MinimalPOS is a free cloud restaurant POS for Thai F&B businesses. It handles counter, table, takeaway and QR orders, sends them to a kitchen display, and produces billing and shift reports. It records 7% VAT and the 10% service charge convention separately, and works alongside PromptPay and any card terminal you already use.
Free — limited-time launch offer · Last reviewed
Currency
฿ THB
Service tax on F&B
7% VAT
Pays with
PromptPay · TrueMoney Wallet · Rabbit LINE Pay
MinimalPOS
Free
limited-time offer
These are the rules that change how a bill is calculated and what a receipt has to show. Every claim carries its source and the date we last checked it.
Thailand's VAT rate remains 7% (6.3% plus local taxes) and is legislated to stay at that level until 30 September 2026. Plan for a rate review rather than assuming it is permanent.
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A compliant Thai tax invoice must carry the 13-digit Tax Identification Numbers of both buyer and seller, the transaction date, a description of the goods or services, and VAT shown as a separate line item — not folded into the total.
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The 10% service charge is a pricing convention, not a tax. It is common in hotels, hotel restaurants, rooftop bars and higher-end dining rooms, and generally absent from casual restaurants, street-food shops, cafés and noodle shops.
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MinimalPOS does not process payments and takes no percentage of your sales. It records whichever method was used against the bill, so your payment-mix report reflects what really happened at the counter.
PromptPay
Thailand's national QR transfer scheme, and the default cashless method for most independent venues.
TrueMoney Wallet
Widely used e-wallet, particularly outside Bangkok.
Rabbit LINE Pay
Common among LINE-native customers and transit users.
Card terminals
Visa, Mastercard and increasingly UnionPay for tourist-facing venues.
Delivery platforms
Most Thailand outlets work with GrabFood, LINE MAN, foodpanda. MinimalPOS does not sync orders from these platforms — you enter delivery orders under a delivery service type, and they report separately from dine-in and takeaway.
Most Thai POS vendors publish a monthly subscription in the THB 490–990 range for a single outlet, before hardware. Software cost is the recurring line an independent venue can actually remove.
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Published prices only, each linked to the vendor's own pricing page. Where a vendor does not publish a price, we say so rather than estimate.
| Vendor | Published price | What that includes |
|---|---|---|
| Silom POS | From THB 490/month | Source · checked |
| Ocha POS | THB 799/month | Source · checked |
| StoreHub | From THB 990/month | Source · checked |
| FoodStory | Software price not published | FoodStory publishes hardware pricing (iPad packages reported at THB 1,590–2,290/month) but not a software price list, so a like-for-like software comparison is not possible from public sources.Source · checked |
| MinimalPOSThis site | Free — limited-time launch offer | Includes QR ordering, kitchen display, table management, staff roles and full report history.Source · checked |
Prices are the vendors' own published figures on the date shown. Vendors change pricing; check the source before deciding.
For a feature-by-feature breakdown — including what MinimalPOS does not do, such as processing card payments or syncing delivery apps.
Turn table management off for a counter-only outlet, or QR ordering on when you want guests ordering from the table. The same order flow covers all of these.
Yes. MinimalPOS is free as a limited-time launch offer, including QR ordering, the kitchen display, table management, staff roles and full report history. Most Thai alternatives are subscription-based: Silom POS from THB 490/month, Ocha POS at THB 799/month and StoreHub from THB 990/month, before hardware.
Keep them separate. VAT is 7% and must appear as its own line on a tax invoice; the 10% service charge is a pricing convention, not a tax, and is usually applied before VAT. MinimalPOS records taxes and service charges as distinct components so the receipt shows both and your reports do not conflate them.
The 13-digit Tax Identification Numbers of both the buyer and the seller, the transaction date, a description of the goods or services, and VAT as a separate line item. Our free Thai restaurant receipt generator produces this layout if you need it before setting up a full POS.
MinimalPOS records PromptPay as a payment method against the bill so it appears in your payment-mix reports, but it does not generate the transfer itself. If you want per-guest PromptPay QR codes for splitting a bill, our free PromptPay split bill generator creates an exact-amount QR for each guest.
Yes. Fast drink entry with modifiers, food tickets routed to the kitchen, staff permissions, void tracking and end-of-night payment and void reports are all included. Bar service was one of the workflows the product was built around.
No credit card required. Add your menu, your team and your tax settings, then run a shift.