Your server walks the length of the room to type in an order.

Then walks back again with the card machine. Two trips a table, every table, every service.

SkyTab Solo handheld card machine with a built in printer, showing a pub menu on screen
Server taking a contactless payment on a Shift4 card machine at a pub garden table

Count the trips

Order at table nine, walk to the till, type it in, walk back. Later the bill, then the card machine. The cost is what happens at the table while nobody is there: the second drink not offered, the finished plate waiting eleven minutes for a card machine in use across the room.

April took the walking out

The Dartford Sports Bar, spend per head

About 40% higher

April runs The Dartford Sports Bar, an Admiral Taverns pub. Nothing went on the menu and no price went up. She says so on camera, by name, at her own venue.

Golfer paying at a halfway house hut with a SkyTab Solo handheld card machine

Order, payment and receipt at the table

The order goes to the kitchen from the table with modifiers and coursing. The guest splits the bill, adds a tip and gets a receipt from the built in printer. Nothing is written down and typed in later.

Contactless card held over a Shift4 card machine showing payment approved in a restaurant

It tells you when service slipped

At the end of the payment the guest rates the service. A rating below the level you set texts management straight away, while the table is still in the room.

What it costs

SkyTab Solo is quoted with your account, because the number depends on how many devices a room needs. Every other price is published in full on the pricing page.

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Based on what you have told us, we estimate you would save around

£2,510 a year

About £48 a week.

Plus a card machine, setup and installation worth over £1,000, free.

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Free card machine. No rental. No PCI fee.

Questions before you put one in a server's hand

How is this different from the card machine I already have?

A card machine takes payment. This takes the order as well, sends it to the kitchen from the table, splits the bill, takes the tip and prints or emails the receipt. The order never gets written on a pad and typed in again, which is where most mistakes come from.

Does the order go straight to the kitchen?

Yes. The server sends it from where they are standing, with item modifiers and coursing, and tables and menus sync instantly so the handheld and the till always show the same thing. Nothing is written down and entered a second time.

Can guests split the bill and add a tip themselves?

Yes, both are done on the device at the table. It accepts chip and PIN, contactless, mobile wallets and swiped cards. Guests handling the tip themselves is a quieter conversation than a server doing it for them at the till.

Does it print a receipt, or do people have to give an email address?

Either. There is a printer built into the device, so a paper receipt comes out at the table. Guests who prefer an email receipt can have one, and those addresses build a marketing list you own, with no delivery platform in the middle.

What happens if the connection drops in the garden?

You keep serving. The system runs on a hybrid cloud and card payments continue to process offline through Shift4, so a weak signal at the far end of a garden does not stop a table being served or paid.

What does SkyTab Solo cost?

It is quoted with your account, because the number depends on how many devices your room needs. Everything else we charge is published in full on the pricing page, including the till at £39 a month and all four add on modules. Tell us your covers and your server count and we will quote it before you commit to anything.

Tell us how the room runs

How many covers, how many servers, how far it is from the furthest table to the till. That is enough to tell you how many devices you need and what it will cost, before you commit to anything.