DonutDash POS
A POS system built for donut shops, not adapted for them
Most point-of-sale software is a restaurant system with the word 'donut' typed into a menu. DonutDash POS was written on a donut shop counter in Tyler, Texas, for the morning rush that makes or breaks the day.
What the register does
Built for a counter queue
Ring a dozen mixed donuts without hunting through menus. Items, variants, and quantities are where a cashier's hand already is, so the queue keeps moving at the hour that decides the day.
A screen the customer can read
The second display shows the basket as it is rung, the total, the tip prompt, and the receipt choice — so the person paying sees what they are paying for instead of the back of a register.
Card payments on the terminal
Tap, insert, or swipe on a connected card terminal. The amount on the customer's screen is the amount the terminal asks for, down to the cent, including any card fee.
It keeps selling when the internet drops
A sale rung while the connection is down still prints a receipt and still opens the drawer. It is held on the register and sent as soon as the line comes back, with duplicate protection so one sale is recorded once.
Receipts the way the customer wants them
Print, text, email, or none — chosen by the customer on their own screen rather than relayed across the counter.
English and Khmer
The register speaks both. For a shop where the owner and the morning cashier do not share a first language, this is the difference between software that gets used and software that gets worked around.
The hardware it runs on
- Android register with a customer-facing second screen
- Card terminal
- Receipt printer
- Cash drawer
DonutDash POS runs on standard Android register hardware with a second customer-facing display. If you already have a register you like, tell us what it is and we will tell you plainly whether it will work.
Bakeries and coffee shops
A bakery POS system has to handle the things a restaurant till never thinks about: items sold by the dozen and the half dozen, a case that changes through the morning, and a counter where the line is longest in the first ninety minutes of the day.
A coffee shop POS system adds drinks with variants and modifiers alongside the case, and a drive-through where the customer cannot reach the screen at all. DonutDash POS lets the cashier answer on their behalf rather than holding the queue.
The same register runs all three. We built it for donut shops because that is the trade we come from, and bakeries and coffee shops turned out to need the same things: speed at the counter, a screen the customer can read, and a till that does not stop when the internet does.