Mumbai rents punish slow floors. From Andheri game zones to Navi Mumbai lounges, cafes here need peak-hour throughput — fast checkouts, food attach, and zero unbilled minutes — because every square foot carries metro rent.
Think before you switch tools
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. Trial full product for 14 days — then pay only if the floor trusts it.
Go-live path on CafeNex
Create cafe
Sign up · 14-day full trial
Stations + rates
PC, PS5, packages, multi-player
Pair PC Agent
Lock seats until paid play
Run the floor
Sessions · food · kitchen · cash
Deep dive
01
PC seats typically run ₹60–₹100/hour and PS5 pods ₹200–₹350/hour — among India's highest cafe rates, matching metro costs. Cafe clusters sit around student and commercial hubs where evening footfall is predictable.
CafeNex floor
Real product UI patterns — sessions, lock, billing
02
Rent is 2–3× other cities, so food attach and memberships are not optional — they are the margin. Space is tight: 10–15 seats is the common format, often on upper floors where rent softens. Peak load is brutal: Friday–Sunday evenings run near-full, so checkout speed and kitchen sync decide whether you serve 60 or 90 covers a night. Power cuts are rarer than inland, but UPS for the billing desk is still standard.
CafeNex floor
Real product UI patterns — sessions, lock, billing
03
Session billing with pause/resume, Windows Station Agent that locks idle PCs and unlocks paid time, food POS with kitchen display, member wallets, staff roles and cash shifts, and owner analytics — the daily operating system for the floor.
CafeNex floor
Real product UI patterns — sessions, lock, billing
04
Plans start at ₹999/month with a 14-day full-feature trial and no credit card. For multi-floor or chain operators opening a second location in Mumbai, the same account runs every cafe with separated reporting.
CafeNex floor
Real product UI patterns — sessions, lock, billing
Same OS that runs your floor
Not a PDF whitepaper — live CafeNex product
FAQ
Budget ₹15–30 lakh for a 10–15 seat cafe: hardware ₹6–12 lakh, deposit 6–10 months of metro rent, interiors and licensing the rest. Mumbai's deposit-heavy leases push the total above most Indian cities.
Sessions · PC Agent · POS · Kitchen · Wallets — 14-day free trial.