The per-sale fee is eating your morning rush.
On a $6 latte, a $0.15 per-transaction fee costs more than the percentage rate does. Run 4,000 sales a month and that one line is $600 a year before anyone has poured a shot.
- A flat per-sale fee that punishes small tickets hardest
- A monthly license for the kitchen screen you already bought
- Scheduling billed per barista, on top of the base plan
- A kitchen display licensed by the screen
Run your own numbers against Toast
Pre-filled with a typical coffee shop. Change anything — including which vendor you are comparing.
Screens are your own. ArkSlate runs on approved iPads, Android tablets, Stripe readers and Star printers — we sell no hardware and charge no per-screen software fee. Competitors license that same screen by the month.
- Software subscription$0.00Free tier
- Extra user seats$0.00Unlimited users
- Scheduling & time clock$144.006 staff × $9.00
- Per-screen software (KDS/kiosk)$0.001 screens, no license fee
- Online ordering$0.00Not needed
- Card processing$1,343.352.49% + $0.15 × 4,308 sales
- Software subscription$59.00Solo plan
- Extra user seats$0.00Unlimited users
- Scheduling & time clock$0.00Included
- Per-screen software (KDS/kiosk)$0.001 screens, no license fee
- Online ordering$0.00Not needed
- Card processing$971.382.70% + $0.05 × 4,308 sales
You would keep
$5,484/yr
versus Toast, at $457 a month — before counting the inventory, accounting and unlimited seats they charge extra for.
Apply for the beta — no card requiredWhat you get on day one
Modifiers that keep the line moving
Milk, shots, syrups and temperature as one-tap modifiers, with the drink building on the ticket as you go. Nobody learns a menu tree at 7:40am.
A bar screen with no monthly license
Kitchen display runs on any approved tablet you own. Orders route to the bar in real time over Supabase Realtime, and we never bill you per screen.
Beans and milk on the same books
Real stock levels with vendor-managed reordering, so the whole-bean shelf and the oat milk case are counted like inventory, not guessed at on a clipboard.
Regulars, remembered
Customer accounts, gift cards, coupon codes and auto-applied promotions are included — not a paid loyalty tier bolted on afterwards.
Your iPad, your crew, one price
Unlimited staff logins on every plan and no license per screen. Run it on approved iPads you already own instead of buying a terminal from us.
Books that close themselves
Sales, cost of goods, labor and card fees land in built-in accounting with a real P&L. No monthly export ritual into a second product.
The kit for a coffee shop
We sell no hardware. We certify a short list of commodity devices, guarantee they work, and support only what is on it — which is how support stays fast and your gear stays replaceable on a Saturday.
Coffee shops, specifically
Try it on your own numbers
Free during the beta, no card required, and no contract to sign your way out of.