Cloud restaurant POS and billing built for the UAE — 5% VAT invoices in AED, full Arabic and English receipts, and QR ordering that keeps Dubai's busiest dining rooms and cloud kitchens moving.
| Shawarma Platter | AED 32.00 |
| Chicken Machboos | AED 48.00 |
| Manakish Za’atar | AED 18.00 |
| Karak Chai × 2 | AED 12.00 |
| Subtotal | AED 110.00 |
| VAT 5% | AED 5.50 |
| Total | AED 115.50 |
The things that actually differ market to market — tax, currency, language and how people pay — handled rather than worked around.
Not a bolted-on translation. Right-to-left layout runs through the dashboard, the printed receipt, the kitchen ticket and the customer-facing QR menu.
Show your TRN, net, VAT and gross on every invoice, with the currency symbol and decimal placement set for the dirham.
Run Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Sharjah outlets from one dashboard with per-branch pricing and consolidated reporting across the group.
Guests scan, browse in Arabic or English, order and pay without waiting for a server. Orders drop straight onto the kitchen display.
Delivery volume from Talabat, Deliveroo, Careem Food and Noon Food can be logged alongside dine-in so one report covers the whole day.
Live stock deduction, low-stock alerts and recipe-level costing so iftar and suhoor surges do not empty the store cupboard unnoticed.
Every payment type lands in the same day-end report, so cash, card, gateway and delivery money reconcile together instead of in four places.
The Gulf’s own gateway. Take UAE-issued debit and credit cards, Apple Pay and Google Pay, settled to your local bank account in AED.
Cards from anywhere in the world, useful for the tourist and hotel trade in Dubai and Abu Dhabi. Supports Apple Pay and Google Pay out of the box.
Handy for corporate catering and international bookings where the payer is not in the UAE.
Keep your existing card machine. Record the payment type in MealNix so the day-end report still balances.
What MealNix does, stated plainly.
One system that adapts to how your outlet actually runs.
Multiple outlets under one property, with consolidated end-of-day reporting across the coffee shop, the fine-dining room and room service.
Dubai runs one of the densest cloud-kitchen markets anywhere. Run several virtual brands out of one kitchen with orders routed per brand.
Token-number service, quick-pick menus and fast counter billing for high-footfall units in Dubai Mall, Mall of the Emirates and Yas Mall.
Modifier-heavy drink menus, loyalty for regulars and counter-speed billing for the JLT and Al Quoz café scene.
Fast parcel billing, kitchen display tickets and shift-wise cash register closing for round-the-clock neighbourhood outlets.
Advance bookings with part payments, bulk orders and ingredient planning against confirmed covers for the events trade.
MealNix is cloud software with remote onboarding, so there is no install visit to wait for — wherever you are in UAE, you can be billing today.
Bill from a phone on the floor, a tablet at the table or a full terminal at the counter.
Arabic ships with full right-to-left layout across the dashboard, menus, receipts and kitchen tickets.
Where a POS built for somewhere else tends to fall down.
| Capability | MealNix | Generic imported POS |
|---|---|---|
| Local tax handling | Vat at 5%, with per-item overrides | Often a single hard-coded rate, or none |
| Uae dirham formatting | Correct symbol, placement and decimal precision | Frequently forces two decimals and a foreign symbol |
| Interface language | Arabic and English | Usually English only |
| Local payment rails | Tap Payments, Stripe | International cards only, if that |
| QR menu & table ordering | Included on paid plans | Usually a paid add-on |
| Runs on a phone or tablet | Yes — Android, iOS and web | Often needs proprietary hardware |
| Free plan | Free Starter plan, no time limit | Rarely offered |
Remote onboarding, so there is no waiting for an engineer to be in your city.
Create your restaurant, set your UAE dirham and your VAT rate. Takes a few minutes.
Import your existing menu rather than retyping it, then set modifiers, kitchen routing and pricing.
Link Tap Payments or another supported gateway, or keep your existing terminal and record payment types.
Train your staff on the terminal, phone or tablet you already have, and start billing. Support is available while you settle in.
Straight answers, including the ones that are not a simple yes.
MealNix is a cloud restaurant POS built to run in the UAE: it issues 5% VAT tax invoices in AED showing your TRN, prints receipts and kitchen tickets in Arabic or English with proper right-to-left layout, and handles QR table ordering, kitchen displays, inventory and multi-branch reporting from Dubai to Ras Al Khaimah. There is a free Starter plan and a 30-day free trial of the paid plans.
Yes. Set the 5% rate once and MealNix applies it across every order, or override it per menu item where a different treatment applies. Invoices show your TRN with the net amount, the VAT amount and the gross total in AED, and you can pull a VAT summary for any date range at filing time. You can also switch to tax-inclusive menu pricing so the price on the menu is exactly what the guest pays.
Yes. Arabic ships as a full interface language with right-to-left layout, and that carries through to printed receipts, kitchen tickets and the customer-facing QR menu. Your Arabic-speaking and English-speaking staff can each use the POS in their own language on the same terminal.
Tap Payments is the natural fit for the Gulf, taking UAE-issued cards plus Apple Pay and Google Pay with settlement in AED. Stripe and PayPal are also supported, which helps with the tourist and corporate-catering trade. If you would rather keep your existing card terminal, record the payment type in MealNix so the day-end report still balances.
Yes, and it is one of the more common uses here. Run several virtual brands from one kitchen with orders routed per brand to the right station, keep separate menus and pricing per brand, and report on each one independently while sharing the same inventory and staff.
Yes. Every outlet runs from one dashboard with centralised menus, per-branch pricing and branch-level settings, while each location keeps its own POS terminals, kitchens and staff logins. Group reporting rolls all emirates together; branch reporting drills into one.
Yes. Paid plans come with a 30-day free trial and there is a free Starter plan with no time limit, no per-user fee and no setup fee. You can run a full service on the trial before deciding, and import your existing menu rather than retyping it.
Running outlets in more than one country? Each market has its own page.
Free Starter plan with no time limit, or a 30-day free trial of the paid plans. No setup fee, no per-user fee.
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