The POS that tells you where the money went.

The cashier types what she counted before the app shows her what it should be — and once she locks it in, that number cannot be changed, not even from a second tablet. A shift opened by you or your manager is deliberately not blind: you see every total up front, and that is also how a locked cashier count gets corrected — the only other thing that reopens it is the app itself, when money lands after the count and it makes her recount.

A cancelled bill comes out of sales and out of tax but stays on file with who cancelled it, when, and why. Only the owner login can void — a manager or cashier can't.

Set the most a cashier may knock off; anything above needs your PIN, so nobody quietly discounts their friends. Discount is bill-level — there is no per-item discount in Dinelax.

The app refuses to re-issue a number a bill already carries — after a restore, a device swap, or a bad sync. A voided bill keeps its number, because the audit needs the gap explained, not hidden.

Card, credit, partner orders, pre-bills and reprints leave it shut, so an open drawer always means money moved. The cash half of a split bill does open it. Needs a drawer wired to the printer's kick port.

If a late bill lands, or someone edits an expense after the count, the app makes her count the drawer again instead of passing a bogus "balanced". The count it checks against is stored in the cloud, not in the screen she is looking at — closing the app does not reset it.

Dine-in, takeaway, delivery and counter-pickup all ring up on the same screen and print TABLE / PARCEL / DELIVERY / PICKUP on the slip.

Delivery and pickup flows need Pro or the delivery add-on.

Cash, card, UPI (India), part-cash-part-card, on credit — plus any method you invent, like Bank Transfer or Cheque. Each lands on its own line in every report instead of falling into "cash".

By items, it prints genuinely separate bills, each with its own items and its own payment method. Equal mode mints one bill and shows the per-head share to collect; it does not print four receipts.

Fire it to the kitchen, park it as Pending with a slip marked PAY AT COUNTER — UNPAID, free the table now, settle when they come back. A Pending bill counts zero in every drawer figure until it's settled, and the day close won't run over one.

Half / Full, "extra cheese", and a fixed-price combo whose contents print on the kitchen slip. The price freezes onto the line the moment it's added, so a menu change tomorrow never rewrites yesterday's bill.

A proforma marked PRE BILL — not a tax invoice while you keep editing the cart; a second copy stamped REPRINT with the drawer staying shut; or the whole itemised bill on WhatsApp for the customer who doesn't want paper.

A waiter signs into the Dinelax install with a mobile number and a 4-digit PIN and lands on the floor plan. No second APK to download, no per-device licence to buy.

Which tables are free, which are eating, how long they've been sitting and what each has run up so far — without walking the floor.

The second and third rounds carry the first round's number with a RUNNING ORDER banner, so the kitchen ties them to the meal already in progress and the customer gets one bill.

Two taps, no re-keying. Paper that's already printed keeps the old table number — a human carries the slip across.

A waiter cannot record a payment — deliberately. The bill parks in the cashier's Pending list under its table number, and the day close won't run until it's settled.

Main Hall / Terrace / AC / VIP, each waiter locked to their own section, and an automatic AC or terrace charge — percentage or flat — on every bill seated in that zone. It applies to seated tables only; a counter parcel is exempt. There is no separate shop-wide service charge.

Today's sales, tax, order count and discounts, split by dine-in / parcel / delivery / pickup and by every tender — cash, card, UPI, credit, pending, partner, and any method you invented. Step it back to any past day.

Summary, Sales Trend, Item Wise, Category Wise, Payment Wise, VAT/GST, Purchases, Credit Book, Profit & Loss, Delivery, Online Partners, Counter Wise, Stock, Cancelled/Void, Staff Sales, Removed & Cancelled, Bill History. Print any of them on the counter's thermal printer, share one as a PDF, or export the whole period as CSV — including every bill line by line for your accountant.

Tap a shift chip — "Shift 2 · Kumar" — and sales, payments, items, voids, counters, purchases and credit book re-read as that shift alone, so a cash-up argument is settled against the same numbers the Z-report printed. Chips cover Today and Yesterday. Profit, VAT and expenses stay full-period, because those entries carry no shift stamp.

The moment a shift or the day closes, the Z-report summary is pre-filled into WhatsApp — sales, bills, payment split, expected versus counted, with the variance called out OVER / SHORT / balanced. And at 10 pm your phone buzzes with the day's total and order count.

Opt-in; needs your number saved.

Type "today's sales", "top items this week", "credit dues", "low stock?", "this month profit", or a bill number — in English, Tamil, Tanglish, Hindi, Arabic or Malayalam. It reads only your restaurant, it only ever reads (it can't change a price or a bill), it answers in plain words, and it's capped at 50 messages a day — per restaurant, not per person.

Switch between branches and the whole app re-points — menu, staff, bills, reports. Each branch keeps its own books and its own plan, and your 10 pm notification totals across all of them.

Each restaurant carries its own subscription.