Libre Bite – Restaurant POS, Kitchen Display (KDS) & QR Ordering for WooCommerce

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More orders, less stress — Libre Bite turns WooCommerce into your restaurant’s operational backbone. No commission fees, no SaaS lock-in: your guests order online or at the table via QR code, pay with card, cash, or Twint, and your kitchen sees every order live on the board — all inside WordPress.

Start for free. Upgrade only when you need more.

Free to Start

All core features are available completely free of charge — no credit card, no trial period, no hidden limits.

A Pro subscription is only required for advanced features such as multi-location management, table ordering, optimised checkout, tipping, and pickup reminders. Pro plans are priced to be affordable — significantly cheaper than dedicated restaurant SaaS platforms.

7-day free Pro trial — no payment required.

Built on WordPress & WooCommerce

Libre Bite is a WordPress plugin. It extends WooCommerce — the proven e-commerce foundation used by millions of sites worldwide.

• No new platform to learn — manage everything inside your existing WordPress dashboard.
• Your products stay WooCommerce products — set them up once and they appear in the POS, checkout, and online shop automatically.
• Use any WooCommerce-compatible payment gateway — cash, card, Twint, Stripe, PayPal, or any other gateway you already have. Libre Bite charges no transaction fees.
• Offline payments supported — “Pay at pickup”, “Pay at table”, or any custom payment method via standard WooCommerce.

For Whom Is Libre Bite?

Libre Bite is built for small and micro gastronomy businesses — operations that want serious software without enterprise-level costs or delivery platform commissions.

• Restaurants — Take dine-in and take-away orders, keep the kitchen informed, delight guests with smooth service.
• Take-Away & Fast Food — Serve walk-ins fast with an integrated counter POS, accept card and Twint payments, no third-party fees.
• Cafés & Bars — Handle product extras, tips, and order flow without juggling multiple tools.
• Multi-location businesses — Run all branches from one WordPress installation, each with its own order board and POS (Pro).

Modular by Design

Only activate the features your business actually needs. Unused modules stay hidden — no cluttered menus, no unnecessary complexity.

Core Features (Free)

Live Kanban Order Board (KDS)
A real-time kitchen display that visualizes every incoming WooCommerce order as a card. Move an order through Pre-orders → Prepare Now → Completed with a single click — without reloading the page. Renaming, adding, or reordering columns, and dragging cards between them, is available as a Pro add-on.

Integrated Point of Sale (POS)
A clear POS interface for walk-in customers. Add products to the order, accept payments — all without leaving WordPress.

Location Management
Create and manage branches, each with its own address, opening hours, and order routing. Works immediately for single-location businesses.

Swiss 5-Cent Rounding
Built-in support for the Swiss rounding rule (5-cent rounding). Indispensable for restaurants and retail in Switzerland.

Pickup Time Slots
Customers choose a time slot for pickup directly during checkout. Relieve peak hours and better manage kitchen capacity.

Product Options
Add configurable options to any WooCommerce product — sizes, sauces, toppings, preparation notes — with optional price markups.

Modular Feature Control
Only enable what your business really needs. Each module can be independently toggled on or off in the admin area.

WooCommerce HPOS Compatible
Fully tested with WooCommerce High-Performance Order Storage (HPOS). Safe for modern, high-traffic setups.

Sound Notifications
A browser signal tone when a new order arrives on the Kanban board, so the kitchen doesn’t have to watch the screen. Uploading your own custom sound file via the media library is a Pro feature.

Pro Features (Subscription required)

Reservations
A guided 3-step booking form for guests — date & party size, contact details, confirmation. Reservations land on their own dashboard, get auto-released or manually confirmed, and can be assigned to a specific table.

Table Ordering (QR Code)
Generate a QR code for each table. Guests scan it and order directly — no address or pickup time fields required. Orders appear in the dashboard with the table name.

Multi-Location Management
Manage an unlimited number of branches. Each location gets its own Kanban board, POS configuration, and separate order flow — managed centrally via one WordPress installation.

Optimized Checkout Flow
A conversion-focused checkout process for gastronomy businesses — fewer steps, cleaner layout, mobile-first.

Advanced Tipping System
Customers can select percentage tip suggestions (e.g., 5%, 10%, 15%) or enter a custom amount. Tip amounts are saved per order and broken out separately in the statistics.

Automatic Pickup Reminders
Automatic email reminders to customers X minutes before the scheduled pickup time. Fewer no-shows, better pickup experience.

Nutritional Info & Allergen Labeling
Nutritional values and allergen declarations for every product, displayed clearly on the product page. Includes a printable allergen matrix covering the 14 EU-listed allergens, to help you meet allergen labeling requirements.

Promotions & Announcements
Rule-based offers WooCommerce does not know by itself: buy several pay for fewer, a discount on a category, money off above a cart value — each limited to certain weekdays or times. Plus an announcement bar.

Stamp Card
One stamp per completed order, then a discount voucher. Guests grasp “every tenth order is cheaper” immediately.

