Mobile / QR
Order from anywhere
Customers scan your QR, browse and pay from their phone - from the queue, a picnic blanket or across the field. The accept-before-pay flow keeps you in control.
The point-of-sale built for the business
Run the whole businessfrom one screen
Orders, kitchen, stock, payments, and reports - the full YesChef console on the phone already in your pocket. Customers scan, order, and pay. You accept, cook, and call the code.
- 10 min
- From sign-up to live
- R0
- To start taking orders
- 20–40%
- More orders at busy events
New order · A73
Live orders
M274:53
1 × Crispy Chicken Burger · 1 × Coke
ReadyK582:08
2 × The works burger combo
Mark readyA730:07
1 × Crispy Chicken Burger · 1 × Hand-Cut Chips
Accept
ConsoleThe command center for busy service
Orders, kitchen, stock, payments and live reports across every channel, on one screen. Run the rush in the browser, on the tablet and phone app, or at a counter kiosk, with every ticket printing straight to your kitchen printer.
How a mobile order works
Four taps from scan to collect
Search the menu
Burger Boys
Open 4.9 8 min
MainsSidesDrinks
Crispy Chicken Burger
Buttermilk fried, slaw, brioche
R65.00
Hand-Cut Chips
Double-fried, salt & pepper
R58.00
The works burger combo
Double patty, chips & a drink
R79.00
Castle Lite Lager Beer Bottle
330ml, ice cold
R45.00
2 itemsView cartR123.00
Perfect for
Built for the way you sell
From a single coffee cart to a whole festival food court, YesChef fits how your kitchen already works.
Food trucks
Take orders wherever you park. No hardware.
Coffee shops
Beat the morning rush with order-ahead.
Quick service
Shorter queues, faster turnover at the counter.
Full service
Dine-in tabs and table ordering from the phone.
Bars & breweries
Order rounds from the table, skip the bar.
Bakeries
Pre-orders and collection slots, sorted.
Inside the console
A full point-of-sale, not a glorified menu
Most QR-ordering tools stop at the menu. YesChef runs the kitchen, the stock room, the till and the books behind it.
Live orders, accept before you cook
Every channel - mobile QR, self-service kiosk, and counter walk-ins - flows into one live board. Hold each order for your approval before the customer pays, so you never commit the kitchen to food you can't make in time. Pending, awaiting payment, in progress, ready, and open tabs, all in one place.
Kitchen Display System
Tickets flow across stations in strict first-paid-first-cooked order. Combos break down to the right station automatically.
Stock, recipes & COGS
Attach recipes to dishes and stock deducts itself as orders come in. Low-stock alerts land before you run out.
Reports that pay for themselves
Orders, customers, margin, VAT, availability, item downtime, and feedback - the numbers to run a tighter, more profitable business.
Coupons & promotions
Spin up discount codes with usage limits, or get featured in the YesChef directory to pull new customers to your business.
Loyalty that pays for itself
Reward regulars with points they spend on your own food, never money off. A free item costs you its ingredients, not its menu price. You set how often a reward should land and we work out the pricing from your own average order, then show you what it costs and how much repeat business pays it back.
Staff on one tablet
Share a device with per-person PINs and roles. Every order is stamped with who handled it - real accountability, no extra logins.
Dine-in tabs & kiosk
Run open tabs for sit-down service, or stand up a self-service kiosk so customers order themselves while you cook.
Cash up & billing
Close every shift with a Z-report that reconciles cash and card automatically. Transparent platform fees, invoiced monthly.
Collection lanes
Running a busy bar with a few people serving? Name your pickup points and customers are told exactly which lane to collect from with their code. One counter splits into smaller, self-directing lines.
The console, end to end
From set-up to sold-out, on one screen
Configure your stall, run the live order board through the rush, then read the day back in numbers - the same console, every step.
One app, whole business
See your whole business
click into place
Walk-ins, QR orders, and dine-in tabs land in one live queue. Accept, prep, and mark ready from the phone already in your pocket.
Sides
Cold drinks
Combos
10% off
4 items
Crispy Chicken Burger × 3
Extra cheese
Coke
Can
SubtotalR213.00
TotalR213.00
Charge R213.00
Live orders
2 cookingM274:53
1 × Crispy Chicken Burger
1 × Coke
- No tomato
- Extra napkins
Ready
K582:08
2 × The works burger combo
- 1 × no onion
- Both well done
Mark ready
A730:07
1 × Crispy Chicken Burger
1 × Hand-Cut Chips
- Extra chilli
- Chips crispy
Accept
New order · A73
Kitchen Display System
Your kitchen, on one screen
Retire the paper tickets and the shouting. Run a tablet per station for a busy line, or merge everything onto one screen when it's just you in the truck.
Fair FIFO queue
Sorted by the moment payment cleared - first paid, first cooked.
Combos by station
Patty to the grill, chips to the fryer, drink to the bar. Automatically.
