Your restaurant. Your rules. Your data.
Stop guessing and start knowing. Aura NextGen puts your sales, stock, and menu in your hands — real-time, from your phone, from anywhere. Built by people who have spent 30 years in restaurants.
Aura QuickServe from R995/month. No lock-in. Get live fast.
Today's sales
R 8,420
+6.2% vs last week
Packages
Choose your package
Three clear options for different stages of growth. Starting prices, ex VAT — hardware, payment processing and third-party fees excluded.
Add-ons take effect immediately with a pro-rated charge and a one-month minimum. Removing a service takes effect at your next billing date.
Aura QuickServe
You run a takeaway, pizza shop, café, bakery, burger bar or small QSR and you want fast, reliable counter ordering.
or R1 495/mo standard
- Works offline — keep trading when the power or internet drops
- Mobile & QR ordering — skip-the-queue, collect & QR Drop Zone (Aura-branded, commission-free)
- 1 Kitchen Display and 1 Customer Order Status Display included
- Counter, collect, store delivery, lounge/area and QR Drop Zone fulfilment
- Menu, sizes, modifiers and extras — update once, every terminal updates instantly
- Basic item availability from the Manager Companion app
- Simple kitchen workflow — Start / Complete status with kitchen role filtering
- Core sales, item and cash-up reporting
- MobilePOS for queue-busting (counts as an Order Entry Licence)
- Up to 3 Order Entry Licences, 1 Manager Companion user, predefined QSR roles, remote setup and standard support
Aura Restaurant
You run a sit-down or busy independent restaurant and you want table service plus real control over food cost, waste and profit.
or R2 495/mo standard
- Everything in QuickServe, plus:
- Your own fully-branded QR & mobile ordering — your logo, colours and store identity
- MobilePOS for waiters — order and serve at the table
- Table service and Table QR
- Full recipe-based stock control — food cost, variance, waste & theft visibility
- Manager Companion on the floor — stock takes, offline sync, receipt scanning (2 users)
- Receipt scanner — 100 scans/month per restaurant
- 2 Kitchen Displays with configurable workflows
- Table maps, service sections and kitchen routing
- Custom roles and permissions
- Up to 4 Order Entry Licences and approved integration options
Aura Franchise
You run 5 or more stores (or a franchise network) and need to enforce standards, govern compliance and see every branch from one place.
- Everything in Restaurant, plus:
- Free Yumbi (online ordering & Uber Direct delivery) and Delivery Tribe / Deliveree (driver dispatch) integrations
- Governance & compliance — stock-take rules, food-cost & wastage targets, locked policies, compliance dashboard
- Multi-store / multi-brand reporting and dashboards
- Advanced menu management, multiple menus and store profiles
- Menu release scheduling across stores
- Store and role permissions across branches and brands
- Measure every store against brand benchmarks
- Brand-standard kitchen workflow templates
- Royalty calculation and centralised integrations
- Brand-standard rollout and deployment support
- Optional central billing to reduce store-level micro-fees
| At a glance | QuickServe | Restaurant | Franchise |
|---|---|---|---|
| From | R995/mo | R1 995/mo | Custom |
| Best for | QSR / takeaway | Sit-down & food cost | 5+ stores / franchise |
| Own branded ordering | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Offline trading | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Full recipe stock & GP | Add-on | ✓ | ✓ |
| Table service | Add-on | ✓ | ✓ |
| Receipt scanner (GRV) | With stock add-on | ✓ | ✓ |
| Yumbi online ordering & delivery | — | — | ✓ |
| Governance, royalties & compliance | — | — | ✓ |
2–4 stores on one brand? Add the Multi-site HQ portal to Aura Restaurant. Aura Franchise is for groups with 5+ stores that need governance, royalties, Yumbi delivery and rollout support.
Estimate
Quick estimate calculator
Use this for an indicative software estimate. Integrations, hardware, once-off services and custom workflow requirements are quoted separately.
Extra capacity (beyond the package)
Modules
Integrations
Integrations are set up with our team — selecting one routes you to a quick chat.
Need integrations, hardware or once-off setup? See all add-ons & services
Running 5+ stores or a franchise? Talk to sales about Aura Franchise
See it in action
One sale. Every screen.
Ring it up on the till and the customer sees it, the kitchen gets it — live, with nothing re-keyed.
What you’re watching
A real sale at Salt Cafe
A simple coffee-shop setup: one till, a customer display facing the customer, and a kitchen display. Add tills and screens as you grow.
Till
The cashier rings up the order and takes payment.
Customer display
Each item’s photo and the running total, then the brand’s adverts between sales.
Kitchen display
The order builds as it is rung up, and is ready to start the moment it is paid.
Order points & screens
Every way to take an order. Every screen to hand it over.
Mix the order points that suit each store and add screens as you grow. They all run from one menu, and every order reaches the kitchen the same way.
Take the order
Till
Staff ring up orders at the counter or front desk, with an optional customer display facing the customer.
MobilePOS
Waiters and queue-busters take orders on a phone or tablet, send them to the kitchen, take cash or card payments with tips and print the bill — and keep going when the internet drops.
