Volio
Items and margins
The dishes that bring in the most, each with its share of sales.
A restaurant ordering system for a full Friday night
Volio is a restaurant ordering system for the whole service, in restaurants, bistros and hotel dining rooms: bookings, the floor, orders by QR code or by waiter, the kitchen display and the bill paid at the table. It runs on a tablet and the phones you already own, beside your till or in its place.
Volio for restaurants
Friday, 21:00. Table 7 wants the bill.
Their waiter is three tables deep with a tray of mains. Here's how table 7 got to this moment, and how it leaves without catching anyone's eye.
- 19:30
Seated, from Tuesday's booking
Booked on Tuesday from your page, four guests for 19:30. The waiter takes the starters in waiter mode, and two guests add their own drinks from the code on the table.
- 19:34
On the pass
The kitchen's ticket is headed table 7 and counts the minutes. The wine has gone to the bar's screen.
- 21:00
The bill, at the table
Three guests pay their part by phone and one pays the waiter in cash. The floor shows nothing left. Nobody waits for the card machine.
- 21:30
The next booking sits down
The host saw table 7 clear on the floor the moment the last part was paid, and seats the next booking there.
Service, screen by screen
Each screen opens in a browser on a device you already own: the host's tablet, the waiters' phones, a screen on the pass. In a hotel dining room, the same screens.
Bookings
Guests book from your page with a party size, a day and a time. You set the rules once. Walk-ins and a waiting list sit beside tonight's bookings, so the host sees the whole door.
- Rules
- Times, how far ahead, party size
- Walk-ins
- The tables free now
- Waiting list
- Beside tonight's bookings
- Plan
- Essential
The floor
Your room as you drew it. Who's seated, for how long, and what's still open on each tab.
Waiter mode
The room as tiles on a staff phone. Open a table, add a round, close it. The waiter stays on the floor.
The kitchen display
A ticket per table with a timer. Done closes it, Recall brings it back, and each dish goes to the place that makes it, so the wine goes to the bar, not the pass.
And the morning after
The back office is where Friday turns into a decision about next Friday.
Takings
Sales by day and by hour, with an export to Excel or CSV.
The menu
The fish ran out at 21:00. One tap, and it's off every phone.
Guests
Everyone who ordered, booked or reviewed, in one list you can write to.
Reviews
Happy guests are sent on to Google.
Paper menus
Printed from the live menu. Volio tells you when one is out of date.
What Volio doesn't do for a restaurant
Delivery
No couriers and no delivery apps. Takeaway is order ahead and pick up, from your own link.
Room service
In a hotel, Volio runs the restaurant, its tables and its terrace. It doesn't do room service or charge a bill to a room.
Hardware
No hardware to buy. You keep your card terminal, and your till if you want it. Cloud ticket printers are an option.
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
Will my guests still order from a waiter?
As much as they like. Waiter mode puts the room on the staff's phones, and a waiter's order and a guest's order from the table's code land on the same tab and the same kitchen ticket.
Can guests split the bill at the table?
Yes. Each guest can pay their own part on their own phone, with a tip, and the rest can pay the waiter in cash or by card.
Does it take bookings?
Yes. Guests book from your page by the rules you set, with a deposit if you want one, and the team handles walk-ins and a waiting list. Bookings come with the Essential plan.
Do I have to replace my till?
No. Volio works beside the till you have, and "Paid at the table" lists each phone payment with its table, amount and time, to enter on your till. Or let Volio's POS replace it.
Does it work in a hotel restaurant?
Yes. Tables in the dining room or on the terrace are numbered places with their own codes, and the menu opens in each guest's language. Volio doesn't do room service or charge to a room.
Where does the money go, and what does Volio take?
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.
Does Volio do delivery?
No. Takeaway is order ahead and pick up, from your own link.
What does the kitchen need?
A tablet, or a TV with a small Android TV box, for the kitchen display. Cloud ticket printers are an option if the kitchen prefers paper.
From the booking to the bill, in one place