The café EPOS that works with your card reader
Best café EPOS for most UK coffee shops: Seamless, from £0 a month if you take payments through Teya, or £24 a month keeping the SumUp, Zettle or Dojo reader already on your counter.
Seamless is built for how a café actually runs: the 8am queue, flat white with oat, extra shot, have-in or takeaway, a tab for the table of regulars. Modifiers prompt automatically so new staff get orders right on day one. Tickets route to the coffee machine and the kitchen separately. And if your internet drops mid-rush, the till keeps working.
No contract. Menu imported for you, free. On iPad, Android, or our all-in-one unit.
Get every order right
Oat, decaf, extra hot, syrup: café orders are all modifiers. Seamless prompts your team for the options and upsells that matter for each item, prints them clearly on the barista slip, and charges for every extra shot that used to slip through.
Tabs and tables without the paper
Drag and drop your floor plan, run tabs for the regulars, and sync across every device so nothing goes unrung. Bill printed and table turned in seconds when the lunch rush hits.
Tickets where they need to go
Category-based print routing sends food to the kitchen and drinks to the coffee machine automatically. No shouting dockets across the room, no missed orders on a busy Saturday.
How Seamless compares for cafés
| Seamless | Square | SumUp POS | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Price from | £0/month with Teya, else £24 | Free tier, paid from £29/month | Free app, POS Pro from £49/month |
| Card payments | Keep your own reader: SumUp, Zettle, Dojo or Teya | Square only | SumUp only |
| Offline mode | Built in | Limited | Limited |
| Kitchen/barista printing | Included, category routing | On paid plans | Basic |
| Contract | None, cancel anytime | None | None |
| Best for | UK cafés that want to keep their card machine and rates | Single-person kiosks wanting one US-style provider | Venues already deep in SumUp hardware |
Rates and plans verified August 2026. Weighing more options? See the full UK EPOS comparison or our honest best café EPOS systems guide.
What it costs
Starter, £0/month. The full café till, free forever when we introduce you to Teya for payments. Already have a card reader you like? Starter is £24/month and your SumUp, Zettle or Dojo machine pairs in minutes.
Pro, £39/month per till. Adds table plans, print routing, advanced discounts, Xero and timekeeping for bigger operations.
Both month-to-month, no contract, no cancellation fee. See full pricing or work out your cost.
Built by people who've done the morning rush
Our founders built IntelligentPos, one of the UK's leading iPad EPOS systems, and sold it to iZettle (now PayPal Zettle) in 2016. Seamless is what we'd build now: stripped back, quick to learn, and honest about payments. We're in Edinburgh, support is UK-based on WhatsApp, and we're rated 4.3 on Trustpilot.
Growing the café side of things? Our coffee shop marketing guide is the most-read thing we've ever written.
Switching from Square? Cafés are Square's home turf, so we wrote an honest guide: Seamless vs Square. Read it, then message us and we'll import your menu for free.
