the screens, the register flow, the kitchen queue, the counts, and the reports. What you get is a real app that’s yours. You can change it later by asking for changes and run online payments on your own Stripe account when your app takes online orders. It isn’t a template register.
On this page, that app is a POS system for a food-service counter. Kliv builds all kinds of web apps; this is one for a café, bakery, food truck, or similar counter business.
Why build your own POS?
A small food business can have rules a generic register handles badly: a lunch special that changes at 9, drink modifiers that only belong to drinks, and a fixed number of pastries from the morning bake.
Kliv builds the register around the counter you run. Buttons can match the line, counts can match the bake, and close-out can answer the questions you ask every night: what sold, when, and what ran out too early.
What the register knows
Five records keep the counter moving.
Menu and modifiers
A cortado is $3.75, oat milk adds $0.50, and the modifier belongs to drinks, not sandwiches. You edit menu data, and the register buttons follow it.
Orders and kitchen queue
Each order lands on the kitchen screen in sequence with modifiers spelled out. A toastie with no onions arrives as that exact order.
Counts and sell-outs
Forty croissants entered at 6 a.m. become a live countdown. At zero, the register stops selling them.
Regulars
A customer record can hold the punch count. The tenth coffee applies at the register and starts the next card.
The day closed
Totals by hour, item, cash, and card are assembled when you close and sent to the inbox, with rows kept for later questions.
An example: Lena’s bakery café
Here’s how one café might use it. It’s only an example — you would describe your own menu, stations, counts, and reports.
Morning counts set the limit
Lena enters forty croissants and thirty cinnamon knots after the bake. The register count starts where the oven stopped.
The line splits by station
Orders go to the kitchen screen in sequence, while the barista screen shows drinks only. Two stations read the same order without shouting.
The special changes everywhere
At 9, today’s soup is typed once and priced at $11.50. It appears on the register, the public menu page, and the counter display.
Sold-out items stop selling
When croissants hit zero before lunch, the button greys out. Staff cannot sell a pastry that no longer exists.
Loyalty applies at the register
Rui’s customer record reaches the tenth coffee. The register applies the free americano and starts the next count.
Close-out is already written
Lena gets totals by hour and item, sell-out times, and cash versus card. The report is in her inbox, and the rows stay queryable.
Describe what you want to build
Kliv builds from your description, so include your menu, modifiers, stations, counts, payment flow, and reports. Here are three examples:
Bakery counter register
Morning counts and automatic sell-outs.
“Build a POS for my bakery café with croissant and pastry counts entered each morning, automatic sell-outs at zero, modifiers for espresso drinks, a kitchen screen queue for food, a barista view for drinks, and a daily report by hour and item.”
Food truck window
Small menu, fast line, and location reports.
“Build a point-of-sale system for my food truck with a six-item menu, combo pricing, order numbers customers hear called, cash and card tender tracking, and end-of-day totals by location.”
Café with online pickup
Counter and web orders in one queue.
“Build a café POS where online pickup orders paid through my own Stripe account land in the same kitchen queue as counter orders, with pickup-time slots every 15 minutes and item counts shared across both channels.”
Under the counter
The menu is one record everywhere. Register buttons, the public menu page, and kitchen abbreviations all read the same rows. The 9 a.m. special is one edit.
Online orders use your own Stripe account. Pickup orders pay at checkout and join the kitchen queue beside walk-ups. The payout reconciles against the same order rows the register wrote.
The day can be queried. Every sale is a row in your database, so questions like “do cinnamon knots sell out before croissants on rainy days?” are queries, not guesses. Analytics can also track visitors and conversion on the online side without a tag manager.
Change it after service. Add a category, modifier, or happy-hour price by describing it. Kliv updates the app and keeps the history intact.
When the counter grows into a webshop for beans, gift boxes, or cake orders, you are running direct-to-customer commerce. Kliv’s D2C page maps that path.
Common questions
What exactly is Kliv?
Kliv is an AI that builds custom web apps from a description. For a POS system, it builds the menu, register screens, kitchen queue, counts, customer records, online order flow, and reports around your counter.
Do I get a real app, or a template?
A real app. Your menu, modifiers, item counts, queue rules, and reports live in a database and screens built for your business.
Can I change it after it’s built?
Yes. You can change the menu, add modifiers, adjust stations, create special prices, or change reports by asking for changes.
Does it work with a card terminal?
You can run your terminal beside it. The register records the sale and tender either way, so reports stay whole. Online and pickup orders can check out through your own Stripe account.
What if the tablet dies mid-rush?
It’s a web app, so another signed-in device can become the register. The queue and counts live in the database, not just on the device.
Can staff have different permissions?
Yes. Counter staff can ring sales; managers can edit the menu or void orders. Every void can record who did it and when.
Is this only for restaurants?
No. Items, counts, modifiers, regulars, and close-out reports also fit cafés, bakeries, food trucks, farm stands, florists, and small shops.
Can online orders share the same counts?
Yes. Online pickup orders and counter orders can draw from the same item counts, so the website does not sell what the counter already sold out.
Does Kliv take a cut of online orders?
No. Online payments run through your own Stripe account. Card fees are between you and Stripe.
Can I use my own domain?
Yes. Any public ordering or menu pages can run on your own domain.
Can I move off Kliv later?
Yes. The code syncs to your own Git repository, and your order records are yours.
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A register that matches the counter
Describe your menu, stations, modifiers, counts, online orders, and close-out report in detail. Kliv builds the POS around how your counter actually runs.