StayCraft for Cafes & restaurants

StayCraft for cafes and restaurants is for a cafe, dhaba, bakery, bistro or family restaurant that runs on order slips and a bill book today. The owner gets their own website with the menu on it, an admin for tables, orders, the kitchen and GST-correct bills, and pings on their phone when an order comes in. Diners order from a QR code on the table or from the website and pay the restaurant directly in cash, UPI or card, with no commission to anyone.

What every site gets

These are on every restaurant plan, including the cheapest.

• Your own website at yourname.staycraft.co.in, in any of 5 restaurant designs, with your opening hours ("Open now, until 10 pm"), your address and the way to you.
• Your menu on your website: every dish with its price, and a photo where you have one. It appears as soon as a dish is marked available.
• FSSAI marks on every dish: veg or non-veg, allergens, spice level, "Chef's special" labels, sizes such as Half and Full.
• A dish's name in Hindi, beside the English one.
• Load the whole menu from an Excel sheet, your billing software's export, or a photo of the printed menu, up to 500 dishes at a time, with a preview before anything is saved.
• A WhatsApp button on every page, photo galleries of your food and your tables, and reviews.
• Your own colours on any of the five designs.
• "Also order on" links to your own pages on Swiggy, Zomato, Magicpin and EatSure.
• What your restaurant has: family seating, outdoor seating, air conditioning, wheelchair access, UPI accepted, pure vegetarian kitchen, truck parking and more, shown beside your hours.
• Enquiries, blog, SEO & Google tools, review cards and QR landing pages.
• Enquiry follow-up: every enquiry moves through New, Replied, Quoted, Won or Lost, with a day to follow up on, a "Follow up today" tab, and one morning ping on your phone when something is due. On every plan.
• Social posts: turn a review, an offer or a festival into a finished picture and caption in your own colours and fonts (a post, a story or a square), in English or Hindi, and share it to your WhatsApp status from your phone. On every plan; nothing is posted for you.
• Backup & Restore: download your menu, photos, reviews, blog and design, with your orders, bills and enquiries.

Plans and prices

Six plans, from the ladder of October 2026. Prices are per year.

Plan	Price per year	Who it suits	What it adds over the plan below
Website	₹9,000 (₹750 a month, billed yearly)	A cafe that wants its menu found	Your website and menu, the WhatsApp button, photo galleries, reviews, your own colours. No staff logins, 1 management user. Three designs, 1 design change a year. 1 GB.
Basic	₹12,000 (₹1,000 a month, billed yearly)	A restaurant taking orders at the table	A QR code on each table, every order waiting for you to accept it, the kitchen ticket and numbered bills. 1 staff login, 1 management user. Every standard design, 2 changes a year. 2 GB.
Growth	₹15,000 (₹1,250 a month, billed yearly)	A restaurant with a counter, a kitchen and a team	Counter and takeaway orders with a token, waiter and kitchen logins, the kitchen screen, discounts, split and merged bills, the day-end report, and takeaway and delivery orders from your website. 2 staff logins, 1 management user. 3 GB.
Plus	₹18,000 (₹1,500 a month, billed yearly)	A busy restaurant on its own domain	Your own domain, your pages in English, Hindi or Punjabi, and stock counts on dishes. 3 staff logins, 3 design changes a year. 5 GB.
Team	₹25,000 (₹2,083 a month, billed yearly)	A restaurant with its own riders	3 delivery riders, Inventory, a second management user. 4 staff logins, 4 design changes a year. 10 GB.
Pro	₹30,000 (₹2,500 a month, billed yearly)	A busy restaurant with a delivery team	Alerts on your phone for every new order and enquiry, and change your design any time. 6 delivery riders, 6 staff logins, 2 management users. 25 GB.

How pricing works

• Prices are per year, in rupees. Plan prices are what you pay: StayCraft is not GST-registered, so no GST is added.

• There is no free trial and no card up front. We agree the plan with the owner on WhatsApp before anything goes live.

• Nothing is sold on top of a restaurant plan: no add-ons. A screen the plan does not have is shown greyed in the admin, with the name of the plan that has it.

• Every plan is for one outlet. An owner with more than one can ask us to link them (up to five, one tap between them, all their takings together); the price is agreed with us. More staff or rider logins than a plan has are agreed the same way.

• If a year is not paid, the bills already open can still be settled and printed. New orders and new bills wait until the plan is active again.

