Run cashless, audit-ready
catering across every site.
Caterly is the catering POS and payments platform built for institutions — schools, hospitals, senior living and workplace canteens. Top-up accounts, card and tap payments, live stock and reporting. One platform behind every meal — not a restaurant till.
Caterly POS runs the whole operation.
Built for speed, reliability, and efficiency in high-volume catering environments. Orders flow in from mobile apps, kiosks, and pre-order channels — the POS takes the payment, updates stock, and reports it live.
Cloud-based software compatible with Android devices
Affordable setup and hardware options
Modular — pay only for what your site requires
Enhanced fraud prevention and security features
Integrated stock and inventory management
NFC and digital wallet payment support
Catering POS for the way institutions actually run.
A restaurant till can’t handle student accounts, ward diets or staff allowances. Caterly is built for high-volume, account-based, compliance-driven catering — with a purpose-built app for each environment.
Schools
- Cashless tuckshops — no cash on campus
- Parent-funded learner accounts & top-ups
- Pre-ordering and spend limits per child
- Powered by the Tap4Schools app
Hospitals
- Digital bedside & ward meal ordering
- Dietary, allergen and compliance control
- Production planning for clinical catering
- Powered by the MediCater app
Senior living
- Simple meal ordering for residents
- Resident accounts & fee collection
- Noticeboard and community updates
- Powered by the GoldenSpoon app
Workplaces
- Pre-order, order-now and kiosk ordering
- Employer-funded meal allowances & subsidies
- One or many canteens, reported centrally
- Powered by the BiteOnSite app
Payments built for institutions — not just card swipes.
Institutional catering runs on accounts: parents top up, employers fund allowances, residents and patients bill to their account. Caterly is built around that — with everyday card and tap acceptance on top.
Top-up accounts
Parents, employers and residents load balances; spend flows through the POS. No cash to handle, count or bank.
Allowances & subsidies
Employer-funded meal allowances, feeding-scheme rules, and spend limits or eligibility by group — applied automatically.
Account & room billing
Charge a learner, staff or patient account where no card is presented — reconciled to the right account every time.
Card payments
Accept card payments at the point of sale for visitors and once-off buyers — fast and secure at high volume.
NFC tap
Contactless tap-to-pay for quick service when queues build up at peak times.
Recorded & reconciled
Every transaction is logged to the staff member on shift, with live cash-up and reporting ready for audit.
Card & tap acceptance is provided through a licensed payments partner, with transactions recorded for cash-up, audit and reconciliation. Speak to us about settlement, account float handling and how Caterly fits your finance processes.
From order to live report — one flow.
An order placed in any app, kiosk or pre-order channel lands in the same Caterly POS engine, gets paid, and reports back live.
Order placed
A customer orders in the app, at a kiosk, or via pre-order.
Lands in Caterly POS
Every order flows into the shared POS engine, priced from one catalogue.
Paid
Card, NFC tap or digital wallet — captured and recorded automatically.
Reported live
Stock, sales and cash-ups update in real time on your dashboards.
One POS engine. Every catering need, covered.
A purpose-built app for each environment.
Each app is designed for the way its sector works — and every one runs on Caterly underneath, so ordering, payments and reporting stay consistent. Open any app on its own site below.
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Tap4Schools
The app for schools: communications, parent-funded accounts, tuckshop pre-ordering, payments and stock — reducing admin and improving safety for staff, parents and learners.
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GoldenSpoon
The app for senior living: noticeboard updates, resident accounts, fee collection and intuitive meal ordering — with every meal handled on Caterly.
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MediCater
The app for healthcare: digital bedside ordering, dietary and compliance control, production planning and clinical-catering collaboration — accurate every time.
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BiteOnSite
The app for workplaces: pre-ordering, order-now and kiosk ordering across one or many canteens, with employer allowances and central reporting — all on Caterly.
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Questions about Caterly POS.
The things catering operators ask us most about the POS and payments.
Caterly is a full point-of-sale system, not just a card machine. It runs your digital product catalogue, takes payments, tracks stock, logs every transaction to the staff member on shift, and reports sales and cash-ups live — the payment terminal is one part of a complete operating system.
Caterly POS is built for institutional catering — schools, hospitals, senior living communities and workplace canteens. Each environment has its own purpose-built app (Tap4Schools, MediCater, GoldenSpoon and BiteOnSite), all running on Caterly underneath.
Account-based payments are the core: top-up learner, resident and patient accounts, employer allowances and subsidies, and account or room billing. On top of that, Caterly accepts everyday card and NFC tap payments through a licensed payments partner. Every transaction is logged to the staff member on shift and ready for cash-up and audit.
Yes. Caterly is cloud-based and modular — you can run one canteen or many across multiple sites, with real-time dashboards giving full visibility of sales, stock and staff performance from a single view.
Generic restaurant systems aren’t built for the high-volume, account-based, compliance-driven reality of institutional catering. Caterly POS is purpose-built for it — structured meal planning, cashless accounts, pre-ordering, production planning and audit-ready reporting, all in one platform.
Bring Caterly POS to your operation.
Tell us about your site and what you need. We’ll get back to you with a tailored quote for the POS and payment setup that fits.
- Modular — pay only for what your site requires
- Affordable setup and hardware options
- Works across one or multiple sites
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