What should a restaurant POS include?

At minimum: fast order entry, a kitchen ticket flow, dine-in and delivery support, cash-drawer control, and reporting you trust. Orderlya adds WhatsApp/Instagram order-taking into the same system, so orders from every channel land in one place.

Is there a POS with Arabic and EGP pricing?

Yes. Orderlya is Arabic-first with an EGP subscription and cash on delivery as a first-class option, built for how restaurants in Egypt and the MENA region actually operate.

Does a POS have to charge commission per order?

No. A POS subscription is a flat fee. The per-order commission (~20–30%) comes from delivery aggregators, not from your own POS. Orderlya charges zero commission on orders taken on your own channel.

How to choose a restaurant POS in Egypt (a practical 2026 guide)

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A cashier system is the spine of your restaurant. Here is how to pick one that fits how restaurants in Egypt actually work — in Arabic, priced in EGP, and connected to the way your customers order.

Start from what a POS actually has to do

A restaurant POS is more than a screen that prints a receipt. On a busy night it has to ring up an order fast, send it to the kitchen without a runner, handle dine-in tables and delivery, track cash in the drawer, and give you numbers you can trust at close. If any of those is missing, your staff patch the gap by hand — and that is where mistakes and lost money creep in.

Before you compare brands, write down your own must-haves: how many branches, dine-in or delivery-first, how you take orders today, and who needs to see the reports. That list is your real spec.

Arabic and EGP are not optional in Egypt

Plenty of POS software was built for the West and translated later. It shows: awkward Arabic, prices in dollars, and no cash-on-delivery as a first-class flow. For a restaurant in Egypt that is daily friction for your staff and your customers.

Look for a system that is Arabic-first, priced in EGP, and treats cash on delivery as normal — not a bolt-on. Orderlya is built this way from the ground up: the interface and the customer-facing AI both work in natural Arabic, and pricing is in Egyptian pounds.

One system beats five disconnected tools

The hidden cost of a cheap POS is everything it does not do. You end up with a separate cashier, a website, a WhatsApp chat handled by hand, an aggregator tablet, and a spreadsheet — none of which talk to each other. Re-typing the same order across them is slow and error-prone.

Orderlya folds order-taking into the POS: an order taken on WhatsApp, on the storefront, or rung up at the counter lands on the same kitchen board and in the same reporting. One screen runs the cashier, the kitchen, delivery and the numbers, so nothing is entered twice.

Count the real cost — including commission

Compare the monthly price, but also the per-order cost. Some ways of taking orders — delivery aggregators — charge a commission of roughly 20–30% on every order, which quietly dwarfs a fixed monthly POS fee as you grow.

Orderlya is a flat monthly EGP subscription with zero per-order commission on your own channel, and orders on WhatsApp, Instagram, Messenger and your storefront are unlimited. That keeps your total cost steady and easy to plan for as your volume rises. (See the plans on the pricing page.)

Try it before you commit

You do not have to guess. Start a 14-day free trial, no credit card: load your menu from a photo, ring up a few orders, and see how the POS, kitchen board and WhatsApp ordering feel together during a real shift. A system you can try on your own floor tells you more than any feature checklist.

How to choose a restaurant POS in Egypt