Software for cafés in Dubai
A fast till with drink modifiers, a kitchen screen and drinks queue, an ordering site of your own with no commission, and a desk for beans, recipes and cost. Every cup is counted and every order reaches the right station.
- STAK Café
- Arabic and English
- AED
STAK CaféSTAK in Dubai
Dubai is the largest city in the UAE. Here is what STAK uses for the United Arab Emirates.
- Currency
- UAE dirham (AED)
2 decimal places - VAT
- 5% standard rate
Federal Tax Authority (FTA) - Mandatory registration
- 375,000 AED
annual taxable supplies (reference, confirm with the authority) - Invoices
- Show VAT and feed the VAT return
- Language
- Arabic first, then English
Staff screens in eight languages - Time zone
- Asia/Dubai
The standard VAT rate is 5%, administered by the Federal Tax Authority (FTA). It is applied to every invoice from a rate table kept with its effective dates.
What your café gets
Sell
- Counter till, receipts and offline selling
- Modifiers, combos and size ladders
- Floor plan, tables and seat splits
- QR order and pay at the table, split bills
- Reservations and waitlist
- Customer display
- Your own ordering site with zones, slots and pickup, no commission
- Your store on your own domain
- Delivery apps in one queue with payout checks
- Your customers' own installable app: orders, card and bills
Kitchen
- Kitchen screen with a chime and order ageing
- Drinks queue for the bar
- "86" with countdown and ingredient cascade on every channel
- Course pacing, virtual brands and bar variance
- Recipes, food cost and menu engineering
- Café brew desk: dial-in, recipe card and waste
- Stock, suppliers, purchasing and receiving
- Reorder automation, supplier scorecards and markdowns
- Nutrition labels from recipes
Customers
- Customer list and history
- Loyalty points, stamps, tiers and referrals
- Campaigns, segments and journeys on WhatsApp and email
- Google reviews and replies
Team
- Till, kitchen and staff-app logins free
- Shifts, clock-in, leave and tip pools
- Payroll with the bank file and payslips in eight languages
- Auto-rota from sales and live labour cost
- Staff SOS button with an incident log
Money
- Card and local payments through your own payment account
- Owner insights and reports
- Books, VAT and bank matching
- Profit per channel and a self-completing month-end close
Real STAK screens
Screenshots of the app itself for a demo business of this type, with sample data.
Start free, pay when you grow
We suggest starting with Restaurant & Kitchen free forever, and trying one more app free for 30 days (for example Inventory & Purchasing or Customers & Marketing). Cashiers, waiters, kitchen staff and drivers are free; you only pay for back-office users.
Prices are in Kuwaiti dinars; every detail is on the Pricing.
Free tools that help
Questions people ask
What does STAK do for cafés in Dubai?
It covers Counter till, receipts and offline selling; Modifiers, combos and size ladders; Floor plan, tables and seat splits; QR order and pay at the table, split bills; Reservations and waitlist and more, all built in and connected to the same customers, stock and books.
Is STAK free for a café?
Yes. Restaurant & Kitchen is free forever and you can try one more app free for 30 days. Paid plans count back-office users only: Standard is KWD 5 a user a month billed yearly (KWD 6.5 monthly) and Custom KWD 10 (KWD 12.5).
How does STAK handle VAT in Dubai?
The standard VAT rate is 5%, administered by the Federal Tax Authority (FTA). It is applied to every invoice from a rate table kept with its effective dates. STAK lists the mandatory registration threshold as 375,000 AED of annual taxable supplies (a reference only; confirm with the authority).
Does STAK support e-invoicing in the UAE?
STAK shows VAT at 5% on invoices and prepares the data for the VAT return. The UAE e-invoicing system (Peppol-based) is not built into STAK today, so check your requirements with your adviser.
Which currency does STAK use in Dubai?
UAE dirham (AED) with 2 decimal places. Every amount is stored as a whole number of the smallest unit, so an invoice and the books never differ by rounding.
Do I need a payment account in the United Arab Emirates?
You connect your own payment account and bank with a provider that serves the United Arab Emirates, so your money goes straight to you; STAK never holds it. The payment methods you can take depend on the provider you choose.
Does it work in Arabic?
Arabic comes first with proper right-to-left layout and English is one tap away. Staff screens run in eight languages, which helps a team of many nationalities in Dubai.
Cafés in other cities
Other businesses in Dubai
Start STAK Café free
Reserve your free workspace. Any one app is free forever, and you can try one more for 30 days.
- No card needed
- Free forever
- Try one more app free for 30 days