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.
For festival & market traders
Work the festival,not the queue
Food or drinks, customers scan your QR and order from the field, the dancefloor or the back of the line. A fresh menu for every event, daily stock that sells out cleanly, and a code by SMS or WhatsApp when the order is ready.
- 10 min
- From sign-up to selling
- No line
- Order from anywhere on site
- Sell out
- Clean daily limits per item
New order · A73
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.
Built for a busy weekend
The bits that earn their keep when it gets loud.
Point the queue, not the chaos
Name your pickup points (Bar 1, Bar 2, left tent) and every code tells the customer exactly where to fetch their order. Servers pull the next one at their own lane, so one crowd at one counter becomes smaller lines that sort themselves out.
A fresh menu for every event
Build a menu once, then switch on the right one for each market or festival. Run weekend pricing for the event without touching your everyday prices, and flip back on Monday.
Sell out, cleanly
Set a daily limit on what you prepped. When the doughnuts are gone they come off the menu on their own, so you never take an order you cannot make.
Fair, first-paid-first-cooked
Every paid order lands on one screen in the exact order it paid. No lost tickets, no loudest-customer-wins, just a queue your whole team can read across the stall.
One board for phone and counter
Walk-ups you ring up yourself join the same queue as the phone orders, so the person at the front of your stall and the one ordering from the field are served in the order they paid.
Call the code, not the crowd
When the order is up, the customer gets their collection code by WhatsApp. If WhatsApp cannot get through in a packed field, an SMS follows, so the message lands even with no data.
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.
On the day
What changes when the queue does not
Sell past the length of your queue
A physical line only moves as fast as one person can pay. Ordering ahead has no such cap, so the people who would have glanced at the queue and walked on order anyway.
One screen runs the pass
Orders arrive in strict first-paid-first-cooked order, and a combo splits itself across the stations: the patty to the grill, the chips to the fryer, the drink to the drinks station.
Know what each plate earns
Attach a recipe to a dish and YesChef knows what it costs you to make. The Accounting report shows gross profit per item, so you price from your real costs instead of a feeling.
Running the event yourself?
For organisersPut every vendor on one branded page.
If you organise a festival or market, we can group your food vendors under one link visitors order from. One QR for your posters, tickets, and socials.
Straight 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.
