Volio
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Your rows as you drew them. Which places are taken, for how long, and what's still open on each tab.
A beach bar ordering system that starts at the sunbed
Volio is a beach bar ordering system for the bar on the sand, the beach club and the hotel pool bar. Every sunbed gets its own code: guests scan it, order and pay on their phone, and the order reaches the bar with the sunbed's number on it. Your runner crosses the sand once, with the tray.
Volio for beach bars and beach clubs
How ordering to the sunbed works
Four steps, and nobody leaves the shade. A place is anything you give a number: a sunbed, a cabana, a stool at the bar. By a pool, a lounger is numbered the same way.
Step 1
Draw the beach and number the sunbeds
In Tables & QR you draw each zone and name it yourself: Front row, Second row, Cabanas, Pool. Every sunbed gets a number and its own QR code, and the whole beach prints in one go.
- Zones
- Named by you
- Places
- A sunbed, a lounger, a stool
- Codes
- One per place
- Printing
- All of them at once
Step 2
The guest scans from the sunbed
The code opens your menu in the phone's browser, with photos, allergens and each dish's options. The family on 14 reads it in German, the couple on 15 in French. Friends on neighbouring sunbeds order together from their own phones.
Step 3
They pay before the drink leaves the bar
Apple Pay, Google Pay or card, with the tip added before paying, and each guest can pay their own part. The order reaches the bar marked paid. Nobody chases a tab down the beach at sunset.
Step 4
The bar makes it, the runner carries it
Each ticket shows its place's number and zone, with a timer. With kitchen places, the cocktails go to the bar's screen and the club sandwiches to the kitchen's. Tap Done when the tray leaves.
14:00, sixty sunbeds, one runner
On a beach the lunch rush is a walking problem. An order taken by hand costs two trips across hot sand, one to hear it and one to bring it. Here's the same hour when the sunbeds order for themselves. Sixty sunbeds. One runner. Full trays only.
- 11:30
The beach fills up
Towels down, umbrellas up. The code sits on the side table or the umbrella pole, so the menu is in reach before anyone looks around for a waiter.
- 14:00
Everyone is hungry at once
Twenty sunbeds order inside ten minutes. The tickets line up on the bar's screen in the order they came, each with its row and number. Nobody stands up and waves.
- 14:10
The runner only carries
No notepad and no card machine in the apron. Every trip out of the bar is a full tray, going to numbers.
- 17:30
One more round before sunset
The second round is the same code and a few taps. Guests who paid as they went pack up whenever they like.
What the bar and the runner see
Volio runs in the browser of the phones and tablets you already own. No hardware to buy, and nothing to bolt to an umbrella pole.
Waiter mode
The same places as tiles on the runner's phone, for the guest who would rather order from a person.
Every guest's language
The menu opens in the language on the guest's phone. Translated by machine, every line yours to edit.
Cash still works
Take the money by the guest's phone, cash or your card terminal, whichever the sunbed prefers.
Sold out in one tap
The grilled octopus is gone at 15:00. Switch it off once and it leaves every phone on the beach.
Sunbeds booked ahead
Guests book a sunbed or a table from your own page, by the rules you set, with a deposit.
What Volio is not
Not a sunbed marketplace
Volio doesn't rent out sunbeds and has no map of beaches. Guests book a sunbed or a table from your own page, and that's where it stops.
Not room service
At a hotel pool, Volio takes the order from the lounger and the payment on the phone. It doesn't do room service or charge to a room.
Not a box of hardware
No hardware is sold. The bar's screen is a tablet, or a TV with a small Android TV box, and cloud ticket printers are an option for a bar that likes paper.
Every plan starts with 30 days of Pro, free.
Card needed · cancel any time- Day 1Every Pro feature, unlocked, nothing to pay
- Day 24We email you what's coming, and how to cancel
- Day 31Your plan starts, at the price you picked. Cancel before and you pay nothing
Basic
Monthlya monthRegular price from Jan 1, 2027: €49€39
Yearly 2 months freeRegular price from Jan 1, 2027: €40.83€32.50 a monthRegular price from Jan 1, 2027: €490€390
Take orders and payments
- Digital menu with photos and allergens
- Menu in each guest's language (translated by machine, import from photos)
- Guests order from the table
- Guests pay and split from their phone
- Takeaway and pickup orders
- POS at the counter
- Waiter mode on staff phones
- Kitchen display
- Sales reports and end of day
Essential
Monthlya monthRegular price from Jan 1, 2027: €109€89
Yearly 2 months freeRegular price from Jan 1, 2027: €90.83€74.17 a monthRegular price from Jan 1, 2027: €1,090€890
Bring guests back
Everything in Basic, and:
- Kitchen and bar routing (several screens, printers)
- Online bookings with deposits (tables, sunbeds, services)
- Guest profiles (visits, spend, allergies, notes)
- Loyalty points and regulars' perks
- Gift cards and treat a friend
- Happy hours and promo codes
- Campaigns and automations (birthday, win-back)
- Reviews and feedback
- Paper menus printed from your live menu, and a note when one is out of date
Pro
Monthlya monthRegular price from Jan 1, 2027: €259€209
Yearly 2 months freeRegular price from Jan 1, 2027: €215.83€174.17 a monthRegular price from Jan 1, 2027: €2,590€2,090
Run it at scale
Everything in Essential, and:
- Stock and recipes
- Shifts: the rota with the forecast on it, the till clock and live labour %
- Manager approvals and audit log
- Advanced analytics and exports
- Several venues in one account
- Integrations and API
- Self-order kiosk on your own tablet
- Menu boards on your TVs, following the menu
- Priority support and onboarding call
Founding price for the first 500 venues, locked for 24 months. New venues pay the struck price from Jan 1, 2027.
Cancel any time: your QR menu stays online, free. Ordering, payments and the rest stop until you pick a plan again.
Unlimited tables, staff and screens on every plan. Pay yearly and 2 months are free; closed for part of the year? Monthly stops any month you like.
Questions owners ask
Something else? hello@usevolio.com
Does every sunbed need its own QR code?
Yes. Each code belongs to one numbered place, so an order arrives with its number and the runner knows which sunbed to walk to. If you can number it, it can order. A sunbed, a cabana and a stool at the bar each get a code. All the codes print in one go from Tables & QR.
Does it work at a hotel pool?
Yes. A lounger is a numbered place like a sunbed, with its own code. Volio doesn't do room service or charge to a room.
Do guests have to download an app?
No. The code opens the menu in the phone's browser, and guests order and pay right there. Nothing to install and no account to make.
Can guests still pay cash?
Yes. Your team takes the guest's phone, cash or your card terminal. Phone payments go to your own account with the payment provider, then to your bank. Volio takes a small fee on a bill paid by phone. Guests see it before they pay, or you switch to covering it. Nothing when a guest pays cash or the waiter.
Can guests book a sunbed ahead?
Yes, from your own page, by the rules you set: the times offered, how far ahead, the party size, and a deposit if you want one. Volio isn't a rental marketplace. Bookings come with the Essential plan.
Most of our guests are tourists. Will they read the menu?
The menu opens in the guest's own language. Translations are filled in by machine and you can edit every line, so the house cocktail keeps the name you gave it.
What does the bar need to run it?
A tablet, a phone, or a TV with a small Android TV box. No hardware to buy. Menu boards run on the same TV box, and cloud ticket printers are an option.
When can we start?
Today. Pick a plan and your first 30 days are Pro, free. A card is needed, and you can cancel any time.
Orders from every sunbed, paid before they are carried