KOT software: kitchen order tickets from your phone
Stop shouting orders across the pass and stop losing a table's food to a lost slip.
How it works: the counter or the captain takes the order on a phone. The kitchen order ticket goes straight to your kitchen printer, or to a kitchen display screen, with the table or token number, the items, the quantities and any instruction such as no onion. The cook marks it done and the front of house sees it.
What it costs: KOT printing and token generation are on every plan, from Growth at ₹299; the kitchen display and captain mode come with Growth too a month. And because the order is saved on the phone first, the KOT still prints on a Bluetooth printer with no internet.
What the KOT software gives you
Printer or screen
Bluetooth or network thermal printer for paper tickets, or a kitchen display on any phone, tablet or old monitor.
Prints offline
The order is written to the device first, so tickets keep printing on a Bluetooth printer with no internet. Network printers and the kitchen display need a connection.
One order, one ticket
Order IDs are made on the device and accepted once, so a reconnect cannot reprint the same order as a new one.
Free to try
KOT printing and token numbers are on every plan. Kitchen display and captain mode start on Growth at ₹299 a month.
From the table to the pass
Three steps, no paper handed between people, no order cooked twice.
1. The order is taken
At the counter, or at the table on the captain's own phone. Variants and modifiers are picked as you go, so "half plate, no onion" is on the ticket and not in someone's memory.
2. The KOT reaches the kitchen
Printed on the kitchen thermal printer or shown on the kitchen display, with the table or token number, the time and the instructions. Prices stay off it. The kitchen only needs to cook.
3. Ready, and then billed
The cook marks the ticket done and the front of house sees it. Add a round, fire another KOT, then settle the table with one bill.
Paper ticket, screen, or both
Different kitchens want different things. A tandoor section wants paper on a spike. A cloud kitchen wants a screen with a timer.
- Print to a Bluetooth or network thermal printer in the kitchen.
- Or run the kitchen display on a spare phone, a tablet or an old monitor. No paper, no consumables.
- Run both together, a printer for the hot section and a screen at the pass.
- Token generation for a counter-service queue, so a customer waits by number.
Extra rounds, changes and cancellations
A KOT system earns its keep on the messy orders, not the simple ones.
- Add a second round to a seated table and only the new items go to the kitchen.
- Variants and modifiers travel with the item, so the kitchen sees the exact version ordered.
- Join tables or move an order, and the tickets follow.
- Cancellations and wastage are recorded, so what left the kitchen and what was thrown both show up in reports.
- Split the bill at the end without splitting the kitchen's work.
KOT is on every plan, including the free one
All-inclusive plans, per register, billed monthly. No lock-in and no report paywall.
| Plan | Monthly | Yearly | Kitchen flow | What else you get |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Growth | ₹299 | ₹2,999 | KOT, kitchen display, captain mode, tokens | GST tax invoices, QR ordering, customer CRM, split bills, the web dashboard, cash registers, bulk import, exports. Up to 2,000 orders a month, 8 tables across 1 floors, 75 menu items, 5 staff logins. |
| Pro | ₹599 | ₹5,990 | Included | Zomato and Swiggy channel with payout reconciliation, inventory and recipe costing, voice billing, memberships, B2B invoicing, bulk import, unlimited orders, menu items and tables, and up to 10 staff logins. |
| Advanced | ₹999 | ₹9,990 | Included | Multi-outlet (up to 3 outlets), unlimited staff logins, e-invoice ready (GSP connection required), P&L and balance sheet, recurring invoices, forecasting, dead-stock alerts, surge pricing. |
| Enterprise | ₹1,999 | ₹19,990 | Included | 5 outlets, multi-currency, API access, white-label, TDS/TCS, bank reconciliation. |
Prices are per register in ₹, exclusive of applicable taxes. A register is one device taking payments. Captain phones and the kitchen display are not registers. 7-day free trial on paid plans, no card required.
Related pages
Restaurant billing software
The main page: how billing works on a phone, what it costs, and what you get on the first shift.
Read moreOffline restaurant POS
What happens to a KOT and a bill when the internet drops, and why an order can never be replayed twice.
Read moreGST billing software for restaurant
Which plans print a GST tax invoice, what the document must show, and when e-invoice applies to you.
Read moreGuides on this topic
- KOT and KDS: the complete kitchen order system — paper tickets, screens, and which one your kitchen should run
- How to bill a restaurant order in three taps — the counter flow, from order to KOT to settled bill
- QSR and takeaway POS: speed, tokens and throughput — how token flow and a kitchen display move a queue
- Table management and reservations — turning tables faster without losing track of an order
- POS for cloud kitchens — multi-brand orders into one kitchen screen
Questions, answered
What is a KOT?
Do I need a kitchen printer, or will a screen do?
Do KOTs work when the internet is down?
Which plan includes KOT software?
Fire your first KOT tonight
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