Any till can tell you what you sold.
Fettle tells you what you kept.
Point-of-sale for Australian cafes, with BAS-ready books built in.
The 1 October 2026 moment
When the surcharge goes, the fee doesn’t.
From 1 October 2026, the RBA removes the right to surcharge card payments. The fee your bank and card scheme charge on every tap doesn’t disappear — you simply can’t pass it to the customer any more. It moves, quietly, onto your margin.
For a cafe running thousands of card transactions a week, that is real money leaving the till in fractions of a percent you never see on a sales summary. A register that stops at “total sales” can’t show it to you.
So the job changes. Not to dodge the fee — you can’t — but to see it: to know, at the end of each day, what card fees actually cost you, and what you kept after them.
What you kept
Books that keep up with the counter.
Most registers are very good at one thing: taking the money. What happens after — the GST, the fees, the reconciliation — is left for you and a shoebox of receipts at BAS time.
Fettle journals every sale straight into your accounting file (Reckon first), as it happens. GST is tracked per line item, not estimated at quarter’s end. Card fees are recorded as the expense they are.
When BAS is due, you read a report — instead of rebuilding three months from memory.
Their reports
Their reports stop at revenue.
Yours
Yours start at net.
The suite
One counter, four screens.
Till
The register your staff actually use
iPad
Sell fast, mark an item 86 when it runs out, and close the drawer at the end of service. Built for the counter during a rush — not a demo.
Owner app
Today’s three numbers that matter
iPhone
Today's sales, how it compares to last week, and the month so far — live on your phone, wherever you are. The end-of-day picture without waiting for end of day.
Menu admin
Edit once, publish everywhere
iPad
Change a price or a description in one place. It publishes to every screen — till, kitchen and back — so nothing drifts out of sync.
Kitchen display
Works when the internet doesn’t
iPad
Orders travel over your own LAN, so the line keeps moving even when the connection drops. The kitchen never waits on the cloud.
Born on a real counter
Built and run daily in a Sydney cafe.
Fettle isn’t a product designed in a boardroom and sold to cafes. It’s built and run every day inside a working Sydney cafe, by the people who own it.
Every feature had to earn its place at service time — during a rush, on a real counter, with a queue forming. If it didn’t help get the coffee out and the books straight, it didn’t ship. That’s the only test it has ever had to pass.
Now onboarding
Join the pilot.
We’re onboarding a small number of Sydney cafes before the October switch. If you run a cafe and want your books to keep up with your counter, we’d like to hear from you.
Or email us: hello@example.com