Features

A map of everything Next Restaurant does, grouped the way the admin is grouped. Each section links to its in-depth guide.

Build the menu once and publish it to every channel — storefront, QR table ordering, POS and kitchen — from a single set of records.

Items with pricing, description, imagery, availability windows and per-location overrides
Categories that control grouping and display order across the storefront and POS
Modifier groups — reusable option sets with min/max selection rules and per-option price deltas
Allergens and dietary tags surfaced on the public menu and printed on the kitchen ticket
Image cropping built into the item editor, plus a separate venue gallery for the storefront
86 an item from the POS or admin to pull it from every ordering channel at once

Ordering

Every channel writes the same order record, so nothing forks downstream.

Online ordering — a storefront island with cart, coupons, pickup / delivery / dine-in and checkout
QR scan-to-order — per-table codes; guests browse, order and optionally pay with no app or account
POS and phone orders raised directly by staff
Order corrections — cancel, modify, remake, comp, discount and refund, PIN-gated and audited
Guest self-cancel within a configurable window, before the kitchen starts the item

Read more: Online Ordering · QR Ordering · Order Corrections

Point of Sale

A full-service POS, not a simplified cash-up screen.

Open checks held across a service, with rounds appended as the table goes
Seats, splits and transfers — assign items to seats, split a bill, move a check to another table or server
Discounts, voids and comps at line and check level, behind a manager PIN
Payments and receipts — cash, card terminal, PayPal, on-account; print or email; refunds
Cash drawer sessions with open, count and reconcile

Kitchen

Screens the kitchen can work from, with routing that matches how the line is laid out.

Live order board with elapsed timers and colour-coded urgency
Stations — grill, fry, pass, bar — each with its own board
Routing rules that send a line to a station by category, item or order type
Line-level bumping so one long cook doesn't hold up the whole ticket
Cancellation alerts that raise a banner until a cook acknowledges them

Reservations & Floor

Bookings that respect the room you actually have.

Availability engine offering slots against opening hours, table capacity and existing bookings
Slot picker on the public booking page, showing only what is genuinely bookable
Drawable floor maps per floor — tables, chairs, areas, rotation, resize, pan and zoom
Operate vs Layout modes — design the room, or run service with live occupancy on the same map
Status state machine driving HTML confirmation, reminder and change emails
Host and waiter screens for seating parties and taking orders on the floor

Delivery

Run delivery yourself instead of renting a marketplace.

Zones with their own fees, minimum order values and delivery windows
Driver roster with assignment and dispatch state
Dispatch board showing what is cooking, what is ready and what is on the road

Inventory

Know what you are using, what it costs, and when to stop selling it.

Stock items per location, with units, par levels and low-stock alerts
Recipes linking menu items to ingredients, with costing
Automatic depletion on every channel when an item sells
Movement ledger recording every receipt, depletion, waste event and adjustment
Waste log with reasons, and auto-86 when an ingredient runs out

Payments

Take money through whichever provider you already use, and see all of it in one place.

Provider registry — PayPal, plus cash, card terminal, bank transfer, voucher, on-account and pay-on-arrival. Stripe, Adyen, Square, SumUp, gift card and loyalty are listed as Coming soon and cannot be enabled in 6.0.0
Redirect flows with a webhook backstop, so a settlement survives a closed browser tab
Transactions ledger — every capture, refund and adjustment, filterable, with CSV export
Refunds issued back through the original provider and recorded against the order

Customers & Loyalty

Customer records with order history and contact details
Reviews collected and moderated from the storefront
Coupons with their own rules and redemption tracking
Gift cards purchasable on the storefront, with balances tracked (redemption as a payment method is Coming soon)

Staff & Terminals

Roles and permissions — per-action grants across sixteen feature areas
Staff terminals — lean POS, KDS, pickup, waiter, host and clock-in screens
Device token plus PIN authentication, with no Joomla login required
Per-terminal restriction to specific staff, roles or a single location
Time clock with breaks, timesheet and labour-cost reporting

Read more: Staff Terminals · Roles & Permissions · Terminals

Reporting

Sales summary — orders, gross sales, average order value and tips over a date range
Top items by quantity and revenue
Payment breakdown by settlement type
Channel mix — how much came from online, QR, POS and delivery
Staff hours with labour cost
Ingredient usage with cost
Audit log of privileged actions

Configuration

Thirteen toggleable modules with dependency-aware grey-out
Terminology editor to rename anything the interface calls something you don't
Currency, tax, date, number, weight and image settings
Notifications — low-stock digests and transactional guest emails
Multi-location scoping for menu, stock, staff and terminals
Demo mode — a seeded, read-only tour that refuses every write

Read more: Apps & Modules · Settings · Locations · Notifications · Demo Mode

Integrations

REST API — opt-in public endpoints, off by default
Outbound webhooks pushing events to whatever else you run
Payment providers — PayPal today, each provider carrying its own configuration schema; Stripe, Adyen, Square and SumUp are registered but locked as Coming soon in 6.0.0

Read more: REST API · Webhooks · Stripe · PayPal · Adyen, Square & SumUp