I’ve been building a lightweight restaurant management/POS system for small restaurants here in the Philippines and I wanted to ask restaurant owners here something honestly.
The system is focused more on operational simplicity rather than “enterprise features.”
Main features currently:
- POS
- inventory
- payroll
- kitchen display
- sales/expense tracking
- offline-capable setup
- designed for low-end hardware and unstable internet
One thing I noticed talking to smaller restaurants/carinderias/cafes:
A lot of businesses still use:
- notebooks
- Excel
- manual inventory
- Facebook Messenger orders
- calculators beside the cashier 😅
Partly because many existing POS systems feel:
- expensive
- bloated
- complicated for staff
- subscription-heavy
- dependent on stable internet
The catch though:
The system is NOT yet BIR-registered/accredited.
So I’m curious from actual business owners:
Would you still consider paying for a system like this if:
- it genuinely made operations easier
- worked offline
- was simple for employees
- helped monitor the business remotely
Even without official BIR accreditation yet?
And realistically, how much monthly (or one-time) would small restaurants actually be willing to pay for something like this?
Trying to understand if I’m solving a real enough problem before going deeper into development.
u/ArtistImpossible5012 — 3 days ago