Features in detail

Website & design

• Five designs, each with its own ordering pages:
  • Letterpress: a printed card, espresso and brick red on cream. For a cafe or bakery whose menu is the page.
  • Platter: the food first, photographs on white. Your first photo served round on a brass thali rim beside your name; on a laptop the dishes with a photo fill the menu first and the rest follow in tidy rows. For a restaurant with a photo of every dish.
  • Signboard: a painted price board in mustard, red and teal, with the Hindi name beside each dish. For a dhaba or highway kitchen.
  • Ember: oxblood and brass on a dark ground. For a bistro that sells the evening.
  • Daylight: poster lettering and leaf green on white, a first screen that is the sky at your cafe at this hour (a sun while you are open, a moon after dark), your photo as a framed print beside your name. For a day cafe or juice bar.
• Drawn dishes. On Daylight, Ember and Letterpress, a dish with no photo shows a small line drawing of what it comes in (a cup, a glass, a bowl, bread, a sweet, a thali, an egg or a plate), in the design's own ink, on the menu and the ordering pages. A photo takes its place once you add one.
• Each design has its own touches. The "Write to us" form is styled the design's own way, a small hand-drawn mark of the design's own sits between the sections, and the marks of what your restaurant has are drawn in the design's own hand. What the form asks and does stays the same.
• Homepage sections you can move, hide or edit: first screen, menu, specials, our story, gallery, video, reviews, find us and write to us.
• Opening hours with two sittings a day (lunch and dinner), late nights past midnight, and closed days.
• Find us: your map, address, parking line, hours and what your restaurant has.
• On a phone, a bar at the foot with WhatsApp and Directions.

Menu

• Sections such as Breakfast, Tandoor and Drinks, each with an optional Hindi name.
• Each dish: name and Hindi name, description, photo, price or sizes, veg / egg / non-veg / vegan mark, labels, spice level, allergens (gluten, milk, egg, fish, shellfish, peanuts, tree nuts, soy, sulphites) and "ready in about" minutes.
• Running out: switch a dish off with a "Back at 7:30 pm" time and it stays on the menu greyed, or hide it until you switch it back on.
• Veg only switch for diners when the menu has both kinds of dish.
• Excel import and download: download your menu as a sheet, change prices in it, and upload it back. An upload never removes a dish or touches photos.
• Your own sheet, or your billing software's export, uploaded as it is: Item, Rate, Category, Veg, Half and Full are read for you, and the page asks what a column holds when it is not sure.
• Menu from a photo: up to 10 photos or a PDF of the printed menu, read for you into the same preview. Up to 10 reads a day.
• Alcohol can be marked on a dish. It is billed without GST in its own part of the bill, never discounted, and never sold on the website or for takeaway.

Table QR ordering (Basic and above)

• A QR code for each table, printed with the table's name. Retire a code without deleting it.
• Diners order from their own phone: search the menu, add a note to a dish ("no onion"), and watch their order move from accepted to ready to served.
• Every order waits for you to accept it, so nothing reaches the kitchen or a bill by itself. An order nobody answers in 20 minutes times out.
• Call the staff: a table can ask for somebody to come over, more water or the bill. The call shows on Orders with a chime.
• Orders only inside your opening hours; outside them the page says when the kitchen opens.
• Accept the next order by itself: once a table has an open bill, its next orders can go straight to the kitchen. (Growth and Pro)

Counter, takeaway & kitchen

• Kitchen ticket for every order: the table or token, each dish and the notes, no prices. Print it from the browser. (Basic and above)
• Counter and takeaway orders entered by you or a waiter, eat in or takeaway, with an optional diner name and phone. (Growth and Pro)
• Token numbers for takeaway and delivery, printed large, starting again at 1 each business day. (Growth and Pro)
• Packing charge on takeaway and website orders, once per order or per item. (Growth and Pro)
• Kitchen screen for a tablet in the kitchen: every accepted order oldest first, a chime for each new ticket, "Ready" per dish, and orange after 15 minutes waiting. No prices, names or phone numbers. (Growth and Pro)
• Your business day can end at any time from midnight to noon, so a late-night bill counts in the evening it belongs to. (Growth and Pro)

Bills & GST (Basic and above)

• Numbered bills in one series a year, such as B/26-27/0001, with your own prefix if you want one.
• The right bill for your GST status: a plain Bill if you are not registered, a Tax invoice with CGST and SGST if you are, or a Bill of supply with the composition scheme's declaration.
• FSSAI licence number printed on every bill, and SAC 9963 on a tax invoice and bill of supply.
• GST at 5% or 18%, and prices on the menu either including GST or before GST (then the menu says "Prices exclude GST" and the diner sees the total with tax before ordering).
• Buyer's name and address asked for on a tax invoice of ₹50,000 or more.
• Print on a 58 mm or 80 mm roll from the browser, or share the bill as a PDF or on WhatsApp.
• Settle by mode: cash, UPI and card, split across two ways if needed. Show UPI QR for the diner to scan.
• Close as unpaid or cancel a bill with a reason. A cancelled bill keeps its number, so the series has no gap, and no bill can be deleted.
• Record a paper bill written by hand while the internet was down.
• Bills issued report by month, for GSTR-1 "Documents issued", with a CSV for the accountant.
• Discounts by percentage or amount, on the bill or one dish, with a reason, taken off before GST. (Growth and Pro)
• Split, merge and move: split by dishes or into equal shares, merge another table's bill in, or move a bill to another table. (Growth and Pro)

Website orders, delivery & reservations (Growth and Pro)

• Order online on your website: takeaway to collect, or a delivery. Diners who give an email are emailed at each step and can tap Order again next time.

