Foodlay Desktop POS — Offline Restaurant POS App

Foodlay Desktop POS is an offline-first desktop POS application for restaurants, cafes, and food businesses. It runs as a native app on Windows, macOS, and Linux, keeps the full product catalog and every order in a local SQLite database, and keeps taking orders at full speed even when the internet goes down — pending orders sync back to your server automatically the moment the connection returns.

⚠️ Requires the Foodlay Admin & Web Panel (separate purchase). This item is the desktop POS client only. It connects to a running installation of the Foodlay Admin & Web Panel — the Laravel-based server product, which is a separate purchase and is not included in this package. Without that server, the POS cannot log in or load products. The documentation includes a dedicated “Connecting to Your Server” guide covering every configuration value with concrete examples.

Key Features

Offline-first ordering — take orders, apply coupons, park carts, and print receipts with no internet; orders queue locally and push automatically when you’re back online
Multi-branch — the cashier picks a POS-enabled branch after login; each branch has its own menu, prices, and categories
Fast product grid — category filter, real-time search by name or SKU, variant and add-on selection dialogs, discount badges
Full cart workflow — takeaway or home delivery, live totals with tax and discounts, delivery address capture
Parked carts — put an order on hold with a label (“Table 5”), serve the next customer, resume any time; parked carts survive restarts
Offline coupon validation — coupon codes are validated locally against the synced coupon list (expiry, minimum order, active state)
Customer lookup — live server search when online, recently-seen cache when offline, walk-in guest mode
Payments — cash with change-due calculation, card (last-4 capture), customer wallet, or send-a-payment-link through a third-party gateway (Stripe, SSLCommerz, or others configured on your server). Gateway fees are separate and are not included in this item — see the notice below.
Thermal receipt printing — any ESC/POS printer (Epson, Star, and compatibles) over network, USB, serial, or Windows printer queue
Order history & sync monitor — per-order sync status (synced / pending / failed with server error message) and one-click “Push Pending”
5 UI languages — English, Bengali, Spanish, Arabic (full RTL), Hindi
Keyboard-first — complete shortcut set for high-volume counter use
Automatic branding — store name and logo sync from your admin panel; accent color themes per till

Technical Specifications

Desktop shell: Electron 33
Frontend: Vue 3.5 (Composition API), Pinia 2, Vue Router 4
Language: JavaScript (modern ES modules) — clean, readable, unminified source
Styling: Tailwind CSS 3
Local database: SQLite via better-sqlite3 11 (WAL mode)
Printing: node-thermal-printer 4 (ESC/POS — Epson, Star, and compatibles)
Networking: Axios with JWT bearer authentication
Build tooling: electron-vite 2 + electron-builder 25
Installer targets: Windows NSIS (.exe), macOS (.dmg / .zip), Linux (.deb / .AppImage)
Supported OS: Windows 10+, macOS 11+, Ubuntu 20.04+ (and other modern distros via AppImage)

What You Receive

The complete, unobfuscated source code of the desktop application
One-command build scripts that produce native installers for Windows (.exe), macOS (.dmg), and Linux (.deb / .AppImage)
Offline HTML documentation covering: step-by-step installation guides for each platform written for non-technical users, the full server connection guide, feature walkthroughs, a customization guide (app name, icon, receipt header and footer), troubleshooting and FAQ, and a developer reference (consumed API endpoints, local SQLite schema, extension points)
A plain-text quick-start README

A note on installers: your server’s address is compiled into the app at build time, so each store builds its own installer — a copy-paste process of five documented commands that only needs Node.js installed. Till machines need nothing but the finished installer.

Requirements

Foodlay Admin & Web Panel (separate purchase) installed, running, and reachable from your POS machines
An admin account on that server, the POS module enabled, and at least one POS-enabled branch with published items
To build the installer: Node.js 18+ on any one computer (Windows, macOS, or Linux)
Optional: an ESC/POS-compatible thermal printer for receipts
Optional: your own merchant account with a third-party payment gateway (for example Stripe or SSLCommerz) if you want to use payment-link checkout — subject to that provider’s own separate fees (see the notice below)

Important Notice — Third-Party Payment Gateway Fees

External payment gateways are separate, third-party services. Their fees are not included in this purchase.

The “send a payment link” option hands the transaction to an online payment gateway — for example Stripe, SSLCommerz, or any other gateway you enable on your Foodlay Admin & Web Panel. Each gateway is operated by an independent provider. To use one, you must open your own merchant account directly with that provider, accept its terms of service, and pay whatever transaction, processing, currency-conversion, payout, or subscription fees it charges. Those fees are set and billed by the gateway provider; they are not covered by, included in, or refundable through the price of this item, and Dayonesoft receives no part of them. Gateway availability, supported countries and currencies, and pricing are determined solely by the gateway provider and may change at any time.

If you do not wish to use an online gateway, the cash, card (last-4 reference), and customer wallet payment methods are recorded by the POS itself and do not depend on any third-party payment service.

Documentation & Support

Full offline documentation is included in the download — from download to first order on every platform, with troubleshooting for failed server connections, undetected printers, sync errors, and platform-specific installation issues. Questions or stuck at any step? Contact us at support@dayonesoft.com — we’re happy to help you get to a working installer.

Foodlay Desktop POS App add-on for the Foodlay Restaurant Management System

Secure cashier sign-in screen of the Foodlay Desktop POS add-on

Order taking, checkout and order confirmation in the Foodlay Desktop POS add-on

Branch selection dialog scoping the catalog and pricing for the terminal

Terminal settings showing sync status and thermal receipt printer configuration

Foodlay Desktop POS | Offline Desktop Application Add-on