Theme-independent Menu View
Output your menu in its own layout — category navigation, product cards, a dialog for variations and add-ons, and a slide-in order panel. Works with any theme, no template editing required.

Dietary Labels & Filter
Label dishes as vegan, vegetarian, gluten-free and more. Guests filter the menu without reloading the page.

Scheduled Availability
Limit products or whole categories to certain weekdays, times of day or date ranges. A breakfast menu that disappears at 11:30, a seasonal item that only shows in December.

Order Bumps
Offer matching extras right above the pay button. Added as real line items, so they appear on the kitchen ticket and count in the statistics.

Time Slot Capacity
Cap how many orders each time slot accepts, so the kitchen is not flooded at peak times.

Guest Notes
Keep allergies and preferences on the customer account and show them to staff when a returning guest reserves a table.

SMS Notifications
Send a short text message when an order is ready. Uses your own Twilio account — no order or customer data passes through us.

Customizable Kanban Columns
Rename, add, remove and reorder the columns of the Kanban order board to match your own workflow — mark any number of columns as “completed”, add a one-step back button per order card, and optionally enable drag & drop between columns (Pro).

Why Libre Bite?

Delivery platforms take up to 30% commission. Dedicated restaurant SaaS tools charge monthly fees on top of that. Libre Bite is different: own your ordering system, pay no commissions, and keep every franc.

• Commission-free ordering — guests order directly on your website, no platform cut
• No transaction fees — ever
• No order limits, no quotas — take as many orders and reservations as you want, in every plan
• No usage tracking — your orders and reservations are never counted, hashed, or reported to any external server
• Twint, card, cash — accept any payment WooCommerce supports
• Swiss 5-cent rounding built in — essential for CHF cash payments
• Separate VAT rates for takeaway and dine-in — handled correctly, not bolted on (Pro)
• QR code ordering at the table — guests scan, choose, and pay in seconds (Pro)
• Split payments and open tabs — settle one bill across several payment methods, or keep a table running (Pro)
• Multiple locations from one installation — each branch with its own board, POS, and order flow (Pro)
• Modular — activate only what your business needs, nothing else
• Your data stays yours — in your own WordPress installation
• Affordable Pro plans — designed for small businesses, not enterprise budgets
• 7-day free Pro trial — no payment required

Works on Any Device

Libre Bite works on any device — no app installation required. Use it with a mouse and keyboard on a desktop or laptop, or with touch input on a tablet. The Kanban order board, POS interface, and reservation dashboard are optimised for touch-first operation, making them well-suited for use on a tablet mounted at the counter or kitchen pass.

How to Run Libre Bite

Option 1 — Extend your existing website
Install Libre Bite directly into your existing WordPress/WooCommerce site. Any theme is compatible — no design changes required.

Option 2 — Standalone installation (subdomain)
Run Libre Bite as a dedicated installation on a subdomain, such as order.myrestaurant.com — completely independent from your main website, purpose-built for your gastronomy operation.

Option 3 — Managed hosting by Libre Bite
Libre Bite handles the complete setup: installation, configuration, hosting, and ongoing maintenance — from A to Z. Available as a paid service. Get in touch via https://pulacha-labs.ch/

External Services

This plugin uses Freemius, a third-party platform for managing licenses, subscriptions, and plugin updates for the Pro version.

During plugin activation, you can opt-in to data sharing with Freemius. Basic information about your website (WordPress version, PHP version, active plugins) is transmitted to Freemius to enable license validation and usage analysis. Opt-in is completely optional. All free core features work without opt-in.

• Freemius Privacy Policy: https://freemius.com/privacy/
• Freemius Terms of Service: https://freemius.com/terms/

No data is sent to Freemius if you skip or decline the opt-in during activation.

Libre Bite uses the goQR.me API (https://goqr.me/api/) to render QR code images in the WordPress admin area. This happens in two places: the location editor, which generates a QR code linking to your menu for a specific location (free feature), and the table editor, which generates a QR code for table ordering (Pro feature).

Only the encoded target URL of your own website is transmitted, so that the service can render the matching image. No personal data, customer data, or order data is sent. The request is only made while an administrator has the corresponding editor screen open — never during a customer order or on any public page.

• goQR.me API: https://goqr.me/api/
• goQR.me Privacy Policy: https://goqr.me/privacy-policy/

If you enable the optional SMS Notifications feature (Pro), Libre Bite sends the customer’s phone number and a short status message to Twilio (https://www.twilio.com/) using your own Twilio account, so Twilio can deliver the text message. This only happens when the SMS feature is switched on and an order reaches the status you configured as the trigger — it never runs otherwise. You provide and control your own Twilio credentials; no order or customer data passes through Libre Bite’s own servers.

• Twilio Privacy Policy: https://www.twilio.com/en-us/legal/privacy
• Twilio Terms of Service: https://www.twilio.com/en-us/legal/tos