The till and card payments
A restaurant till and card payments that show sales tax line by line
Mosey's till opens a check, sends it to the kitchen, splits it and closes it with the sales tax shown by name and rate. Mosey Pay lets a guest pay from a saved card in the app, with the money going to your own Stripe account.
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Why do five screens never agree at close?
A till from one company, a card reader from another, an ordering tablet from a third. At close you add cash, card totals and online orders by hand and guess the tax split. Mosey runs the till on the same menu, the same kitchen screen and the same reports as your online orders, so the numbers agree before you start counting.
How does a check go from open to closed?
Open a table, a tab or a takeout order. Add dishes from your menu, change a size or an ingredient, add a note. Send the lines to the kitchen display or a printer, and hold a course back until the one before it is cleared. Allergens declared on a dish print on the ticket.
Close with cash, with a card payment, or with Mosey Pay. Split by item, by an equal share or by amount. The till will not take more than the balance owed.
The staff PIN on each sale shows who rang it. At close, count the cash and read the shift report.
How is sales tax handled on the check?
In the United States the check is tax-exclusive: goods first, then each tax, then the total. Every line carries a tax class (food, soft drink, alcohol, other) fixed when the line is rung, and Mosey's tax engine prices each line on its own. The receipt and the shift report show each tax by name and rate.
A tip is never taxed. A check that has been priced keeps its tax even if a rate changes halfway through service.
For a payment-only till, 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 typed or sent from the screen.
What does Mosey Pay add at the counter?
Every Mosey diner has a permanent code in the app. Type it with the amount, or show a QR code, and the guest confirms on their phone. The code is signed, works once and expires in minutes. Before a request is sent, your screen shows the guest's first name and the last digits of the card so you charge the right person.
Mosey Pay is a way to pay a restaurant's check in the app with a saved card. The payment is stamped with the person who took it, and a member discount applies to the check, never to the tip.
How do you keep control of voids, comps and refunds?
A void after a dish was sent needs a reason. Comps, voids and refunds raise an alert to the owner. A refund goes back against the payment it came from, so on a split check you know which card to return. Only people with the right permission can open a shift, close one or refund.
Where the rules differ
The till follows the sales tax of the state it sits in. A few things differ.
- Offline selling
- It is off for a business that adds sales tax on top, because the offline till cannot price tax. The till tells you why.
- Card surcharges
- Mosey keeps card surcharges off in every state. Massachusetts, Connecticut and Maine ban them by law.
- Service charge
- A restaurant's own service charge can be switched on in most states and is shown with every price. It stays off in Massachusetts and Minnesota, where a mandatory charge has to sit inside the price. Colorado asks for a confirmation first and has its own wording.
- Pennsylvania
- The till and table QR work while app and website orders wait for Mosey's state license.
- Philadelphia
- The 10% city liquor tax shows as its own line on alcohol sold by a licensee.
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.
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The tools a restaurant, café or bar needs sit together, so you are not paying for a stack of separate subscriptions.
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Mosey is built so that more of every sale stays with the business that made it.
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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 on a reader of your own is recorded on the check 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, recorded on the till as normal.
Who gets the money?
Your own Stripe account. Mosey does not hold your takings.
How do tips work?
Staff enter a tip with the amount, or the guest sets it on their phone. Tips are not taxed and are not part of the amount tax is worked out on.
Does it work with tip pools?
Yes. Card tips from the till feed the pool for the pay period, which staff can read on their own share.
Can I refund a card payment?
Yes, from the till or the dashboard, with the refund permission. The refund goes back 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 tax shown line by line.
Staff tools
Rota, clock in and out, timesheets, a payroll export, tip pools and leave tracking.
Analytics
How diners find you, what they do next, what each fee cost and the sales tax figures for your accountant.
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