Getting set up, one step at a time.

Create an account with email and password (verify your email), Google or Lovable. Then enter your restaurant name and time zone. One account belongs to one restaurant workspace.

Each physical restaurant location is its own workspace and its own subscription, with its own menu, tables, tabs and reports.

Owners set the restaurant name, receipt details, tax rate and time zone in Settings. Reports and receipt times use that time zone.

Open Menu to add categories, dishes and prices, and mark items unavailable when they run out. During service you can also add a custom item to a single tab.

Open a tab with the guest’s name and, if you like, a table and note. Add items as they order; the running total updates. You can edit the guest details or cancel a tab that has no paid items.

Add tables with seat counts in Tables. Seating checks capacity and prevents two people seating the same table at the same moment.

Send a tab’s new items to the kitchen as a ticket. The Kitchen view moves each ticket from new to preparing to ready. Sending again only sends items that are new.

Before checkout, add a discount or service charge to the bill. Tax is calculated from your restaurant’s tax rate. All totals are worked out in exact cents.

Guests pay your restaurant directly by cash, your card processor’s payment link, Cash App or Zelle — whichever you enable. Staff check that the payment arrived, then confirm it at checkout. Opening a payment link never marks a bill paid, and AvenTab never asks for card numbers.

No. Once a bill is paid, its receipt and kitchen tickets are kept exactly as they were. You can find it under Paid bills and include it in reports and CSV exports.

Owners open Settings → Team, enter the person’s email and choose Staff or Owner. AvenTab creates a private link that expires after seven days. Share it yourself — no email is sent automatically. The person must sign in with that same verified email to join.

Staff run service: tabs, tables, kitchen and checkout. Owners also manage restaurant settings, the subscription and the team.

It is optional. The owner types a name, job title and a few details, and AI drafts a friendly message. You can edit it before copying. The private invitation link is added on your device and is not sent to the AI.

New restaurants start pending. The workspace opens once the $49/month subscription is active. If billing isn’t enabled yet, the subscription page says so and nothing is charged.

If a subscription is past due, unpaid, expired or canceled, the service views close until it is active again. The owner can still open the subscription page.

Each restaurant has a short name. The working link is aventab.com/r/your-name; it asks people to sign in and only opens for members of that restaurant.

Short names are reserved for that use, but a restaurant subdomain only works after the AvenTab team connects and verifies it individually. Settings shows a live link only when it really works.