Features

Everything a small shop needs. Nothing it doesn't.

The till, the phone line, the kitchen and the back office — one system, built around how a busy counter actually works.

Taking orders Phone & caller-ID Kitchen & collection Pre-orders Customers Admin & reports Hardware & setup
01

Taking orders

Fast enough for a queue out the door

A touch surface built for speed — tap to add, long-press for variants, and nothing more than two taps away.

Touch-optimised menu grid

Tap to add with smart-merge for simple lines, long-press for variants, optional category drill-down for long menus.

Extras & modifiers

Sides, sauces, sizes and cooking notes — configured per item, priced per option.

Customisable discounts

Percentage or fixed amount, preset cards, manager-PIN protected.

Held tickets

Park a messy order and pick it back up when the queue calms down.

Customer save matrix

Identify by phone, address or anonymous code — the search adapts to match.

Small-screen mode

On shorter touchscreens the cart drops into a drawer with a floating Place bar one thumb away.

02

Phone & caller-ID

Real caller-ID hardware, in the box

The genuinely uncommon part — a small USB device watches your phone lines so the customer is on screen before you answer.

Caller-ID device included

Sits between the phone line and the till; the customer record appears before you pick up.

Four-line monitoring

See which line is ringing, which is mid-call and which was missed — at a glance.

Recent calls

One-click history of inbound calls with answered / missed state.

Click-to-call-back

Tap a missed call to ring the customer back without dialling.

03

Kitchen & collection screens

From the pass to the pick-up shelf

Screens that flow down the line with the till — the kitchen cooks from one, customers watch their order land on the other. Survives power cuts, never lets an allergy note slip past.

Station routing

Items are tagged to stations — grill, fryer, salad. Every screen shows only its own work.

Allergy banner

A high-contrast READ CAREFULLY banner on any ticket with allergy notes.

Countdown chips

Neutral, amber as the deadline nears, red and pulsing when overdue.

86 & reject

Mark an item out of stock or reject a ticket — the till sees it immediately.

Crash-resilient state

Bump state survives a power cut or mid-shift restart. Nothing lost, nothing double-bumped.

Collection screen

A customer-facing screen showing what’s being prepared and what’s ready.

04

Scheduling & pre-orders

Friday’s call for Sunday lunch, handled

Scheduled orders park themselves and surface at exactly the right moment for the kitchen.

Scheduled pickups & deliveries

Pick the date and time on the cart; the order surfaces when it matters.

Pre-orders tray

Every scheduled order in deadline order, with push-now, edit and cancel.

Smart lead times

Zeta does the maths on kitchen time and warns if food would land too late to cook.

05

Customers & marketing

A customer book that builds itself

Names, addresses, allergies and order history — built up as the phone rings, handled the right way.

Self-building database

Name, addresses, phone, notes, allergies and order history — no data entry sessions.

Allergy notes

A first-class field with consent tracking, surfaced on every relevant screen.

Marketing list

Separate opt-in from allergy consent. Export a clean CSV for any email tool.

GDPR “forget me”

Deleting a customer anonymises every linked record — your reports still add up.

06

Admin & reporting

The numbers the owner actually checks

Revenue at a glance, a full orders log, and clean exports for the accountant.

Overview dashboard

Revenue today / week / month, order count, average order value, payment mix.

Orders log

Every order with timestamp, agent and totals — recall, reprint or edit per row.

Day-end till reports

Open and close a session, take cash-up readings, print a Z-report.

Staff accounts

Per-agent login, manager PIN for sensitive actions.

Exports

Orders, customers, menu, calls and the marketing list — XLSX or CSV.

07

Hardware & setup

Double-click, next-next-finish

No IT visit. Two small installers, a pairing wizard, and your existing Windows kit.

Two simple installers

A till installer and a kitchen installer — double-click and go.

Station pairing wizard

Kitchen screens walk a 4-step setup: name, pairing, sound, confirm.

Multi-station LAN

One host till plus any number of client tills and kitchen displays.

Any Windows printer

Receipt and kitchen-ticket printers via the standard Windows print stack.

Pre-configured hardware option

Or have us ship terminals, screens and printers ready to use, menu loaded.

Remote support

Stuck mid-service? We can log in to your till and sort it live.

See it on your own counter.

Try Zeta free for 30 days — or ring us and talk it through with a human.