Self-service kiosk
Customers browse the menu, customise, choose sit down or take away, then pay by card at the kiosk or at the counter. The kiosk prints their order number.
QR & online ordering
Your own branded site for skip-the-queue, Table QR and QR Drop Zone ordering — commission-free.
Make it and hand it over
Kitchen display
Every order from every order point lands here as it is rung up, with an optional sound when an order arrives on an empty screen. The kitchen starts it and marks it done.
Customer display
Faces the customer at the till: each item’s photo, the running total and their change, then your adverts between sales.
Order number display
Shows which order numbers are preparing and which are ready to collect, with the current wait time. Ready numbers pulse, with optional sounds, delivery-app orders show their channel, and one screen can serve several brands.
Each till, MobilePOS device, kiosk or QR ordering flow uses one Order Entry Licence.
The difference
What changes when you switch
You already know these problems. Here is what goes away.
- Lost sales every time the power goes out
- Marketplace commission on every online order
- Stock counts that never match
- Menu changes take a full day
- Reports come from your accountant weeks later
- Staff discounts and voids you cannot see
- Keep trading offline — sales sync when you are back
- Your own commission-free branded ordering
- Stock deducted automatically on every sale
- Update your menu in minutes, deployed instantly
- GP and sales reports always up to date
- Full visibility over voids, refunds, and discounts
Daily wins
Six things that get easier from day one
These are not future promises. This is what changes in your first week.
Keep trading when the power's out
No power, no internet? The till keeps ringing up sales and printing to the kitchen, then syncs the moment you are back online.
Your own commission-free ordering
A branded mobile site customers scan and pay through — skip-the-queue, collect or QR Drop Zone — and you keep 100% of every direct order.
Know your true food cost
Every sale deducts stock; recipe costing shows your GP per item and what a supplier price rise really does to your margin.
Change your menu in minutes
New special, price change or sold-out item? Update once and every terminal and ordering screen gets it instantly.
Run it from your phone
Live sales, stock takes, receipt scanning and approvals from anywhere — between services, from home, from the walk-in.
See where the money goes
Cashier performance, voids, discounts and cash-ups — the visibility that catches problems before they become losses.
Run your back-of-house from your pocket
The AuraMC companion app replaces clipboards, paper stock sheets, and filing cabinets with one app on your phone.
AI processing receipt...
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Syncs when back online
Stock takes on your phone
Walk through your storeroom and count directly on your phone. No clipboard, no paper, no capturing later.
Works without Wi-Fi
Count stock in the walk-in freezer with no signal. Everything saves and syncs automatically when you are back online.
Snap your delivery receipts
Photograph supplier invoices on delivery. AI reads the receipt and captures it into the system — no typing needed.
Low stock warnings
Get notified when items are running low before you run out mid-service. Never 86 a dish because you forgot to order.
Today's numbers at a glance
Check sales, transaction count, and average spend from your phone — between services, from home, wherever you are.
Print stock reports on the spot
Connect to a Bluetooth receipt printer and print your stock count without walking to the office.
How it works
Live in 3 simple steps
From sign-up to your first sale — no technician visit required.
Choose your setup
Tell us how many stores and terminals you need. Pick the modules that matter to your business.
Enter your business details
Register your company, stores, and users. We configure everything for you — ready to go.
Pay first month & go live
No contracts, no hidden fees. Your first payment activates your system. Start processing sales today.
Who we are
Three decades of helping restaurants succeed
We started in 1994 with one goal: help restaurants run better. Aura NextGen is the latest chapter — everything we have learned, rebuilt from the ground up for the modern operator.
30+
Years in business
Decades of restaurant technology expertise since 1994
2
Continents served
Deployments across Africa and the Middle East
Always
Keeps trading offline
No power, no line? Tills keep ringing and printing, then sync the moment you reconnect
365
Days of support
Help desk open 6:30 am to 10 pm every day, including public holidays
From owners like you
Real operators, real results
“The POS terminal and kitchen display system have made a big difference in our kitchen. Throughput is faster, and even when there are long lines of people, the kitchen team and food runners stay in sync and orders move out without confusion.”
Ian Wessels
Salt Cafe
“My previous POS was so complicated that I never used half of it. Aura is different — my staff learned it in a day. Menu changes that used to take me all afternoon now take 10 minutes.”
Anonymous Owner
Independent restaurant operator
“I was sceptical about setting up without a technician on site. But the self-serve onboarding was genuinely easy. We were taking orders the same afternoon. Support was a message away when I had a question.”
Anonymous Franchisee
Multi-store operator
For franchises & groups (5+ stores)
Structure pricing centrally so franchisees aren’t hit with lots of separate monthly technology charges. Ideal for brands that need governance, compliance enforcement, royalty calculation, Yumbi delivery and multi-store / multi-brand reporting.
Explore Aura FranchiseFor independents
Start with QuickServe or Restaurant, then add only what you need. Lower your monthly fee with AuraPay, or keep your own payment setup — either way you own your ordering and your data.
See independent setupGet your restaurant live with Aura
Choose Aura QuickServe or Restaurant, set up your stores and start trading — or talk to our team and we’ll guide you through it.
30+ years of restaurant expertise. Across 2 continents. Ready to help you go live quickly.