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Game Zone Billing Software Built for the Saturday Rush

Game zone billing software usually breaks exactly where game zones make money: the Saturday 7 PM rush. CafeNex puts PC hours, PS5 sessions and arcade credits on a single bill, tracks every counter sale, and closes each cash shift to the rupee. Plans start at ₹999/month with unlimited stations.

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Think before you switch tools

Free software is never free on a full floor

If the product is free forever, ask who the customer is. CafeNex is built so you pay for software — not with leaked free play, lost snack sales, or support that disappears.

If it is free forever…

Who pays? Ads, data, upsell walls, or a product that stops at marketing features when you are full on Saturday.

Can unpaid PCs stay locked?

A dashboard invoice does not stop free play. You need a Windows Station Agent that locks until the session is paid.

What happens in a food rush?

If kitchen and POS are bolted on later, snacks get lost. CafeNex runs desk POS + kitchen tickets on the same bill as the session.

What is the real cost of downtime?

One broken evening costs more than a month of serious software. Book a WhatsApp demo, run it against your floor — pay only when it earns it.

Go-live path on CafeNex

01

Create cafe

Sign up · Unlimited stations

02

Stations + rates

PC, PS5, packages, multi-player

03

Pair PC Agent

Lock seats until paid play

04

Run the floor

Sessions · food · kitchen · cash

Deep dive

What the product actually does

01

One bill for PC, console and arcade play

A family walks in and splits up: two kids on the PS5, one on the racing machines, a teenager on a PC. At checkout, your staff should not be opening three systems or doing mental math. CafeNex runs every session type in one billing screen — start, pause, resume, checkout — priced by your own rate plans.

  • Mixed sessions: PC hours, console time and arcade credits on one ticket
  • Pause and resume so breaks and cake-cutting do not cost the guest
  • Multi-player pricing plans for group bookings and party packages
  • UPI QR and cash in the same checkout flow

CafeNex floor

Real product UI patterns — sessions, lock, billing

02

Why game zone billing software breaks at peak hour

Peak-hour failure in a mall game zone is rarely the software crashing — it is queue design. Manual rate cards, staff typing durations and a single POS terminal turn a 6 PM rush into a 20-minute line. CafeNex keeps checkout to a tap: live session timers, one-click close, and prepaid member wallets that move regulars past the queue entirely.

  • Live session timers — no asking staff how long someone has played
  • One-click checkout with the full bill, food included, on screen
  • Member wallets for regulars; loyalty points that bring families back
  • Walk-in flow that takes under a minute from seat to started session

CafeNex floor

Real product UI patterns — sessions, lock, billing

03

Food and counter sales without a second system

Food is where mall game zones actually make margin, and it is where billing usually leaks. The CafeNex food POS takes orders at the counter or the seat, fires them to a kitchen kanban board — pending, preparing, ready — and posts them to the open play session automatically. Inventory tracks what the kitchen issued, so the chips count reconciles at close.

  • Orders post to the open play session — no separate food tab to chase
  • Kitchen kanban: pending, preparing, ready, visible on a screen or TV
  • Inventory tracking for kitchen stock, counted at close
  • GST breakup on bills where you need it, UPI and cash in one flow

CafeNex floor

Real product UI patterns — sessions, lock, billing

04

Staff, shifts and the end-of-day count

Mall game zones run two shifts and a floating weekend crew. CafeNex gives each staff member a role with permissions — cashiers can check out, managers can edit rates — and records attendance. At close, the cash-shift report shows opening float, collections by mode and expected cash in drawer, so the count that goes to the bank matches the system.

  • Staff roles and permissions, so cashiers cannot change your rates
  • Attendance recorded per shift
  • Cash-shift report: float, collections, expected drawer count
  • One account, multiple game zones — chains are supported

CafeNex floor

Real product UI patterns — sessions, lock, billing

05

Reports that tell you what to change on Monday

After the weekend you need answers, not dashboards for their own sake. CafeNex reports break revenue down by hour, by section — PC, console, arcade — and by food item, and compare across locations if you run more than one zone. That is how you learn the 5-7 PM console slot is underpriced, or that arcade credits outsell food 3:1 on Sundays.

  • Revenue by hour, section and food item
  • Multi-location roll-up for chains — one account, every zone
  • Session and usage trends to plan weekend staffing
  • Export-friendly reports for your CA at GST filing time

CafeNex floor

Real product UI patterns — sessions, lock, billing

Same OS that runs your floor

Not a PDF whitepaper — live CafeNex product

FAQ

Straight answers

Yes. CafeNex treats each as a session type on one billing screen. Start, pause and resume any of them, then check the family out as a single ticket with food included. Multi-player and group pricing plans let you set one rate for the whole party.

CafeNex

Run the floor.
Own the revenue.

Sessions · PC Agent · POS · Kitchen · Wallets — unlimited stations.

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