Coffee Shop.
Two-tap ordering, loyalty, and mobile pay — keep the morning line moving.
Built For You, Configured By Us.
Complex drink modifiers, punch-card loyalty, and tap-to-pay speed built for rush hour.
Dual pricing works beautifully here — pennies per cup add up to real savings.
- ★Tableside & counter orderingHandheld and counter POS fire orders straight to the kitchen, split checks six ways without turning your server into an accountant, and speed up every turn.
- ★Kitchen display integrationOrders route to a kitchen display system the moment they're rung, cutting ticket errors and keeping throughput up when you're short-staffed on a Friday night.
- ★Tip management & payroll exportsTips, tip pooling, and hours flow cleanly into payroll — accurate, compliant, and far less end-of-shift math for your managers.
- ★Online ordering & QR payNative online ordering and scan-to-pay QR codes feed the same system as your dining room, so digital and in-house sales settle together with one report.
What It’s Really Like To Run A Coffee Shop.
The 7-to-9 window is your whole day compressed into two hours. Regulars want their oat-milk cortado started before they reach the register, the mobile orders are stacking, and your barista is steaming milk with one hand and taking payment with the other. Your average ticket is six dollars and change, which means volume is everything — the line has to move, and every second between “that’ll be $6.40” and the next customer is measured against a train of people deciding whether to walk in at all.
On a six-dollar ticket, payments are not a rounding error — they are the margin. Flat-rate percentage-plus-thirty-cents pricing hits small tickets hardest, and it is invisible until you do the math per cup. The tip screen is a whole social negotiation that slows the line. And when the internet hiccups mid-rush, a terminal that will not fail over gracefully turns your morning into an apology tour.
Typical result: the per-cup cost of taking cards drops to a number you can say out loud after a free statement review and small-ticket repricing.
Where Payments Hurt
- ★A thirty-cent per-transaction fee on a $6 latte is a full point of margin, every cup.
- ★The tip screen pause — customer, barista, eye contact — adds seconds that compound across a 200-cup morning.
- ★Internet blips mid-rush freeze terminals that have no offline fallback, right when the line is longest.
- ★Loyalty punch cards live in a drawer, disconnected from the POS and impossible to measure.
How Lone Star Fixes It
- ★Small-ticket rate optimization or dual pricing — we start with a free statement review to show the per-cup math.
- ★Clover with instant tap-to-pay and sensible tip prompts keeps the line at grab-and-go pace.
- ★Offline mode on Clover and Dejavoo terminals keeps taking cards when the Wi-Fi does not cooperate.
- ★Built-in POS loyalty replaces the punch card and shows you exactly what regulars are worth.
Coffee Shop Owners Ask Us
What is the cheapest way for a coffee shop to accept cards?
Usually not the flat-rate app you started with — small tickets get hurt most by per-transaction fees. A dual pricing program or interchange-plus pricing typically wins for coffee shops; our Dallas team runs a free statement review to show both options against your real numbers.
Will a tip screen slow down my line?
Only if it is configured badly. Smart defaults, fast tap acceptance, and a screen that flips to the next order immediately keep tip prompts under a second or two of added time, and baristas typically take home noticeably more than with a jar.
What happens if my internet goes down during the morning rush?
With offline mode enabled, Clover and Dejavoo terminals keep accepting cards and sync when the connection returns. We configure it before install — and if something breaks, you call our Dallas office, not an overseas queue.
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Ready To See It In Action?
Call (214) 838-1818 and a specialist will walk you through the right setup for your business — and ask about up to $5,000 to upgrade your POS.
