Offline-First One-Time Purchase Made for Cafés in India

Stop Losing Money to Manual Pool-Café Billing

PoolDesk tracks every table, session, and rupee automatically — installed once on your café's own PC, works completely offline, and costs nothing beyond the one-time purchase.

How It Works

From purchase to your first session, in four simple steps.

Install on your café's PC

A simple installer sets PoolDesk up on your existing Windows computer in minutes.

Buy your one-time key

Pay once and receive a personal license key — no recurring subscription, ever.

Runs fully offline

No internet connection is needed to bill a single session — your café never depends on Wi-Fi.

No monthly fees, ever

You already own it. There's nothing more to pay, this month or any month after.

Everything a Pool Café Actually Needs

Built around the way your café really runs — table by table, session by session.

Operations

Everything you touch behind the counter, every day — tables, orders, and what's happening right now.

PoolDesk's Dashboard showing all 6 tables with live status, including one occupied table with the customer's name and running total

Table Status at a Glance

See every table's status the moment you walk in — no more asking staff which ones are free.

PoolDesk's Tables list showing each table's category and hourly rate

Tables & Pricing, Set Once

Set each table's category and hourly rate once — every session bills itself correctly from then on.

Kitchen Orders

Take snack and drink orders without leaving your billing screen or reaching for a separate notepad.

Money & Reports

Where the numbers live — every rupee tracked, every report ready before you have to ask.

PoolDesk's Sessions list showing a completed session with table, times, duration, amount, and status

Every Session Logged

Every table, every rupee — a running record you can search and total in seconds, not a manually-kept notebook.

PoolDesk's Peak Hours heatmap showing real session density by day of week and hour

Know Your Busiest Hours

Know exactly when to staff up and when to run an offer, based on real hour-by-hour demand.

Customer & Loyalty Tracking

Recognize your regulars automatically and reward loyalty without doing the math by hand.

System

The parts that protect your business without you having to think about them.

PoolDesk's Backup & Restore screen showing a real list of automatic backups with dates and file sizes

Backups That Just Happen

Your data backs itself up automatically, so a crash or a lost laptop never means losing your business records.

PoolDesk's Moving to a New Computer screen: prepare a fresh backup as one file to copy to a new PC

Moving to a New Computer

Switching PCs? One button bundles everything into a single file — copy it over and you're back up and running in minutes.

Your Café, Configured Your Way

Set your rates, loyalty rules, and shop hours once — PoolDesk runs the way your café actually works.

  • Your data is encrypted, on your PC — never sent anywhere.
  • Automatic backups run in the background, so a crash never means starting over.
  • Works fully offline — a slow or dead internet connection never stops a sale.
  • Runs on the same Windows PC you already have. No new hardware to buy.

Why One-Time Purchase

Pay once, own it forever. No monthly bill that quietly outgrows your profit margin.

Comparing a typical subscription POS and PoolDesk across cost, data ownership, offline reliability, and 3-year total cost.
Typical Subscription POS PoolDesk
Monthly Cost ₹999+ / month ₹0
Data Ownership Cloud-hosted, vendor-controlled Yes, on your PC
Works Offline Usually no Yes, always
Total Cost After 3 Years ₹35,964+ One-time payment, no recurring fee
PoolDesk's Revenue & Profit report showing real gross revenue, expenses, business profit, and a daily revenue chart

Choose Lite or Full

Both are a single one-time payment — yours forever, no monthly fee either way.

Every install starts with a free 7-day trial of the Full version — no key needed. After 7 days, choose the tier that's right for you.

Lite

Runs your café, day to day, forever.

Full analysis layer

Full

Everything in Lite, plus the full money-analysis layer.

Feature comparison between PoolDesk Lite and PoolDesk Full, grouped by capability area. A dash means the feature is not included in that tier.
Lite Full
Billing & Kitchen
Table billing — start/stop, discounts, cash + UPI split Included Included
Kitchen orders & menu Included Included
Sessions & Customers
Full session history, with the ability to remove a session Included Included
Customer search, detail view & data controls Included Included
Day Close & Backup
Daily cash reconciliation (Day Close) Included Included
Full backups, including moving to a new computer Included Included
All settings — rates, loyalty rules, shop hours Included Included
Insights & Analytics
Revenue, profit & peak-hour reports Not included Included
Cash variance & table efficiency tracking Not included Included
Break-even tracking, top customers & top items Not included Included
Export reports to CSV Not included Included
Expenses & Investments
Expense logging & categories Not included Included
Investment cost spread, payback & break-even Not included Included

Lite is over 4× cheaper, Full is over 3× cheaper, than a typical POS subscription over 3 years (about ₹999/month) — illustrative; actual competitor pricing varies.

Get In Touch

Questions before you buy? Reach out directly — a real person answers, not a ticket queue.