One-tap sold out
Mark an item off and it vanishes from the customer menu instantly.
Never miss a ticket
Sound alerts and big, glanceable codes you can read across the stall.
One order stream
Three ways to take an order, one place to run them
Mobile, kiosk, and walk-in all land in the same live board and the same kitchen queue. Mix and match per event - the console doesn't care how the order came in.
Self-service kiosk
Let the counter order itself
Stand a tablet on the counter and customers place and pay for their own orders while your hands stay on the food. Ordering and your live queue, on one device.
Counter walk-in
Ring up a regular in seconds
Punch in a walk-up order yourself - no QR needed. It skips straight to the kitchen, takes payment however you like, and can run as a dine-in tab.
One platform
One console.
One source of truth.
Orders, payments, kitchen, menu and stock, loyalty and reports all read and write the same order, and the marketplace customers find you in serves the same menu you priced. Change a price once and it lands on every screen you own. There is nothing to reconcile at the end of the night, because nothing was ever kept twice.
OrdersEvery channel, one board
PaymentsYoco, SnapScan, Paystack
KitchenScreens and printed slips
Menu & stockPriced once, counts itself down
MarketplaceNew customers find you
LoyaltyStamps your regulars keep
ReportsCash up, margin and VAT
MessagesWhatsApp, SMS and email
Launch pricing
Every feature. R0 a month
We are opening YesChef with our first businesses on an introductory offer: the whole platform, every module, nothing held back and nothing to upgrade to. No card, no contract, no setup fee. It is a launch rate for early sign-ups, not our standard pricing.
Launch price
R0per month
Introductory rate for early sign-ups. Subject to change.
For our first few businesses, the full platform costs nothing to run. When the launch period ends, accounts move onto the tier packages, and we will tell you before that happens rather than after.
Start freeTaking orders
- QR ordering from any phone
- Self-service kiosk on your tablet
- Walk-in orders and dine-in tabs
- Accept before the customer pays
- Yoco, SnapScan, iKhokha, Zapper and Paystack
- SMS and WhatsApp ready alerts
Running the service
- Multi-station kitchen display
- Live board and collection lanes
- Menus, combos and modifiers
- Stock, recipes and COGS
- Staff PINs and roles
- Scan-to-collect handover
Running the business
- Margin, VAT and staff reports
- Cash up and Z-reports
- Coupons, promos and loyalty
- Featured in the customer directory
- CSV and XLSX exports
- Support from a real person
Introductory pricing, offered to our first businesses while we open. It is not a permanent price and it is not a price guarantee: it holds for the launch period, after which accounts move onto the tier packages at the rate published then, with notice first. Separately, R0 a month covers the software only. Your payment provider charges its own transaction fees, and the flat per-order service charge on mobile and online orders is paid by the customer at checkout, not by you.
From the YesChef kitchen
Playbooks for busy traders
GrowthStart a loyalty programme that pays for itself
Regulars are the cheapest customers you will ever get. Here is how to build a stamp card that brings them back without quietly eating the margin you were protecting.
Read the playbook
PlaybookRun a market food court without the gate bottleneck
If you organise a market or festival, the food queues are your problem too. Here's how to put every stall on one page so visitors spend more time at the event and less time in line.
Read the playbook
OperationsSelling out without disappointing anyone
Running out is part of a good market day. Running out badly costs you the next sale and the goodwill. Here's how to sell the last plate cleanly and know what to prep next time.
Read the playbookStraight answers
The questions every trader asks
Yes. The Commis plan costs nothing and has no time limit. You get the full ordering engine - mobile QR ordering, the live order board, walk-ins, your menu, and payments - so you can take real, paid orders without paying us a cent for the software. Upgrade only when you want the kitchen display, stock, reporting, and staff tools.
Your customer pays it - a flat R8 per order added to mobile and online orders they place and pay for themselves. The full amount, fee included, settles straight into your own Yoco, SnapScan, iKhokha, Zapper or Paystack account. Once a month we invoice you, in arrears, for the fees we're owed. You're never out of pocket and you never wait for a payout from us.
Immediately, into your own payment account, on your payment partner's normal settlement schedule (typically about two business days). YesChef never holds your funds - the money is always yours first.
No. The vendor portal and kitchen display run in the browser on the phone or tablet you already own. Keep using your existing card machine for walk-up cash customers - YesChef adds an ordering channel, it doesn't replace your setup.
Walk-in orders you ring up at the counter carry no per-order fee at all. The per-order fee only applies to mobile and online orders that a customer places and pays for themselves.
Yes. Move between plans whenever you like, and there is no lock-in period and no cancellation fee. Downgrade to the free Commis plan in your quiet season and step back up when the festival circuit starts again.
Still have questions?
Live by lunchtime
Take your first order today
Build your menu, print your QR code, and start selling. Free to begin, no card required, cancel any time.