Guests scan the sticker on the table to browse the menu, order, pay and tip — in their own language, in seconds. You turn tables faster, tips go up, and nobody chases a bill again.
Or see it in Spanish — Casa Marisol, Sevilla+25%
higher tips
15 min
saved per table
€0
monthly fee
Built for the till you already have
Designed so the bill your guest sees is the live check from your till — no double entry, no second screen behind the bar. Lightspeed is first; the open API is live today. Open API
No hardware to buy, no training day, no IT project. Here's the whole journey from “let's try it” to money in the bank:
Two minutes in the form below. We build your menu from a photo of the old one — or straight from your POS.
One QR per table, shipped ready to stick. Nothing to install, nothing to charge.
Menu in their language, bill settled at the table, tip included — while your staff carry plates, not card terminals.
Kitchen, bar and staff tips route themselves. Daily SEPA payouts, clean books.
Photos, multi-language menus and EU allergen labels built in. Tourists stop waving you over to translate. Add-ons upsell right on the dish — oat milk, an extra shot, add bacon — and undecided tables tap “Help me choose” to let AI set their order.
→ Fewer questions, bigger orders
Guests see their live bill and pay with card, Apple/Google Pay, iDEAL, Bancontact, Bizum or Blik the moment they're ready — no waiting for the terminal. Your team gets a ping; the table is free again.
→ ~15 min faster table turns
One payment splits itself between kitchen, bar and the staff tip pool — even when those are separate legal entities. Your accountant will ask what changed.
→ Zero reconciliation, daily payouts
Every payment ends with a review tied to a real bill. Fix a bad night before it lands on Google — and share the five-star ones anywhere you like.
→ React before Google sees it
A live table map in the back office: who's seated, how long, what's on their bill. Staff add items to any table — a phone order lands on the guest's phone instantly.
→ Walk-ins & phone orders, handled
karta learns what sells at breakfast, lunch and dinner, spots what's rising and falling — and AI turns it into this week's moves: bundles, promos, menu fixes.
→ Suggestions from your own sales
New in karta
Fresh features shipped for every venue — and more land almost every week.
Undecided tables tap “Help me choose” and AI builds their order from today’s available menu.
Your own sales become three concrete moves each week — bundles, promos, menu fixes.
Orders cross from the guest’s phone to your kitchen board in real time — settle and clear in a tap.
Extra shot, oat milk, add bacon — priced right on the dish and onto the bill.
AI concierge
Tourists reading a menu in a fourth language. A table of six debating for fifteen minutes. Guests tap Help me choose, say what they're after, and karta sets the table from what you have today.
They say what they feel like
“Seafood for three, one of us is vegetarian, around €30 each.” Free text or a tap on Seafood, Vegetarian, Something light, A feast.
karta reads today's menu
Only dishes that are actually available, with your allergens and prices. It never invents a dish you don't serve.
One tap, it's on the bill
A starter to share, a main each, drinks that fit, dessert if it suits — and every line stays editable.
Allergies respectedAnswers in their languageBigger tables, bigger baskets
Try it in the demo“Something to share first, salmon for the table and a sweet finish — eet smakelijk!”
Add to my billTry it right now
Grab your phone and scan the sticker — you'll land at table 4 of Café Noordzee, our demo venue. Browse, order, pay a pretend bill, leave a tip. Two minutes, no signup, no real money.
This exact sticker is what lands on your tables.
Menu & pay — scan me
Table 4
Everyone signs in with their own account — and only sees what their role needs. No shared passwords, no accidental price changes.
Everything — payouts, plan, roles, refunds.
Runs the day: floor, menu, team, reviews.
Service tools only: floor plan, orders, QR.
Reports and statements — nothing else.
See it yourself — open the back office demo and switch roles from the header.
Terrace guests used to wave for the bill for ten minutes. Now they pay when they want and the table turns itself. Tips are up a quarter.
Lotte & Daan
Café Vondel, Amsterdam
Kitchen is a GmbH, bar is a UG — karta splits every payment for us automatically. Our accountant asked what changed.
Miriam K.
Speisekammer, Berlin
We plugged it into our POS in an afternoon through the API. Guests scan, pay, and the check closes in the till. It just works.
Paweł R.
Bar Mleczny Nowy, Warszawa
Illustrative quotes for the demo.
Guests read the menu in their language and reach for the payment method they already use — nothing to switch on per venue.
Menu languages
Local payment methods
Built for Europe — launching city by city
Pricing
No hardware, no per-transaction cut, no lock-in. karta runs your menu, orders, kitchen and numbers — you keep taking payment however you do today.
€0
Setup fee
€39
Starter / mo
€79
Pro / mo
0%
Our cut of sales
Free pilot · cancel any time · works with your POS & terminal · GDPR-first, data stays in the EU
Get startedMost venues are live within a week, printed stickers included. If your menu already lives in your POS, we can import it on day one.
If they can read a notification, they're trained. Orders and payments show up in the back office and in your POS like any other check — there's simply less running with terminals.
Yes — every member signs in with their own login and a role. Owners and managers run the venue, staff get the service tools (floor plan, orders, QR), and your accountant sees reports only. Unlimited seats on every plan.
A guest taps it in the menu, says what the table feels like — “seafood for three, one vegetarian, around €30 each” — and karta composes an order from the dishes you have available right now, respecting allergies and prices. One tap puts it on their bill, and every line stays editable. It never suggests a dish you don't serve.
Yes. Any add-ons you define — extra shot, oat milk, add bacon, size up — appear right where the guest orders, with the price updating live. The choices and the adjusted price land on the bill and in your POS.
The back office shows what sells at breakfast, lunch and dinner, which dishes are rising or falling week to week, and — with AI — three concrete suggestions each week, from bundle ideas to menu fixes.
No. The QR opens a web page that works on any phone. Apple Pay / Google Pay / iDEAL open natively from the browser.
Yes. karta can link out to your existing menu while still handling bills, tips and reviews. Most venues switch to the karta menu later for the allergen labelling and translations.
karta connects to Lightspeed, unTill, orderbird, Storyous, Square, Zettle, SumUp and Oracle MICROS — and anything else via the open API. The bill the guest sees is the live check from your till.
Tips are collected in the same transaction but routed to a separate staff pool, paid out directly — in most EU countries that keeps them outside venue revenue. Payout schedules are configurable per team.
A flat monthly subscription per venue — €39 (Starter) to €79 (Pro), with a free pilot to start. No setup fee, no per-transaction cut, no contract. You keep collecting payments exactly as you do today; guest pay-at-table is on the roadmap.
Yes — data is processed and stored in the EU, guests can pay without creating any account, and reviews are pseudonymous by default.
Tell us about your venue — most go live within a week, stickers included. No contract, cancel any time.
Prefer to poke around first? Try the guest demo or open the back office.