Built for Australian Hospitality
Seat the 7pm walk-in, fire the order, cost the docket — before the coffee lands.
Diary, table-side ordering, supplier billing, rostering and BAS-ready GST — in one app built for Australian cafes, restaurants, bakeries, and hotels. Penalty rates, allergen flags, and FSS expiries handled in the background so the floor manager can focus on service. All-in-one for $0–$69/mo — replaces Lightspeed POS + Xero + Deputy + SevenRooms.





The average café saves $220+/mo replacing Square POS + Xero + Deputy + SevenRooms with OneBookPlus.
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Reservation pipeline, table-side ordering, supplier costing
Open the Restaurants guide →Daily takings, supplier invoices, casual rostering
Open the Cafes guide →Wholesale orders, daily production sheets, early-shift roster
Open the Bakeries guide →Property-management workflows, housekeeping schedules, supplier billing
Open the Hotels & Motels guide →Free Tools & Resources
8-step founder guide — ABN, GST, food licence, fit-out, liquor, insurance, suppliers, opening week.
Open →InteractiveInteractive estimator — food cost %, labour, overhead, GP target, and final menu price.
Open →ReferenceFSS certificate requirements per state, refresher cycles, and when an Allergen Aware course is mandatory.
Open →Operator GuidePlain-English MA000119 — Level 1–6 classifications, Saturday/Sunday penalties, casual loading, junior rates.
Open →ReferencePublic liability, food/product liability, liquor liability, business interruption, glass — coverage and premium ranges.
Open →Key takeaways
5Everything You Need
No more bouncing between the POS, the diary on the host stand, a Deputy roster on the office iPad, and a Xero tab on the desktop. OneBookPlus puts the venue's daily loop in one app — built for cafes, restaurants, bakeries, and hotels.
Take phone, walk-in, and online bookings into one diary. The host stand opens to today; the manager opens to next week. Deposits and no-show flags follow the customer profile across every visit.
Table-side ordering on a phone or tablet pushes straight to the kitchen printer or KDS. Modifiers, allergens, and split bills handled. End-of-day takings reconcile against the bank feed automatically.
Snap the meat-supplier docket, the dairy invoice, the linen bill — it parses, codes, and posts to the right GL. Cost-of-goods updates against the right menu item so margin drift shows up before payroll does.
Drag-and-drop the week, publish to staff phones, get accept/decline replies. Clock-in is on the staff member's own phone with a venue QR. Saturday and Sunday penalty rates under MA000119 calculate as you roster, not after.
Count fridge, dry store, and bar on a phone. Recipe-cost cards link ingredient prices to plate prices so a 12% jump in beef shows on the menu margin report Monday morning. Wastage is tracked per shift.
10% GST and your ABN drop onto every invoice and supplier bill automatically. The quarterly BAS pack — GST collected, GST paid, PAYG withheld for staff — exports as a single PDF for the accountant.
Free plan available · No credit card · Cancel anytime
Free Website Included
Stop paying $30–80/mo to Wix or Squarespace — and skip the $1,500–3,000 up-front for a designer. Every OneBookPlus venue gets a branded booking page on the free plan. Want it on your own domain like a proper business website? $15/mo and we host it for you.
your-business.onebookplus.com.auoronebookplus.com.au/book/your-businessyourbusiness.com.au— custom branded domain, we host the siteA guest books a Friday 7pm for six on your booking page at 11pm while the kitchen's closed. It lands in the diary with their dietary flags and a deposit on card — ready for the run sheet.
Brand color picker in settings. Logo upload. Trade licence number shown on every page so customers know you're legit.
Set lunch from $39pp. Function deposit $250. Customers see prices before booking — kills the price-shopping phone calls.
70%+ of venue searches happen on phones. Your booking page is built mobile-first; loads in under 2 seconds on 4G.
Already own yourbusiness.com.au? Add the Booking Website app ($15/mo) and point your domain at the booking page we host for you. We don't sell domains — keep yours wherever you registered it.
Schema.org markup for venue services + suburbs you cover. Google finds you for 'restaurant in [suburb]' searches.
Venues website cost — typical
Website builder
Wix, Squarespace or similar
Web hosting + SSL
Bundled in builders; separate if custom site
Designer (one-off)
Only if you want a custom-built site
Bookings on Calendly
Separate from your website
Typical recurring total
~$60–100/mo
+ $1,500–3,000 up-front if you hire a designer
With OneBookPlus
Your total
$0–15/mo
See it in action
Not mockups — the real product screens for a venue's service day.
