The till and card payments
A restaurant till that prints GST/HST and provincial tax on every bill
Mosey's till opens a bill, sends it to the kitchen, splits it and closes it with each tax shown by name and rate. Mosey Pay is a way for a guest to pay the restaurant's bill in the app with a saved card, with the money going to your own Stripe account.
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Why does the end of the night take an hour of adding up?
The till, the card reader and the online orders each keep their own total. At close you add them together and guess how the tax splits between GST, HST and provincial tax. Mosey runs the till on the same menu and the same kitchen screen as your online orders, so one report covers everything sold.
How does a bill get from open to closed?
Open a table, a tab or a takeout order, add dishes, change a size or an ingredient, add a note. Send the lines to the kitchen display or a printer, and hold a course until the one before it is cleared. Allergens declared on a dish print on the ticket.
Close with cash, a card payment recorded from your own reader, or Mosey Pay. Split by item, by an equal share or by amount. The till will never take more than the amount owing.
Each sale carries the staff PIN of the person who rang it. A void after a dish was sent needs a reason, and comps, voids and refunds alert the owner.
How does the tax appear on the bill?
In Canada the bill is tax-exclusive: the goods, then each tax, then the total. Every line has a tax class (food, soft drink, alcohol, other) set when the line is rung, and Mosey prices each line on its own, so the lines add up to the total. A receipt prints a line for each tax with its rate, for example PST or QST, and your GST/HST number under the header when tax is on the bill.
A tip is never taxed. A bill that has been priced keeps its tax even if a rate changes during service.
On a payments-only screen, where staff type an amount, the screen asks for a tax category (food, soft drink, alcohol or other) and Mosey works the tax out of the typed total. No rate or tax amount is ever sent from the screen.
What is Mosey Pay?
Mosey Pay lets a guest pay the restaurant's bill in the app with a card saved there. Type the guest's code with the amount, or show a QR code, and the guest confirms on their phone. Before a request is sent, your screen shows their first name and the last digits of the card.
Stripe is the payment processor, and the payment goes to your Stripe account. A member discount comes off the bill, never the tip, and a payment is stamped with the person who took it.
What do shift reports cover?
The running and closing reports show sales, tips and refunds, with each tax by name and rate: what was collected, what was refunded in the shift and the net. They print in the restaurant's own time zone, in Canadian date order.
Where the rules differ
The till follows the tax of the province it sits in.
- Quebec
- Quebec has no till for now, because it needs certified billing. Deposits and card surcharges are not available there either.
- Offline selling
- It is off in Canada, because the offline till cannot price tax. The till says why.
- Card readers
- Mosey does not support a physical card reader yet. An Interac debit tap over $100 needs the card inserted and its PIN.
- Surcharges and service charges
- Card surcharges are off everywhere in Canada, and never allowed in Quebec. A restaurant's own service charge is off in every province.
- British Columbia
- Soft drinks carry PST, so each soft drink on the menu needs its class set before it can be rung up.
Rules change. Check any rule that matters to you with your accountant or adviser.
What Mosey is about
Affordable tools for food businesses
Tools priced for independents and small chains, not for the big groups.
A full suite, in one login
The tools a restaurant, café or bar needs sit together, so you are not paying for a stack of separate subscriptions.
You keep more of your revenue
Mosey is built so that more of every sale stays with the business that made it.
Free to list and claim
Your menu, your replies to guests and your photos cost nothing to put on Mosey.
No hidden fees
What Mosey charges is published, in full, so nothing arrives as a surprise on a statement.
Made for local food businesses
Mosey helps diners find independent food businesses by dish and mood, and lets people rate what they actually ate.
Questions owners ask
What does the till run on?
A browser on a tablet or laptop. Staff sign in with the Mosey login and a PIN for each sale.
Can I use my own card reader?
Yes. A payment taken on a reader of your own is recorded on the bill as an external card.
Does the guest need the app for Mosey Pay?
Yes, with a saved card. A guest without it pays in cash or on your own reader, and you record that on the till as usual.
Where does the money go?
To your Stripe account. Mosey does not hold it.
How do tips work?
Staff add a tip with the amount, or the guest sets it on their phone. A tip is not taxed and is not part of the amount tax is worked out on.
Does the receipt show my GST/HST number?
Yes, under the header on a Canadian bill with tax on it.
Can I refund a card payment?
Yes, with the refund permission, against the payment it came from.
More for your business
Online ordering and table QR
Pickup, delivery and table-code orders from one menu, with GST/HST and provincial tax on their own lines.
Staff tools
Rota, clock in and out, timesheets, a payroll export and leave tracking, at the basic level.
Analytics
How diners find you, what they do next, what each fee cost and a GST/HST report for your filing period.
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