Table ordering for pubs in Sri Lanka
Guests scan the QR code on their table, tap Same again, and the order lands at your bar. There is no app to download. They pay as they go, run a tab or pay cash, and your staff still bring every drink.
How it works
Every table has its own QR code. The phone's camera opens your drinks list in the browser, so there is nothing to install.
Same again repeats the last round in two taps. The bill builds as they go, with service charge and VAT shown from the first drink.
The order appears on the bar screen the moment it is sent, under its table number, with a chime and a printed docket if you want one.
Why pubs
A pub order is mostly the same drinks again, from a short list people already know. So TapTab keeps it small: drinks and bar snacks, big buttons, nothing to scroll through. Food stays on your printed menu and with your waiter.
Ways to pay
Nobody has to sign up to order. Guests who want a tab or want to pay cash verify once, and the venue is covered every time.
For walk-ins, tourists and anyone in for a round or two. No account needed.
For the venue
Every round is paid for before it is poured.
For regulars, groups and long nights. A verified account, set up once.
For the venue
A card is on file before the first drink. If a guest leaves without closing, the bar closes the tab, the card is charged and the receipt goes to the guest.
For verified guests who prefer to pay in cash.
For the venue
Only verified guests can choose cash, and their saved card stands behind any cash that goes unpaid.
Payments switch on once your venue is set up with payments.lk. Until then, TapTab takes the order and guests pay your waiter the usual way.
Three screens
Their own phone, no sign-up. Same again at the top, quick picks, the running bill, and buttons to ask for the bill or call a waiter.
Orders arrive by table, oldest first, with a chime. One tap marks a round as being made, another as served. Open tables, their bills and any calls sit alongside.
Tonight's orders, average time to serve, sales by hour and the best sellers, live. Change a price or mark something sold out and every table sees it at once.
Why TapTab
| Compared on | Calling a waiter | Other QR ordering apps | TapTab |
|---|---|---|---|
| Built for | Taking every order by hand | Restaurants and cafés: a full menu, one meal | Pubs: the same drinks, round after round |
| The next round | Catch someone's eye, then wait | Back into the menu to find it again | Same again: two taps, at the bar in a second |
| Tabs | Trust a stranger, or hold a card behind the bar | Not in their published plans | Verified tab with a card on file before the first drink |
| Cash | Counted at close, with no record of each payment | Not in their published plans | Every cash payment recorded and checked against the till |
| The bill | Service charge and VAT land at the end | Varies | Running total with service charge and VAT from the first drink |
| Price | Staff time on every single order | Free view-only menus, or LKR 4,800–15,900 a month to take orders | From LKR 34,900 a month, all three ways to pay included |
Other QR ordering apps: the published plans and prices of the most popular QR ordering products in Sri Lanka, read on 1 October 2026.
QR ordering is already sold in Sri Lanka, yet you rarely see it used in a pub. The reasons are simple, and TapTab is designed around each one.
Scrolling a full menu on a phone is slower than catching the waiter, so guests give up.
Same again puts the last round one tap from the bar.
Anything that needs an app or a sign-up loses the table before the first order.
A web page from the QR code. No app, and no account unless they want a tab.
Staff feel cut out and steer guests back to ordering through them.
Staff still deliver every round, and tips left on tabs go to them.
Venues still carry the risk of walkouts and missing cash.
Verified tabs with a card on file, and cash recorded against the till.
Pricing
No commission on your sales and no fee on your guests' bill. Prices in LKR, plus applicable taxes.
Bar
LKR 34,900
a month
Up to 15 tables, one bar screen
Pub
LKR 54,900
a month
Up to 40 tables, two bar screens
At three drinks of LKR 1,000 a round, one extra round a night across the pub covers it.
Hotel and venue
LKR 99,900
a month and up, quoted per hotel
Over 40 tables, or several bars
We build your menu from your current list, supply a QR stand for up to 30 tables, set up the bar screen and train your team on the night.
Up to 20 tables. If you stay, the pilot fee comes off your setup.
| Bar kit: tablet, 80 mm printer and mount, set up | LKR 99,000 |
|---|---|
| QR stand for each table over 30 | LKR 1,200 each |
Put in your own numbers. The pilot then measures the real ones.
An estimate: a round is three drinks, profit is after a 30% drink cost, over 30 nights a month, before taxes. Staff time saved and walkouts avoided are not counted.
Optional: your own tablet, laptop or printer works too. After the pilot, plans run for 12 months. Pay a year up front and get two months free.
Built by Yathra
Yathra has built and supported technology for businesses in Sydney since 2014. We run IT for pubs, hotels and venues: the phones, Wi-Fi, networks and systems behind the bar. We also build software, from custom CRMs to AI agents. TapTab is built in Sydney and supported by our team in Colombo.
Hospitality clients include
Common questions
No. The QR code opens a web page in the phone's browser. The whole page is under 50 KB, so it opens quickly on pub Wi-Fi or mobile data.
Only to run a tab or pay cash. Paying as you go needs no account at all.
A tab only opens once the guest has verified a mobile number and saved a card. If they leave without closing it, the bar closes it and the saved card is charged.
Only the payment provider. Card numbers are entered on its secure page and stored by it. TapTab, your staff and your systems never see them.
No. TapTab takes the order and sends it to your bar. Your till stays as it is, and staff key TapTab orders the same way they key a waiter's.
TapTab is for drinks and bar snacks, the things people order again and again. Meals stay on your printed menu and with your waiter.
Nothing changes. Your service charge shows on the bill as it does today, and your staff still deliver every round.
We need your current drinks list and a table plan. We build the menu and print the cards before your first night, then set up the bar screen and train the team on the night.