Phone, walk-in and web bookings in one run sheet. Deposit-on-card, dietary flags and no-show history follow the guest across every visit.

Fire orders to the kitchen printer or KDS with modifiers and allergen flags. Split the bill, settle at the table, no end-of-night Z-report rekey.

Drag-and-drop the week with MA000119 penalty rates live, then watch daily covers, takings and food-cost margin update against the bank feed.

Simple Workflow
From booking to BAS, in four steps — designed around a venue's actual service day.
Add your ABN, trading name, GST settings, and floor plan. Import the existing menu from a spreadsheet or POS export. Most venues are live in under 30 minutes.
Phone, walk-in, web — every booking lands in one diary. Service starts, table-side orders flow to the kitchen, payments clear at the table, no end-of-night sync needed.
Drag-and-drop the week, scan supplier invoices, count stock on a phone. Saturday and Sunday penalty rates calculate automatically against MA000119.
Daily takings auto-match to the bank feed. The BAS quarterly summary — GST, PAYG, and supplier credits — exports as one PDF. Your accountant gets a clean handover.
Most venues are taking table-side orders within an hour of signup
2x
Faster booking-to-seated than paper diaries
$0
Free plan — no monthly fees to start
30%
Average reduction in supplier-bill entry time
100%
GST & BAS compliant for Australian venues
Scroll through the day from morning to 5pm: the AI receptionist answers and books a missed call, the work runs from the app, the GST invoice is sent on the spot, payment lands and the books balance themselves, a five-star review is requested automatically, and the day closes with the ledger already written.
8:55am
While you're on the pass
A birthday lunch for 12 wants in today — two coeliac. They call the first bistro on Google — yours — mid-delivery, hands full.
AI Receptionist
The AI answers in two rings, books the 12-top for 12:30, captures the allergy flags and texts a confirmation.
Lunch service
Function sheet on the pass: set menu, seating, allergen flags attached to every order that fires to the kitchen.
At the table
One tap raises the function bill with a pay link — split six ways at the table, no till queue, no chasing.
Back on the pass
The payment lands, takings match the EFTPOS settlement, and $80.00 GST is set aside for BAS.
Reputation on autopilot
Two hours after the table settles — the sweet spot — the AI asks for a review. The birthday host leaves five stars.
Before dinner service
Lunch is done and tonight's covers are booked. The book did the rest.
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collected
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admin tasks done by AI
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evenings lost
Venue pricing
Start free, upgrade when the covers justify it. No contracts, no setup fees, no per-terminal tax. Cancel any time.
Free
$0/forever
Take your first booking today — no credit card.
Starter
$29/mo
Replaces Square POS + Xero + Deputy for one busy room.
No card · Drops to Free if you don't upgrade
Growth
$69/mo
For groups running a café, restaurant and functions across sites.
Prices in AUD inc. GST. Stripe processing fees apply to card payments (1.7% + 30¢ AU cards). Full plan comparison →
Already on another stack?
Most venues move across in a single closed Monday. Export your menu, guest list and staff from your current tools as CSV, import them into OneBookPlus with the bulk importer, and you're taking bookings before Tuesday service.
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Built-in AI
You're slammed on the floor — the phone keeps ringing with bookings and enquiries you never get to.
OneBookPlus
AI Receptionist · incoming call
“Table for six this Friday night?”
If you don't answer, the AI books it — Dinner · Fri 7:30pm · 6 guests — and texts a confirmation.
Built in Melbourne, AU
ATO-ready from day one
256-bit encryption
No credit card needed
Common questions about hospitality software for Australian cafes, restaurants, and hotels.
The best fit depends on whether you want a card terminal, a back-office, or both. Most independent AU venues end up running a POS (Square, Lightspeed or Kounta) plus separate accounting (Xero or MYOB) plus a rostering tool. OneBookPlus collapses the back-office side — bookings, table-side orders, supplier billing, MA000119 rostering, GST-aware invoicing and BAS-ready reporting — into one platform from $0/month, and runs alongside your existing POS via the daily-takings parser if you'd rather keep your card reader.
