CafeNex
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LAN Gaming Center Software Built for Tournament Nights

LAN gaming center software earns its keep on tournament night: five PCs, one team, one bill, zero arguments at the counter. CafeNex books team seats as a single session, pushes your game library to every machine, and keeps idle PCs locked until play is paid. From ₹999/month, unlimited stations on every plan.

Product tour
SessionsPC AgentPOSKitchenWallets
Floor · Live
PC-01
02:14:08
Valorant
PS5-02
00:48:22
God of War
PC-07
00:31:10
Lounge
PC-12
OTA 1.18
Updating…

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

Team seats booked as one session

The LAN unit of sale is not one PC — it is a squad. CafeNex starts a multi-seat session for the whole team, prices it with multi-player plans instead of five separate timers, and pauses or resumes it as a block when the bracket runs late. Checkout produces one bill the captain can pay over UPI, not five receipts to split.

  • One session across a row of seats, started and paused together
  • Multi-player pricing plans for 5v5, duos and squads
  • Single checkout — the captain pays once by UPI or cash
  • Mixes with walk-ins: solo players stay on their own timers

CafeNex floor

Real product UI patterns — sessions, lock, billing

02

Your game library, on every machine

Tournament night fails when PC 14 has the wrong patch. The CafeNex Station Agent pairs with each Windows PC, scans installed games, and reports the library to your dashboard, so you see what is actually on the floor before teams arrive. Updates roll out over the air from the dashboard instead of a pen drive doing the rounds at 6 PM.

  • Station Agent pairs per Windows PC
  • Game library scan reported to the dashboard
  • Over-the-air updates pushed from the dashboard
  • Know the floor is patch-ready before the bracket starts

CafeNex floor

Real product UI patterns — sessions, lock, billing

03

Lock and unlock discipline between rounds

Between matches your PCs are an asset sitting in public. The Station Agent locks idle machines and unlocks them only when a paid session starts, so practice time cannot happen off the books. Players see a HUD with their remaining time while they play, and the machine returns to locked the moment the session closes.

  • Idle PCs locked; unlocked only on a paid session
  • Player HUD with remaining time on every machine
  • No off-the-books practice sessions
  • Pairs with bookings: reserved seats wait locked until start

CafeNex floor

Real product UI patterns — sessions, lock, billing

04

What LAN gaming center software must survive on the night

Tournament nights stretch your operation: walk-ins continue upstairs while 40 competitors run on the bracket, the kitchen pushes orders through pending, preparing and ready, and someone must be able to void a mis-keyed bill without getting root access. CafeNex keeps all of it in one system — billing, food, roles — and closes the night with a cash-shift report you can actually reconcile.

  • Kitchen kanban keeps food moving during long sessions
  • Staff roles decide who can void, edit or just run sessions
  • Cash-shift close for the till at end of night
  • Reports on seat utilisation for planning the next event

CafeNex floor

Real product UI patterns — sessions, lock, billing

05

One account for the whole center, or several

Most LAN centers eventually run a second floor or a sister center across town. CafeNex is multi-tenant cloud software: one account, multiple locations, with per-location staff and cash shifts but consolidated reporting for the owner. Rates, plans and game updates are managed centrally, which is the only sane way to keep two floors consistent.

  • Multi-tenant cloud: one account, multiple centers
  • Per-location staff, sessions and cash shifts
  • Consolidated owner reporting across locations
  • Central rate plans and OTA game updates

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

No — the Station Agent is Windows PC software. It pairs per PC to lock idle machines, unlock on paid sessions, show the player HUD and scan the game library. Consoles in a LAN center are billed and booked through the same CafeNex dashboard, just without the per-machine agent.

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CafeNex

Run the floor.
Own the revenue.

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

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