For coffee shops & cafés

Flat white, oat milk, two shots. Ordered ahead. Ready on walk-in.

Order-ahead, mobile pay, loyalty stamps, milk and syrup modifiers. Designed for the 30-second morning queue and the laptop-and-lunch afternoon.

A coffee shop at 8:20am is 12 people deep at the till. Morning rush means seconds per order. Order-ahead shifts the queue to the app. Customers walk in, coffee's ready, they're out in 20 seconds. Your average ticket goes up because the add-on prompts actually work.

Order-ahead + loyalty + pickup window, all in one app.

Shorten the queue. Lift the ticket.

Customers order from the app on their walk in, pay in advance, and collect from a pickup shelf. The till isn't the bottleneck anymore — the machine is. Loyalty stamps run inside the app, so the 10th coffee earns itself without a paper card.

Modifiers — milk type, shot count, syrup, extra shot, decaf — are priced fairly and print in a clean order for the barista. No more "was that oat or almond?" at handoff.

The features that move the 8am queue.

Order-ahead & pickup

Customers order and pay on the walk in. Barista sees paced orders, not a flood. Queue shrinks.

Loyalty stamps & points

Buy-9-get-10 stamp cards in the app. Or points. Or tiered rewards. Earned on every channel.

Milk & syrup modifiers

Oat +£0.40, almond +£0.40, soy +£0.30, vanilla syrup +£0.50. Priced live, printed clean.

Fast till flow

Two taps for a regular. Favourite drinks as tiles. Touch-optimised for a one-barista till.

Bakery upsells

"Add a pastry for £2.50?" prompts on web, app, kiosk and till. Attach rate lifts AOV.

Multi-site ready

Central menu, local prices. Push a new seasonal drink to all sites. Works for 1 café or a 30-site chain.

Coffee shop capabilities, compared.

Capability Square Generic EPOS Andromeda
Order-ahead branded app Generic Your brand
Native loyalty stamps in app Add-on Built in
Modifier pricing (milk, syrup) Basic Clunky Native
Multi-site pricing & reports Limited Varies One view
Cost per month Per till + fees Varies Low flat monthly fee
"Order-ahead took the 8am queue from 12 deep to 3. Ticket average is up because the pastry prompt actually works. We should have done this two years ago."
SR
Sarah Ramirez — Co-founder, Plot Coffee
Five-site independent coffee group, Bristol

Things coffee shop owners ask.

Is the order-ahead app actually our brand or does it say Andromeda?

Your brand. Your logo, colours, name, App Store listing. By default we publish on our Apple and Google developer accounts (simpler for you) and handle all the updates — or on your own accounts if you'd prefer.

We already use a loyalty card — can we migrate customers?

Yes. We'll import customer data and existing stamp balances. Existing cards can be swapped for app-based stamps on first visit.

Can the order-ahead prompt upsell a pastry or second drink?

Yes. Smart upsell prompts at checkout — "Add a pastry for £2.50?" — configured per product or category. Typical lift is 15-25% on AOV for morning order-ahead.

How does pickup work — do customers queue at a pickup point?

Yes. Orders print to the bar with a customer name and estimated ready time. Customers see "ready" in the app, walk up, take their drink from the pickup shelf. No second queue.

Does it handle dine-in too? Laptop-and-coffee customers want to pay at the table.

Yes. QR at the table, pay on phone, orders route to the bar. Running tabs for longer sessions. Works alongside order-ahead on the same menu.

Can we run seasonal menus — pumpkin spice from October, only at specific sites?

Yes. Per-site, per-date availability on any product. Schedule the seasonal drink, choose the sites, done. Remove it automatically on the end date.

Want to see order-ahead shorten your 8am queue?

Book a demo. We'll order a flat white on the app, collect it on the pickup shelf, and show you the stamp loyalty in action.

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