Square, Lightspeed and Kounta are POS-first — strong at the till and card processing, lighter on accounting and rostering, so venues usually add Xero or MYOB and a separate roster tool on top. OneBookPlus is back-office-first: it pulls end-of-day takings from those POS systems via the bank feed and daily-takings parser, then handles the bookings, supplier bills, award rostering, GST and BAS in one place. If you're new or replacing the POS, the built-in table-side ordering covers most cafés and restaurants under 100 seats — but you don't have to switch your terminal to get the back-office benefit.
Yes — the free plan covers bookings, table-side orders for one terminal, and basic supplier billing with unlimited invoices. It suits a single-location café or sole-trader food truck with under 10 covers a day. Upgrade as you add staff, terminals, or venues.
Yes. The Restaurant Industry Award (MA000119) penalty matrix is built in — full-time, part-time and casual rates for Levels 1 to 6, weekend and public-holiday loadings, evening surcharges, and the 25% casual loading. Junior rates and the 18%–95% age-graded scale apply automatically based on the staff member's DOB.
Yes. FSS certificates, RSA, RCG, and Allergen Aware certifications are stored against each staff record with expiry dates. The dashboard flags certificates expiring in the next 60 days so you can book the refresher before the staffer is locked out of the floor.
Most venues run OneBookPlus alongside their existing POS — Square, Lightspeed, Kounta and a handful of Australian-built POS systems push end-of-day takings via the bank feed and our daily-takings parser. If you're new or replacing the POS, the built-in table-side ordering covers most cafés and restaurants under 100 seats.
Yes. The Growth plan supports multi-venue with separate trading entities, ABNs, and chart of accounts — useful for franchise groups, hotel groups, and operators who run a café and a restaurant under different ABNs. Consolidated P&L is available across sites without losing per-venue detail.
About the author
Founder & CEO, OneBookPlus
Bishal has over a decade of experience in digital marketing, web development, and small business consulting across Australia. He has worked directly with Australian hospitality operators — independent cafes, fine-dining restaurants, suburban bakeries, and family-run motels — helping them consolidate POS, rostering, supplier billing, and BAS reporting into a single platform.
If you run a café, a restaurant, a bakery, or a small motel in Australia, you already know the stack: a POS like Square or Lightspeed sitting at the counter, Xero on the accountant's laptop, Deputy or Tanda for the roster on the office iPad, ResDiary or SevenRooms for bookings, and a stack of supplier invoices in a shoebox under the till. Every tool charges a monthly fee, none of them talk to each other cleanly, and by Sunday night the GM is doing data entry instead of prepping for Monday. OneBookPlus consolidates the whole loop — diary, table-side ordering, supplier bills, rosters, stocktake, and BAS — into one app built for how Australian venues actually trade.
The platform covers every contact point on the operating day. A guest finds you through Google or your booking page, requests a Friday 7pm for four, and the diary accepts it with deposit-on-card if you ask for one. On the night, the floor host opens the same diary on a phone and sees the run sheet for service. Orders flow table-side via a phone or tablet, printed straight to the kitchen with allergen flags the customer ticked at booking. Payments clear at the table; tips allocate to the right server's tronc. At end of service the daily takings reconcile against the bank feed automatically — no end-of-night rekey from the POS Z-report.
Picture a typical Wednesday in a 60-cover suburban restaurant. The chef checks the OneBookPlus dashboard at 9am — 42 covers booked for tonight, three private bookings flagged for dietary requirements, a supplier invoice from the meat distributor already scanned and coded ready to approve. The duty manager opens the roster: she's one short on Friday because a casual called in sick, drags an available casual into the slot, the published roster updates on the staff app, and the replacement accepts within ten minutes. By 11am the FOH manager has counted the bar, the count variance sits at 0.4% (well under the 2% wastage threshold), and recipe-cost cards update automatically because last week's wine list price change flowed through. Service starts at 5:30pm. By 11pm, 58 covers served, $4,820 taken, $620 in tips allocated to the team, and the daily P&L is ready before the closing checklist is finished.
OneBookPlus connects to your business bank account and pulls transactions automatically. End-of-day card takings, EFTPOS settlements, Stripe payouts, and Square consolidated batches match against the right service-day automatically. Supplier invoices you've scanned (the meat docket, the dairy invoice, the linen bill) are parsed, coded to the right cost-of-goods line, and matched to the supplier's eventual EFT payment from the trading account. Payroll runs against the published roster — clock-in and clock-out times come from the staff phone QR scans, MA000119 penalty rates apply automatically for Saturday, Sunday, public holidays, and split shifts, and PAYG plus 12% super calculate against each pay slip. Come BAS time, the quarterly summary — GST collected on sales, GST paid on supplier bills, PAYG withheld for staff — exports as a single PDF that hands cleanly to the accountant.