• You choose how diners pay: pay now by UPI, pay on delivery or at pickup, or let them choose, with an optional cash limit. A UPI order waits under Waiting for payment until you have checked your UPI app and marked it received, and only then goes to the kitchen. With your own Razorpay keys saved, Pay now confirms by itself.

• Delivery areas: list each area you deliver to, with its own delivery fee and minimum order. A diner outside your areas is told you do not deliver there.

• The diner's location and a fee by distance (optional): Use my location puts a pin on the order, so the rider can tap Navigate. Set a rate per kilometre from your own location, with a maximum distance and a free-above amount, and the fee is worked out from the straight line.

• Every order waits for your yes. Accepting puts it on a bill with a token and sends its ticket to the kitchen. You move it to Out for delivery, Delivered or Handed over, and the diner's page follows. A new order chimes on the Online orders screen.

• Delivery riders (Team and Pro): Team has 3 rider logins and Pro 6, on top of your staff logins.

• Give each order to a rider; they see only their own deliveries under My deliveries, mark them picked up and delivered, and record the cash or UPI they collected. Riders' cash shows what each rider holds until they hand it in.

• An outside rider (Borzo, Porter, Rapido or your own): the order's details are ready to paste, and you can keep the courier's name, phone and tracking link, which the diner sees.

• Pause online orders with one switch during a rush.

• Table reservations: a diner asks for a day, a time and a party size inside the rules you set (days, times, largest party, how many per time slot, how far ahead). You confirm or decline. When they arrive, one tap opens their table's bill.

Stock (Pro)

• Count a dish made in a batch: it shows "Only 3 left", then "Sold out", and cannot be ordered once it has gone.
• Each morning count: a dish starts every business day with the number you set.
• Sold out for the day: one tap, and it comes back by itself the next morning.
• A ping to you and your managers when a dish is down to the last few or sold out.

Inventory (Growth and Pro; Team and Pro on the new plans)

• Items, stores and suppliers: your raw material (rice, dairy, vegetables, gas, packaging), counted in kg, litres or your own unit, bought in cartons if you like; a Main store and your own (Kitchen, Bar).
• Purchase bills: each supplier's invoice with GST, delivery charges and a photo; payments against it; what you owe each supplier and what is overdue.
• Edit a bill: correct the supplier, items, quantities, rates or GST later; stock, totals and what you owe follow, and each change is kept.
• Uses with where they went: the kitchen, a staff meal, an event; waste with its reason. Transfers between stores, and counts that correct the books.
• Cost and value at the average cost before GST, low-stock alerts, and a history of every entry with who made it.
• Each outlet keeps its own stores.
• Accounts: expenses with receipts (salaries, gas, rent, repairs), rent and salaries made every month, other income, and a profit and loss each month: what your bills charged before GST, less the stock the kitchen used or wasted at cost, less expenses. Also cost per bill, trends, suppliers and GST on purchases, each as a CSV. Tablecloths and napkins can be kept as linen and sent to the laundry.

Several outlets (agreed with us)

• Switch between outlets in one tap, with no password to type.
• All outlets: every outlet's bills, sales, cash, UPI, card, discounts, website orders and reservations side by side for up to 31 days, with a CSV.
• Copy menu to another outlet, with a preview first. Nothing at the other outlet is overwritten or removed.
• A bill number prefix per outlet (B, B2, B3), so outlets sharing one GSTIN never repeat a number.

Staff & roles

• Waiter (Basic and above): orders, counter orders, table bills, printing and settling, marking a dish sold out, accepting website orders and seating arrived parties. No discounts, cancelling, reports, takings, settings or menu.

• Manager (Growth and Pro): everything a waiter does, plus discounts, split, merge and move, cancelling a bill with a reason, the day-end report, stock counts, reservations and pausing online orders. No settings, prices, menu, plan or customer list.

• Kitchen (Growth and Pro): the kitchen screen only. No prices, bills or diner details. With Inventory, also stock on hand, to record what was used or wasted.

• Store keeper (with Inventory): purchase bills (without prices; you add them), uses, transfers and counts. No price, total, bill, takings or Accounts.

• Manager, with Inventory: everything the owner sees there, prices and what is owed included, and Accounts.

