The complete guide
Choosing a till for a Spanish bar, café or restaurant in 2026 means thinking about service speed, kitchen flow and — like it or not — Veri*Factu. This guide covers what a modern restaurant POS must do, what the law requires, what the hardware really costs, and how brasio compares.
The checklist
A till that only takes payments is a calculator. These are the eight jobs a restaurant POS should handle on day one — all of them included in brasio's single plan.
A visual floor plan that matches your room, with open tabs per table or per customer at the bar. Waiters see at a glance which tables are seated, fired or waiting on the bill — and a tab can move from the bar to a table without re-ringing anything.
Orders fire to an Epson kitchen printer grouped by course with notes highlighted, or to a kitchen display screen with two-stage Start → Ready tracking, a new-order chime and recall. The kitchen reads tickets, not a waiter's handwriting.
Burger without onion, steak rare, oat-milk flat white. Per-product modifier groups mean staff tap options instead of typing notes, prices adjust automatically and the kitchen ticket says exactly what to make.
Goods-in, stocktakes, long-press waste recording and a shrinkage dashboard that shows where margin is leaking. Add ingredient-lot traceability and an APPCC/HACCP logbook if your kitchen needs food-hygiene records.
A booking link for your website and Google profile, slot capacity rules, automatic email confirmations with calendar invites, and a reservations view on the till so the floor sees tonight's covers next to its tables.
A points balance that earns on every closed ticket, and gift vouchers you can sell, redeem and track from the till. Regulars are the cheapest marketing a venue has.
Every employee picks their language at PIN login — Spanish or English staff screens today, with support in five languages. Mixed international teams stop guessing what a button does mid-service.
End-of-day Z reports with cash counts, card tips and covers, plus SII-format XML exports for your gestor. The numbers your accountant needs, without spreadsheet archaeology.
The law
Royal Decree 1007/2023 requires invoicing software in Spain to produce tamper-proof, traceable records. Companies that pay corporate tax (Impuesto sobre Sociedades) have been in scope since 1 January 2026; autónomos and most remaining businesses follow from 1 July 2026. If you run a bar or restaurant in Spain, assume you are in scope.
A compliant POS must:
brasio runs in Veri*Factu mode: every receipt is submitted to the AEAT in real time through Verifacti, with the QR printed on the ticket. It's included in the price, not a paid module. The feature can be switched off per venue for the few businesses genuinely out of scope — but in Spain in 2026, that is the exception, not the rule.
Read the full Veri*Factu guideHardware
brasio runs in the browser on tablets and PCs — no proprietary terminal, no hardware lease. A typical single-till setup costs €400–800 once, and you own all of it.
Any reasonably modern Android or Windows tablet, laptop or mini-PC works as the till. Waiters can take orders on a phone or small tablet with the handheld web app — it installs from the browser, no app store.
Standard Epson ESC/POS thermal printers (like the TM-T20 family) for receipts and kitchen tickets, on your local network. Cheap to buy, cheap to run, easy to replace.
brasio integrates with SumUp card readers for card payments at the table or the bar — a one-off reader cost plus SumUp's per-transaction fee, with no monthly terminal rental.
A standard printer-driven cash drawer kicks open on cash payments, with a manager-PIN 'open till' for no-sale openings — every opening is logged.
One honest note: brasio is cloud-based, and Veri*Factu receipt issuance requires an internet connection. Get decent venue Wi-Fi and consider a 4G backup router — advice that applies to any real-time Veri*Factu POS.
Pricing
brasio is €35/month per venue, IVA included, billed monthly. That one price covers the till, floor plan, kitchen printing and KDS, reservations, inventory, loyalty, gift vouchers, Z reports and Veri*Factu — no modules, no per-terminal fees, no commission on covers.
Every venue starts with a 14-day free trial, no card required.
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Legacy TPV pricing in Spain usually means a hardware bundle, a support contract and paid add-on modules. Here's the honest comparison.
| Feature | brasio | a typical TPV package |
|---|---|---|
| Software price | €35/month, IVA included | €50–200/month plus add-on modules |
| Veri*Factu | Included, real-time submission | Often a paid extra module |
| Contract | Monthly, cancel anytime | 12–48 month lock-in is common |
| Hardware | Your own tablets/PCs + standard Epson printers | Proprietary terminal, often leased |
| Kitchen display (KDS) | ✓ | Extra licence, if available |
| Reservations | ✓ | Third-party subscription |
| Staff UI languages | 5, chosen per employee | Spanish only |
| Support | English & Spanish, 5-language voice agent | Spanish-only, office hours |
Go deeper
“Restaurant POS” covers a lot of ground. These pages go deeper on each venue type, the law and the price.
Tabs, fast rounds and a till that keeps up on a Friday night.
Floor plan, courses and kitchen flow for table service.
Quick counter service, modifiers and morning-rush speed.
Rotating taps and a menu that changes weekly.
RD 1007/2023, the deadlines and what compliance looks like.
€35/month per venue, IVA included. No modules, no surprises.
We keep honest comparison pages against the systems owners in Spain most often ask about.
Longer answers to the questions owners actually search for.
Try it
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