Sign up in under a minute — no credit card required. Add your ABN, trading name, GST settings, and the venue floor plan. Import the existing menu from a spreadsheet or a POS CSV; most cafés are taking orders on the table-side ordering pads within an hour of signing up. The free plan covers bookings, table-side ordering on one terminal, and unlimited supplier invoices for a sole-trader food truck or a single-location café doing under 10 covers a day. When you're ready for multi-terminal POS, full rostering with MA000119 penalty automation, or multi-venue consolidation, the Starter ($29/mo) and Growth ($69/mo) plans cover a 2–5 venue group — still well below the $250–$700/month a comparable Square + Xero + Deputy + SevenRooms stack costs once you add up SMS credits, KDS terminals, and per-staff licences.
Join Australian cafes, restaurants, bakeries, and hotels running bookings, orders, rosters and BAS on OneBookPlus. Free to start — upgrade when you're ready.
Get Started FreeLast reviewed and updated: by Bishal Shrestha
Authoritative sources
Australian venues operate under the Restaurant Industry Award, the Food Standards Code, state food-safety and liquor-licensing schemes, and Australian Consumer Law. We cite the primary bodies for the claims on this page so you can verify directly.
Free for cafés & single-venue operators
60-sec sign-up · No card · GST & BAS ready
Who it's for
From a single-site espresso bar to a multi-venue hotel group — OneBookPlus adapts to how Australian hospitality trades.
One terminal, high turnover, casual-heavy roster. Needs daily takings reconciliation, fast supplier-invoice capture, and MA000119 casual loading done right.
60-cover dining room with deposits and dietaries. Needs the reservation diary, table-side ordering with allergen flags, tronc tip allocation, and recipe-cost cards.
5am production runs and wholesale orders. Needs early-shift rostering, daily production sheets, wholesale standing orders, and ingredient cost tracking on flour and butter.
Rooms, restaurant and functions under one or more ABNs. Needs multi-venue consolidation, housekeeping schedules, and a single quarterly BAS pack per entity.
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Real-world scenario
How a 55-cover Melbourne bistro runs a typical Saturday on OneBookPlus
8:00am. Mia opens the OneBookPlus dashboard on the pass — 48 covers booked for tonight including a 12-top birthday with two coeliac and one nut-allergy flags the guests ticked at booking. The Q-Catering meat docket from yesterday is already scanned, coded to cost-of-goods, and waiting for one tap to approve.
9:30am. Her duty manager is one short on the floor because a casual called in sick. She drags an available casual into the Saturday-night slot; the published roster updates on the staff app and the replacement accepts in eight minutes. Because it's a Saturday, MA000119 applies the 25% weekend loading plus 25% casual loading automatically — no after-the-fact payroll surprise.
11am. The bar count comes in at a 0.6% variance, well under her 2% wastage threshold. A 9% jump in the pinot price last week already flowed through the recipe-cost cards, so the by-the-glass margin report flags it before it eats the night's GP.
Service runs 5:30pm to late. Orders fire table-side to the kitchen printer with the allergen flags attached; the 12-top splits the bill seven ways and settles at the table; $740 in tips allocates to the team's tronc.
Close: 61 covers served, $5,180 taken, daily takings already matched against the EFTPOS settlement on the bank feed. Come BAS time the quarterly pack — GST collected, GST paid on supplier bills, PAYG withheld — exports as a single PDF for the accountant.
How we compare
How we compare to the tools Australian venues typically stack together.
| Feature | OneBookPlus | Lightspeed | Deputy | SevenRooms |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reservation diary with deposits | Yes | No | No | Yes |
| Table-side ordering + KDS | Yes | Yes |
| No |
| No |
| Supplier-invoice capture & costing | Yes | No | No | No |
| MA000119 penalty-rate rostering | Yes | No | Yes | No |
| FSS / RSA certificate tracking | Yes | No | Yes | No |
| Recipe costing & stocktake | Yes | Yes | No | No |
| GST invoicing + BAS export | Yes | No | No | No |
| Bank-feed reconciliation | Yes | No | No | No |
| Multi-venue consolidation | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Free plan available | Yes | No | No | No |
| Price | From $0/mo | $89+/mo | $48+/mo | $129+/mo |
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