• Staff logins per plan: Website none, Basic 1, Growth 2, Plus 3, Team 4, Pro 6 (managers, waiters and kitchen together; owners are not counted). On Basic, the staff login is a waiter.

• Every bill keeps the name of who opened it, and every discount, cancellation and correction records who did it.

Reports & customers

• Today's takings on the dashboard: cash, UPI, card and bills settled, for the owner only. (Basic and above)
• Day-end report for any business day: bills, sales before tax, CGST and SGST, money by mode, discounts and who gave them, packing charges, sales by dish, dishes taken off, cancelled and unpaid bills, sold-out dishes, orders by where they came from, delivery fees and reservations. Print on a roll or A4, or download a CSV. (Growth and Pro)
• Customer list: one row per phone number from counter, takeaway and website orders, with visits, last visit and amount spent, and a CSV. Nothing is ever sent to diners from it. (Growth and Pro)

Marketing & Google

• SEO health score with a checklist. Your site tells Google that you are a restaurant, with your hours and your menu, which helps you appear in map results.
• Reviews and review cards: a printed card for your tables with a code a diner scans to review you on Google.
• QR landing pages: one printed code that opens a page of buttons you choose and can change any time, with a live preview as you build it.
• Visitors page: traffic, top pages and where enquiries came from.
• Monthly report by email: on the 1st, last month's visits, enquiries and (where your plan has them) bookings, payments, QR scans, reviews and top Google searches, against the month before, with one tip and your SEO score. A "Last month" card on the dashboard shows the same. You can switch it off in Settings or with one click from the email.

Phone app & notifications

• Pings on your phone when a table orders or calls for staff, when a website order or reservation arrives, when a diner says they have paid by UPI, when an order is given to a rider, and (for owners and managers) when a counted dish runs low.
• A ping never shows a diner's name, phone, address or an amount.
• Works on Android phones and computers through the browser. On iPhone it works through Safari with a StayCraft icon on the home screen.
• The kitchen login gets no pings: its screen chimes instead.
• A StayCraft app for Android is being tested and is not yet available to everyone.

Languages

• A dish's Hindi name on every plan.
• Language switch: diners read your website and ordering pages in English, Hindi or Punjabi. Bills are printed in English. (Pro)

Your own domain & security

• Your own domain, with HTTPS set up for you. (Pro)
• Backup & Restore: restoring puts back your site and never your orders or bills.
• Sign-in email changes confirmed by a link sent to the new address.
• Remove a diner's details on request; what was printed on a bill does not change.

What it does not do (yet)

• Online payment is optional and goes straight to you. Pay now needs your own Razorpay account and keys; StayCraft takes no commission and holds no money. Without it, a UPI payment is only marked paid when you check your UPI app.

• Delivery riders are on Team and Pro.

• On a plan without riders, you carry a delivery yourself and mark its steps. There is no live tracking of a rider on a map: the diner follows the order's steps, and a courier you book outside gives its own tracking link.

• No Zomato or Swiggy integration. The "Also order on" row is only a link to your page on those apps. Nothing is sent to or from them.

• No recipes. Inventory is entered by hand: selling a dish does not take its ingredients out of stock. Stock (Pro) is a separate count of dishes.

• It needs the internet. When the connection is down, write bills on paper and record them afterwards.

• No printer is promised. Bills and kitchen tickets print from the browser on a 58 mm or 80 mm roll. Print one on your own printer before you rely on it.

• No SMS or WhatsApp messages sent automatically. Buttons open a ready WhatsApp message that you send yourself, and diners follow their order on its own page.

• No alcohol on website or takeaway orders, and no service charge.

• No free trial and no add-ons.

• The Android app is not public yet. Phone pings work through the browser today.

Good to say to a customer

• "Do I need a developer, or a billing machine?" No developer. Type your menu or load it from an Excel sheet, pick a design and your website is live. From Restaurant Basic your bills are numbered and GST-correct, printed from a phone, tablet or computer on a 58 mm or 80 mm printer.
• "Do you take a commission on orders?" No. Diners pay you directly in cash, UPI or card, and Razorpay payments go to your own account. You pay only for the plan.
• "Can diners pay online?" On your website they can pay by UPI first, or on delivery, as you choose; with your own Razorpay keys saved, Pay now (UPI or card) confirms by itself and the money goes straight to your account. On a table bill they pay by UPI, cash or card, and a UPI QR code for the bill can be shown on screen.
• "Is there an app?" The admin works on any phone or tablet, and you get pings for new orders and reservations. An Android app is in testing and not yet available to everyone.
• "Will it get my GST bills right?" It prints a bill, a bill of supply or a tax invoice according to the GST status you save, with your FSSAI number, and a monthly report of bill numbers for your return. Check your rate and the alcohol rule with your accountant before your first bill.